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Mooji prefers to use the term ‘pointing’ rather than ‘teaching’ because Truth cannot really be taught as it is infinite and formless. He says that to teach, there must be a ‘someone’ to learn which requires time and practice. What Mooji means by ‘pointing’ is actually ‘pointing out’ or making clear what is obvious and already so within ourselves but not yet recognised. He doesn’t encourage note-taking, but more a focus of attention and an earnestness to recognise Truth.
Ego, Identity, Personhood These terms are used to refer to the false self-image or separate self that most of us are conditioned to believe we are. It is the state
in which consciousness is identified with the body-mind and the conditioning that was consciously or unconsciously received. It is the sense of being a limited personal entity with its individual habits, history, beliefs and identity. Ego is synonymous with the I-person feeling, which is the illusory entity inside the mind. This sense of personhood is a highly limited, contracted and reactive state of the functioning consciousness, and seemingly covers or hides its source, the pure, infinite Self. In the state of ego all actions are self-serving. While the gross forms of ego are generally easily discerned, its subtler aspects may hide behind seemingly virtuous and spiritual qualities but this is also a mask to protect its falsehood. Self-realisation means to wake up from this long sleep of ignorance, in which the state of personhood is taken to be one’s self, into the recognition that one’s true Self is beyond all forms, states, concepts and conditioning.
Mind Generally speaking, mind refers to the capacity of consciousness to interpret, measure, evaluate, name and categorise the phenomenal world. It is the instrument through which thoughts arise. When mind functions in its natural purity, it is a highly powerful and effective tool that Mooji sometimes calls the natural, practical or heart-mind. However, when the Being is identified as a personal self, the mind takes on a more deceptive quality, often in tandem with the emotions, memory, feelings and imagination. This is the birth of ego which is also referred to as the psychological, carnal or maya-mind. In this state the mind’s functioning, taken to be real, reinforces the idea that one’s own self is a separate, autonomous entity, vulnerable to the unpredictableness of life. Since the natural mind represents the mind devoid of personal identity, tendencies and beliefs, Mooji sometimes uses the term heart-mind as a synonym for consciousness and vice versa.
I have come to call you home. Those who have a place for my words or my voice inside their heart, you already know or you will soon come to this place. You will discover its completeness, its joy and its fullness. I have come to call you away from suffering, from fear, from a life of sorrow, into your own divine Being. I have not come to give you any stories so as to excite your imagination or to sign you up for some long course or to call you into some membership. I have come to show you the unchanging and ever-present Truth and to remind you that you are already That, you are not separate, that the sense of separation from God, from Truth, is mere imagination believed into existence. This is how suffering is born. Know it is possible to wake up out of this long dream.
Take courage. Being free is neither difficult nor distant. I know it has often been conceived, perceived and presented to be rare, remote and difficult, but all that is delusion—a great seeming. I don’t know why awakening happens in one heart so completely and in another there is some delay or postponement.
don’t delight in the imaginary. I need nothing from your past. This is not how I know you. I don’t know you through your story. I know you through your heart—through your own divine Being.
Sometimes feelings of doubt, resistance, lethargy and distractedness will come, and I want you to be aware of that ahead of time. Do not fight with that, but rather keep your attention in the place that I am pointing to: the infinite Self.
It is this that causes everything to come alive, to sparkle with new possibilities. In my view, there is nothing higher in the human kingdom than discovering our divine nature whereby beings are raised from the sleep of ignorance of the Self to the bright joy of awakening. As everything else is perishable, find that which is imperishable, and fall completely in love with it.
Don’t go to sleep until the night of ignorance disappears forever. Remember, the light, peace and presence of the Lord shines inside your heart eternally.
AI Summary
White Fire by Mooji presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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