Meditation With Mooji

Don't give any attention to thoughts, even if they appear important. Stay peaceful, and the thoughts will become impotent.

Thoughts will continue to try and sabotage your peace, as you watch.

They will give little messages to sabotage your seeing.

Watch their antics. Their threats. Their temptations, their fears, their sense of urgency, their monkey nature.

Their stories are impersonal and go nowhere. Through peaceful watching you will realise this.

"Life is big enough, to take all our mistakes, all our adventures. You can't outlarge life."


"Mind is trapped in the illusion that it should feel happy"

By Y V Chawla.

Psychological hurt is psychological discomfort. Absorbing this discomfort without any explanation opens the door to the secret of Existence.

The error has taken over the present mind that it should feel happy, stay pleased, stay relieved all the time as if feeling of confusion, fear, any uneasy feeling does not belong to it. If you notice this insistence of the mind, it drops- the Original energy touches you. You are attuned to supreme relaxation with unending friction to operate.

When you allow your feelings (fear, confusion, anxiety) as they are, your imagination becomes clear, what you want becomes clear. We are carried away as if thinking can change or undo any feeling.

‘I do not want to be angry’. ‘I want to be free from fear’. ‘I want to be happy’. And so on. The words create an alienation as if there is a separate entity to reject or retain. Can you notice this? This noticing is the concentration of total energy.

We are enamoured as if pleasure, relief, feeling good are independent experiences as if they can stay or stabilize. Pleasure, relief, feeling good is dependent upon, is essentially experienced against pain, stress, some uneasy feeling. Once one notices the connection-pleasure, relief, feeling good are not registered in the brain as something stable. The touch of the Original happens.

We want to rest through the relief, pleasure offered by entertainment, intoxications, addition to possessions, relations, holidays against the compulsion of work. Mind registers this relief, is inclined as if this part (entertainment and so on) is actual life. We forget that this pleasure, relief is dependent upon, is because of compulsion experienced at work. Once we see the connection, the fused state takes over.


Y V Chawla

Source : Y V Chawla

Dealing With A Crisis

Crises often come from many directions simultaneously. And tend to overwhelm.

This post will not try to solve your crises. But yes, it will remind you that crises do get over, and when they do, they don't look that dangerous in hindsight.

When the crisis is looming, it appears menacing. Larger than life. Larger than the living force that sustains us. Which it cannot be.

A lot of speculation exists on the true nature of a crisis. Some would compare it to childbirth. To metamorphosis.

We'll leave such speculation aside. And come straight to how to deal with it, how to cut it down to size.

We need to focus on the emotions underlying the painful stories forming in the mind.

Transcend the stories. Focus on emotions associated with the stories. Feel them. The burden may lighten. Perhaps the crises are not as bad as you thought?

The mind, when in a state of panic, thinks only of the worst case scenario. Over and over.

Living a life in which one is moving from one worst case scenario to another is a low quality life.

So the painful stories have to be transcended. And painful emotions have to be addressed.

Life can become easier. More breathing space can result.


Trust life. Be broad minded. Don't assume that the worst case scenario will unfold for you. That is a wrong approach to life. Life is huge. It can absorb our mistakes.

Mistakes mixed with fear push our mind into assuming that the worst case scenario will unfold for us.

And even if the worst case scenarios start unfolding for you, because of the mistakes you have made, so what? YOU ARE LARGER THAN THE FULL HIT OF ALL THE WORST CASE SCENARIOS YOU CAN IMAGINE.

There is no way one can do anything in life without making mistakes. Mistakes happen all the time...because life does not come with an instruction manual. Yet life goes on. Millions of people live, prosper, thrive.

“Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before,” - Neil Gaiman

"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself.
Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are." …….. -Daniel Dennett

A negative person has endless confidence in negative outcomes. Looks upon positive things as temporary, deceptive, traps, etc.

Overcoming Negativity

A perspective:
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Life's ultimate picture is a losing battle against decay, entropy, disintegration and death. Because death ultimately claims the human. So living is the same as dying, just a way to pass time. Because death is always around the corner in fact. And claims sooner or later.

So death is larger than life.
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Such a death centric perspective leads to a very dark view of life. Can this dark view of life be overcome? And is there a need to overcome the dark point of view?


Teal Scott Swan's video on 'How to Stop Worrying' attempts to undo this above mentioned perspective. A must see.

The Real You

We are seamlessly integrated into our environment.

If someone were to use a microscope to study the junction between human skin and air, they would find no boundary of any sort. In fact if you zoom in sufficiently, the territory would all be identical in every respect.

At a deep level, the environment is just subatomic particles dancing around.

At a deep level, your body is just subatomic particles dancing around.

We are seamlessly integrated into the environment. It cannot be any other way, of course.

Another way of understanding this seamless integration with all that is, is to imagine going to sleep and never waking up.

The fact that you will not even remember the point at which you fall asleep eternally, is a very powerful pointer to our unity with all that exists.

Alan Watts, a wonderful teacher, holds the same ideas. Take a look at this.

Just as you do not remember the point at which you fall asleep at night, you will not remember the point at which you fall asleep forever, and this a very powerful pointer to your oneness with nature and the cosmos...but it's more than that -- it's a pointer that deep within, fundamentally, you are nothing but the infinite cosmos itself, and when you fall asleep, this imagined border between 'you' and the 'cosmos' dissolves.

So when 'you' fall asleep, 'you' no longer eclipse the real you. Which is the vast infinite cosmos itself, in its full wonder and glory. So when 'you' fall asleep, 'you' no longer eclipse the real you. And 'you' never did, but, 'you' are too limited to know that.

(The Real, unobscured, unveiled) You are nothing but the infinite Cosmos, in its fully glory and wonder. And through your form, the cosmos, which is you, looking at yourself.

Some Alan Watts quotes

1. Everyone of us is an aperture through which the whole cosmos looks out.