I would like to introduce you a little bit, to the many forces that come to visit this body over the years.

From different dimensions also. [chuckles]

How they come, how strong they could appear, and everything like that.

And each one is defeated like that.

So much so that when you look back, and I hear things like this, I can say, it's nothing.

This and that, it's nothing.

'But this thing?' Nothing.

'Yeah, but last night an angel...' Nothing.

'Yesterday I almost died.' Yeah, it's nothing.

'I had an experience. It was so...' Nothing. [laughter]

'I want to be free.' Nothing.

Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. [chuckling - participants laughter]

'I have to tell you about now, because something is tightening up.' [Mooji makes tightening sounds]

I say, Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

Nothing!

'I sat in a cave and it was...' Nothing! Nothing.

'What you speak about?' Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

Just you amusing yourself. It's nothing.

How many times you thought, 'Oh! This is my last day.' [Mooji makes dying sounds]

Nothing! Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

One day this body, 'plop' [Mooji feigns the body losing the vital force] Nothing.

It's nothing.

Nobody here is going to convince me it is something. Get over it. [Mooji and all laughing, and some clapping]

Huh? And it is precisely that, because I don't accept your version of yourself, and I don't believe you.

Yes. Is the only reason I can serve you.

Because I cannot accept the things you say about yourself.

They are simply not true.

I know you. I know every single being.

When I look in your eyes, I know who dwells there.

And I know the state of that one, to be perfect and holy.

So everything else you say, for a few moments, 'Ah, okay, oh... okay'

Waiting for a chance for you to say, 'And then actually all that I saw is nothing!'

I go, 'Aha!!' [much laughter]

But still you persist and go on, 'And this thing came last night, and it was so big, and I'm a dream, and in this dream I saw, I saw...'

It's nothing.

'And what happens though, after I die?' Nothing! No, nothing, nothing, nothing!

[Mooji makes slapping or slicing type sounds back and forth several times while participants laugh]

You see. Hmm, hmm...

So I say sometimes it's like, I used to say a samurai comes to you. A divine samurai.

And he says, 'I've come to take what I cannot have.'

'Give me.'

And you say, 'I've come for your, I've come.' And you go, 'Okay, okay. Take all my possessions.'

[Mooji makes a slicing sound] 'Don't want that. That's already mine.'

'Take all my learning. [Mooji makes slicing sound] It's not this.'

'Take all my experience. [Mooji makes two slicing sounds] It's not this.'

'Take my devotion. [Mooji makes slicing sound] Take my family.'

[Mooji makes several slicing sounds rapid fire and everyone laughs]

'Take my future [slice sound] past [slice sound] present.' [slice sound]

'Take me.' [slice sound]

Where have you come to? Because everything is telling me about where you have been.

But what about, where are you now? Where are you?

If you stop talking about where you've visited, what you thought, what will you want, what... the story.

[Mooji makes many slicing sounds]

And this thing I say to you like this, all of you. It was the story that Papa told me, I say like this.

About one girl, and she was just about to get married, no? And she was, the next day she's getting married. The next day.

And she's been planning everything for this wedding, because it's a traditional place.

And in this place, you don't get to be with your beloved in an intimate way until you are married.

So tomorrow is the wedding, no, tomorrow is the wedding day. Yes.

And so today, she must make the final arrangement and this girl lives in the forest.

She lives in the forest and she is now today, final arrangements, she has a few appointments.

'First I must go to the cake maker. And after the cake maker, I must see the dress maker. After the dress maker I must go and see the priest.'

'To go through my vows. And then finally at the end of the day, I'll see my beloved. And we'll have a cup of tea together, look forward to tomorrow.'

"And then tomorrow, I'll be, we'll be in each others arms! Oh wonderful!' And she's full of the joys of Spring.

And she's walking out in the forest to go to see the cake maker. First appointment on the list.

And after a few steps, right in front of her, steps a lion.

Face to face like this. Hungry lion, also.

And she can feel it's breath. {Mooji makes loud breathing sounds] Like this.

And in that instant you see, [Mooji makes slicing sound] the cake maker's appointment is gone. [laughter]

Then the dress maker. [Mooji makes slicing sound] It's not there.

The priest. [Mooji makes slicing sound] It's not there.

Only the beloved. [Mooji makes slicing sound] Also, not there.

In this moment, absolutely alone.

No time, no future, no intention, no past, no identity.

So the Master says, 'Welcome the lion on your path.'

Because until then, you're planning a tomorrow you don't have. A next week that nobody promise.

And all of this and our minds are full of the noise of 'otherness.'

What will bring you to this instant, this moment?

When will you spend one moment to be just you? Not carrying some message for tomorrow or something, you see.

And this habit that all of us we have it. And so we are full of noise. Claustrophobic.

With noise.

What will strip you back to that place?

Beyond time and intentions.

[silence]

How far are you from this place now?

What's left to do? What unfinished business is left to do?

Before you can simply, be your Being.

Be your Self.

Because the mind is not going to have a holiday.

[silence]

There is something that is not in the next moment. Not in a past moment, also.

Don't look anywhere to find it. Even your very search to find it, is already arising in it.

We are missing the obvious.

Don't seek help from your mind.

What will strip you back to this place beyond time and intention?

What unfinished business is left to do before you can simply be your Being?

Video extract from DVD 'It's Nothing, Nothing, Nothing!' 14 February 2012. session 2 Tiruvannamalai, India

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