Be Your Self-Adams

Be Your Self
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It's difficult for most people to understand, that you can sit in a chair, and something will happen within you which will take care of all your needs, your wants. 
And everything that's going on in your life, will be taken care of in the right way.

You think you have to be the doer. 
You think, you believe, you have to run around and make things happen. Nothing can be further from the truth than this. There is a power and a presence that will take care of everything for you.

Your job is to relax, to take it easy, to be peaceful. To observe, to watch, to look, never to react. As you begin to go 
deeper within yourself, whatever you need to know will be revealed to you. Whatever you have to do will be done.

Yet what you really are has absolutely nothing to do with these things. Your true nature, Brahman, absolute intelligence, pure wisdom, sat-chit-ananda, is always available. 
It is always there. You are that.

To see your true self, and to feel your true self, and to be your true self, you simply have to negate everything else in 
this world. By negate everything in this world, I mean you have to look at a situation and never react to it, and 
realize this is not you. 
Good things, bad things, whatever you call good and bad, they're all the same. 
They are not you. 
You are not that. 
You are absolute freedom. 
You have nothing to do with anything.

The world appears like a dream. 
It comes and it goes. 
You know by now that everything is subject to the law of change in this world, in this universe. Everything is going to change whether you like it or not. 
Why be disappointed? 
Why be upset? 
Change is the nature of living, yet what you really are, your real nature, can never 
change.

Identify with your real self. 
Again, how do you do this? 
By not identifying with the world. 
When you do not identify with person, place or thing, you are automatically identifying with yourself, and then you become your self. In other words you become your self by not being yourself. 
You have to awaken, now. And let go of the dream world.

Many of you are so concerned with your future. You're so worried about your past. You have all sorts of plans in your mind. You're conditioned to believe this, to believe that. 
This is what is keeping you back from waking up. 
You must let go, in its entirety, of any hold the world has on you. 
You have to stand naked before God.

In the last analyses you have to be your self without the help of books, teachers, systems, governments, religions. You have to step out of that rut of your conditioning. Become totally unconditioned, as if you were just born. Reading too many books simply adds to the confusion.

As you begin to dive deep within yourself, without the help from books, from teachers, you make mistakes in the 
beginning. As you learn to dive deeper within yourself, as you learn to go within, those mistakes are good, for they 
push you forward. Never judge yourself. Never put yourself down. Never believe that this is too hard for you, or you 
have too much bad karma, or something is holding you back. 
Nothing can be further from the truth.

The only thing that is holding you back are your thoughts. Get rid of your thoughts and you'll be home free.
Quiet your mind. 
Keep yourself still and leave the world alone. When I say leave the world alone it becomes confusing somewhat. I mean mentally. Keep your mind empty and your body will do things that it came to this earth to do.

Your body will not sit still all the time and do nothing. But you can be still in your mind and be thought free. No 
judgments, no fears, no bewilderment, no apprehensions. Not thinking about tomorrow, forgetting about yesterday, 
living in the now. Being spontaneous and leaving the world alone. 
It's not hard living that way.

Put a stop to your thoughts by inquiring 
“To whom do these thoughts come?" 
by observation, by being the witness. 
As you become the witness to your thoughts your thoughts will slow down. 
It is only when you go along with what your thoughts tell you, by feeling something. In other words, your thoughts may bring some negative condition to you. And so instead of just being the witness and just observing, you react. 
You react with fear, with anger, with hate, all sorts of emotions. 
This is what pulls you down. 
This is what keeps you embedded in maya, in the mortal dream.

Begin to take hold of your thoughts. Grab them. Watch them. Observe them. Inquire from where they came. Again as you do this process your thoughts will subside. This is the way to stop your mind, by not paying attention to it. 
However it appears difficult to some people. Yet it's not that difficult at all. You just simply remember, every time 
you think, the thought is nonsense. It makes no difference what it is. You do not get caught up in it. You observe, 
you watch yourself thinking, like a third party. You're observing, you're watching the thoughts. Then they do not come back as strong anymore. They become weaker and weaker.

But if you're like most people you get caught up in your thoughts. As many of you know, one thought leads to another thought, leads to another thought and another thought, and there is a whole story going on in your mind. 
And you feel it in your emotions and you take action. That's how the average person lives. But I am saying grab hold of it. Stop it before it mixes into your emotional system.

Now it makes no difference what the thought is. The thought can be good or bad. It can be about the past or about the future. It makes no difference what the thought is. 
You have to put a stop to your thinking. That's the only way you're going to become free and liberated. There is 
nothing else you can do to become liberated than to stop your thinking. 
Liberation of course is your very nature.

When you stop your thinking the outer shell melts away and your real nature, which has always been, becomes self evident. So do not feel the world, feel other people, feel the grass or the mountains. Rather be yourself. For after all, you know by now you are the world. You are the mountains. You are the grass. You are the sky. You are others. It all comes out of your own mind. You give birth to the universe. You 
create God in your own image. You create angels and you create solar systems, various planes where you go after 
you die. You create all these things in your own mind. For where else would they come from, except your own thinking?

Vehemently make up your mind that you're going to take complete control of yourself. Start from now. Say to yourself 
“I will never again allow my mind to rule me. I will never again allow my mind to control me. 
From this moment on, I am in charge," 
and make it your business to catch yourself when your mind begins to think. Grab it at the thought, before it starts to mix with your emotions.

There are many ways to do this again. You can grab it by inquiring 
“To whom does this come? 
Who's feeling this thought? 
Who's thinking this thought?" 
And you say “I am.” Then inquire 
“Where did the I come from? 
What is the source of the I?" 
Or you simply observe the thought. 
Watch the thought. 
Become perfectly still, and allow the 
thought to do what it wants. By just observing, the thought will not continue. It will slow down and stop. Before you 
know it you'll be free. You will awaken. 
It's that simple. It's up to you to do it.

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams