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What do people think of Mooji? I find him very intelligent and authentic.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mooji&aq=f
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I've watched several of his vids. Not overly impressed but he seems like he's hip and got a modern sense of humor and that's refreshing.
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Mooji's talks are inspiring.
Love the way he returns the focus onto the experience of the 'knowingness' in us as being that what we are...
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The real deal.
Edited by The Chronic (07/19/10 12:02 PM)
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I like Mooji, but the only part where I become upset with him is that he seems to charge lots of money for his Satsangs, and that to me is something that should never be done if you're trying to spread a message that one believes is so important for everyone to know. Other than that, I think he's fantastic, and very poetic. Overall though, I like him. 
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it. - Dōgen
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He's probably got to make a living somehow... can't preach for free these days.
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He has a team of people who work for him organizing everything, making dvds, videos for youtube, arranging travel, paying for flight tickets, you also have to pay for big halls as mooji gets hundreds of people coming to satsang... and yeah he has to eat & pay rent just like the rest of us, if you were broke & spoke to him before im sure he'd let you come in for free.
If he was out to make money you think there would be hundreds of youtube videos for free?
Just one of those videos, if you really listen & meditate on what hes saying, is enough for you to never have to come to satsang or pay him any money
And theres hundreds available for your viewing pleasure...
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For some fame and adulation is worth more than money.
Being an "enlightened spiritual master" has got to be one of the biggest perks on earth. People actually believe you made it all the way to perfection or some such thing. You're by far the coolest guy on the block and better than all the rich or famous. Plus you know where your next meal is coming from and no physical labor. Sounds like a great gig.
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He probably makes tons of money anyway, looking at his website traffic and wide product range.
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Those days aside the hilltop where the sunlight sky and meadows below spoke promises of eternal future
And I remember the day the world turned on me, how frightened I was and the idiotic surprise I was met with
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Good for him i hope he makes tons more
Why not?
If you spoke to him & said 'mooji i have to see you soon, i really need to clear up some doubts' he would see you for free, if you want to come to a meeting where a hall is rented you gotta pay your way, if you wanna watch him on dvd from your home, you gotta buy a dvd
People really gotta get over this money thang, if we want a planet of buddhas, does that mean everyone has to then be broke?
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Did I say that was bad? Still I never thought much of mooji's ideas.
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I remember when I believed in meaning
Those days aside the hilltop where the sunlight sky and meadows below spoke promises of eternal future
And I remember the day the world turned on me, how frightened I was and the idiotic surprise I was met with
I should've known!
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Nah im just sayin people always point it out, when whats the difference between him making money & some business man?
Whats the point in even bringing it up that he might make lots of money?
You can say its just conversation, but a lot of the time ive heard someone bring it up it has connotations of 'hes not sincere cause he earns money off us', which is ridiculous
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It gets brought up because in some or many cases it turns out to be motive. Let the buyer beware.
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Mooji is incredibly vague, his talks have absolutely no real content.
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The couple of vids that I saw I concluded the same. Something that's been said for thousands of years. Why pay for something you can find in any book on the subject for free. I often end up thinking it's the same way people flock to any celeb. It's a form of hero worship.
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The couple of vids that I saw I concluded the same. Something that's been said for thousands of years. Why pay for something you can find in any book on the subject for free
A living buddha is something pretty great, the energy they give off can make your own meditation very powerful
I know since the day i met him i have not suffered even an inkling of depression, that speaks for itself imo
What i found the day i met him was priceless
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Libertin said:
his talks have absolutely no real content.
Precisely why they are so powerful.
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They have no content if your minds looking for some new philosophy to attach to, or some new thing to keep 'doing' aimlessly, because its all about you being nothing, and the mind dont wanna be nothing, its whole job is to be something, be some body
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Icelander said:
The couple of vids that I saw I concluded the same. Something that's been said for thousands of years. Why pay for something you can find in any book on the subject for free
A living buddha is something pretty great, the energy they give off can make your own meditation very powerful
I know since the day i met him i have not suffered even an inkling of depression, that speaks for itself imo
What i found the day i met him was priceless
Well to each his own. How do you know he's a living buddha?
When I was young I got the girl I was after and that cured my depression for several years.
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Its something i feel, when he speaks (or any living buddha ive come across) i instantly feel the space they are speaking from
I got nothing & it cured my depression, girls come & go, nobody can take that nothing away
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Nobody to my knowledge knows how they will feel five minutes from now much less for the rest of their lives. All we can do about the future is guess and mostly guesses about the future turn out to be incorrect. The longer you live the more you realize this.
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“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”
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Well i know what i've found is always here, so whatever happens, its always here, everything else is unreliable, its that simple.
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Again you can only say that for this moment and not any future outside of your imagination.
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Well what ive found is this moment, and in the future itll always be 'the moment' then aswell 
Its the same as it was a billion years ago & it'll be the same in the next billion years
You can believe that when i turn 50 i'll suddenly turn my back on all this awareness meditation stuff, but not everyones the same, some beings stay with this realization all the way til the end, its not just some 60's youthful fantasy like all the ones you've come across, but hey im 26 so you won't trust me no matter what i say, cause im just some dumb kid whose desperate to believe in anything...
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Oh yea of little understanding.
I never said you would give up on anything and frankly you don't know what the next billion years will bring no matter what you like to tell yourself.
You are trying to make a case you can't defend. Fact is that you do not know what you will believe in the future.
I think it's your ego talking, not the humbleness of a warrior.
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“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”
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If it was about merely believing in stuff, id be with you 100%
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That's all it is. You think you're beyond that but I see no evidence for this. Like I said I see you defending an impossible position, but you get to do that here.
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“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”
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Im beyond the mind, or ive seen the true infinite place of being is beyond the mind, so im not that concerned about using it much anymore, belief in this kind of stuff requires too much effort, i enjoy being effortless, being free, thats what this stuff is supposed to be about, freedom.
Last thing i want is for you to believe me as if i could want anything it would be for you to experience it aswell, and to do that believing me would be an obstacle, so its good, thankyou
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You are so welcome.
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― Robert Anton Wilson
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Mooji is awesome. It's true, just through youtube videos I discovered my own being. I'm sure I'm not the only one who this will happen too. They times they are a changin.
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Re: Mooji [Re: g00ru]
#12932906 - 07/21/10 11:45 PM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Right
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g00ru
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it's not some wild secret from china or something, it's so obvious.
just BE, just marinate in your self, just grok your own existence. such an inherently fulfilling place. You probably do it all the time without realizing the significance.
I can't believe anybody couldn't see what's going on right now. The internet maaaaaan. It never existed before! Information has never been this easy to obtain before. Of course changes are going to come from it. Especially when people start to rediscover their natural state. Even if everybody doesn't realize the self, beauty will manifest.
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Re: Mooji [Re: g00ru]
#12933861 - 07/22/10 04:23 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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It's true, just through youtube videos I discovered my own being.
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I remember when I believed in meaning
Those days aside the hilltop where the sunlight sky and meadows below spoke promises of eternal future
And I remember the day the world turned on me, how frightened I was and the idiotic surprise I was met with
I should've known!
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Re: Mooji [Re: g00ru]
#12933904 - 07/22/10 04:53 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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guruu said:
it's not some wild secret from china or something, it's so obvious.
china wtf?
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just BE, just marinate in your self, just grok your own existence. such an inherently fulfilling place. You probably do it all the time without realizing the significance.
every night when we enter deep sleep, and that's very very fulfilling, without it we couldn't function at all, we'd be utterly insane
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I can't believe anybody couldn't see what's going on right now. The internet maaaaaan. It never existed before! Information has never been this easy to obtain before. Of course changes are going to come from it. Especially when people start to rediscover their natural state. Even if everybody doesn't realize the self, beauty will manifest
I agree, the net is amazing, even if a quarter of the planet, or even an eighth of people realized this truth the planet would be transformed
Im not saying we should believe it will happen, we should make it happen, but if we believe it won't happen, then we stay stuck in our minds... we accept the usual mundane existence of being slaves rather than free, saying its not possible is to admit defeat.
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Re: Mooji [Re: g00ru]
#12934127 - 07/22/10 07:49 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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I can't believe anybody couldn't see what's going on right now.
Me either.
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― Robert Anton Wilson
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i don't give a fuk about mooji or any of these other new age redone hippy hindus selling blah blah to naive audiences
i never got anywhere listening or watching these guys speak about all that shit, it's just more words and ideas to keep running in your mind
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Why do you bother posting words here then? 
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When I first got into Mooji I shed many tears of joy and sorrow..
How much does he charge for Satsang?
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mooji has nothing to do with 'believing' in stuff
mooji has everything to do with 'being' in stuff
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g00ru
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yeah, if you're "believing" anything you're preventing him from doin his thang.
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Quote:
Ginseng1 said:
When I first got into Mooji I shed many tears of joy and sorrow..
How much does he charge for Satsang?
Usually around £10 per session, which is about $15
Although what if he charged double that? or triple that?
Would that make him less valid?
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