replace me with you! mooji

The very significance of Christmas is this Christ Consciousness, the Christ-light, which is the real light of the world.
The light of consciousness, the light of the Self in its purest dynamic expression, is what we call the Christ that manifested in the human form called Jesus so many years ago,
but the source and origin of this light is timelessly unchangeable. Just in this moment now, I invite you to consciously, willingly embody the spirit of Christ. You can do this, in fact, because it is here already; it is essentially what we are.
When you fully wake up to the reality of the Self through complete and final understanding, you will see that it is nothing new. It is always timelessly present, complete, and perfect.
The recognition might feel new, but that which is recognised is timeless and is ever-present. I am inviting you to embody this Christ Consciousness, which means to fully acknowledge, welcome, and be your source Self. You can recognise this for it is your real nature, this Christ-light or Krishna Consciousness which is the same thing.
Christmas Blessing

I remind you of Sri Ramana Maharshi’s statement: He says that ‘The “I” removes the “I”, yet remains the “I”.’ Another way of putting that, in the form of a prayer, is ‘Replace me with you.’ It is the same thing. We are very accustomed to relating to ourself from the status of a person, so now this sense of the person is saying: ‘Replace me with You who are my source.’ This Source is not outside of or apart from yourself. ‘Remove that which appears to be what I am, but in reality I am not. Replace this ego-identity with my true Self. Let there be only You who are pure and complete Truth.’ —This prayer is generated by the pure consciousness which has blessed this human form with the timing of its own Self-revelation. The ‘You’ in that prayer also means ‘my true Self’, because in reality there is no ‘you’ in the universe; there is only ‘I’. All beings know themselves as ‘I’. When you feel that ‘I am this body’, then another body is given the label ‘you’. But when you pray to God and say ‘Replace me with You,’ it means replace the ego identity with pure consciousness, because God means pure consciousness. When the focus of the attention in the body is not in service to the ego-self but only to the state of presence-consciousness-self, and even onward from presence, then at a certain stage we will be able to see that even the state of presence itself is perceived to be phenomenal. But if this is not yet clear for you, then first abide in the state of presence. By transcending the ego-self in this way, you will find that the usual troubles of the world, such as those related to work, money, and relationships— all the things that seem to become burdensome at times for the personal identity —will be lightened up and gradually thin away as one awakens to the true Self. Many things which we discover anew in life have already been there all along. They have been there since time immemorial, yet have merely gone unrecognised. Therefore I say again: When you wake up to full understanding, to the full realisation of the Self, you see that it is nothing new. The recognition may feel new, but That which is recognised is timelessly present.
Your being is always complete, full, and whole. It is not the size of your body. It is also not the size of your thoughts, but it will seem to become the size of your body and your thoughts and be experienced that way until the Self is ‘awakened’ to its true nature. I am now inviting you to consciously embody, fully acknowledge, welcome, and be your source Self, which is the Christ-light, the Krishna Consciousness. Simply leave aside all that arises in the mind and remain as the intelligent space in which they arise. BE THAT SPACE. Don’t waste time focusing on small things, on trying to ‘over-clean your house’. There are spots on the moon, but they do not affect its light. Don’t put too much energy into trying to get rid of small things. Focus that energy instead on the source from which even the mind and consciousness are observed to arise. That is most powerful. That is what I call ‘the one medicine for everything’, because when your mind is focused on the Self, the power of that has the capacity to bless every aspect of your expression automatically. These things become self-evident and very clear inside. As wisdom dawns and blossoms in your Heart, it is like there is an angel within you that gives you right guidance— the right approach without any sense of separation.
A Merry Christmas, a beautiful evening, and a beautiful day to you wherever you are. Not just a human day, but a day of God. Not a day made of hours, but a day full of grace. ~Mooji 25 dec 2015

Get rid of arrogance-Adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
“Get rid of your arrogance.”

I appreciate you. I appreciate those of you who support me financially, who put funds in the collection box. Most of you realize this is my only source of income at this time. I appreciate that. Always remember whatever you give of yourself, you’re giving to yourself, because there's only one self. When you give away your love, you give your joy, you give your truth, you give your happiness, you give your finances, you give whatever you give, it's like your right hand giving to the left hand.

If you took away all space and all time there would only be one person. The reason we appear as many is because of time and space, maya, the illusion. It appears as if there is time and space. Therefore there are many. But as you go within yourself, as you begin to identify with pure consciousness, time and space seem to disappear, and wherever you look, you see yourself, for there's no room for anyone else. There is only one self. This is why you should never be angry at anyone, never judge anyone, never become upset with anyone or react to any one, for you are really doing it to yourself.

Whatever is going to happen will happen. Your job is not to react. Your job is to understand that everything is predestined. You are in your right place where you are supposed to be. If there is anything that appears in your life that you don't like, it's wrong to try to change it. It's right to go within yourself and see the truth within yourself. And then the appropriate changes will come by itself. Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well.

So I acknowledge you. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. I love you all, for I love the self. Love and the self are synonymous. And since the self is omnipresent, how can I not love you. Love is consciousness, absolute reality. We are all that. Why do you see others? Why do you see perverse situations? Why do you see all these dastardly things that seem to be apparent. Your eyes are meant for you to see, but to see the truth, whereas with most people the eyes see an object and send the message to the brain, according to your programming, and you react accordingly. When you begin to realize it's all a game, no one is born, no one dies, and in between no one prevails. There is only God, pure awareness, and you are that.

There are many methods to use to recognize this truth. This is why I share these with you. Not everyone can practice atma-vichara, self-inquiry. Therefore I share these other methods with you. There are many things that you should do. How many more years do you think you've got in your body? Why go after the fleeting things that change and disappear. Forget about trying to win the lottery. Forget about who's hurt you. Forget about your sins of omission and commission. Let go of everything. Be yourself. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

I know sometimes you get up in the morning and you feel out of sorts. You may feel depression, you may feel the collective unconscious of the world, which is a negative vibration. You should immediately snap out of this by realizing this is not the truth about me. The truth about me is I am love, I am consciousness, I am absolute reality. Identify with the truth about yourself. Do not allow your mind to tell you one iota of negative thinking. Catch yourself. It makes no difference what position you're in. Do not believe and think, “Well, when things get better I'll have time to do this.” There's no such thing. You've got to start where you are. You've got to be yourself now and forever. Things will never change.

Get rid of your arrogance. Develop humility. Become humble. By that I don't mean become a door mat for people to step on. In humility there is strength. You understand the truth. Therefore you do not get involved in pettiness, in nonsense. The truth shall always prevail, regardless of appearances.

Keep Quiet

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
Jnana Marga

Let me ask you a question. What do you think is the difference between this teaching, Jnana marga, and the rest of the yogas, prayer, religions or whatever? What is the basic difference? Who can tell me?

Student: Jnana marga is not concerned with anything of a relative nature, not even becoming enlightened.

Robert: Well, in a way that’s true.

Student: No objects?

Robert: In a way that’s true too, but there’s a more rational explanation.

Student: There is nothing to be obtained. Just recognized.

Robert: Well that’s true too. Actually, the answer I'm looking for is this -- in every teaching besides Advaita Vedanta, there’s a personal I. Think about that. Let's take Hatha yoga. The I learns postures and the ego becomes expanded. Because you can say, "I can stand on my head and twist my feet," and you give it a Sanskrit name. But you still say, "I can do this," so the I has become inflated.

Take raja yoga, the eight limbed path. Now these things are good. There’s nothing wrong with these things. I'm not putting them down. But there has to be someone to learn the jamas, nejamas, the virtues. There’s someone who is learning all these things. The I has learned to become virtuous.

Take Kundalini yoga. I am focusing on the chakras, on each chakra. There’s always I and I and I.

Take prayer. I am praying to God. Again there’s nothing wrong with these things, but the reason we call this the direct path is because this is the only teaching that investigates the I. We're not interested in the effects. Whatever the effect may be, we realize that the I is behind it. We realize that if we find the I, and follow it to its source, everything else will be wiped out and we'll become free. This is why it is called the direct path.

Also what is the difference between meditation and Jnana marga, because most of you realize that on this path it is not really necessary to meditate? So what's the main difference between meditation and this path?

Student: There has to be someone to meditate.

Robert: True, but that’s not the answer I’m looking for. In meditation there's always an object of your meditation. And again the I is concentrating on certain words, mantra, or whatever. Therefore you're not getting rid of the I. You're concentrating on something else, where you exclude everything except the mantra or the words of your meditation, whether it's God, or whatever.

In this teaching you simply inquire for the source of the I. "Who am I? Where did I come from?" Even when I say to you, "Where did I come from?" some of you are relating to your body, aren't you? You're thinking where did I come from, as a body? But that's not what we mean. You want to know where the I came from, not where you came from. If you find out where the I came from you will realize that you do not exist. You never did and you never will. That's the point. Where did I come from? And as you get used to this kind of thinking, whenever you use the word I, you will never refer to your body again.

For instance, if you have a cold you usually say, "I have a cold." Only now you will catch yourself and you will laugh, because you will say, "I has the cold." Sounds like bad English. I has the cold. It has nothing to do with me. So where did the I come from that has the cold? And as you follow the I it will lead you to the source, where there’s no I, there’s no cold.

You can use this method for everything. "I am hungry." Well catch yourself, and realize that I is hungry. I is not my real self. I is hungry, yet my real self can never be hungry. I'm tired, I'm depressed, I'm happy, I feel beautiful, I feel wonderful. It's all the same thing. As long as you are referring to your body you’re making a big mistake. Separate yourself from I.

There’s only one I actually and that I is consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I, which is consciousness. Begin to catch yourself. Begin to realize your divine nature. And you do this by keeping quiet. The fastest way to realization is to keep silent. Yet you have to know why you are keeping silent. This is why you can't tell this to the average person. If a person has no inkling of Advaita Vedanta, you can't say keep silent. For to them it means just to be quiet. They don't realize it means to go deep, deep, deep, deep within, to that place where absolute reality lives, and that's the silence.

Actually the human body cannot keep silent. There’s something else that enters the silence. It has nothing to do with your humanity. Then suddenly after years perhaps of meditation and previous lives, that you can be mature enough to really know what this path is all about. When I give you these practices, it's not for you as a human being. You appear to be able to go through it as a human being, but I can assure you your humanity has nothing to do with it. When you enter the silence you enter a profound peace, bliss consciousness, pure awareness. That's what the silence is. It's not being quiet. It's beyond that. It's not just quieting your mind, like I say it all the time. It's understanding that there’s no mind to quiet. When you realize there’s no mind, you automatically become silent. When you still think you've got a mind, you make every effort to quiet the mind, and you can't.

How many of you believe you can quiet the mind through effort? You can't do that. It's not the effort that makes you quiet your mind. It's the intelligent understanding that you have no mind to begin with. Then you just keep still and everything takes care of itself. If you have to meditate, by all means meditate. This path is never against any other method, due to the fact they all eventually lead to awakening. You have to do whatever you have to do. But for those who can understand what I'm talking about, and realize you're dealing with no mind, no body, no world, no universe, no God, an awakening comes immediately, because there’s no one who is sleeping. Do you follow this?

If you think you've got something to overcome, if you’re going to believe you've got to work on yourself, you've got to make some kind of effort, it will be hard. After all, who makes the effort? The ego. Who's telling you all these things you've got to overcome? The mind. You think you've got to overcome your bad habits, you've got to overcome past karma, you have to overcome samskaras. That's all a lie.

may you all experience bliss and your true self - adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang 
May you all experience bliss and your true Self

Do not think you're so important that you have to overcome a problem. That is all you're doing when you think you have a problem to overcome. It makes you feel important. I've got to solve this problem, I've got to overcome this situation. As if 'I' is somebody important. 'I' doesn't exist. If 'I' doesn't exist neither does your problem. You know by now that your problem exists because you believe in your 'I'. When you realize 'I' does not exist everything disappears.

This is what I mean when I tell you sometimes, there are no problems, there never were any problems and there never will be any problems. But as soon as you begin to think there are problems. Even while you're sitting here listening to me, if you allow your mind to think doesn't a problem come up in your life that you're thinking about, that you think is so important at the present time? But if you were spontaneous and live in the eternal present, the eternal now, forget about the past, don't worry about the future but live in this particular second, in this second there are no problems. If you can only stay in this split second, no-one is hungry, no one is ill, no-one is in need, no-one is suffering.

As you begin to stay in that split second, this split second expands into a minute, into two minutes, into ten minutes and as you abide in it, it turns into eternity. You are always in that split second where nothing is happening. Where no thing is taking place. That split second is bliss, pure intelligence, absolute reality and you are that.

So again, it begins when you get up in the morning. You observe the 'I'. You watch yourself thinking I got up, I just woke up. But now here's the catch, do not allow the 'I' to go any further. As soon as you watch yourself saying, "I just woke up". Try to catch yourself and ask yourself the question, "Who is the 'I' that just woke up?" For in that split second prior to awakening you were in bliss, no thoughts. But as soon as you begin to think of the 'I', the world comes into play. In that split second before I came along you were awake.

Yet there was no world, there were no people, there was no universe, there were no problems. In that split second. But as soon as you began to think of 'I' your troubles began. Because you're thinking about the day, I'm hungry, I have to take a shower. I have to get dressed and I begins to do its mischief. That is why it's very important to observe the 'I' coming out. If you can really observe it you will see that the 'I' is coming out of your spiritual heart on the right side of your chest. But a funny thing will happen. As you observe it, it will go back, isn't that interesting? As you observe the 'I' or as you question it, "Where did the 'I' come from?" It will stop. It will stop its procedure, it will stop its journey to the brain where you become body conscious.

All these things happen in a split second. So you have to be aware, you have to be alert, you have to watch for it. I admit it takes some effort in the beginning but it's well worth it.

Think about this again. Just before you awaken to the 'I', you are already awake in that split second. In that split second there is no world but you are awake, you are conscious, you're totally happy, you're totally self-realized in that split second. But then the 'I' begins its journey from the heart to the brain.

Now if you can observe the 'I' and question its authority, it will lose its momentum and slow down. And begin to return to the heart. If you can get it to return to the heart, you will be conscious but you will be liberated. You will go about your business like you always do. You will take your shower, you will eat your breakfast, it will all happen spontaneously.

There will be no thoughts. The only experience you will have is total bliss. Total happiness, total joy and yet your body will go about it's business. It can happen all at once or it can take time. But it's worth the effort isn't it? Even if it takes you a lifetime, at least you will be free at that time.

What is more important than this? Can anything be more important than this? This guarantees that you do not return to this earth. It guarantees that while you are alive in your body, so-to-speak, you will be a jivan-mukta, self-realized in the body. This is your only salvation. But you've got to do it.

These teachings used to be handed out by the Rishis from mouth to mouth to explain it. It is most difficult to comprehend the books. Even though some of them are very clear...

...something within that knows what to do to make it happen. But if you try to understand with your brain, with your head, you will forget. And when tomorrow morning comes you will get up and your 'I' will take over immediately. You will say I'm late for work, I'm in a hurry, I'm this and I'm that and you will forget everything we're talking about this evening.

But if you are listening with your heart, when tomorrow morning comes you will spontaneously be able to catch yourself. I will repeat again how to do this. When you first open your eyes, in that split second you are conscious. The 'I' has not risen yet, but remember it's all happening in a second. So you've got to be aware, you've got to be awake, intelligent. Watch and you will notice that the 'I' begins very faintly and becomes stronger. You can shout out, "Who are you?"

That's the same as saying, "Who am I?" Who gave you permission to awaken? Observe, watch. The 'I' will begin to lose momentum. The 'I' will become weaker and weaker. The way it usually happens with people, with most people, is they're able to catch it for maybe a few seconds and then the 'I' will take over completely. Do not be disappointed, that is the worst thing you can do. It has taken most people years, centuries perhaps to go all the way.

Be happy with what you've got. But as you begin to do this practice diligently, everyday, that split second where you observe the 'I', will expand into a full second, into two-seconds, into three-seconds. In other words for those three-seconds you will be self-realized to an extent. You will be conscious, period. You will not be conscious of this or that, you will be conscious.

And you will feel something you never felt before, a joy. You will know you're on the right track. Then when the 'I' takes over completely you can get up and go about your business and ask yourself, "Who am I? What is the source of the 'I'?" During the day as the thoughts come to you, be receptive, be alert, question, "To whom do these thoughts come?" They come to me, "Who's me? Who am I? What is the source of the 'I'?" Practice that all day. The next morning you do the same thing. If you do this my friends I can assure you, things will begin to happen to you that you never dreamed possible. May you all experience bliss and your true Self.

victimhood cause

silence

a movie

don't confuse the now with what's happening in it - tolle

only you

“O Lord..........
Let my knowing of you not just be in my mind, 
but fully alive inside my heart........
remove ‘me’........
let there be only you." ~ Mooji Baba

be grateful

" be grateful to all people, for they all create for you a room in which you can be transformed - even those who do not believe in you, even those you think are enemies. Your friends, your enemies, good people and bad people, favourable circumstances, unfavourable circumstances - they all erchaffen the frame in which you can transform and become a Buddha. Be grateful to everyone. Those who helped those who were in the way, those who were indifferent. Be grateful to everyone because they all create the frame in which buddhas are born in which you can become a buddha."

#Osho

no truer words

what experience to you have of suffering?

The world that you are seeing, observing, is simply your movie.”

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang 
“The world that you are seeing, observing, is simply your movie.”

If you abide in the first principle, that everything is an emanation of the mind and everything is preordained in your life, you would have no problems. Where can there be a problem when you realize that everything is preordained, predestined, and everything that is predestined in your life is projected through your mind. In other words, the world that you are seeing, observing, is simply your movie. You show yourself a movie whenever you stare at the world. And all the things that you see, is your flick. It belongs to you, no one else, everything.

Nothing just happens. Everything has already happened. And you appear to be going through a movie, where things appear to be happening, but you're really the projectionist and you are projecting your fairy tale. The idea is to become free, to become liberated. But how can you become free and liberated when the world affects you? When you're always scheming and planning and criticizing, becoming angry, reacting? How can you become free? You become deeply involved in the situations of life as if they were going to last forever. You realize by now that the only thing permanent in life is change. No thing ever stays the same. So why identify with the external world?

The wise person leaves the external world alone. They have very little to do with the external world. They have trained themselves that when they behold a situation, there's no reaction, no identification. You become no-hurtable. You cannot be hurt any longer by words, by deeds, by whatever. Wherever you find yourself, you put yourself there. No one is responsible for what happens to you.

The appearance is that people seem to be responsible for you always seem to be involved with people. Yet it's all planned. It's as if you were an actor and you are rehearsing for a play. Then you play the part. You do not really get angry at your co-actors for you know that it's a play, they're all playing a part. Life is like that. It's an act, act one. How you come out of act one determines if you go back into act two or you become free of the whole thing. Act two is when you become reborn and go through further experiences.

You're continuing the game. You have not learned to turn within, to dive deep within yourself and become free. You become attached to person, place or thing. And again you grow older, and it's time for act three. All of the time you are responsible for your actions.

If you would only leave it alone, if you can only understand no one can really hurt you, no one can really do anything to you. The appearance may be that they can, but you should always hold in the deep recesses of your mind that it's only a play, an act. If you go through the play without reacting you do not have to take on an acting job again. You become free.

But if you insist on reacting, it makes no difference what the situation is. You are reacting when you have preconceived ideas. When you believe something has to be done a certain way, when you believe people want to hurt you, things are wrong somewhere. When you're always scheming and planning and you're not spontaneous, that is acting.

And of course, whenever you react there will be a further reaction from the other side. It never ends. It keeps on going. This is collective and individual.

No thing is as it appears, or it wouldn't change. The whole universe is a mirage on the screen of life. Everything is a mirage, including your body, your thoughts, your feelings. They're all a lie. And they do not really exist.

When I go so far as to say that nothing really exists, I don't blame you for sort of becoming a little irritated with me, for I know that some of you have gone through life, and you've been hurt. Certain things have transpired in your life, so how can I sit here and say that no thing exists? Try to remember that I'm not speaking from a book I read, or what somebody else told me. This has been my direct experience. There is no world. There never was a world. And there never will be a world. All of the psychotherapy you go through, all of the karma you go through, all of the perverse situations in life you go through, they do not exist. They never have existed and they never will exist.

Yet the mirage is so strong that you're sit- ting here believing you are the body. No matter how many times I tell you, you are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not the doer, you always identify with yourself as the body. You can tell you're doing that because you're always thinking about yourself.

When you're taking a walk, what do you think about? Yourself. True? Whatever you're doing, you're thinking about yourself. You may get lost sometimes when you're watching TV, going to a movie, participating in a sport, but that doesn't last. When the movie is over, when the sport is over, when what you've really got involved in is over, you're back to thinking about yourself.

As long as you think about yourself as the body you have to suffer. You have to go through experiences in life. That's what this world is all about for the deluded person. Experience after experience after experience. There's no end to it until the day comes when you get good and tired of the whole thing. This is why some people really have to have the rug pulled from under them before they come around to this way of thinking.

For as long as they are leading a mediocre life, they don't have that many bad things happening in their life, they seem to be satisfied and they keep searching for better humanhood, not realizing that for every backward there's a forward. For every up there is a down.

release you suffering

truth

wisdom

the invitation - mooji

be what doesn't come and go

Truth Be Known

Aware Presence-spira

Thank GOD

“You must always keep thanking God for your life. 
Always be grateful for as tough as life can seem,
its great that you're here to experience it and to transcend. 
We're not here for a joyride. 
You're here to transcend the very influences 
that came through the mind and
to remember your Self and BE your Self.
That's how you turn earth into Heaven.
Then, you don't have to go to Heaven.
Heaven shows Itself in you.
We didn't come here by accident.
We came here by design, to be here,
to taste the life you're tasting and
to see it from the Highest Place.
Life doesn't change from outside, it changes from inside.
As you are, so life will appear for you.
It is you who can change your world, change your life.
And if you see from the Truthful Place,
it will become the most beautiful place outside,
because all that you see is interpretation.
What we are seeing is what we interpret.
What we conceive, that's what we see.
What is really there is only God.” ~Mooji

experiencing-spira

Pure Seamless Intimate Experiencing ..............................Rupert Spira
~ ~ ~
It is thoughts alone that divide the seamless intimacy of experiencing
into two apparent things; an inside self and an outside world.
Experience itself knows and says no such thing.
Experience itself knows only this pure seamless intimacy.

And all apparent objects, selves, others or world are simply modulations
of this pure, seamless, intimate experiencing.

Try to find something in your experience
that is made out of something other than experiencing:
seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, sensation.

Try to find something that takes place at a distance,
made out of something other than experiencing.

[...]

Reach out in your actual experience and see, in your experience,
do you find a self, an object, an entity, a world?
Or do you just find yourself: pure intimate experiencing?
No distance, no separation, no inside self, no outside other, no object, no world.

Scan your body.
Do you find a body there?
Do you find something solid and dense?
Or do you just find pure, intimate experiencing?

Do you find a world at a distance from this body?
Or do you just find pure, intimate experiencing?

And who is it that knows experiencing?
Is experiencing known by a separate self?
Is there a separate self or object in experiencing?
Or does experiencing just find itself, alone?

No body, no thought, no mind, no world;
Just pure intimacy ever-present
always knowing itself, being itself and loving itself
eternally Now.

Nothing-Adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
You are the Beauty

Do you see this revelation you have? There's no I, there's no body. Then what gets old and dies? What gets sick? What has mental anguish? What becomes depressed? And the answer is, "Nothing."

There's no one to get depressed. There's no one to die. There's no one to have mental anguish. There's no one left to do anything. You're home free.

When you feel this way, there's nowhere to go, because everywhere you go, you are the Self. No thing makes you happier than another thing. It's all the same. You no longer differentiate between objects. All the objects become like a piece of clay that you've taken to make objects out of, but you realize it all comes from the same piece of clay. That's how it is with your life.

There's no one doing anything. There's absolutely nothing to do. When I say there's absolutely nothing to do, I do not necessarily mean you're going to sit still and sit in one chair all day long. This appears paradoxical. Your body will appear to be doing things and yet you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there's no one doing anything. Think about that.

That's a very important point. You will appear to go to the movies, if you have a job to go to work, to come home, to get married, to get divorced, to go swimming, to do whatever you do. Yet you will know no one is doing anything. How can that be? How can you appear to be doing something yet nothing is being done.The sky appears blue and yet upon investigation there's no sky and there's no blue. So you appear to be doing something but there's no doer.

There is really no one who needs to do anything, or does anything. Space and time have been eliminated. You are in an entirely different dimension, where you appear as if you are moving, working, experiencing and there's nothing being done. I admit that state is difficult to think of yet it’s the truth. No one has ever done anything. There's only one, and that one is all-pervading and omnipresent. There's only one. If that one is all-pervading and omnipresent, where is there room to do anything? Think of it this way.

Look at it this way. If you were the only one in the universe, and you were the size of the universe, all of the planets, the stars, the moon, the earth, people, places and things would be within you. You would have no space to do anything. Yet everything is being done within yourself. It's the same thing. This is really the truth about you.

You are the microcosm and the macrocosm. When you are working in duality, in ignorance, you appear to be a small human being and you look around you and you see billions of human beings just like you. You argue with them. You fight with them. You love them. You do all kinds of activities with fellow human beings. But as you work on yourself, and as you begin to rise in consciousness, something tells you that there's only one. There is not you and I. There's only the I and the I doesn't exist. Therefore there is no thing that you can comprehend that exists. There's no such thing as existence. There is no God that creates the universe. There is no being that causes anything to happen. The highest truth is, nothing is happening.

So you say, "That may be true Robert but I'm suffering. I have mental anguish. I appear to be ill. I have difficulty with people." Why? Simply because of wrong identification. You are identifying with the apparent existence. As long as you identify with existence you're going to appear to exist. And if you exist you're going to have problems. For every human being that's born has a problem. There are no exceptions. As long as you believe you were born, you've got a problem. Therefore, somehow you have to get rid of the notion that you were born. You have to get rid of the notion that you exist, and you have to get rid of the notion that you've got a problem. In other words, you have to wake up! You have to wake up to your reality. No birth, no death, no problem. Nobody dies because nobody was born.

I can go on and on like this but if you're not experiencing what I'm talking about, how can you believe me? I know some of you here have had a glimpse of this reality, so you know it's so. But most of us have not. How can we accept this? You have to experiment within yourself. That is the only way you can ever wake up.

Do not experiment in the world. How do you experiment in the world? When you believe those trees are beautiful, beautiful sunset, beautiful sunrise, beautiful flowers, beautiful people. As good as it may sound, this keeps you back from awakening. Why? Because you are identifying with an external cause that does not exist. You do not realize that the beautiful tree comes from your mind. The beautiful sunset is in your mind. All of the beauty and all of the ugliness that you perceive is all within your Self.

You are that Self. So the person who wants to awaken, when they look at beauty, they realize that they are projecting it. When they look at ugliness, they realize that they are projecting it. They are both impostors. Two sides of the same coin. And you start to inquire, "To whom has this come?" Think about that. When you behold all the beauty outside of the window, instead of being in awe and admiring it, ask, "Who sees this?' In other words, the beauty that you see out there really comes from in here. You are the beauty. It only exists out there because you exist over here.

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Nonsense-Adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang 
Nonsense

Realization will come to you when you empty yourself out of all these burdens that you've carried so long. It will come by itself. But in the meantime, don't walk around saying, "The world is an illusion," or "the world doesn't exist," when you're feeling the world for you're talking nonsense. When you discover the world is an illusion, you will have nothing to say about it. There will be absolutely nothing to say! For you will have become that.

In the meanwhile, practice loving kindness, compassion. Help your fellow man all you can. Do good deeds and work on yourself continuously, twenty-four hours a day. By working on yourself I mean, know the truth about yourself. Say to yourself something like this, "The world I see seems real. My body appears to be real. My mind appears to be real. My thoughts have hold of me. My body has a hold of me and tells me I'm this, I'm that. But I know there's something else, something more profound, something more beautiful than I can ever imagine.

There is something beyond my thoughts, beyond my feelings, beyond my body. Perhaps I have not discovered what it is as yet, but I know it exists."

And give yourself examples. Say to yourself something like this, "The water in the mirage seems real enough, but upon close investigation you realize that it's a mirage. It's not real at all. The snake and the rope seems real enough, but upon investigation I find out it's only a rope. It's not a snake at all. The sky is blue seems real enough. But upon investigation there is no sky and it's not blue. These are all optical illusions, if these are optical illusions then my body must be an optical illusion also. The world I see and believe in must be an optical illusion because it keeps changing all the time. It's never the same. What can I call real in this world? What is real? Everything changes, nothing is real?"

Then you can ask yourself, "Then who am I? If nothing is real and everything is an optical illusion, am I also an optical illusion? Yet I can think. I can reason. Where do thoughts come from? To whom do they come? Who thinks them? What is their source?" As you keep prodding this way day after day, as you keep pondering these things day after day, the day is going to come when you find release from all this. It will! You'll find total release, total freedom. And you will laugh at yourself so much for you'll understand what this world is, a dream, nothing but a dream.

But again, if you're feeling the world do not say it's a dream. It's not a dream to you if you're feeling it and it upsets you, its real. And I'm not going to convince you it's not? I will not tell you it's an illusion at all because you're feeling it! I can only tell you to go within yourself and find out for yourself. What is the truth about yourself? Find out. The answers are all within you. Yes the day will come when you realize there is no body but until it does practice your sadhana. Forget about the spiritual games and spiritual entertainment. This is your life. Work on yourself.

Do whatever is necessary to make your environment better so you can have more time to work on yourself. If something is disturbing you put an end to it once and for all. If you hold on to those disturbances that happened fifty years ago, thirty years ago, twenty years ago, or even yesterday this keeps you back from spiritual advancement. For your mind is contemplating the foolishness that you think is so important. Somebody hit your car and drove away and now you've got to pay for repairs. What happened? That's the way it is. Do not dwell on this. Do what has to be done and get it over with and continue. Go forward. Never dwell on a problem! It expands the problem in your mind and builds up your ego! Dwell only on God. How do you dwell on God? By surrendering all your stuff to God. Giving up all of the misery, all the attitudes, all the anger, depression. Give it all up to God! God will chew it up and spit it out and you'll be free of it.

Try to remember that your life is more than the body that appears to you right now. We forget about who we were before we were born. We have many experiences but we've forgotten all these things. We're so wrapped up with our life right now that we think it's so important. We're forgetting there was a before and there will be an after. It's up to you what happens. You have been around for millions of years. You've been around forever! You have many experiences as other people. You've had many experiences. So why should this one worry you and bother you? This is only another experience, that's all it is. In universal time you're here today and gone tomorrow. You're only here for a few seconds in universal time. You did not come here to get involved in circumstances and predicaments. You came here to find yourself, discover your real nature.

Now what are you doing to make this happen? It's up to you. I can lead you to the gold mine but I can't do the digging for you. You have to dig for yourself. I share with you my experiences. I can assure you that this world does not exist. Not because I read it in a book some place or somebody told me about it. It has been my experience! There is no world and yet it appears. The question, therefore, is: "To whom does it appear?" Not, "Why does it appear?" but "To whom does it appear?" Find out!

I can also assure you and tell you that no matter what experiences you're going through right now, what is worrying you or disturbing you, if anything, this too shall pass. Therefore, cut through the jungle of maya. Remove all the fears from yourself. There is absolutely nothing to fear, nothing to change, nothing to fix, no body to straighten out.

This whole world is preordained, predestined. Everything that happens is supposed to happen but you're not supposed to react to it. It is true that you're absolute reality. It is true that you are sat-chit-ananda, Brahman. It is true that you are pure awareness, but you have to have the experience. And again, you cannot have the experience if your mind is filled with all the garbage of this world. If you think about it, it makes sense.

How can you entertain the soap operas of this world and expect to have realization! You can have one or the other! The choice is yours! You can vehemently make up your mind that from this day on you are not going to judge by appearances whether in your life or somebody else's life. Just going to watch, to be aware, look and let go, or you can stay the way you are and keep worrying and keep fretting. The choice is yours again, it's always your choice. Yet if you will find out who you are and let go of this world awhile, you will be surprised what happens. Find out who you are. Spend the time doing that. Are you really this body that appears to be a man or a woman, a boy or a girl? Are you really this person? Find out! Who are you? You have been given all the tools to work with. The factory of intelligence is within you. All you have to do is dive down and check it out. And you will be amazed what you find.

So in conclusion, the world is both real and unreal, depending on where you're coming from. It makes no difference what I tell you or what anybody else tells you. You're the one who needs to have the experience for yourself. You can run all over the world, visit many gurus, Sages, teachers, read many books, yet until you're ready to give all this up and do some serious work within yourself you will only build up your intelligence, that's all. That's all you will do. You will know about the different traditions, spiritual traditions.

You know all about spiritual life and yet you have not experienced this and in the end you go crazy, true, I've seen many people do that. They've read so much, seen so many teachers, they went mad.

Yet spiritual life is the easiest thing you could ever do. All you have to do is sit by yourself in the silence, keep still and watch your thoughts. That's all you have to do. Observe your thoughts. What could be easier than that? As you con- tinue to observe your thoughts, you automatically go deeper and deeper and deeper within yourself until you begin to question, "Who am I? Where is this I? Who does this I belong to? Where is the source of it? It's not me. It never was me." And everything will take care of itself. Everything will happen by itself. Become free, for you're already free. Peace. (tape ends)

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Complete surrender is that God’s desire alone is your
desire and that you have no desire of your own.
- Day by day with Bhagavan / 1-3-46

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Indifference - Spira

Rupert : Krishnamurti once said - 'I've one secret in life. I don't care what happens'. So, he shares your indifference to what happens in time and space. So, if it is true indifference and not simply a passive resignation to what is happening ... but true indifference, then that's perfect. That is the position Awareness is always in.

My Teacher sometimes used to qualify it as benevolent indifference. Just make sure that there is no rejection in the indifference ... no resignation. But it is indifference that is totally allowing and open. No vested interests for or against. Disinterested not uninterested. (pointing to the translator) It is a test for him.

To be disinterested is to have no vested interest in the outcome. You can still be very interested in it. But you have no investment in the outcome. So, it is not in any way removal of ourself from life. That would be rejection posing as indifference. We can be freely engaged in life but at the same time right at the heart of life, completely free of consequences of what happens.

Seeker: So, in some situations and occasions there is less indifference or detachment like for example in family affairs and at work but in other, on the other hand in other situations and moments I can detach myself more from what happens.

Rupert : Yes, Family situations are the real test of our indifference. Normal, everyday circumstances are like the very gentle Yoga postures where we just turn to the left slightly or turn to the right. But, Family situations are when we are standing on our head or on one toe. It is called Family Asana. But they are very valuable Asanas precisely because they test our equanimity and our experiential understanding. So next time a conflict arises in your family or your relationship, colleague at work, or someone close to you, in your heart be grateful. Can this situation pull you out of yourself ? Can it cloud the peace that is ever present in your Heart ?

Awake!!

Thoughts-Spira

Liberating Our Thoughts from the Tyranny of the Illusory Self
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Q: Would you say that thoughts are things, as bodies are?

R: Thoughts are what I call ‘objects’. Anything that has an objective quality, I call objects. By objective quality, I don’t just mean physical objects. A feeling, a feeling of loneliness, has an objective quality to it. It’s not the taste of tea. It’s the feeling of loneliness. It has distinguishing features. Yes? Those distinguishing features are objective. We know them. ‘I feel lonely.’ The feeling of loneliness has a particular quality that is observable or feel-able, knowable. The taste of tea has other particular qualities that are knowable or perceivable. So, yes, in that sense, thoughts are objects.

Q: So, my relationship to thought can be much the same to my relationship to the world…

R: Yes.

Q: …in that I can’t control what happens in the world and I really can’t control what thoughts come in. I think that there’s a tendency to kind of, you know, identify my quality of Being by the thoughts that arise.

R: No. No. Identify the quality of Being just by the quality of Being. The screen doesn’t derive its qualities from the image. Your relationship to thoughts and perceptions is the same as the relationship between a screen and an image. In other words, the screen is intimately one with the image; it’s closer than close to the image…, but at the same time, it is completely independent of it. That is You.

You-this-experience-of-being-aware are totally intimate with all your experience, every experience you have. That is, every so-called inside feeling, but also every so-called outside perception are this close. [Brings two hands together with fingers inter-lacing] Not even intimate, because there are not two things there to begin with. There isn’t a screen and an image. It’s just You; just Knowing.

So, in that sense You are intimate with all experience; equally intimate. Not more intimate with this [taps his knees] than you are with this [holds drinking glass] …, equally intimate with all experience. And at the same time, You-the-experiencer-simply-being-aware are absolutely independent of all experience. So, it’s this mixture of total intimacy and total freedom.

Q: I think I have an easier time with…, you know, you made a comment earlier about ‘The world is reflected as we are. As we believe ourselves and life to be, that’s what we see’. You didn’t exactly say that, but it is that, right?

R: Yes. As we understand ourselves, so we see the world. If we think, in other words, that ‘I am a finite, temporary self that shares the limits of the body’…, if we think that ‘I am a temporary, finite object’…, then our experience will appear in conformity with that belief. In other words, your experience will be a multiplicity and diversity of finite objects. You will feel that you are separate from everyone and everything, related to them through an act of knowing, feeling or perceiving. ‘I know such-and-such. I love you. I see the tree.’ These are the three channels: knowing, feeling and perceiving…, through which the inside self, the subject, the apparent subject, is connected to the outside object, other or world. That’s if you believe you are a temporary, finite subject made out of mind, living in the body.

But if you know that You are simply this un-qualified experience of being aware, then you find yourself equally pervading all experience.

You cannot say ‘I’m closer to my thoughts than I am to the sound of that car’. Thoughts are made out of thinking; the sound of the car is made out of hearing. Both appear equally in Me. And when I try to touch the stuff that they are made of, all I find is this empty Knowing.

Q: That’s true…

R: But…? [Chuckles]

Q: No, really, Rupert, I have that experience. But I have thoughts that are in direct contradiction to that…, even in the midst of that experience.

R: So, you have to re-condition your mind as well as your body. That’s part of what we do here. It’s one thing to understand that (and you obviously understand it) but just understanding it is not enough. Because your mind and your body have been laboring for decades, serving for decades the demands and the fears and the neuroses of an illusory, finite self.

So, just the recognition of your true nature is not enough to put an end to those habits. They come back with a vengeance; very often stronger than they were before because the separate self feels, quite rightly, that it is threatened, its existence is threatened by our new understanding. It IS threatened. Its days are numbered. [Chuckles] And it’s going to do everything it can to prevent itself disappearing. So, this tidal wave of thoughts (and more importantly, feelings) are going to come back and assail you and try to persuade you of the validity of the separate self.

So, much of what we do here is not just about the recognition of our true nature. It is about the re-alignment of our thoughts, feelings, activities, relationships and perceptions with that understanding.

So, when these thoughts keep coming back, you have to be firm with them. When a thought appears on behalf of the separate self, before doing what the thought wants you to do…, (the thought is going to take you off down a journey of activity or relationship, whatever it is)…, before doing what the thought tells you to do, QUESTION the self on whose behalf that thought is arising: “Who are you representing?” Ask the thought: “On whose behalf do you come to me?” And if it is a thought that is based on being a temporary, finite self…, then instead of following the thought, question the validity of the self on whose behalf that thought is arising.

Be relentless about that. Every thought that rises on behalf of a separate self, question it…, rather than doing what the thought wants you to do. And eventually you will erode this old habit of the mind rising on behalf of an illusory self. And the mind, more and more, will begin to rise on behalf of the qualities of the true and only Self, of Your Awareness.

You won’t stop having thoughts, but your thoughts will be an expression of what you truly Are…, not what you previously imagined yourself to be. So, it’s not a ‘getting rid of’ thoughts. It’s a liberation of our thoughts (and indeed, our feelings and perceptions) from the tyranny of a non-existent, finite self.

Q:  So, do you ever have thoughts that you just have to say ‘No’ to?

R: Yes. Occasionally an old thought arises in me based on an old habit of believing myself to be a finite self, and I do exactly what I’ve just suggested to you.

To begin with, when a thought rises on behalf of a finite self, it takes us maybe 20 minutes to question the ‘I’ around whom that thought revolves. And we might have to take some time, slowly walking ourselves back to find the true ‘I’ of simply Aware Being. That may take some time. The first time, we may do it 20 minutes, and then the second time 15 minutes, and the third time 10 minutes. Then as we become more practiced at this, we find short cuts. We don’t have to go every single step; plod, plod, plod. Because we’ve done it before, we can go quicker. We find short cuts. And in the end, we find that when that thought arises on behalf of the finite self, it doesn’t really require time anymore to walk ourselves back. It’s just like an instant recognition [snaps fingers] and it falls.

Q: There’s often a physical resistance along with the thought, or there’s a physical thing along with the thought.

R: Yes, yes. We’ll spend a lot of time this week exploring just that. Because the separate self, the apparently-temporary, finite consciousness that is the separate self is not just concealed in our thoughts as beliefs. More importantly, it is concealed in our body as feelings. That, in fact, is the deeper root of the separate self. In fact, long after the separate self has been flushed out of our beliefs, it remains present, hiding in our feelings. And in this approach, we spend a lot of time (as you know) exploring this deeper root of the sense of separation. First of all, exposing the sense of ‘me’ in the body, gradually encouraging it to come up out of its hiding places…, and then gradually allowing it to dissolve.

Q: Thank you.
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Rupert Spira
Liberating Our Thoughts from the Tyranny of the Illusory Self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H656H4pWtzk