# Remember These Words — Don't Take Shape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atO-aey2MLs Translation: ko [00:03] [music] [00:22] One Sangha Gathering - The world is our family - [00:26] 24 - 28 March 2021 [00:34] Remember These Words - Don't Take Shape [00:37] 24 March 2021 (with subtitles) [00:40] [Mooji] Let your mind just be empty. [00:43] It doesn't matter if there's some [noise] going on, [00:47] just don't hold anything at all. [00:51] Hold no shape at all, for a moment. [00:55] I know you can do this. [00:58] Or rather, listen to my words, [01:01] let them be the light in you, for now. [01:04] [M.] Don't hold on to any shape, or any intention. [01:07] [M.] This is a beautiful exercise. [01:10] Whatever it is that's been knocking from inside your head, [01:14] just don't pay any attention now. [01:16] We've come to that stage right now, for tonight, [01:19] just to say, cut that, unplug from that. [01:24] I just want presence. [01:26] I just want to feel you and be with you in presence now. [01:32] And I will tell you, [01:34] it will be infinitely greater than any question that you have had, [01:40] and had the chance to ask. [01:43] Just let everything go now. [01:49] You don't need any special skill for this. [01:52] Just the will, not the skill. [01:54] You just let everything go. Just be empty. [02:00] And trust that the vibration [02:04] of what you have been paying attention to, [02:08] is already resonating within your heart and being. [02:15] So don't go to the mind. [02:17] This is one of the things [02:19] that has been happening in satsang, more and more. [02:24] Whenever we call and use the word 'satsang', [02:27] people start to think about questions. [02:29] I'm going to give you a different thing now. [02:32] Don't think about questions. Don't think. [02:37] Just be in the being right now, [02:39] just being only, just being. [02:42] Being is not a doing. [02:44] It is an allowing of yourself, [02:49] to just let go of the mind traffic [02:53] and the things-to-do list. [02:56] Let go of all of that, completely of that! OK? [03:02] No images are needed. [03:05] No imagination is needed. [03:09] Just be empty. [03:12] [silence] [03:26] The emptiness that I am speaking about here [03:30] is not something that you can create. [03:35] It's what you are allowing yourself to be. [03:41] It is there already. [03:44] It is like if you have been watching TV for a few hours, [03:48] and you feel like keeping on watching something, [03:52] then somehow, an impulse comes to just switch it off. [03:56] And there is just a silence. That silence is always here. [04:03] Now, there's one more step; [04:07] that in which the silence itself is perceived. [04:13] The silence now is present. [04:15] It is almost like a kind of physical silence, [04:20] but it is more than that. [04:22] But now, there is the awareness of silence also. [04:26] I use the word 'awareness', [04:28] the awareness in which even the silence itself is perceived. [04:33] Again, this is not the outcome of some doing. [04:41] Just seeing, recognising, [04:46] but it is not a dualistic seeing. [04:51] We are in the space of only Awareness now. [04:56] Don't hold on to any shape, [04:59] nor be any shape, for a moment. [05:04] You are not creating. [05:13] So you are just naturally aware. [05:16] Whatever shows up in the space of your being, [05:19] that's OK, it can just be there. [05:21] That's not something to interfere with right now. [05:24] There's nothing to pick up. [05:27] There is nothing to use. [05:31] There is nothing to become. [05:35] There is nothing to change. [05:37] And why is that? Because you yourself are empty. [05:45] I don't mean you are empty like [05:47] there's a can that's been emptied, and there's a can left. [05:51] There is no can, and there is no container, [05:54] and no thing contained, for a moment. [05:58] This is not hypnosis. This is just clear, clear, emptying. [06:05] Not allowing your attention to caress, [06:08] or to cling to any idea, however subtle. [06:14] And yet, there is no cynicism, there is no dismissing. [06:25] Even if there is a self-image, [06:27] like the body is appearing in your consciousness [06:30] as a kind of reminder of what you are, that is only an idea. [06:42] So if you feel, 'I have come to a place of real silence', [06:47] the silence itself is only the kind of perfume, [06:50] that comes from this, which is not an object. [07:00] This, I would call, the very ground of being itself. [07:04] You may use this term, if you like it, [07:07] but this ground is not a level. [07:15] It is not earth. [07:26] You are not drifting. If there's a feeling of drifting, that's not you. [07:30] You may be aware of drifting. [07:35] There is no shape, or dimension to what you are. [07:43] And again, I don't need to ask you, [07:45] nor do you need to imagine anything at all, [07:48] because if something imagined is there, [07:51] you will also perceive that as only another shape [07:54] appearing in the vastness that you are, as awareness. [08:03] You have not become anything at all. [08:15] Now, if you feel some mind movements, [08:18] some mind chattering and so on, [08:21] it's only because the attention is still trying to catch you into a shape, [08:26] or a memory of yourself as a person. [08:29] Remember that is also a shape. Just remain shapeless. [08:36] Now, it might feel like this is something you are doing, [08:40] but I'm only asking you to be empty, and to notice. [08:43] That emptiness is at the very root of all things. [08:49] It is totally natural! [08:51] Not contrived, not imagined, [08:54] just recognised, somehow. [09:00] If anything is pulled into the mind-shape, [09:04] it is only your ideas, and habit, [09:07] and the tendency to identify yourself [09:12] in some shape called a person. [09:15] Now, this may take time, [09:17] and you may need to sit with this as often as you can, this is fine. [09:23] But however long it takes you, when you discover it, [09:27] it has always been here, as it is right now, but it hasn't arrived. [09:32] What I'm speaking about, the very essence of your Self, [09:35] has not come from anywhere, nor can it go. [09:39] All that come and go are illusory and momentary. [09:45] [silence] [09:57] Just as I'm saying all these things, pointing from this Emptiness, [10:01] all that I'm saying is coming out of this Emptiness, [10:04] but the Emptiness is not affected by it at all. [10:08] Only from that Emptiness, there is a field of harmony, [10:12] and out of this field of harmony, [10:14] these words come to guide you, [10:17] so that you keep out of that which brings disharmony. [10:21] And you come to a clear recognition, [10:24] a non-dual recognition, [10:27] a non-phenomenal recognition, [10:32] a non-object recognition, [10:35] that is your Self, here and now. [10:39] Your Self will never become a construct that is created in the mind. [10:44] All that which is created in the mind, none of it is stable. [10:48] It comes and goes. [10:50] What you are discovering is that alone which is stable. [10:55] It is always here, [10:57] that alone which can be called 'eternal' or 'timeless'. [11:02] If you are to discover this in another lifetime, [11:06] or ten lifetimes, or ten minutes, or ten hours from now, [11:09] whenever you discover this, that I'm speaking of now, [11:13] it will be just the same as it is right now. [11:17] There is no object to find. There is no philosophy to fulfil. [11:22] There is nothing to become. [11:25] It is more a kind of un-becoming. [11:27] That may feel more real than becoming something, [11:30] because you cannot become the Self. [11:33] It is what you are! [11:43] But we find it difficult to recognise [11:46] on account of the culture of personhood [11:50] that has developed through the mind and being. [12:01] And if you feel, ‘I'm not getting this’, don't worry about that. [12:07] Through your satsang you are learning, more and more, [12:11] to discern the difference between your mind and your Self. [12:16] The mind came from the Self, [12:19] dances in the Self and subsides in the Self. [12:22] The Self has no movement to make. [12:30] So, as we are coming to the end of satsang now, for today, [12:36] don't make any conclusions about anything at all. Please listen to me. [12:41] Don't make any conclusions, like something ... [12:44] So your mind is making some kind of conclusions about what you've heard. [12:49] There is nothing to do at all. The serum is already in! [12:54] Don't give it to your mind. [12:59] Trust this. [13:11] Now, I felt that! I felt this! I felt this. [13:15] As I said, Trust this, something ... [13:17] I don't know where exactly that's coming from now, [13:21] [Mooji] and from how many of you ... Something, just let go of some shape. [13:29] And it is so discernable, [13:36] you can just be comfortable. [13:40] There is nothing to keep. There is nothing to know. [13:44] Our sharing inside your being, [13:47] the natural intelligence of your being, [13:50] the natural grace of God in you, is already functioning. [13:55] It does not need the extra help from your mind! [13:58] That just interferes. [14:01] Trust this. [14:03] [Mooji] OK? Yes. [14:09] [Mooji] And so, the time has come for me, [14:13] [M.] to just have a few moments to sit with you, [14:16] to simply rest and delight in your company, [14:21] a little bit, for a few moments. [14:24] And thank you for this coming together. [14:31] A wonderful, wonderful opportunity, [14:36] to again, only pay attention. That's all! [14:43] We are not in a classroom. [14:48] Only settling in your Self, [14:51] watching the illusory waves of the mind, and so on. [14:57] Don't get entangled in all of that. Don't worry. [15:05] Mine is an easy way. [15:10] And an ease on the way, also. [15:16] We make trouble for ourselves by holding on to the mind too much, [15:22] and thinking that, somehow, [15:24] this is some sort of intellectual procedure. [15:27] It is not at all. [15:33] [Mooji] Just hold on to nothing at all. [15:37] [M.] And I want to tell you that, [15:40] this is not just about tonight, or today, or this moment. [15:44] Have this attitude. [15:47] Don't worry. [15:51] Remember these words: don't take shape. [15:58] Trust that, and you will see how freeing it is, [16:01] and at the same time, how truly responsible it is, [16:06] how efficient, [16:09] and harmonious. [16:14] Accept it, and let it be released in you. [16:22] Don't tighten yourself around anything at all. [16:26] [silence] [16:47] And remember, there is nothing to imagine. [16:55] The Self has nothing to do with imagination. [16:58] Of course, it creates this ability, [17:06] but as you are discovering, rediscovering, the truth of yourself, [17:13] you will not be so inclined to make things up, [17:18] and to be pushing your head into different shapes. [17:24] Everything is just fine like that. [17:27] Be easy in yourself. [17:29] Of course, there will be times when effort is required, [17:33] and trust that if an effort is truly required, [17:37] it will also come, naturally. [17:40] Learn to trust life. [17:43] It is not forceful. [17:45] Of course, there is force and there is power, [17:49] but when it is moving in the right timing, [17:52] you will see that it is all grace and appropriate. [17:59] Very good. [18:01] Bless you. [18:22] [music] [20:34] Copyright © 2021 Mooji Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved. [20:37] No part of this recording may be reproduced [20:39] without Mooji Media Ltd.'s express consent.