I think what jbrev01, the moderator of the Mooji subreddit, wrote in response to the post about his censorship is typical of the brainwashing that's going on in the cult:
Mooji's pointing is very valuable in my opinion, but that has nothing to do with the fact that critical thinking is an important faculty to have and keep, and the fact that censorship is harmful in this regard. Mooji is supposed to exemplify someone who has awakened from his ego, yet he sleeps with some of his young students and allows them to put him on a pedestal in a big way and generally behave like sycophants. From what I've read, and like I said jbrev01 is a good example of this, whenever anyone shows any signs of independent thought, the cult members tell them to drop their mind.
Someone addresses the censorship or Mooji's abuse of the power differential between him and his students: "this has NOTHING to do with the pointing.
You are not your mind. Stop taking the thoughts inside your head so seriously."
No shit this has nothing to do with the pointing. That's the whole point, there are things seriously wrong with/around Mooji and that has nothing to do with the pointing. People should be allowed to keep the faculty of critical thinking, they need it badly. It's the only thing that will keep them from being swept up in the brainwashed mentality that comes with this or any cult.
In traditional Advaita Vedanta, critical thinking was cultivated. Philosophical debate was an important part of the tradition. By trying to shut down critical thinking you're not awakening from your ego, you're just getting sedated into a trance-like state. You may think you're awakening because you feel good, but you're not. You're just numbing your mind, not transcending it. And you want to protect your good feeling by suppressing anything that threatens it, such as any opinion or information that confronts you with the delosionary nature of your state.
Still I'd recommend anyone to watch a Mooji video, they contain truly valuable pointers in my opinion. You can meditate daily for decades without ever realizing that the self you thought was doing the meditating is in fact merely a mental habit and all that meditating has done nothing to break that habit. A single video of someone pointing this out with clarity (as Mooji has often done) can be more expedient for awakening than all those years of meditation. In this respect I wholeheartedly agree with jbrev01 when he writes "You - who you Truly Are - are bigger than the thoughts inside the head".
It's just that these valuable pointers shouldn't be abused in order brainwash anyone. I guess that's the irony of duality. Even the most profound message can be used to delude people.
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[..]If you really want to reap the benefit and the clarity of his pointing, stop caring about his personal life or the little dramas that occur at Monte Sahaja. Again, all of it has NOTHING to do with the pointing. You are not your mind. Stop taking the thoughts inside your head so seriously. You - who you Truly Are - are bigger than the thoughts inside the head.[...]
Mooji's pointing is very valuable in my opinion, but that has nothing to do with the fact that critical thinking is an important faculty to have and keep, and the fact that censorship is harmful in this regard. Mooji is supposed to exemplify someone who has awakened from his ego, yet he sleeps with some of his young students and allows them to put him on a pedestal in a big way and generally behave like sycophants. From what I've read, and like I said jbrev01 is a good example of this, whenever anyone shows any signs of independent thought, the cult members tell them to drop their mind.
Someone addresses the censorship or Mooji's abuse of the power differential between him and his students: "this has NOTHING to do with the pointing.
You are not your mind. Stop taking the thoughts inside your head so seriously."
No shit this has nothing to do with the pointing. That's the whole point, there are things seriously wrong with/around Mooji and that has nothing to do with the pointing. People should be allowed to keep the faculty of critical thinking, they need it badly. It's the only thing that will keep them from being swept up in the brainwashed mentality that comes with this or any cult.
In traditional Advaita Vedanta, critical thinking was cultivated. Philosophical debate was an important part of the tradition. By trying to shut down critical thinking you're not awakening from your ego, you're just getting sedated into a trance-like state. You may think you're awakening because you feel good, but you're not. You're just numbing your mind, not transcending it. And you want to protect your good feeling by suppressing anything that threatens it, such as any opinion or information that confronts you with the delosionary nature of your state.
Still I'd recommend anyone to watch a Mooji video, they contain truly valuable pointers in my opinion. You can meditate daily for decades without ever realizing that the self you thought was doing the meditating is in fact merely a mental habit and all that meditating has done nothing to break that habit. A single video of someone pointing this out with clarity (as Mooji has often done) can be more expedient for awakening than all those years of meditation. In this respect I wholeheartedly agree with jbrev01 when he writes "You - who you Truly Are - are bigger than the thoughts inside the head".
It's just that these valuable pointers shouldn't be abused in order brainwash anyone. I guess that's the irony of duality. Even the most profound message can be used to delude people.