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Excerpt from Adyashanti's:  The Nature of Illusion

Adyashanti: What Is This "I"?

This interview was recorded during a break in the 5 day london intensive Satsang. Over 700 people gathered together from all over the World to join Mooji in Satsang in London, UK. Photo courtesy of Sankari Ji.


Music kindly provided by Soham who performs at many of Mooji's events. His latest album is available here https://soham.bandcamp.com and comes highly recommended.

Anthony Paul Moo-Young, known as Mooji, was born on 29 January 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica. In 1969, he moved to the UK and lived in Brixton, London. Anthony worked in London's 'West End' as a street portrait artist for many years, then as a painter and a stained glass artist, and later as a teacher at Brixton College. For a long time, he was well known as Tony Moo, but is now affectionately known as Mooji* by the many seekers and friends who visited him.

Mooji is a direct disciple of Sri Harilal Poonja, the renowned advaita master, or Papaji, as his followers call him. In 1987, a chance meeting with a Christian mystic was to be a life-changing encounter for Mooji. It brought him, through prayer, into the direct experience of the Divine within. Within a short period, he experienced a radical shift in consciousness so profound that outwardly, he seemed, to many who knew him, to be an entirely different person. As his spiritual consciousness awakened, a deep inner transformation began which unfolded in the form of many miraculous experiences and mystical insights. He felt a strong wind of change blowing through his life which brought with it a deep urge to surrender completely to divine will. Shortly after, he stopped teaching, left his home and began a life of quiet simplicity and surrender to the will of God as it manifested spontaneously within him. A great peace entered his being, and has remained ever since.

For the following six years, Mooji drifted in a state of spontaneous meditation oblivious to the outer world he formally knew. During these years, he lived almost penniless but was constantly absorbed in inner joy, contentment and natural meditation. Grace came in the form of his sister Julianne, who welcomed Mooji into her home with loving kindness, and afforded him the time and space he much needed to flower spiritually, without the usual pressures and demands of external life. Mooji refers to this period of his life as his "wilderness years" and speaks touchingly of a deep feeling of being "seated on the Lap of God". In many respects, these were far from easy times for Mooji, yet there is no trace of regret or remorse in his tone as he recounts these years. On the contrary, he speaks of this phase of his life as being richly blessed and abundant in grace, trust and loving devotion.

In 1993, Mooji travelled to India. He had a desire to visit Dakshineswar in Calcutta where Sri Ramakrishna, the great Bengali Saint, had lived and taught. The words and life of Ramakrishna were a source of inspiration and encouragement to Mooji in the early years of his spiritual development. He loved the Saint deeply but as fate would determine, he would not go to Calcutta. While in Rishikesh, a holy place at the foothills of the Himalayas, he was to have another propitious encounter; this time with three devotees of the great advaita Master Sri Harilal Poonja, known to his many devotees as Papaji. Their persistent invitation to Mooji to travel with them to meet the Master made a deep impression on him. Still he delayed the prospect of meeting Papaji for two whole weeks, choosing first to visit Varanasi, the holy city.

Mooji, London 5 day intensive, Nov 14

Spiritual teacher and author Adyashanti discusses his belief that there are two spiritual instincts that reside deep within everyone.

Adyashanti: Transpersonal Enlightenment

Kanuga Retreat March 2016

Adyashanti on ego

Moojibaba presents a powerful yet simple exercise — An Invitation to Freedom. This distilled and direct guidance takes us directly into the recognition of our timeless Being.

The Invitation is the very heart and essence of Satsangs with Mooji, having arisen spontaneously in Mooji after many years of guiding seekers of Truth. This guided seeing is supported by all of Moojibaba’s teachings, which help to clarify doubts and guide through any unexpected resistances that may arise. As such, it is intended to be followed in the broader context of Satsang with Moojibaba.

Moojibaba encourages us to experience this Invitation again and again, as the mind and attention marinate and become grounded in their natural source. This is the power and grace of Satsang, to merge the ego-mind in the universal Being which is our true home.

May all who are seeking freedom in the heart come fully home to themselves through this guidance.

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Music : 'Mere Gurudev' by Krishna Das, performed by Krishnabai.

Satsang with Mooji

An Invitation To Freedom ~ Monte Sahaja Retreat August 2017

This beautiful podcast starts with Moojibaba reading a letter regarding how to continue one's spiritual practice in light of the Invitation. Moojiji approaches this with a powerful answer on the true meaning of spiritual practice.

“If you love this Is-ness so much, your love cancels out that which is less.

It's not that you are doing, doing, doing, and I am giving you a whole pile of things you have to tick off and do. Just your openness is needed, your earnestness to stay with This.  This deep yearning inside the heart to be free and to honour what you see. And to approach Truth with devotion and openness. This is all, stay put here."

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This podcast is an excerpt from the Satsang "I Was Born to Awaken"
Monte Sahaja Silent Retreat, 22 July 2017

Music: Mere Gurudev by Krishna Das, performed by Krishnabai

You Become That Which You Love

In this auspicious interaction, which takes place during the May Zmar Silent retreat, a questioner brings forth a sincere request to discover his true place as the Is-ness and to be free from ongoing addiction. During this podcast, Moojibaba guides us through both the 'Invitation' and a powerful guided inquiry, that deconstructs the addict identity and confirms the direct recognition into the Self. 
 
"The greatest drug of all is the addiction to the 'I' person. If there's an identity, there must be an 'I' entity. Turn your attention and see if it can be felt. Let's see if you can experience the proof. Let's see if you can find the addict. What is important, is your looking – and your looking has a great power. You may just discover something that is going to be revolutionary for you. Experience your discovery. The I am-ness cannot be an addict. Your looking is your discovering and it's going to have a power today!"

Recorded on 26 May 2017

Music Artist - Radha
Song - Shiva Shivam Shivaya

Mooji on Addiction – The Greatest Drug Is the Addiction to ‘I’

During a Sunday Satsang at Monte Sahaja, a father comes up and speaks to Moojibaba about the strong attachment he has for his child, and the distraction he feels it has caused from his spiritual life. 

"You love your daughter, this is totally righteous, but attachment is something else, and it's good that we don’t get mixed up about it, because it is a sort of neediness and it brings you into feelings of fear. 
Use the power of this attachment to find who exactly is attached any why. What is it that's trying to be protected here?
These questions start to come, and they open up areas that you’ve not looked at. You go more deep, and more true. What a wonderful opportunity life has given you!"
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This podcast is an excerpt from the Sunday Satsang entitled 
"God Is Not Close, He Is More Here Than You"
Sunday Satsang – 10 September 2017 

Music: "Only He Is" by Shivali and Lluis

Is Your Person a Fact or Fiction?

This podcast offers a beautiful opportunity to be in silent sitting and prayer with Moojibaba. The guidance is immediate and simple and we find ourself in the deep silence of our true nature, resting as the pure consciousness of being.

“It is the attention that bears witness that This is. May what we call our lives be in perfect alignment with you, Father. May our attention and minds never drift away from the glory of God. Let our conscious at-one-ment with God — let this be our life."

25 March 2018

Music: "Glory to God" by Siddhartha

God Is Infinite Awareness

In this short clip, Moojibaba addresses a deeply existential question which many of us may have stood face-to-face with, 'Why did I need to come into this body in order to re-connect to the pure Self?'

“It is a master game, a master play! How each one is in their own flow to try and find and all come to the same place, back where we started. It is full of marvellous, unexpected, brilliance — if you have the aptitude and openness to find it. In our life, God leaves little clues around to see if you will be sensitive enough to notice them, and each of them is a divine gem.”

Moojibaba goes on to relate the poignantly fitting story of the donkey and the celestial gem.

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Excerpt from "Whatever It Takes To Awaken, You Have It in Abundance"
Zmar Silent Retreat
29 September 2018

Life Is Full of Unexpected Brilliance — Be Open to See It

A deeply clarifying talk takes place between Moojibaba and an intimate group. They speak unreservedly of their seeing and Moojibaba offers pointed and appropriate guidance that serves to refine and strengthen a deeper understanding.

"The further out you go to try and look for answers, the more erratic the state becomes. So catch it at the very first activity to arise. In the end, there is no knowledge to be kept. The knowledge just serves as a mirror to show you your true place. You're going to start moving in much bigger steps, gigantic steps. 

We don’t have to entertain many questions. You get one question that resonates and you take that into your sleeping bag with you. Genuine enquiry leads to a natural surrender. In this ocean of Samsara, there is nothing to hold on to to rescue you from drowning and something just trusts that. Then you find, but you’re just water—you become water.”

Music: "Invocation" by Siddhartha 

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20 October 2018

"Help Me to See Things As They Are"

An Invitation To Freedom - Mooji

“Suppose the sniffer dog is out there, sniffing away and before he finds something, the thief is hiding and gives him a doggie biscuit, the dog takes the biscuit and abandons the search...“

With this and many more potent contemplations, Moojibaba shows us the myriad ways in which the mind can entice us to believe in its whisperings. Moojiji makes it unequivocally clear that with every question and every sharing placed before him, he is holding us up to nothing less than what is truly true. Like this, we cannot not find ourselves at the very heart of his core pointings. 

“What must change to go from, ‘I am here for this’ to ‘I am here as this?’ It must be clear for you that without you there is nothing.”

18 August 2019
Monte Sahaja, Portugal

Live music before Satsang: "Improvisation on Handpan" by Benno Sinkwitz

Live music after Satsang: 

"What the Lord Has Done in Me" (traditional Gospel), performed by Dji Adogli

"It's Our Time" by Prem (not on an album yet)

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This talk is also available as a video on mooji.tv/freemedia

You Have Smelled the Perfume, Now Find the Source

A deep and timeless gem. When Moojibaba and a Sangha member sit down to look at what it means when consciousness goes into shape, this profound talk unfolds:

“What I’m speaking about has to be universal, it cannot be about a person. The person is a shape. If the shape of the person is not entered, then I remain in my shapelessness.”

Music:
"Let our Name be Amen" by Omkara & Martin Rixen (lyrics from The Mala of God by Mooji)

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15 August 2019
Monte Sahaja, Portugal

Shape Happens, But You Remain Shapeless

SATSANG OF THE WEEK
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Q: I don't have the experience that I am not the body.
A: I’m not proving you are not the body, I’m proving that you are consciousness!

With this one fundamental exchange, Satsang dives into an immediate depth of understanding. Mooji leads us through what he calls ‘simple capsules of pointing’ to the basic truth of ourselves.

“What I am speaking can be swallowed neat, because what I show is already here. Make today your best Satsang. You are going to be the tarantula who leaves its false skin."

25 September 2019
Monte Sahaja, Portugal

Live music before Satsang: "Improvisation on Handpan" by Santosh

Live music after Satsang: "Door of my Heart" (Bengali Chant translated by Paramhansa Yogananda) performed by Sangita, Brahmdev & Gotama (alternate version available on the album By your Grace by Mooji Mala https://satsangshop.com/music/1154-mooji-sangha-by-your-grace-live-music-from-the-heart-of-satsang-downloadable.html)

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This video is the ‘Satsang of the Week’ for 20 October 2019
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I'm Not Proving That You're Not the Body, I'm Proving That You Are Consciousness

At the start of this satsang, Moojibaba brings us immediately to the very heart of true understanding with a few potent questions about the relationship of mind and personal identity. Without personal identity, can mind cause trouble?

“Answer this with your entire being fully present and see. Even the answer coming is also seen. You have even surpassed thinking.

Own your words, digest your seeing. Don't leave them as words, the words themselves must combust into spirit.”

3 November 2019
Monte Sahaja, Portugal

Music after Satsang: "Only Love Is True" by Claudia Bergomi

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This video is the ‘Satsang of the Week’ for 10 November 2019
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Without Personal Identity, Can Mind Cause Trouble?

SATSANG OF THE WEEK
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This satsang weaves together potent metaphors and direct guidance, as Moojibaba reminds us of the natural peace and harmony to be found in a life uncontaminated by personhood.

“How amazing is your life when seen with true eyes. Nothing is wrong with you, but you must see with pure eyes and pure mind. If your mind is pure, you’ll be very grateful. You’ll say, ‘Thank you so much, what a blessed life. You send me exactly the problems I need!’”

14 November 2019
Monte Sahaja, Portugal

Live music before Satsang: "Improvisation on Handpan" by Santosh

Live music after Satsang: “Blinded by Your Grace" by Ramdev & Roshan

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This video is the ‘Satsang of the Week’ for 17 November 2019
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How Amazing Is Your Life When Seen With True Eyes

“In my way of working, I help people to realise the highest thing first.”

A woman speaks to Moojibaba about the search for happiness in a driven modern-day society. Moojibaba not only widens her question to embrace the truth of existence, but also guides her to an experiential understanding of the ever-available peace that she is searching for.

“Perhaps for the first time consciously, you are back with yourself. That’s what existence really means. Every human being, at some point, is searching consciously or unconsciously for this. Because until you really come to this discovery, you’ll never fully be happy. All spiritual practice is to eventually come here.”

Note on terminology: Saguna (brahman) refers to the evolving nature of consciousness, Nirguna (brahman) is the pure, absolute consciousness — original mind.

Music: "Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu" by Krishnabai, Omkara & Tara Souček, available on the album Rise Up - to the Most High Awakening CD 1
https://mooji.org/music/rise-up-to-the-most-high-awakening

"Can You Help Me Turn Off My Mind?"

SATSANG OF THE WEEK
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Moojibaba guides a seeker of Truth to explore what his deepest wish is.

Would it be to have a purpose in life, or to find inner peace and freedom? From here stems a very rich and profound guidance on recognising one's absolute awareness state (Nirguna Brahman). It is by this recognition that one comes to experience life in its harmony, to care for it, but without attachment. 

"Your happiness, clarity, wisdom, and love is the greatest gift you can give to this world.” 

Recorded on 31 December 2019


Music: "Shivoham" (traditional), performed by Radha Raychaudhuri, available on the album "Rise Up - To the Most High Awakening Vol.2" by Mooji Mala (https://satsangshop.com/music/1366-rise-up-to-the-most-high-awakening-cd.html). More music from Radha Raychaudhuri available on https://mooji.org/music/sahaja-samadhi. 
More music & lyrics from Mooji Mala available on http://moojimala.com

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This talk is the ‘Satsang of the Week’ for 19 January 2020
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Your Wisdom, Love and Clarity Are the Greatest Gifts You Can Give to This World

OPEN SATSANG WITH MOOJI
Tiruvannamalai, India
24 January, 2020

On day three of the Tiruvannamalai Satsangs, Mooji doesn’t hesitate to challenge our misconceptions. “To stay in the Awareness is an idea arising in Awareness. You already are.” 

He unrelentingly encourages each questioner and all of us to pay attention to Now! This idea you have of yourself does not exist! This simple statement leaves us in the pure joy of not needing to be anyone.

You are already what you are searching for. “Enough seeking, now find!"

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Music after Satsang: “Om Namah Shivaya“ (traditional) from the album Shunyam by Radha Raychaudhuri (not yet released)

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This talk is the ‘Satsang of the Week’ for 26 January 2020
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