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Rishikesh, India. How can I stay as Is-ness in daily life? 1 March 2020 / Satsang Excerpt (with subtitles)
Moojiji guides how to maintain 'Is-ness'—a state of pure being—amid daily life challenges and dynamic activities like work and relationships.
Key Takeaways
- Maintaining awareness prevents losing oneself in personal roles or activities.
- 'Is-ness' is a state of pure being, not something to be achieved or done.
- Balance active life with inner stillness to experience harmony and joy.
- Spiritual grounding can coexist with worldly engagement like business and relationships.
- Awareness of timelessness transforms the experience of time and activity.
Summary
- Moojiji addresses a letter from Anna who struggles to maintain the state of 'Is-ness' after satsang while engaging in new activities like starting a business.
- He emphasizes the importance of awareness and not getting lost or overly identified with personal roles or activities.
- Moojiji advises using inner awareness as 'reins' to balance active engagement with maintaining spiritual clarity.
- 'Is-ness' is described as a non-doing dimension of being, a recognition of what simply 'is' beyond becoming or personal identity.
- He encourages staying rooted in awareness even while participating fully in life’s dynamic and creative processes.
- The harmony between activity and stillness is key: being active in the world while anchored in timeless awareness.
- Moojiji highlights that true joy and freedom come from awareness itself, not from external achievements or relationships.
- He reassures that it is possible to have a business, family, and dynamic life without losing spiritual grounding.
- The teaching is that time and movement are friends when one is aware of the timeless and stillness within.
- He concludes that grounding in this understanding can guide and protect throughout life despite conditioning.
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[Mooji reading a letter] "Dearest Mooji, please help me.
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I was lucky to spend three days with you during open satsangs last week. On Monday this week, I left India and returned to work.
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I feel your pointings fully, and would never desire more than what you helped me to discover.
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I never felt so happy and blessed in my life. At the same time, I feel a bit of confusion, because these days I am starting a lot of new things, for example, my own business.
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I spend many days doing a lot of creative thinking, learning new things, understanding how to operate in this new field of my activity.
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It is exciting, a bit challenging, and a very enriching experience, but I am concerned that maybe I focus too much on those activities and that my attention will be drawn too much to 'personal mode' again.
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I am a bit confused about how to stay as Is-ness outside the satsang space when I am very active in the dynamic world." Sorry, those two are linked.
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"I am a bit confused about how to stay as Is-ness outside the satsang space when I am very active in my dynamic world.
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Could you please guide me on this? I love you. Anna."
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So you came to satsang, somehow experienced the stability, the clarity, the Is-ness, the freedom from egoic identity, and gone back to work.
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"I am starting a lot of new things, for example, my own business. I spend my days doing a lot of creative thinking, learning new things, understanding how to operate in this new field of my activity." She is enjoying, isn't she?
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"It is exciting, a bit challenging, and a very enriching experience, but I am concerned that maybe I focus too much on those activities and that my attention will be drawn too much to 'personal mode' again." So there is an awareness of that.
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Respect and honour that awareness; it is your inner zen stick. Do you understand? Because she is not just galloping away like some wildebeest who is going to jump over the cliff. No.
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It is an exciting time, a new career, a new idea, exciting, challenging, all these things.
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I read and feel a lot of good shakti, "I'm doing, I want to make all these things."
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But at the same time, the horses must have some... [Mooji] What do you call this thing? [Sangha] Reins.
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[Mooji] Reins to rein it a little bit. So you have to be there also. And you must not be so identified that you are simply lost in your work.
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It's not needed to be lost in your work, it's not needed to be lost in anything!
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It's not needed to be lost even in relationship, it's not needed to be lost in your children, it is not needed to be lost in yourself!
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You must be aware. Sometimes you feel something passionately, you want to pour your whole self inside it!
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But life does not require that! If you want to throw your life completely into something, throw it into God consciousness.
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But not into anything in the world. Don't throw it on anyone! Sometimes you think, "If I love them with all, everything, my being, then they will love me back." But they feel overwhelmed. They say, "Oh my God!" So you don't have to do that.
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It is much, much better that you stay aware. And yet, at the same time, your heart is open. But be aware.
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So I am saying to Anna now also, yes, all this is coming, don't get lost in it, because these things, they come like this and they come like that.
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Everything comes and goes. But your awareness is not this and that. If you stay one with your awareness, without person, it's possible that enjoyment flows like this also, it's fine.
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Is it just an enjoyment for your person, or is there just a joy? Is it an enjoyment that you are doing so well and making money? No.
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But you just enjoy, it is fine. Then you will not lose, let's say contact... It's not a good word.
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You will not stray from your awareness and go back into personhood. It is possible!
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I would like to keep up with you to see if you succeed like that, because there is nothing wrong with having a business, having a family, doing all these things, if you stay as your awareness.
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Then you may find that, "Actually, I don't feel like I am doing it even.
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It is just unfolding." Yes, there is some effort, but there is no strain. There is a lot going on, but I can tell you, here it feels like nothing is going on, there is just a joy.
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So how can this be true together, at the same time? There is a lot of shakti in the midst of shanti.
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So like this you pay attention. Don't feel, "I have a week of satsangs in Rishikesh behind me, that will take me through everything."
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No. It took you to You. Stay as You. You beyond you. If I say like this, You without you, do you know what I mean?
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Yes. The awareness without the ego. And you see that it is not afraid, it is not in conflict with the unfolding play of the manifest.
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It is the God of them, it is the deity of the manifest also. Don't get lost in it, and you will see that these things come and go.
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You don't know where this is going. You don't know where anything is going. Anything can happen!
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So don't invest in happenings, and you don't have to invest in the non-happening. You are the non-happening.
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So, "But I am concerned that maybe I focus too much on those activities and that my attention will be drawn too much to 'personal mode' again.
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I am a bit confused about how to stay as Is-ness outside the satsang space." Is-ness is not something that you do, it is just what you recognise as a non-doing dimension of being.
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It is What Is. It is not a becoming, it is an Is. Everything else is becoming, but it is a kind of a play of becoming in the stillness, in the non-becoming.
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Your wisdom will be there, always. So, "I am a bit confused about how to stay as Is-ness outside the satsang space when I am very active in the dynamic world.
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Could you please guide me on this?" You will find that you are active and you are non-active.
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But give some space to this, sit with this, be confirmed in it, and you will see that somehow, there is a harmony.
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In the heart of the time is the timeless. Be in the place of the timeless, and you will understand, then time will be your friend, don't worry about it.
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But if you are only in time, then suffering comes. Time is OK when you are aware of the timeless.
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Movements are OK when you are aware of your natural stillness. This is the harmony.
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What you are discovering here today will stay with you for all your life. If you've grounded your understanding, it will take care of everything.
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It would be great if we learned this from early. But who is there to teach?
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We had some understanding from early to guide us. Because we all receive conditioning. Why not be conditioned in the Truth?
Topics:MoojijiIs-nessspiritual awarenesssatsangnon-dualitymindfulnessegotimelessnessdaily life spiritualityself-realization
