MINFO: 2017

Friday, October 20, 2017

give and receive

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. You are withholding it because deep down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give.

Try this for a couple of weeks and see how it changes your reality: Whatever you think people are withholding from you - praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on - give it to them. You don't have it? Just act as if you had it, and it will come. Then, soon after you start giving, you will start receiving. You cannot receive what you don't give.

Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.

- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

witnessing background

greater space of clear seeing

For the ego, self-inquiry is like soaking in sulphuric acid.
When you persistently and genuinely analyse
the 'I' sense in the light of self-inquiry,
things cannot continue living in the dark.
Untruth will simply dissolve.
The common mistake that is made,
even by spiritual seekers, is to examine
what keeps appearing in one’s life.
But it is not about what keeps appearing.
What matters is who you are experiencing it.
In whatever form trouble comes,
identity must be looked at first
for it is here, in the realm of personhood,
that the apparent 'becomes' the actual.
By inquiring into the one
in front of whom all of life appears
—the one with vasanas, good and bad habits,
likes and dislikes, aspirations and faults
—you sieve yourself out of confusion
by discarding the personal self-image.
Whatever you perceive
and whatever you perceive yourself to be
is seen in the greater space of clear seeing.
See: this space, the Self, cannot be stained or injured.
It cannot be troubled or acquire any type of sin
or merit or demerit, for it is formless, infinite and impersonal.
This twist or shift of perception from person to presence
to Unborn Awareness will be recognised as the work
and beatitude of the Supreme grace,
the great gesture of the Self to Itself.

~ Mooji

the whole truth

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Stay as Awareness

Be aware of this persistent feeling
that there is something more to do
in order to attain the Self.
You have been brought to a stage
where you are encouraged to leave aside
all intentions, projections and fantasies,
and to simply keep quiet inside your being.
Mind is inclined to say this is not enough.
It is suggesting you take some action.
However, the master tells you to keep quiet
and to focus on the silence of your Heart
rather than the rush of the mind.
You are advised to avoid the sense
of waiting for something to happen.
There may arise a little tension
because of this advice to not go
with the movements of the mind.
Learn to bear your own silence
by observing the tensions encircling it.
Observe rather than react.
Again, keep quiet.
Stay only as awareness.

Mooji