From – The Master Speaks
Chapter 5
by Joel Goldsmith
THE I THAT I AM
On the Spiritual Path you will be tempted, not a hundred times, but a thousand times, to believe in a selfhood apart from the I that I am; you will be tempted to believe that you are that selfhood, or that your son or your daughter is a selfhood separate and apart from God.
Each time it will be an effort to remember: I is God; I is infinite being: I is infinite individuality. Then when you have achieved that realization you can rest—but only for a few minutes, until the next temptation comes along.
Omigoodness, gracious!
Is THIS what some people
Have been trying to share?
The Stillness – the Silence –
Is unspeakably glorious!
You’ll never guess in a
Million years what I found there!
I’ll save you a little time and
Just tell you:
Unfinished sentences, words whose
Meanings simply extinguished!
Wherever I looked, I was the Light.
Little piles of … unfinished,
Unwanted ‘thoughts’ fizzled
Before my Eye!
Omigoodness! So much more:
The calmness, oh the calmness…
And the joy!
Good thoughts and bad alike
How do you say: S-s-s-s-s-t … Gone!
Sentences in my mind world,
Phrases too, and interjections, gone!
The Light was (IS) beyond belief!
You can do it too….
Just close your eyes and
Look compassionately on petty
Intruding thoughts coz when you do
The Light that you are consumes them
In an ever-burning flame of love.
Mooji was raised in a Christian environment. All of his pointings can be found in the bible. For instance : the inquiry, looking at every thought . The bible says to ” take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. He refers to the Christ Consciousness “our hope of glory Christ in you” . And every thing else he says can be found in the bible. Mooji refers to the Absolute or The Supreme, God. He says that even once we realize self there is one watching this one . Which is the Absolute Supreme Being. God. Mooji said in one of his video’s ” I am not God. I didn’t create all this. We can never be equal to God”. But the bible does speak of Oneness with God. Perfect Unity. Mooji says that he speaks with God and with Jesus. That we are a child of God. The bible says that “eternal life is to know God and to know His Son”. Mooji does not claim to be God. The Supreme. The Absolute. Mooji also says that the Absolute cannot be spoke about. But I believe Mooji has communion/fellowship with the Supreme Being. God. When asked these questions ” How do you connect to God?” and “How do you feel God?” Mooji’s reply was this : ” I don’t have to turn to the left or the right to be with God. Not one breath is taken outside of God’s Being. I am only an image made of energy painting a painting by God. There is no distance. Thee is no distance. There is no way I could escape to be someplace outside of God. Nor even there is the will or the urge. Everything that I o, whether it be right or wrong, takes place in the accommodating presence of the Lord. Thee is so much Love. I can never feel shame in front of God. God is the source of myself, my being, but that source has no distance. God gives me the power to call Him , “Me”. The Light that removes even the smallest shadow of doubt. I don’t have to remember God, and I cannot forget.” End. This shows me Mooji very much has relationship, onesness “with God”. But his pointings seem to stop at the enquiry. Some I see are in the enquiry for years?? Should not our ultimate goal to be All God created us to be? The ultimate communion , fellowship, oneness with the Absolute? The Supreme Being? God ? There is little spoke about after awakening. God is. Should not we seek to go higher IN GOD ? Mooji does speak about going to higher levels but not very often. Since Mooji does quote the bible often He must believe what it says. The bible does say that Eternal life is to know God and to know His Son. Joh_17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Also says we are sons of God. Just as Mooji says “you are a child of God” Joh_1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Rom_8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Is this not our ultimate goal? Mooji has communion/fellowship WITH God. Should not that be our ultimate goal as well? Not just seeing what we are not. And what we are as the Self ? Should not our ultimate goal to be going beyond “Self” to that place of seeing where the Self is also seen? There were three birds in the tree , in the story Mooji told. The bird on the lowest branch busy building it’s nest etc. Then a second bird above that bird on a higher branch watching all that activity. But then Mooji said there was a third bird on a higher branch watching both birds on the lower branches. He said that was the Absolute. Should that not be our goal , to enter into Oneness with that bird? Why stop on the second branch? Communion with the Supreme God. The Absolute is real and possible. Mooji has referred to that many times.
Why do people believe life is eternal, God is all, … until something happens? A person’s death proves God is not all, Life is not eternal? Does a perfect life in this body prove anything at all? Understanding eternal life and God’s allness goes a long way to bringing healing to bear and probably complete understanding and knowing guarantees healing. But mortal man has his own interpretation of what healing entails. Since life is eternal it’s not limited to this earthsuit. [Besides 60 years ago 72 was not as ‘young’ as today.] How do we know that Joel didn’t on some level want to step aside and let Herb take over? How do we know they’re not here now if God is truly All?
“The secret of harmony is in understanding true identity.
I is God, not man. I is consciousness, not body.
I is life eternal. It was never born. It will never die.”
“It is the ability when looking at a human being, to perceive that which is not apparent to the human senses and in that perception see through the individual to the Christ.”
from Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture
“The Christ appeared as Jesus. The Christ appears as individual you and me. This realization begins our spiritual experience and present immortality.”
Hi everyone, the following came to me this morning during a meditation; so I thought I would share it, in case it is helpful to anyone. Much Love to you all, my wonderful Soul Family!
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Here I AM!
Right here. Where have you been?
You think you have played prodigal for a while, lost Me.
You haven’t. Only I AM here.
How could you escape the arms of my Loving Allness? I have never gone anywhere. Never.
A million suns could come and go; a
million universes could burn up —
And I would be right here. Simply present. Waiting. With infinite tenderness and patience.
Why not rest a while? Let Me take your burdens. Let Me dry your eyes. Aren’t you tired?
Rest a while with Me. For I AM you.
I am all the Love you have ever dreamed of, and far, far more.
Mortal man poses so many questions
Every ‘answer’ begetting a multiplicity of new questions.
Never satisfied, never free.
Never touching the hem of immortality.
Wanting God vindicated for
Egoic human compréhensibilités!
All the while answers, eager to pluck from the Tree of Life need only to lift
Question and questioner far above.
Universe upon universe, world without End CANNOT divulge their secrets
To the dullard wanting package deals.
Take your time O lofty mortal man
And due your diligence this night.
INVITATION TO MEDITATE
Think about it: if you’re not your body
Neither in it, of it,
Nor in any way bounded by it
Coz the very “I” that you are
Is the same “I” that I am
And him, and her, and all of them.
That most difficult person or ten
You’re with-&-in them all.
What’s more, as in quantum’s entanglement,
You’re at once there and here.
And God’s the Source of it all.
The Matrix, The Tunnel, The Box.
All.
We don’t need to be afraid to unite
With our brethren any longer –
Already done – already ONE.
What’s holding you back? Someone
Done something to ya? Got your
Stuff? You’ve something huge on them?
LET IT ALL GO, THE REWARDS ARE ASTRONOMICAL.
Then go back to the beginning
Of this meditation and soar
With the rest of the angels!
