Mooji – Step Into the Fire of Self-Discovery
Dirk Terpstra: Is suffering needed for spiritual growth?
Mooji: Yes. If it was down to each of us to choose and design our lives as we think is best for ourselves, we would almost always avoid discomfort or anything that really challenges our perspective and conditioning. We would fill up our life with chocolate-flavored experiences. Often through very intense, unpleasant, or challenging experiences we grow much more quickly and more deeply. I therefore feel it is good that life is not really in our hands, so to speak, and that we don’t know what is coming beforehand.
Very often, when we go through some difficulty, we can more easily empathize with other beings. When things come very easy we have no real appreciation for difficulties and the richness they often bring to life. Appreciation is a huge part of developing wisdom, insight, and a broadness of compassionate expression. So there are different paradigms and outlooks about this. Whatever your situation, wherever you find yourself, right there is a door to your inmost being.
What will make the truth so accessible in one person and not in another? Now, one could say it depends on how strongly your identity is based on your conditioning, your belief that you are this body and so on. If the belief ‘I am the body’ is strong, then it will be very difficult to find spiritual talk appealing because your language would be based more upon material nature, and upon flesh and blood reality.
For somebody else whose mind is accustomed to spiritual introspection, and not merely someone who is intellectually educated, it is very easy and natural to be in tune and in real time, so to speak, with the universal rhythm and current. They grasp the essential things quite spontaneously.
