Be The One Who Is Awake Inside The Dream -- 20th March 2014 (Part 2)

And there's no attachment, there's no investment deeply in it. So you are win-win all the way. Something is very light and open. Pain can be felt, sadness can be felt, but nothing routinely. Everything is just a tourist, everything is a cloud floating in. It's OK. Feelings come, feelings go. But there's no investment, there's no sticking, there's no clinging, there's no prayer, please let me keep this. Everything is moving like that. So be established first in that I am presence feeling. Be there. Then naturally it begins now, there's a kind of yearning inside, something naturally is stretching to move into a deeper space. It just feels inside, that you are able to see that the state of presence now is not precious, it loses this kind of concept. It just is. It's natural. And then at some point you are aware that presence is also part of the waking state consciousness. Don't take that so lightly. That is an amazing discovery, that presence itself is the earliest and purest expression of the Absolute, the sense of presence, which is like the womb of the manifest world and the perceiving of that manifest world at the same time. And then also there is the seeing of that. When I say seeing, I don't like to use the word, it's watching it. I don't think the Absolute is watching anything. There's nothing other than itself to watch or to be interested in. So I don't know what words we will use now. And don't have faith so much in words or concepts. You are exhausting the capacity of concepts. You come to a space where the concepts, at a certain point, all of them can collapse now. They have lost their force and their power. Because what is, is beyond the concepts. You and this. But still you don't go, Concepts, who needs concepts? Because that is also a concept. You see, we understand the realm and the limitations of concepts. And you know that which is beyond concept. When I say you know that, it means you are that at the same time. I've gone far to say this thing, because I don't want to say something that you just have some shape of it in your head. You have to walk with the concepts and use up their energies, use up their vitamins until you have exhausted them. It's not difficult. Then you find somehow, I can say, suppose I were to say to you, Since 1994, I have not said anything, I have not done anything. I have not spoken to anybody. You say, What are you talking about? You are always talking. You made so many videos. Would you understand this type of thing? Talking, but not talking. Teaching, not teaching. Growing, not growing. Changing, not changing. I don't want to talk so much about these things. I'd rather hear you say them yourself. And also about the awareness of space, which is not something that is grasped by the senses, right? It depends what space you're talking about. If you're talking about phenomenal space, we're not going to talk about phenomenal space. Phenomenal space is also ... Awareness cannot be described as space. You can say space-like, because that's as much as the mind can comprehend. It's beyond space even, because space is perceived in it. But if you listen with your mind, what does your mind do? It wants to put pictures. It just puts a picture there. Even if you say, nothing, and you punch in your Google mind, nothingness, it will go, ping, shows you some picture of nothingness. It will do it. The absolute, absolute, ping, it will give you something. How can it give you absolute? So you must know when you have exhausted the capacity of mind. And if you keep going back to mind, then you're just wasting time. It can only be a mirror that reflects back something. It cannot give you what it reflects. It can only show you what is here. You can say like that. Then the manifest world becomes a mirror, somehow, in which the absolute somehow perceives itself, and non-phenomenally, through the phenomenal universe. Are you going to follow me if I talk like that? So I don't want to talk like that. Come to the point that I'm pointing. See that all, and not just see, admit. Admit. Because you all know very well what I'm talking about. Sometimes, I would say to people, I would not be surprised if one day you all go, Ta-da! We got you! We got you! I'm there trying to convince you about this thing, and you all know already. And they go, Ta-da! Mooji! I say, OK, wow, that was funny. That was very good. Because I take it you do know, of course, but not know in the sense that it's a kind of studied, informational knowing. You cannot know the Self with informational knowledge. It's not information. So I don't know if the word knowing can sometimes seem misleading. Self-knowledge, knowing what? The Self cannot be known in the traditional way of using the word knowledge. And it's not one thing knowing another thing either. Very good. Very good. Very good. You are here just now. You are here. It's an obvious thing. Let's be obvious again. Let's be simple. You are sitting here. You are here. Wherever you find yourself, you are simply here. Simple fact. Nothing mystical about that. The way you sat yesterday, or this morning, is not different from how you are sitting now. You are here. You are aware of your body. It is here. You are also aware of the information that comes out, swims through the senses. You are aware of the sense objects, the sensations, the perception. You are aware that you are perceiving, even without effort. You are aware of my voice. You are aware that when something touches your heart and resonates, it simply happens. You have not done it. You are aware that the mind comes up and is somehow trying to make something of it. You are aware of that. It is not you. You simply are aware. Don't exert any more effort than that. And in itself, this is also effortless. So, you are here. You don't have to be watching your senses. They are there anyway. You are aware of them. But you are not giving too much attention to that. Now, without trying to control senses, just be the awareness itself. No imagination is needed for that. It means, don't put your attention on any object at all. So, you are here. This is a natural thing for you, a natural feeling that, I am just here. There is nothing super special about that. But if thoughts come, your advice is, don't engage with them for now. This is not too difficult for you. Just stay in the sense of being. That is all. Don't say, now we are meditating. Don't worry. Don't buy any thought or any labels. Don't buy any labels, or any conclusion that may come in your mind, such as, I can see that I am this or that. No calculation. If there is a tendency in the mind to do this, still be aware of that, but don't give any energy to that at all. You are just here. Just here. The most natural thing for you. Yesterday is only a thought. It is only a thought. This morning, 7.30, it is just a thought. No more than that. What I want to go and have for lunch when I come from this place, it is only thought. It has no reality at all about it. Nothing is needed now for you. Not even your beingness is needed. It simply is. You are just here. Pay attention to this natural feeling of being. No effort is required. Simply be the being. That is it. You are here. No imagination, no images are required. You are in your most natural state, your most natural environment. You are not called to manage existence, or to manage your life. These are just thoughts. Leave them. Leave them. They don't belong to you. In this moment, don't hold on to even the word, belonging. Simply, you are. Not, you belong. You are. I am. And you are not waiting for anything. Be careful of this. There is nothing you are waiting for. So the feeling of, What is next? What should we have now? This is also a thought that has nothing to do with what you are, or how you are right now. Simply. There is nothing to defend also. You are not defending your state. It does not need defending. Notice also that inwardly there is no time. If I say, What time is it inside your being? There is no time. It is not like six o'clock or four o'clock. It is completely meaningless. These are only thoughts. There is no time. Again, inside your being, is it day or night? There is no meaning at all about it. Is it Tuesday or Wednesday? Also, there is no meaning at all for your state. Notice this. And yet, there is something complete in this. Don't invite any suggestion from your mind. And yet, don't fight to keep them out either. You are simply not engaged with that. You are not engaged with anything at all. Simply, you are. You are not making this up. You are not imagining. It is not a fairy tale or something. It is just your natural state, natural being. It has no name. It need not be called meditation. Meditation is only a word that we use in referring to this. But it itself has no name. If you go in any direction, left, right, north, west, east, south, up, down, in, out, none of these things is anything for you. They are only a movement in consciousness. You are here. You are always just here. From your aspect as mind, many thoughts can come, and they seem to suggest that you engage with some work, some intention, some projection. They cannot make you do anything at all, unless somehow you choose to. Here also, you are not a husband, or a wife, or a son, or a daughter, or anything. And yet, you are not in battle with any concept. But what is here, you cannot define it. You cannot put it in a bottle or something. It cannot be conquered. It cannot be captured. It cannot be possessed. It cannot be distorted. It always simply is. It is not a person. It is not a mood. It has no religion, particularly. It has no religion. It is not a philosophy. Notice this. Who are you? Where are you? Now, don't create any shape here. Don't enter any shape. There is no need to cling to any shape. The shape of the body is simply here. The texture, the form of the body is simply here. Now we are coming to a close of this session for now. Whether your eyes are open or closed, it will make no difference to this. Because this is not a product of some state. You are not producing this. You are simply enjoying the insight into your own being. If you go outside and have a cup of chai, or you are talking with someone, it cannot remove this. But because of habit, the attention may give the sense as though there is another reality. There is no other reality. It is just another movement in the great space of yourself. That is all. Simple. Don't force your mind. There is not so much to think about. If you enjoy being in this state, or the beingness of this state, continue as often as you like. And you will find somehow that what I am speaking here in each day is easily understood without any effort in you. Because I am not giving you many things to remember, many things to do, anything like this. I am only pointing to that which is formless in you, which is your experience right now. And you see there is nothing to be afraid of. In fact, how well you feel. Very good. This That Is cannot be cut up into sections, so that the mind will say, now satsang is finished, now it is something else. No, this something else is only another thought, another sensation in the great space of being. Very good. Someone is coming today? Get used to this feeling of neutrality, because this is what is natural, the sense of neutrality. Your mind or your attention does not need to be always in gear. The natural state of the mind is to be in this beautiful neutrality. As you become more accustomed to this natural, neutral state of being, you will see that you perhaps don't need to sleep as much even, because we are often sleeping a long time to recover from over-transaction in the waking state. Too much, too much. So, in deep sleep, something brings everything back again to emptiness, and your being is refreshed. It is like pressing the restart button or something. And like this you may find that you can move in the life without being drained or strained. Many times people ask, Mooji, how do you cope with so many people, and so many questions, and so many things? I say, Well, I don't take it personally. Same with you. As your attention slips away from the grip of the person, it is resting nicely in the space of being again, and you will not be exhausted. The personhood state is a very exhausting state. It takes a lot of energy to be a person. It takes no energy to be the Self, because it is natural. This is what you are discovering. Oh Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, My head is at your feet. Oh Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, I have never been. For patience, for forgiveness, For the limits of the sea and the heavens, For the limits of your thoughts, Oh, you helped me. To follow the truth once and for all, And to say yes to life, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Words of passion last, Oh Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, I have never been. Oh Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, I will not believe these thoughts, I am not all these letters and numbers. This body lives according to its own laws, and I am not in it. After all, my nature is you, and you are outside, even in the void. And words can only indicate, but cannot call and describe. Oh, alive, alive, alive, alive, at your feet is my head. Oh, alive, alive, alive, alive, I have never been so alive, alive, alive, alive. Like alive, alive, alive, alive, like alive, alive, alive, alive, like alive, alive, alive, alive. Oh, alive, alive, alive, alive, the last words are burning. I've never been alive, alive, alive, alive I've never, I've never loved anyone as much as he did I've never, I've never been able to give so much I'm all open to him, as never, not for anyone What no one could do to me before, God did I'm dancing, dancing in the middle of the battlefield It's so easy to be with yourself It's so easy not to be afraid of death, as long as there's an eye for an eye Dancing in the middle of the battlefield Full of joy and peace He will tell me everything that I could not say Could not say Dancing in the middle of the battlefield It's so easy to be with yourself It's so easy not to be afraid of death, as long as there's an eye for an eye Dancing in the middle of the battlefield Full of joy and peace He will tell me everything that I could not say Could not say There's a bell of swords and the sound of hooves There's blood pouring and blood boiling There's a cry and a cry, there's a roar and a fight There's no life here, it's death And I'm standing in the very center But I'm not in that battle I don't notice anything Except him, except him I'm dancing, dancing in the middle of the battlefield It's so easy to be with yourself It's so easy not to be afraid of death, as long as there's an eye for an eye Dancing in the middle of the battlefield Full of joy and peace He will tell me everything that I could not say Could not say I've never loved anyone as much as he did