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.