Tony Moo, Mooji
“Anthony Paul Moo-Young, known as Mooji, was born on 29 January 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica. In 1969, he moved to the UK and he is presently living in Brixton, London. Anthony worked in London’s ‘West end’ as a street portrait artist for many years, then as a painter and a stained glass artist, and later as a teacher at Brixton College. For a long time, he was well known as Tony Moo, but is now affectionately known as Mooji* by the many seekers and friends who visit him.
Mooji is a direct disciple of Sri Harilal Poonja, the renowned advaita master, or Papaji, as his followers call him. In 1987, a chance meeting with a Christian mystic was to be a life-changing encounter for Mooji. It brought him, through prayer, into the direct experience of the Divine within. Within a short period, he experienced a radical shift in consciousness so profound that outwardly, he seemed, to many who knew him, to be an entirely different person. As his spiritual consciousness awakened, a deep inner transformation began which unfolded in the form of many miraculous experiences and mystical insights. He felt a strong wind of change blowing through his life which brought with it a deep urge to surrender completely to divine will. Shortly after, he stopped teaching, left his home and began a life of quiet simplicity and surrender to the will of God as it manifested spontaneously within him. A great peace entered his being, and has remained ever since.”
from:http://www.mooji.org/biography.html
Mooji is an inspiration for me and my heart is filled with love for this Guru, as it never quite klicked what ‘I AM’ is until i heard him speak the words…
you can try to analyse this man and people think that by criticizeing him, it will somehow subtract from his being-ness…
Love pours from all his revealed pure being-ness..
and feelings of pure devotion pool up when he speaks, this devotion only comes from a true satguru…
He seems to teach Advaita Vedanta(Hindu) in sync with Mahayana Zen (Buddhist), while explaining that the “I AM…” the higher self, is God whom he explains;
“sometimes i am praying to God, and sometimes i am God” -mooji
He Was first Initiated by a Christian Mystic who taught him God was with in….
I suspect given that he is Jamaican, wears long dreads(his Hindu guru’s bald!), and that Rastafari teaches that God is the Soul Almighty, I suspect that Mooji was probably initiated by a “Ras” (translated: chief) a Rastafarian mystic/holyman…
Mooji is the human embodiment of Lord Shiva
But experience always trumps blind faith, so check him out yourself…
Ajah Dharma 