[davidsun]

Originally Posted by sentient

But, davidsun ….
How do you feel about this?
“ॐ A Personal Invitation To Abide Within As The Is-ness":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdRX3aduS5s

Do you think that this kind of awareness of ‘Isness’ is against Humanity?
Does it threaten your person in being-doing model?

If so – why?

Hello Sentient -

Mooji's stuff and trip is great. I am sure many get a lot from it. Doesn't 'threaten' me at all.

Speaking of the 'Isness' of Being, this is from my book:

Every developing soul encounters this ‘problem’ many times over—it presents itself in a variety of guises as we proceed. The more intelligent and sensitive we become, the more subtly discriminating and refined the ways in which we conceive that we, others and situational circumstance would be more ideal. And, because we can then also more imaginatively envision and more inventively pursue their actualization, we become more prone to getting caught up (or ‘lost’) in yearning for and lusting after such conceptions of ‘greater’ goodness and, because it appears pale in contrast, to not appreciate and so not lovingly act to enhance what is; in the extreme, to denigrate and disparage it as having no inherent goodness and value at all. (Aside from the forementioned yearning for and lusting after ‘greater’ good*ness and denigration and disparagement of what is present and available, there are other indicators that one has gotten ‘stuck’ in terms of the problem: If and as prolonged or intense enough disappointment and dissatisfaction is suffered as a result of not having one’s ideal-based desires fulfilled, one may become cynical about and unenthusiastic, avoidant and sloppy in relation to apparently ‘ordinary’ matters one must deal with, as well as reactively loath and even grow to hate and want to destroy aspects of Life one considers non-ideal altogether.)

The ‘solution’, in each and every case, lies in becoming aware of how fixation on particular ideals and derivative experience of disappointment and dissatisfaction cut us off from perceiving, relishing and creatively dealing with the exquisite Isness of Being and Becoming that is Ever-Present and Ever-Ongoing in ourselves, others and the world around us, and therefore diligently identifying and choosing to emotionally decathect from and transcend such personal fancies and aversions and associated conditioning. Only if and as we stop holding onto particular likes and dislikes and jettison negative attitudes deriving from consequent experience of disappointment and dissatisfactionc do we rediscover and revive what was lost when we emerged from the simplicity of naiveté—the paradisiacal state enjoyed by Adam and Eve before they ‘fell’ from grace, in the Garden of Eden.

Many don’t make the grade when ‘tested’, however. Because they are mentally and emotionally fixated on pursuing and avoiding, respectively, personal fancies and aversions, and have become jaundiced by consequent suffering of disappointment and dissatisfaction, they fail to see, appreciate and make the most of things as they really are, and so don’t progress to a ‘higher’ level of experience and actualization. Though brilliant breakthroughs of Intelligence periodically reillumine and lead to full realization of the fact that each and every being is an expressive aspect of Creativity (That which has been referred to as God, championed as the one and only Absolute Good, and extolled [told ] as the Origin, Essence and Eternal Home of all Being), only those who have developed sufficient understanding of and faith in the amplitude and adequacy of Life’s process to unambivalently embrace and constructively deal with the ‘world’ of their perception and experience, however deficient or terrible aspects of it may seem, are then able to cast aside and divest themselves of the veil of pejorative judgmentalism that otherwise entangles the human psyche in disappointment and dissatisfaction and causes it to become enmeshed in a state of angst and unhappiness.

Since that book was written (it was completed in 1999), I have been more focused on the 'doing' as a way of 'becoming' (i.e. not just 'being') aspects of and possibilities present in The Flow of Life - the Flow of Love and Joy in relation to and with others and Life-at-Large. I (this relates to my present sensibilities and preferences) think and feel that just sitting around (figuratively speaking) 'at the feet of a master'(like Mooji) and contentedly 'grooving' with 'nice', 'peaceful', 'soft-loving', etc. 'vibes' (or just being a 'master' who 'radiates' such 'vibes') results is one's not taking on and meeting Earthly Life's more vital 'challenges' and not (not fully, that is) availing oneself of Its 'opportunities' - hence my 'seeing' the choice to simply live one's Life that way as a kind of 'abdication' and 'betrayal' of (what I see as being) the imperative of Life Itself.

Not that Mooji doesn't 'do' others a lot of 'good' or that one may not personally derive great benefit and so do more 'good' in relation to others by 'hanging around' him and 'grooving' on his message, but that I think that there's much more to Life (on Earth) than that, which more is what the treatise which I now most frequently quote here is all about.

I believe I am and so present myself as being a more 'activist' 'teacher', with greater 'aims' and hence a more 'activist' message, than Mooji. I don't claim to be omnisicient - indeed I know that I am not! - but, based on what I have grokked (which of course could therefore be incomplete or even wrong in ways), I would say that the 'nice' folks in Mooji's audience, many of whom are probably just-sit-around-contemplating-and-groove-on-the glorious-Isness-of-Being types, will eventually just have to reincarnate (again) and get into Doing what Life's imperative requires that they do (in relation to and with others and Life-at Large before they 'graduate' and 'get into' truly (in this case meaning fully) psychospiritually transcendent 'careers'.

My 'stuff' (what I articulate) is aimed at those who are primed and ready to 'go all the way' and 'take off' now (i.e. this time around) IMO.