A thought may arise: 'It's okay now, but it's going to be different when I step out the door'. Already you are anticipating your downfall. Recognise these as just thoughts. You can just watch them, feel their pull yet observe them as a movement in consciousness. Stay put as formless awareness.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and observing negative thoughts instead of being influenced by them.
Mooji encourages us to be aware of the thoughts that predict our failures or difficulties, particularly as we face new situations. By simply observing these thoughts rather than getting caught up in them, we can maintain a sense of 'formless awareness' and remain grounded, allowing us to respond to situations with clarity instead of fear or anxiety.
In practice
During a workshop on mindfulness, this quote can help attendees understand the importance of observing negative thoughts.
Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. _x000D_ A king does not need to go shopping in his own _x000D_ kingdom. Nor does he beg. _x000D_ Remember, you are the inner reality-pure awareness only. _x000D_ All that arises are appearances in consciousness. _x000D_ Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. _x000D_ This is the secret.
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in a natural way. Intelligence is there. Emotions can come. Everything can play, but inside there is total serenity and peace. No planning, no strategising, no personal identity is there. Just the space of pure being. It is what we are, but we dream and believe we are not.
Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become. You will not be scrutinized, your actions compared with those of others. Thats just unicorn food. Let your river flow as it pleases. Simply observe and recognise that all is unfolding spontaneously when that inner journalist- the ego, is exposed as a myth.
All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.
If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.
You wake up each day from the dream; but to be free, you must also wake up from the waking state.
Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'?
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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