Mooji – Step Into the Fire of Self-Discovery
These differing perspectives shape the quality, depth, impact and ‘feel’ of experience. One could be perceiving one’s world as a very claustrophobic phenomenon while another perceives the same manifestation with great space, wonder and joy. Yet, to another, life is perceived with great detachment and dispassion, as though it were a fleeting and insignificant play. The impact or effect of differing perspectives, levels of maturity and identities varies considerably from one person to another, naturally.
Dirk Terpstra: If we create our own reality, how do you explain suffering?
Mooji: This is a very well discussed subject with various views depending on what culture, particularly what spiritual culture, you’re coming from. If you want to bring in the notions of karma and things like that, it gets to be a much more complex subject and it depends on what way we wish to discuss this. If we look at it only in the framework of our life as we know it, it seems like our life, our situation, our position, the place we were born, all of these things can be perceived like it’s all just an accident, it just happened like that. One might have a very strong belief that to do well is to be materially well-off, but another may have a different outlook, believing that to do well means having very few material possessions, but inwardly being rich in spirit, compassion, understanding and wisdom. These are also considered to be forms of wealth.
Dirk Terpstra: Papaji stressed that teaching through silence was more important than teaching through words. How do you bring this across in your own Satsangs?
