Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of the present moment as the only reality, while past experiences and future expectations are merely illusions.
Mooji's quote reflects a contemplative understanding of time and existence. It highlights that the present moment, or 'now', is the sole reality we can experience, while our thoughts and memories about the past or future often cloud our perception, creating illusions. This perspective encourages mindfulness and living fully in the present, suggesting that emotional attachment to past conditioning can detract from our authentic experience of life.
In practice
In a meditation class to emphasize the importance of living in the moment.
Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. _x000D_ A king does not need to go shopping in his own _x000D_ kingdom. Nor does he beg. _x000D_ Remember, you are the inner reality-pure awareness only. _x000D_ All that arises are appearances in consciousness. _x000D_ Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. _x000D_ This is the secret.
A thought may arise: 'It's okay now, but it's going to be different when I step out the door'. Already you are anticipating your downfall. Recognise these as just thoughts. You can just watch them, feel their pull yet observe them as a movement in consciousness. Stay put as formless awareness.
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in a natural way. Intelligence is there. Emotions can come. Everything can play, but inside there is total serenity and peace. No planning, no strategising, no personal identity is there. Just the space of pure being. It is what we are, but we dream and believe we are not.
Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become. You will not be scrutinized, your actions compared with those of others. Thats just unicorn food. Let your river flow as it pleases. Simply observe and recognise that all is unfolding spontaneously when that inner journalist- the ego, is exposed as a myth.
All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.
If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.
If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.
I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.
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