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Mooji - 30th March 2013 - London
What makes my soul smile..
Well...
I don't know if anything outside of itself
necessarily is required to make it smile
It smiles from inside its own Self, you know?
So it's not like...
something outside is required to...
to say..trigger it
so it's smiling...i think you can say it it smiling all the time, you know
it is smiling all the time
it doesn't necessarily have to show itself on the face that it's smiling
but it is smiling all the time
meaning that it is the natural state of joy
within one's own being
and I feel that this is the natural state of all beings
inwardly if they are not troubled by their mind
if they don't give the mind
their daily life, or personal sense of identity so much attention
they will find
they will be happy inside themselves, they are
If you want to use the word smiling
I think...it's a beautiful word
Smiling inside yourself
just happens like that
And I wouldn't want to force it
because it doesn't happen like that
that you just
have this one kind of constant remark
to be making
but I would encourage also
the people to look towards that
because it's not really that it is so
far away from themselves in fact
this is just immagination
in fact...like that
but if it was not appropriate to say that
you know? I don't know
everything depends upon a kind of openness
some people are at a crossroads in their life
and it's a defining moment for them
like this
I would want to say also
don't take things too personally
if you can hear that, you see?
because always where there is a kind of person
too much thinking of yourself like a person
then right there always
some trouble come
because I don't feel we need to take life so personally
I think that's the mistake we make
and due to
an ill conceived idea of who we are
we do take the life too...
almost like a threat
it comes about because the people
then feel that life is so unfair
it can feel like that to them
or it is so demanding
and we don't know how we can respond
from a place of Truth
and really be happy
It's almost like, some circumstances
situations come
and we are not able to be happy in them
I say that's not necessarily true
and anyway about happiness
i don't mean the happiness which is
the superficial happiness
not pretending to be happy
so there's a happiness that is so broad
that on the surface it can look like you are deep in thought
or something like that
but underlying that
there can be a beautiful space
which I call joy or
peace
a loving state, at the same time
we sometimes feel that we cannot
have these two states:
either you are unhappy or you are happy
I say it's not like that
the natural state is to be joyful
not necessarily joyful about
any particular thing
but just the joy of Being
that is our natural state
so...
I feel that again
coming back to the point that I made
very often I think people put too much energy
perceiving life personally
and then also problematically
that something is a problem
and why this happend to me
and get caught up too much into that type of traffic
so if I could and there was oppenness
I may find myself saying
"Listen, don't take it so seriously"
It's also passing
Everything is passing
That would be probably
one of the things I would say
don't identify so strongly with anything
because
it's just life, it's just moving on
you know?
That again is not easy though
because again when we take things personally
we become very very serious
and then if someone says to you
"Listen, relax a little bit" you know..
"Pull back and learn to observe"
"a bit more what's going on"
"Rather than being so quick to identify"
- Then some people will hear that
and make use of it
and see actually the beauty in that
to take some space meaning
to become a bit more detached
and that sometimes things are not really as bad
as they initially appear to be
so if you are able to observe
you may come to see that...
some reactions may happen
but you don't identify with those deeply as well
and then a clearer space comes, like that
I feel that there's a place for grief
if someone is grieving
I feel that there is totally a space for grief also
I may not want to go to intrude
and even somehow to say something
to try and get people out of grief
I think grief is a very credible
experience and feeling also
so that if somebody is grieving
I think there's a room
I mean I don't feel that there's a..
that we have to be happy all the time in that sense
- that you know, if somebody is looking sad
there's no space for that -
I think there's tremendous space for that
because sometimes out of this experiencing sadness
can be someone's opportunity
to face some things in themselves
that they have not so far been looking at
so there has to be space for that
so I would only really want to
- I don't know if the word is to "console" someone -
If I felt that somehow
they were slipping away
from a place which I would have to intuit in my own Heart
that they are slipping off
and they really do need
you know, some contact
that can actually help to bring them back
to a stable..to some balance
because it doesn't do good to anybody to just be drifting off
to deep sorrow and get lost in that and so on
that's not good
I would like to feel that
there are some beings who
fully understand in the Heart what is being pointed
and come alive in that understanding
and continue to share from their place of seeing
and from that beautiful discovery with other beings
because I feel that that is an authentic sharing
in the human kingdom, you know?
Being free from the hypnosis of conditioning
is the biggest smile
you're going to feel in your life
because as long as we are holding on to
ideas about who we are which are not true
then you cannot really smile with your Heart
I mean you may have a laugh
you may have a joke or something like this but
I don't think that you are asking that question
just like a momentary smile
Because even the most miserable person in the world
must have a smile every now and again
but I think you are asking
- and I'm responding to your question -
like something very profound
that really brings a smile that comes
that begins in the Heart and shines
you know just as, you know
unquestionable joy, from your Heart
I would have to say that
it is someone who has found themselves
someone who realises
the Truth of what we are
rather than what we have been conditioned to believe we are
and this is totally totally possible
in my line of expression, you may say
it's only for that
because
we see the outcome
of not recognising that
that we do so many crazy things in this world
and hurt ourselves and other beings
so someone to realise, to recognise
again, their true nature
that is...uffff!
you are smiling...
you are smiling in every being!
It's very infectious to find somebody
who's happy like that
Who's happy but it's not about a joke
You understand?
Who's just happy!
Because, why?
"Why are you happy?"
I don't know!
I cannot even say why I'm happy!
That is the best kind of happy!
When you cannot even say why you are happy!
If you can say why you are happy
then your happiness is going to finish soon
but when you don't know why you are happy
You just can't help being happy
you even try to be sad you can't succeed!
Because your light is so...on!
That is happiness for me
And that happiness
I'd love to see in human beings
not just human beings
I'd like to see a dog happy!
I want to see a happy dog!
Dogs smile also if he's happy, you know?
I even see birds happy!
I see them happy
I see how they behave
I don't know what they are happy about
but they are happy somehow
because for me I cannot explain any other thing
than to say:
because they are life!
I am life!
I'm not even living life
I am life!
We are life!
And in that joy...you just...
- I don't want to tell the people: "Be happy"
I don't want to trouble you!
To tell you "be happy"
I just want to tell you
you are love
you are ok!
you know, I say I don't want to remind the world
that it is suffering and that it is unhappy
I want to remind the world that it is beautiful and free
because people forget this
That life...we are not here just to struggle, you know?
Or to party, I'm not here to party
I'm not interested in partying, I've done enough partying
It's not partying
I don't even want to say I'm here to celebrate life even
I'm just here, and it's enough
my here is enough!
But I'm happy inside my Heart
and everything that it's inside
every cell in my body
is dancing to see that joy in other beings
you see?
so I don't know where to go
I don't know where to go with that joy
I don't know where I can be without that joy
And so something inside
I don't know
what compels me
or compels this body to
to try and somehow remind
because I cannot create you see
I can only remind you that
that joy is inside you
and sometimes we have to work a bit at it
sometimes you have to remind someone
listen "let go of this!"
Sometimes I'll even push you even! You see?
I say "What you're doing! You are crazy?"
"Leave this alone!"
"You know you're just messing yourself up!"
Just to allow your light to shine again
so...
I don't see any other thing
because pleasure you can find
but happiness seems rare
and yet I say that
our Being is happy, by nature, I know it!
I'm not even...it's not my belief
I don't believe these things
I know it, I am it!
If I am it, I'm no more special than any other human being
Than you must be it
And that is not a supposition
that is...
that is an affirmation
that you are That!
But I know that it's not enough just to say
these things you know
Your life has to be the evidence
of what you say it's true
I'm not going about trying to be happy
I don't have to try to be happy
I failed miserable at being unhappy
I can't be unhappy
you understand?
that's the one thing i can say i fail
I don't even fail because I don't even try
Why would I try to be unhappy?
But it's just there you know?
And...it's like that
It is like that
So in summarising it, I would just say to be
to discover one's Self, you know?
Because if you don't then whatever happens
as we find in this world, it's momentary
but when you are again
I would say that when your mind and your heart connect
then the lights go on
I think this is the light you are talking about
and...
If you see..
sometimes we see it in the face of children or something
but it's only a spark
even they cannot keep it
it comes really with
coming home
I would put it like that
and I don't want to feel
that that it's too much to put in front of a human being
because
then I would be insulting human beings
Does it take a bit of work?
Yes, in the beginning it takes a bit of work
not because It itself is work
It itself is not work
but because we have put too much attention
on the wrong things
you see
then it takes a bit of work
just to turn your attention back a little bit
but as soon as we begin to discover again our original joy
we don't need any encouragement
that's enough encouragement already
you know you're onto a winner somehow
and you just want to be there
life pulls you
it embraces you and pulls you inside
but if you don't know of it before
like one time i was not aware of that
so my life was momentary joys
momentary pleasures
momentary sadnesses and whatever
but this I received, what I call like
a kiss from within myself
and that just completely devastated me
in the most beautiful way, you understand? I mean I...
I couldn't carry on my life how I was before
it just started to change
and it's the best change
and it's still changing
even on the surface it's still changing
but something inside is not changing
and there is that duality in life
something is changing, and something is not changing
and I've found that which is not changing
and then what is changeful, I can enjoy now
before I was a bit more afraid of what is changing
now i'm not afraid of what is changing
'cause you find what is not changing, you see?
and that's a smile that is not made just with your lips
or with your mouth
it's made with your whole being
and joy is that smile
and..
satsang is one of the very few
and authentic environments for me
I know in one way you are sitting in front of a lot of people
what is so authentic about it...
well...yes, it looks a bit formal
if we could have it another way
it would be another way
but the fact is that that is what we do
we are looking into the subject of
who we are
on a firm recognition
that the discovery is worth it, you see?
and so there's a joy in that
when we are looking
because we mostly seem to have forgotten that
sometimes fears come up
because people feel "Oh my God!"
Because we have invested so much to become something we are not
that when is time to return to what we are
we are afraid of giving up the something we are not
but that's life also
a bit of pain has to be there
but only so much that is necessary to return you
to your painless truth
so...
that would be my take on that one
I want to say, if I have to say something
that whatever happens everything is ok
whatever happens
the final word is
Everything is ok, inside the Heart
Something takes care of you
whatever it is that happens
I know that...
even if it comes to losing people close to you
I've lost my son, I've lost my sister, my brother and so on
and friends you grow up with
you reach my age you start to find a lot more people around you
are passing away and so on
people you have shared very closely with them
you feel the pain of that
and also sometimes
with things going on inside this body
you go to the doctor
and you know
any moment they could be telling you, like
you got this prostate cancer or something
you are like...something is ready for that
and then...
and then you begin to see it's all momentary
all of this
you put so much energy
but you cannot keep it
because even the body that you need to enjoy you cannot keep
and it's a time when you reach a certain level of seeing inside yourself
that everything is passing by
and you grow up very quickly, you know
you grow up very very quickly
to the point where you know
like I said in satsang
that I'm...
I don't have a future
therefore I'm supremely happy
I'm not concerned at all like
my happiness is next week
or something is happening
I'm just here now
and there's a fullness a richness about that
because I know the reality that tomorrow may not come
in terms of...you know...
we live on a lot of...
projections
that you know people say "oh you know next year, i'm going to do this"
and for me that's a "wow, really?"
I don't know what that is
I only know next year doesn't exist for me
last year doesn't exist for me
yesterday also...
I have to try to catch my memory about what yesterday was
it doesn't have any real...life in itself
I found something which has no yesterdays and no tomorrows about it
It doesn't even have a today about it
that has been the most beautiful discovery
but I can't discuss that
I can but...it's not really worth it
But it comes a time when there are people who just understand that
I don't know, they have a way of just understanding these things
and they say "hey, i'm on board with that"
"i'm here with you"
But it will be like that: whatever happens, whatever happens
- if you...especially if you can just pay attention that everything comes and goes
everything comes and goes
everything comes and goes
even this body is going to come and go
but something will witness also this body coming and going
and I say that you are ok
yes
Q: Namaste' thank you so much