A message of peace from Mooji

[Maraya1969]

[FreepFryer]

1. Your post gives no clue who "Mooji" is, so I found this on "gururating"

Mooji is a well-known guru who teaches the lazy person’s way to spiritual enlightenment (his words). His approach is to help you realize that you are already enlightened. That is the whole of his teaching.

It perhaps comes as no surprise that Mooji has little else to say as he became enlightened quite by chance.

His meeting with a Christian mystic altered the course of his life, leading to profound experiences. He claims to have completed his self-realization after meeting his master, Papaji. This said, Mooji’s own master disputes his spiritual enlightenment — see the video below.

https://gururating.org/mooji/

I have no issue w those who choose to study w a guru, but when one listens to words, one should know who is speaking them.

[Maraya1969]

3. This is a very late response to you but I just saw your post. I wanted to say about that video

at Guru Rating site, that I don't see anything bad in it. The woman is crying because she said she "Doesn't need you, (Mooji) anymore" The person writing said it was bad form because the people started laughing and he did not seem to take her too seriously. Actually he said "Need is not freedom". Which is exactly the same as giving up desire which is necessary or a result of enlightenment. So coming to the point that you can say, "I don't need you anymore" is real growth.

I have seen how people become soo attached to their guru that they cannot seem to exist successfully when not near them. Sometimes they are so busy doing their "Guru devotion" that they forget the actual teachings of Advaita - which is to let go of individual identity and come to the realization that all is one.

I also don't know how this person thinks he has the qualities to judge gurus.

It is very difficult to even see Mooji now. The last time I went there were 160 people at the Ashram and one person who has lived there for years told me that there were times that 1,000 people were there. And that is by design. Mooji doesn't want to travel anymore and he specifically asks people to not "harass" (my word) him. I completely understand this. Even though he said this I saw one woman stand right in front of his golf cart so he would stop and then she went right to him bowing to his feet etc. He just accepted it and spoke to a bunch of people who then gathered around but I knew at that time that this is what he asked people not to do.

Further Raman Maharshi rarely spoke to his disciples. And I have found that the healing that comes comes kind of psychically rather than him giving any specific instructions, (although he does give instructions).

And he does not live extravagantly at all. Actually someone took some photos of me and him and when I zoomed in I realized that he had little holes in his shirt - probably because it was old. All the toilets there are compost toilets that people share and you are allowed 1/2 bucket of water to take a shower with. I didn't mind this at all except for being afraid of spiders in the compost toilets.

I also realized that he has dedicated his life to helping people. It got so damn hot when I was there a few months ago but I saw him spend hours speaking with everyone with that hot hat that he wears over his dreadlocks.

I am trying to be able to live either there or in the little town around the ashram where a bunch of his followers have made their home, (Maybe they don't like compost toilets either?)

I went to a retreat with Eckart Tolle once before I met Mooji and it was $1,000 for a Fri. night and 2 sessions on Sat. and one on Sunday morning. AND the hotel where most the people were staying was very expensive - I rented an air B and B with a friend. Contrast that with a full week of 2 Satsangs/day plus a couple night programs with food and lodging for $600 at an eco-resort in Portugal. Eckhart comes on the stage and takes questions but after he just leaves by way of the stage. Mooji goes out and hugs a ton of people in the audience. I was called on to speak the first day and I brought up this chronic pain I deal with and the next day there was a cushioned seat with that said "Reserved for "Maraya" When I saw the woman who found me and led me to the seat (there were about 900 people there) again in Monte Sahaja I showed her a picture I took of the seat and I actually started crying because I couldn't get over how he and the rest of them tried so hard to make everyone comfortable and she just said to me, "It was Mooji. Thank Mooji"

So I may sound defensive about him and I am. I really got to know him this year from staying at the ashram.

[Maraya1969]

2. He is my Guru. Here is his Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooji

Mooji (born Anthony Paul Moo-Young, January 29, 1954)[1] is a Jamaican spiritual teacher based in the UK and Portugal. He gives talks (satsang) and conducts retreats.[2][3] Mooji lives in Portugal, at Monte Sahaja.[3]

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By age 30, Mooji was working as a street artist supporting his wife and child.[3] In 1985, Mooji's sister, Cherry Groce, was shot and paralysed during a police raid on her home, sparking the 1985 Brixton Riot.[4] In 1987, Mooji had an encounter with a Christian which began his spiritual quest.[5] Mooji continued to work as an art teacher until 1993, when he quit and went traveling in India, and attended the satsangs of the Indian guru Papaji.[4]

He returned to England in 1994 when his son died of pneumonia.[4] He continued to travel to India, each time returning to Brixton, London to sell chai and incense,[4] as well as give away "thoughts for the day" rolled up in straws taken from McDonald's.[3][4] He became a spiritual teacher in 1999 when a group of spiritual seekers became his students, and began to produce books, CDs, and videos of his teachings.[4] On Tony Moo becoming known as Mooji, Mooji said, "What can I say, except that’s life." Mooji's brother Peter said that people had always followed him wherever he went.[4]

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Mooji continues to give satsangs at various locations around the world, regularly attracting over a thousand people from fifty nationalities.[2][4] He also holds meditation retreats, sometimes with up to 850 people, each paying between €600 and €1000 for seven days, including the cost of satsang.[2] He purchased a 30-hectare property in the parish of São Martinho das Amoreiras, in the Alentejo region of Portugal, and created an ashram called Monte Sahaja.[6] According to Shree Montenegro, the General Manager of Mooji Foundation, there are 40 to 60 people living full-time in the ashram.[2] A fire at the ashram in 2017 required the evacuation of close to 150 people.[7] Activities at the ashram are funded through the UK-based charity Mooji Foundation Ltd., which reported an income of £1.5 million in 2018 (of which nearly £600,000 came from 'donations and legacies'), as well as through income from its trading subsidiaries Mooji Media Ltd. in the UK, and Associação Mooji Sangha and Jai Sahaja in Portugal.[8][9][10][11]