Mooji

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Sri Mooji

Mooji , actually Anthony Paul Moo-Young (born January 29, 1954 in Port Antonio , Jamaica ), is an Advaita teacher.

Life

Mooji moved from Jamaica to Brixton (London) in 1969 at the age of 16 to live with his mother, who had lived in London since he was one year old. He initially earned his living as a street portrait painter. He later worked as an artist with stained glass and painting. He was also an art teacher at Brixton College for a while.

In 1987 there was an encounter with a young Christian named Michael, whom he describes as a mystic. This is said to have changed his life decisively. Mooji soon stopped teaching and began a life of "quiet simplicity". He engaged in self-exploration according to the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi and the writings of Sri Ramakrishna .

In 1993 Mooji traveled to India, where he became a student of HWL Poonja and studied the Advaita Vedanta teachings. He and his Sangha (community) have lived in Portugal since 2011. Satsangs and retreats are held regularly and there are several books that convey his knowledge.

Teaching

The Mooji scriptures and satsangs deal with a non-dual state that arises when all efforts to maintain an identity are abandoned. A radical questioning of what is meant by “ I ” releases the subject from its restrictive and reality-distorting perspectives and allows it to recognize its original connection with and as being. For Mooji, well-being, freedom and peace are not qualities that have to be attained with difficulty, but already existing qualities of our existence that are only obscured by dichotomies, polarities and separations, above all by the subject-object division .

Books

  • The Mala of God . Mooji Media Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-1-908408-21-1 .
  • Before I Am: The Direct Recognition of Truth - Dialogues with Mooji . Mooji Media; 2nd edition, 2012, ISBN 978-1-908408-13-6 .
  • Writing on Water: Spontaneous Utterances Insights and Drawings . Mooji Media, 2011, ISBN 978-1-908408-00-6 .
  • Breath of the Absolute - Dialogues with Mooji 2010, ISBN 978-81-88479-61-0 . (German: Breath of the Absolute: Dialogues with Mooji Noumenon-Verlag, Hamburg 2012)
  • Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space . Sounds true, 2016, ISBN 978-1-908408-23-5 . (German: wider than heaven, bigger than room OWBarth, Munich 2018)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mooji's biography on his website , accessed February 11, 2017.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Mooji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moo-Young, Anthony Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spiritual teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Antonia