Mooji – Step Into the Fire of Self-Discovery
As you begin to discover your inherent harmony and your completeness, the old misconceptions come to the surface of the mind and disappear like bubbles do when they reach the surface of the ocean. Like this, you begin to realize that you have always been the unchanging Self, and that the belief in ‘becoming’ the truth was never true.
Dirk Terpstra: As we are growing spiritually, we can often feel resistance from the ego. How can we balance our spiritual being with our mind/ego and attain total freedom and be ourselves?
Mooji: I don’t feel that there is any reason why we should compromise on any situation which then makes it okay for us to retain the sense of ego. I don’t feel that there is any value or any virtue in being an ego. This might seem a very bold thing to say, but from the outset it is very important to state that we are not the ego. I know entirely that what we are is beyond this kind of psychological construct which makes us believe that we are our conditioning and that we are merely our bodies. I would call the ego a very limiting self-portrait, which is always changing, and even the greatest portrait of you is not the real ‘you’.
Our body is completely innocent and necessary in order for experiencing to take place. I am therefore not dismissing the body, but to only identify with the body and conditioning would be limiting. The body is not sentient. It doesn’t know you, it doesn’t know who it belongs to, it is simply a biological mechanism that the consciousness functions through. This body and the consciousness together are one total functioning. But the consciousness itself is not merely a body, consciousness is what we are. The whole premise of spirituality or spiritual seeking is to discover our true nature beyond the conditioned identity and its projections.
