Mooji – Step Into the Fire of Self-Discovery
Dirk Terpstra: If our soul wishes to be in a state of non-duality, why are we here? Why not stay in a state of oneness?
Mooji: We are in the state of oneness already, but in our dynamic expression as life and as individuality, the consciousness must grow through the experience of duality. It’s a funny thing because you could say: “I thought consciousness was perfect,” and it is, but when it manifests as duality, as relativity, and as life in the world, duality is unavoidably present and necessary because there cannot be any experience without duality.
Our true nature is a harmony. That harmony is always harmonious. Harmony can never be disharmony. The only way this harmony could have the experience of disharmony is by dreaming it or, if you prefer, imagining it. First the harmony dreams a kind of disharmony and then it moves through its dream world in search of harmony because there’s an impulse inside our existence that searches for what is natural and harmonious. This you may call the yoga of life.
Something inside this dream of disharmony feels separated and is therefore unhappy. For the majority of mankind the search for happiness takes the form of acquiring things: finding the right career, making a lot of money, having a stable and happy relationship, family, fame, and power and so on. But eventually we will have to realize that no lasting satisfaction is derived from these things. Yet every part of this play is meaningful and contributes to the unfolding of the great play, because having eventually run out of moves, human beings are compelled to direct their attention inwards. Life may then present them with the question: Who am I really? What exists here as ‘I’ and what is its purpose?
