{"id":770,"date":"2016-04-26T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=770"},"modified":"2022-05-24T17:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:43:43","slug":"mooji-answers-throwing-off-the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Mooji Answers: Throwing Off the Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this short 6 minute video, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RzY2798g7hM\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RzY2798g7hM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mooji <\/a>explains that the phantom self (ego, personality, mind) is like a monkey on your back. You can not see the monkey until it is thrown off.\u00a0 He goes on to explain that even when the monkey is thrown off, you can not &#8220;know&#8221; the self because the true &#8220;self&#8221; is what is left when the monkey is gone. Who is to recognize it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this short 6 minute video, Mooji explains that the phantom self (ego, personality, mind) is like a monkey on your back. You can not see the monkey until it is thrown off.\u00a0 He goes on to explain that even when the monkey is thrown off, you can not &#8220;know&#8221; the self because the true <a class=\"moretag cvp-ctr-track\" data-post-item=\"770\" href=\"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=770\">[More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online-satsang.com\/hp_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}