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I just feel like I don't know who I am.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Stay as I AM
You'll never know. Nobody knows.
If you think you know who you are,
in the traditional sense of the word knowledge,
you cannot know who you are.
You can only have an idea about yourself.
You may have an idea of who you are.
But you cannot know who you are.
Who are you to know who you are?
What you know is that you are. You know you are.
And since you have this knowledge that you exist,
that you are existence or you are existing in this body, hmm?
that is a pure intuitive knowledge by itself.
Just the sense 'I am'. So holy is this intuition 'I am',
that it says: even the name of God is 'I am'!
So the sense 'I am', that principle in you, 'I am',
is a mighty principle, that feels 'I am'.
But somehow it gets converted into a small thing
when you say 'I am a man', 'I am a woman', 'I am American',
'I'm Egyptian', 'I am a Doctor', I am this, I am that.
Then already it begins to accommodate other concepts
which are not original to it. You see?
And then somehow its power seems to get fragmented
into these concepts.
The 'I am' is shining by itself.
The 'I am' is shining, that feeling, even now you check it.
Just feel the sense 'I am'. Be aware of the stories
that are buzzing around.
You are aware of time and space and the sense of otherness
and of this present moment.
It appears inside the space of your being.
For one moment, just leave them all aside.
Don’t focus or hold on to any thought.
Don’t tie yourself in relationship to any thought or any sensation.
You see? And stay only as the feeling 'I am'.
Not even the words 'I am'.
Just the sense 'I' or 'I am'.
Don’t allow this sense 'I am' to connect up with other thoughts.
Don’t develop any story around 'I am'.
Even if only this you can do,
to hold on to that intuition, the sense 'I am'
and don’t let it play about with any other thought.
Don’t associate with nothing else.
Remain in this unassociated presence.
In a short time you'll already see tremendous presence. Feel it.
That presence, you see? Is not personal.
There's a presence emanating out of this I-am-ness, hmm?
that is not personal. Is not a person, hmm?
And it's surrounded by vastness, you see?
Even if thoughts are trying to come in, eh?,
the curling fingers of the mind is calling you:
'Come, play! Come play!'
Reject it for a moment. Stay only as 'I am'.
Even if somebody says: 'No, no! This is very irresponsible, man!'
'Get up and get going. You got things to do'
Reject everything. Even if you spend 10 minutes,
10 minutes only sitting only with the sense 'I am',
and don’t associate any image to it.
Don’t even have to call it meditation.
Don’t call it any name.
Close your windows to the world fo 10 minutes
and stay within your I-am-ness.
Don’t try to describe it or picture it.
And already you will feel that the sense of presence is here.
Now see if the sense of presence and 'I' is different.
You'll find 'I' is synonymous with presence.
I is presence. When you say I, I is not a person. Hmm?
I is presence. It is synonymous with consciousness.
Hmm? Out of this natural sense 'I am',
witnessing of manifestation is taking place spontaneously.
Come to this place, hmm?
And nothing will sink you.
Nothing will sink you.
You try it. Even now you can do,
in the 1 or 2 minutes you are here with me you do it.
Reject everything! Don’t associate yourself with anything.
Be the unassociated Being.
This is original. You touch any concept, not original any more.
This is original beyond even the concept of originality.
Stay only as 'I am'.
And I don’t know if I'm going to see you again,
but if you can, even at the end, before the meeting finishes tonight,
stay while you are here in only 'I am'.
And then, maybe in 10, 15 minutes
I will see how you are doing. Ah?
Very great! Thank you. Very good.
About half an hour later, Mooji recalls the questioner to report from his state of self-abidance...
Let me look, I want to look at your face
Let me look at it and see.
Ok. Say something to me.
Peaceful
Peaceful.
Joy.
Joy, yeah.
Like this.
Like this.
You don’t have to recite a mantra.
You don’t have to sit in a cave.
Hmm? You are not having to study some special literature.
Just by yourself. No youtube. Nothing. Eh?
You don’t associate with anything. Ah?
Stay only with that natural intuition, the feeling 'I am'.
Don’t decorate it with any other concept.
Don’t give it any image. Because no image belongs to it.
Let the I-am-ness marinate in 'I am'.
And look how peaceful! His face is so peaceful!
Anything troubling you?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Is it a bit irresponsible to be in a state like this?
Ah?
I feel like I'm home.
Yes. You are home.
'I am home'. This home, ah?, has no geographical context.
Meaning: like space again.
Room.
So, I'm very very happy. And you can see, you see?
When you are in the intimate oneness with your own self,
ah?, then something is shining from you.
It is not..., he is not speaking a mental thing.
Not 'Oh, yes, you know, I am the one, there's nobody'.... No, no.
Nothing flat or dead about it.
Even if he didn’t speak, you can see,
your very presence is translucent even. Hmm?
Now you even talk about present and presence,
maybe they mean nothing for you. Ah?
You are that within which even the words, they are pointing to that.
Very great! Stay like that. Ah?
How are you staying like that now?
Any effort?
No
No. No effort
All I say to you: don’t be so quick to offer tenancy to any thought,
any concept. Let them come. They are ok, they can come and go.
Let them be tourist thoughts. They can come and go.
But don’t give them room. Don’t purchase them.
And like this, eh?, you're home.
Very great!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Remain as 'I AM'- the unassociated Being.