Day 25: An Introduction To Your True Self

Welcome to Day 25 of the Mindful Mornings Challenge. In this powerful guidance, Mooji invites us to the place of zero before beginnings or endings—the uncreated space before the perceiving of the world appears. He points us to directly experience that this pure awareness alone is real, true, timeless, unborn, imperishable, complete. This is your very own Self.

Transcript

Namaste.

Good morning to you.

This is Mooji here.

And it is today the 25th day of Insight Timers' Mindful Mornings Challenge.

So,

A very big welcome to you.

When I received the invitation to participate and to send a guided meditation,

I found spontaneously and immediately the response came,

And the guidance began to flow straight away.

So,

What you are about to listen to and participate in is that spontaneous recording of today's guided meditation.

And may your heart and mind be unified in absorbing and being absorbed in the very heart of being that you truly are.

Bless be your day.

Bless be your eternal days.

God bless you.

Thank you.

Before any beginnings,

Before any perception,

Before you begin to know anything,

Are you or are you not already there?

And this thing which is already there.

.

.

Let's take a moment to really catch up with those words.

You are already here.

And it is as though nobody has ever thought about that.

You have no importance to the thing which is going to determine whether other things are good or bad.

So we just shift our attention forward to what is going to be coming.

You have left out yourself completely.

And to be conscious of it means to just follow what I am pointing.

Like if I say,

Count up to ten,

Almost everyone will start,

One,

Two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

Six,

Seven,

Eight,

Nine,

Ten.

But I am at the place of zero.

Before starting,

I am here.

What is it that is here before even the perceiving of the world begins?

I ask you to think about it.

If you are quiet,

You may get further into this guidance than if you think.

Because if even silence you are aware of,

You are here before even you are aware of silence.

What is it that is really here?

And it is amazing that in this world nobody pays attention to that.

So let's say the world hasn't happened yet.

The first.

.

.

A,

B,

C,

D,

All the way to Z,

We haven't started as A yet.

The world has not started yet.

But you are here.

What does it mean?

Before the first thought or the first feeling,

You are here.

Who or what could you possibly be?

And bear in mind,

I am not talking about imagination.

I am asking you to imagine anything at all.

I am dealing with facts.

Before the first thought,

Or even a breath,

You are already here.

Who are you?

And what do you need?

Just give a few moments,

Surely in all your life,

You can give a few moments just to this.

Are you anxious?

Are you waiting to be?

Are you lacking?

Do you exist?

And look at this absence of noise and chaos.

Why?

Because you haven't started counting upon yourself.

You are still here,

Before beginning.

When you are totally present with yourself like this,

Did your Self arrive?

Is it created?

Because beginnings and creation have something in common.

Do you begin?

Are you created?

When you are touched by just this moment,

In some inexplicable way,

Already the magic of existence is happening in you.

Something beyond anything you have consciously grasped before,

You are here.

When this other thing called you,

Which I call the mind,

The counting one starts,

Its tendency is to overlook this,

To disregard this,

To be totally unaware of this.

But your chance has come,

Your time has come to be aware of this.

What does this mean?

When you sit with this,

Until fear will leave you,

Because fear will not be able to stay with you,

If you stay as this.

Because all these things have a number.

Everything you perceive in life has a number.

I want you to know that anything at all that appears in the mind,

In the phenomenal manifestation,

All of it is temporary.

None of it can stay everlastingly with you.

None of it can reveal yourself.

So,

My invitation would be simply to be with this.

Is it hurting to be?

Absolutely,

Without anything attached to you.

Even a shape that might arise or appear to represent you,

It is already a number.

You are not this.

You are before this.

Then if you are willing to,

If you are compelled to,

If you are invited to,

If you are blessed to,

If you sit with this and find value and power and peace and a sense of completeness in this,

When this is taking place,

Then you can touch any number in the world and it will not disturb you.

You are there even before meditation.

Because if someone were to ask,

What are you doing?

You say,

I am meditating.

But before you could present yourself as the doer or the participator in meditation,

There was just an awareness.

An awareness that has nothing to accomplish.

And only that which has nothing to do,

Nothing to accomplish,

That alone is real and true,

Timeless,

Uncreated,

Unborn,

Imperishable,

Complete.

But I bet nobody in your life has ever told you that,

In a way that you can really hear it,

Inside your all-ness.

And by saying this,

I am not paying you a compliment.

I am just pulling you up to the fullness of your Self.

And even if this flies away from you when you open your eyes or you step out this door,

You cannot unexperience this.

It is already in you.

So this is my blessing for you.

Now you can go and do what you have to do.

Our time is enough.

I will put it in that,

This is how you prosper.

This is real prosperity,

Because this is an introduction to your own Self.

All our lives we are being introduced to other selves,

Other things,

To other,

Other,

Other,

On the assumption that you know your Self.

You sit with that and see what is revealed in you.

I would call that important.

But only if you take hold of it and it takes hold of you.

That is it.

And for some of you,

The serum is already in,

Whatever your mind may have to say,

As an afterthought.

Deal with it.

If there is interest,

Wherever you may be,

Even if you are on the moon,

This simple contemplation,

This simple few moments of presence and listening will wash away all the dirt out of your mind.

It is like nobody has told you that you are enough as your Self.

Because they don't know themselves.

Everything started at one,

Two,

Three,

Four,

And no one knows zero.

The one who knows zero is zero.

Nobody can know him.

Nobody can know.

They can know some version,

As we do in the world.

We know some projection,

An assumption,

An imagined thing about you.

And that we just cut and paste on top of the face.

Who knows what is behind here?

Who knows what is zero?

Only the one who has come to zero can know the wealth and completeness of zero,

What I mean by zero.

The term zero,

The shape of zero is irrelevant for me,

But what I am pointing to,

That before the counting begins.

The counting is the start of the temporary manifestation.

Are you not here as a person?

No,

As consciousness,

Absolutely.

Now,

Consciousness is not a term.

In the way I am using it,

It is not a term that you are going to be used to in our day-to-day life.

Nobody speaks of consciousness.

Because everyone is consciousness,

But unaware that they are consciousness.

You start to label yourself as one,

Two,

Three,

Four,

Five.

But at zero there is no label.

The one who is zero can go anywhere,

Can be in any number.

Actually,

In any number zero is there,

In any number.

From one to ten billion trillion,

Zero is there.

In fact,

After a certain time,

You see it start to appear,

Even the zero starts to appear behind the one.

The only thing is that it is before the one.

In our number,

Mentally,

If you see zero,

It always follows a number,

Like one,

Two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

Six.

But in my world,

The zero precedes the one,

And permeates and pervades all the numbers that come.

If you know the secret,

I think you are going to be OK.

How sweet.

Reviews

I love getting to visit with myself. I don’t really know what to say, but I will be revisiting this meditation.

What an incredible moment in time he has created. A true spiritual teacher.

Find myself in the space before counting begins. Be in zero. Even these words can’t capture what happened in this time. Namaste

Resting in 0. Thank you 🙏🏼 what a blessing to have your guidance permeate the world.

My takeaway: before we start thinking.....nice reading/counting metaphor. I like how this spins us around to look internally . KEY: 5*Insightful 4*Interesting 3*Okay 2*Not For Me 1*Irritating

Mooji, thank you for zero, it is first and last, the beginning and the end as we are my guru!!!

Mooji left me with an existential crisis. It was great!

I must confess, I was uneasy with this meditation at the beginning. But then I listened – really listened to what Mooji Had to say and a whole New World opened up for me

Zero is my hero, comfort & joy. I once stepped onto a bench swing in St Louis, Ohio with 2 benches facing each other. It was old, worn, ugly & rickety. Didn’t think much of it. I sat down a bit unsure how it worked. Looked down at my feet and gave it a slight push downwards and suddenly it was as if I was flying on a cloud. It took off holding me in the palm of its hands. Love’s swing carrying me home thru, with & in Onenes of Spirit…. 0

A fascinating thought to start my day. Thank you. 🙏

Wow this wisdom session was mind opening. I walk away with a new understanding of who i am.

We were born at zero. Seems easy enough to go back but our minds make it a struggle. Thank you for helping us see it’s actually easy! 😀🙏🏻

Your pointings have changed my life.I spoke to you at the live Satsang on September 29th,2024 and I was so grateful.Grateful for all you do in helping people find truth.

Thank you Mooji.
I love your content. So lovely to see zero permeate through everything. ♥️
I feel what would have helped this presentation even more would be to have a pre and post bell. ♥️🙏🌻

If you know this (zero) I think you’re going to be ok 💛I will come back to this. Thank you.

Love you brother -- your practices resonate with my soul. Namaste

More of a talk than a pure meditation, this is a recording I come back to time and time again. I love the concept of the zero. It helps me drop into my simple existence. Thank you!

The zero effect , that it precedes the one. Deep! something to ponder on ☝️ and of which is true if one is able to be open to cement oneself in moment of no judgment so to speak!

Thank you, Mooji. I like that zero precedes the one.

Amazing Mooji 🙏🏼 you have changed my life, I listen to you every day. Thank you