Moojibaba reads a letter from someone who writes that they cannot observe their thoughts, but continue to get overwhelmed. Mooji uses this opportunity for a powerful guidance to look and find out who this ‘me’ is, that gets overwhelmed by thoughts. This mistaken identity must be recognised as the root of these states of confusion and delusion.
“This mistake humanity has not discovered. Otherwise you would not be so easily destabilised as a feeling, you could watch it, this also will pass. It comes, it goes. If you were identical with it, when it goes you would also be gone. Who are you who witnesses even this?
Where have you come from, where can you go?
This is a pointer you should not ignore, you will not have another question. You must go and get in your sleeping bag and marinate in this. You must see, you must see, you must see until you conquer this delusion. Recognising this is worth a million points.
This is the very key of transcending.”
Satsang with Mooji
Hi Mooji, I want to be free.
I'm tired of suffering through my mind.
I can't observe my thoughts right now.
I feel like when I try, I interact immediately.
So I can't be the second bird.
But there's a second bird that says,
I can't investigate my thoughts right now.
I can only sometimes stop the thoughts
by finding out where the power comes from,
but then soon other thoughts come and overwhelm me.
Can you help me, please?
Love from Bennett.
I can sometimes stop the thoughts
by finding out where the power comes from,
but then soon other thoughts come and overwhelm me.
This also is observed.
Trouble is how much importance you have given to the sense, me,
that which feels overcome, overwhelmed.
Listen again.
I can sometimes stop the thoughts
by finding out where the power comes from.
Where does the power come from?
But as soon as this exercise is finished, they come again.
But then soon other thoughts come and overwhelm me.
Who is me?
Is not even the me being overwhelmed
a scenario observed from a deeper place?
I want to know if you have reached this place yet.
That which can witness,
that which is even closer than intimacy,
closer than intimacy, and still it is perceived,
whatever movement is detected,
whether it is a thought, a feeling, a sensation,
whatever it is, in whatever form.
Some forms, some things are so subtle
that there are no recorded names for them.
When investigated, when researched,
they are untraceable, they can vanish.
Still they are perceived.
So therefore, the sensation of thoughts welling up and overwhelming me,
look for the one who is overwhelmed.
Don't just say the words.
It is a sensation.
And then we put a shorthand interpretation,
that means me, because this feeling feels so heavy.
You forget the one who never leaves,
the one who can never be overwhelmed.
This is your chance.
Even if something as strong a sensation as being overwhelmed,
if it didn't come,
you may not have the urge, the power,
to recognise that even this also is seen.
I wonder who among you recognises the importance
or the significance of this pointer?
So quickly, so quickly, we then say,
then that is registered.
That is what has happened. That is the fact of what has happened.
No, that is the fiction.
That is not the fact.
The fact is, it is observed and it passes.
And it is witnessed to pass.
If you were that, then when it passes,
you would also be passed.
But you witness its absence, its presence and its departure.
Who are you to witness that it is no more?
Is that not present even in the greatest pulsations of the mind?
This mistake, humanity has not discovered.
Otherwise, you would not be so easily destabilised as a feeling.
You can watch it.
This also will pass and witness to pass.
It comes, it goes.
If you were identical with it, when it goes, you will also be gone.
But you witness it is gone.
Who are you to witness even this?
Where have you come from? Where can you go?
This is a point you should not ignore.
You should not say, I have another question.
No, you will not have another question.
You must go and get in your sleeping bag.
You must marinate in this.
You must see until you conquer this delusion.
Because recognising this is worth a million points.
Otherwise, we search for temporary solutions,
which will be replaced by fresh problems.
And this is at the very key to transcending.
But right there, the mind is most active.
It is like holding the beingness hostage by this feeling.
If you go further, everything will collapse and go wrong.
And you believe and hesitate.
But I invite you to look.
You don't have to create.
You are not that which can be swept away.
Not long ago, you could not find these teachings.
Not long ago, to come to such teachings,
you would have to spend at least twelve years
in a monastery or an ashram with one who has gone beyond.
My Master took it into the marketplace.
Who can hear here?
Still, lower choices are made.
There is nobody here but consciousness.
Everything is imagined.
But it is not easy to accept my words.
Everyone, in referring to themselves, says, I.
I denotes consciousness, not person.
It appears to have become corrupted,
limited merely to the body-mind phenomenon, which is unstable.
Therefore, I say to you now,
Right where you are. Right where you are.
Without the need to turn left or right.
Empty yourself.
Even for a few moments, but do it completely.
Let go of all of this.
After a few moments, you can pick it up again.
But examine what is here that cannot be emptied,
cannot be removed, cannot be cancelled,
cannot be postponed, cannot be owned,
cannot be left aside.
Then leave everything aside
until there is nothing left to leave aside.
And remain as what remains.
Mind fights against this,
but mind only lives because of our belief.
From the mind may come a thought,
if you drop all this, you will become mad.
You will lose all your control, as though you have any.
You will not know how to function.
And so, something pulls back.
Stay as a sheep, bleating.
Are you waiting to be?
So, put it to the test. Leave it.
Others have.
They are the ones who come up and they can testify.
This invitation has served. It has been accepted.
All is done.
Invitation. In a nutshell, leave everything.
Don't combine anything with yourself.
Even the sense of I, if it has any content, leave.
Who is receiving this instruction?
The intelligence of the being hears this.
Leave it.
From the mind may come, OK, now what? What is next?
Don't touch what is next. There is no next.
Just this.
Then do what comes.
Don't give so much attention
to what is going upstairs in the attic.
Here.
Leave all this alone and silence will come and kiss you.
Peace will come and be your companion.
When? Immediately.
Stop waiting to be.
I have neither past nor future,
therefore I am supremely happy, always.
It is the same like you.
You do this, you leave everything, and tell me with your own words,
what can improve upon this?
OK.
Not one more word is needed.