meditation

just trying to quiet the mind - Adams

You are just trying to quiet your mind. You're not trying to get enlightened. You are not trying to awaken. You are not trying to become liberated. You already are.

Robert Adams

the power - adams

The power that takes care of everything knows how to take care of you. Don't you see, there isn't anything you have to do to help. In other words, God doesn't need your help. All you have to so is to take a deep breath and say: Take it God. I'm all finished with it. I will never worry again. I will never be upset over anything again.
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~ Robert Adams :)

samsara

true silence - adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
True Silence

There are certain principles we should always remember, if we wish to be happy all the time. The first one is, the highest teaching in the world is silence, to be still. There is no higher teaching than this. Silence is Brahman. Silence is grace. Silence is absolute reality. I'm speaking of real silence, not just keeping quiet for a while. Real silence is when you go deep within and you become totally oblivious to your surroundings.

There is no disturbance, even though things may still be going on all around you. The telephone may ring, people may knock on your door, the dog may bark, yet if you go deep within, you'll be silent. True silence has absolutely nothing to do with the world. True silence is omnipresence, is all-pervading. Your real nature is silence. Always remember, it is different than just keeping still. Anyone can keep still for a while, maybe a couple of seconds, before the mind starts attacking you. But true silence is when you go deeper, where you forget about your body, you forget about your affairs, your mind, your world, and you enter that atmosphere where there is bliss-consciousness.

True silence is the nature of creation. The planets turn on their axis, the galaxies spin through space, they hurl through space, galaxies, billions of galaxies. Everything is in a state of flux. Everything moves. Yet, it's all very silent. You do not hear a thing. If you get up at four o'clock in the morning and go outside and look, what do you hear? You hear silence, deep silence, total silence, beautiful silence.

It is not hard to get into that type of silence. You simply begin to sit still and become oblivious to everything. It will happen by itself. You will go deeper, and deeper, and deeper, and deeper, until you're no longer aware of your body or your surroundings. The true silence can be kept up at all times. You do not have to sit to go into the silence any more. In the beginning stages you do, for you're learning how to keep silent. But as time goes by, you can be shopping in the market place, you can be working in the factory, you can be washing dishes, you can be doing all kinds of things, and you will be in the silence.

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choice not to react - adams

Choice is sheer illusion. The only choice you have of course is to not react to what's going on and when you do not react to what is going on you begin to drop everything. Then you find your way back home. Robert Adams

Choice is an illusion. It is an illusion and it's not an illusion. It’s an illusion when you think of it as yourself as being the doer and you have a choice to make. It is not an illusion when you realize there is no one to realize anything and everything is already That. RAdams

spiritual jargon - nisargadatta

Whatever you think of as spiritual knowledge, was gained in the realm of consciousness; such knowledge is merely a burden upon your head and is going to add more misery. It is nothing more than spiritual jargon. Nisargadatta

Inquiry ''To whom are these defects: karma, lack of devotion, separation from God & ignorance?'' is itself karma, bhakti (devotion) & jnana (Realization)! When inquired, ''I'' is found to be non-existent, hence these four defects are also found to be ever non-existent. Ramana

live in the now

I Am - A poem by Rupert Spira

abide there _ ramana

All that you need to do is find the origin of mind and abide there. Ramana Maharshi

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lies - adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
Do you follow 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.

i adams

womb of all existence - tolle

essentials - adams

end of suffering - nisargadatta

timeless - nisargadatta

Put your awareness to work, not your mind. The mind is not the right instrument for this task. The timeless can be reached only by the timeless. Nisargadatta, I Am That, Chapter 85

awareness - nisargadatta

silence

Mooji

“There is a silence in you. It is always here, constant and unmovable. It is not doing anything. Be aware of this. It is simply here but it didn't arrive. You are not a person here. In the silence itself, you are without history, name and form.

Recognize that space here now which simply is. It underlies all activity, but itself does not participate in any activity. Notice and confirm this now, and stay in your beautiful rest.”

where's my attention

sense of being - nisargadatta

surrender - adams

go easy on yourself - adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
Go easy on yourself

I brought a picture for you of yourself in the future. Here it is. (students laugh). This is you. This is what is going to happen to you whether you like it or not. (laughter) You're going to look exactly like this. (more laughter) No matter what you do or don't do. No matter whether you're happy or sad, rich or poor, sick or healthy, you're still going to turn into a bag of bones. This is what happens to the average person. That’s what I have to look forward to but if you would only go within yourself and know the truth about yourself then this becomes a mirage.

When you discover you have eternal life that you've never been born, you can never die, when you discover bliss is your real nature, bliss. You were meant to be blissed out every second of the day. Happiness, true happiness that does not involve person, place or thing. When you understand this truth you become free in it. And you will always be alive, always. The body becomes like a bubble in the ocean. Bubbles come bubbles go, bodies come bodies go, here today gone tomorrow.

Many of you want to have fun all day, enjoy things. There is nothing wrong with that but it must come to end. Everything comes to an end. All of your enjoyments, all of your pleasures. Everything you've earned, worked for, strived for comes to an end. Everything must end. When you're sort of young you don't think about these things. You think about having fun all the time, enjoying, holding on to the world making something of yourself. Well you've made something of yourself, you've made a mess of yourself. By believing you are the mind. By believing you are living in reality.

Whereas in truth the only reality is the reality you don't know. The reality that is beyond time and space, beyond worlds, bodies. But you cannot taste this reality that I'm speaking of unless you virtually give up your life. I don't mean you have to kill yourself. I mean give up the life that you're living, mentally. Stop believing that the life that you're living is important, that there's something you have to do, something you have to accomplish. Your true life is within. The real world is within yourself. Free of all pain, sorrow. Free of man's inhumanity to man. Free of everything.There is a world like that you know. A real world, that is full of happiness and joy and peace. A world that has no beginning and no end. That world is you! You are that! But we're going about it the wrong way, most of us.

I have been receiving a lot of telephone calls from Santa Cruz during the holidays. Santa Cruz must be completely enlightened because everybody that calls me from there tells me they're enlightened. (students laugh) This has been going on for about two or three years. They want a confirmation for their enlightenment. I usually give the same answer. I say, "If there is anybody looking for confirmation, kill that somebody. Who needs a confirmation? Does the Self need a confirmation? The ego wants a confirmation."

But last night I got a call from Santa Cruz from a lady who got a hold of my transcript. And she tells me, "Robert for twenty-five years I've been reading Advaita Vedanta. I've read everything there is to read, everything, every book. I sit in meditation four times a day. I travel the world. Met all the Jnanis. Seen all the holy places but nothing has happened." This is what I told her and this important for us too.

I told her, "You are doing everything backwards. The more you read, the more knowledge you gain. And who profits by this? The ego, every book that you read gives you more intelligence. Who has intelligence? The ego, every time you think you have to meditate, it is the ego that is meditating. Does the Self have to meditate? Does reality have to meditate on reality? All of the gurus you've seen, everything that you've done has actually put you back in time, not forward but back."

The whole idea in Advaita Vedanta is to remove everything we've ever learnt. To get rid of all the things we've learnt, not to add to it. Not to add new knowledge to the old knowledge, but to become like little children so-to-speak. We do not wish to know something, we wish to know nothing. How can you know nothing when you're reading and reading and reading or when you're meditating your life away? When you're searching for new teachers all the time? All you are doing is filling yourself up with knowledge, more knowledge and more knowledge and more knowledge. The only thing that could happen to you is you become a walking encyclopaedia. You'll be able to cite aphorisms, sutras, if you have a good memory you'll memorize the bible backwards and you'll have a lot to say.

This is the mistake most of us make. A true spiritual aspirant hardly has anything to say. There is noone to debate. Nobody to argue points of spirituality. Noone to say, "I'm right or you're right. This is right and this is wrong." A true spiritual aspirant is very quiet, very still. Does not make a lot of waves but watches, looks and does nothing. Everything that has to be done will be done through the person. It's so easy to live a life like this.

It's so easy to be still and allow the power that knows the way to move you in the right direction, to lead you. You do not have to raise a finger. And there is absolutely nothing that you have to do. Why will you not trust yourself and stop fighting? Stop having a battle within yourself. Leave yourself alone. Remember I told you before you have to learn to love yourself? To really really love yourself. If you can really love yourself you can trust yourself. Go easy on yourself. Develop loving kindness, compassion.

make your life simple - adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
Make your life simple, live simply.

Now let's talk about you. What do you do with your life all day long? What do you think about? Are you in control of your emotions or your thoughts? Are you still allowing the world to show you what is going on? Are you still allowing the world to show you what is right or wrong, what is good or bad and you react to this? Are you still trying to change the world from bad to good?

If you are you can never awaken this way. You can never awaken to your true Self as long as you believe something is wrong anywhere. Something being wrong anywhere means that what you call God doesn't know what he or she or whatever it is, is doing. For they have allowed something to be wrong. But when you awaken to the fact that you are the God, you are the ultimate reality, and the whole world is manifesting from your mind and all you've got to do is blink and keep still, stop thinking, stop the thoughts from rising and everything else will take care of itself and you will be home.

The important point here is you have to stop the thoughts from rising. In order for you to do this you have to find the source to your thoughts. What is the source of your thoughts? You never answer a question like this. For if you answer this question it's the ego answering the question. You may have read somewhere, where the source of your thoughts are but do not repeat the words like a parrot. A parrot maybe taught to say, "I'm not afraid of cats, I'm not afraid of cats, I'm not afraid of cats," but the first cat that jumps into the cage it starts squawking and screaming its head off. This is like most of us.

We go around repeating affirmations, words of truth that we read some place, we become like a parrot. The whole idea is to be silent. Not to add affirmations or words to your garbage pail. That is already filled with garbage. By garbage I mean, preconceived ideas, dogmas, opinions, samskaras from previous lives, you're filled with these things and you are a reacting machine, you react, that is what you do all day is react, react, react. Therefore when you try to learn more knowledge and you read more books all you're doing is adding on to the garbage pail.

Of course most of you realize, the highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature.

So do not concern yourself whether the world is real or if everything is preordained. Do not waste your time thinking about things like this. Wouldn't it be more useful for you to say, "To whom do these thoughts come? Who is thinking these thoughts? To whom do they come? They come to me. Then who am I?" I tell you this will be more useful for you. You've been wasting your time trying to find out what is real, what is false, who is enlightened, who is not, who is real, who is a fake, who’s this, who’s that and trying to make your life a certain way when the one is always looking after you. The power that knows the way, will always take care of you and lead you to where you're supposed to be. Wake up! Be free!

Stop searching for something you already are. Stop judging others, leave everything alone. Dive deep within, deeper than you've ever gone before. Become one-pointed. Leave this world alone. You will be all right. Noone really wants to hurt you or cause you any suffering. You are blessed. If you only knew what you were for an instance, you will burst out with joy. If you only knew your true divine nature, you would not be able to contain your happiness.

Make your life simple, live simply. If your life is too complicated then you do not have time to go deep within yourself. Remove the complications from your life. We do not do this physically. We do this mentally. By inquiring, "To whom do these complications come? Who needs them?" Remember when I talk to you this way, I never mean for you to leave your family or leave your job or drop everything and go into a monastery or a cave or anything else. All of this is done mentally. As within so without. As above so below.

The world responds to your new shape of your thoughts. The universe responds to your new being. In other words the universe always turns into what you are. Whenever you look at the world you're seeing yourself never forget this. All of the images in this world, including your body, are like bubbles on the ocean, like waves. They come and they go but the ocean never changes the bubbles always change. There for a while, they pop. They become part of the ocean again.

Then another bubble pops up, lasts for a while and pops, part of the ocean again. And so it is with forms of this earth. Your body and the world that you see are simply the bubbles on the ocean. Do not be the bubble, be the ocean and become free. For you're already free, awaken to it. Feel free to ask questions.

Effortless abiding....Rupert Spira

prior to - nisargadatta

do not worry - nisargadatta

The Creation of Feelings

nothing remains

the light - ramana

surrender - ramana

the path to truth - adya

ego is a mode of functioning - spira

Ego is a mode of functioning. It is an activity, not an entity. It is ignorant only in the sense that it occurs when Consciousness ignores itself.
We can still function very well in the apparent world of time and space without the sense of being a separate entity.
In fact, free of the limiting notions of being a separate entity, and the desires and fears that are required to maintain this position, life becomes free, alive and vibrant.
Experience is relieved of the demand to produce Happiness for a nonexistent entity, and flowers as a result.
Relationships are relieved of the demand to produce love, and love shines in them naturally as a result. And when there is no engagement with the body, mind or world, the default position of Consciousness is not to shrink back into the isolated cell of a self-contracted entity, not to collapse back into a person.
It is to remain as it is, transparent, luminous Presence, open, empty, silent and available, ready to take its shape as the totality of experience at every moment.

~Rupert Spira 

examining yourself

Awareness Gives Its Reality to the World - Rupert Spira

Awareness is the Dreamer

I am Something Nothing Everything

Is Self-Enquiry Selfish?

i am - nisargadatta

God - spira

Excerpt from Video “Is Self-Enquiry selfish?” by Rupert Spira

Questioner:
I think it is just the words that are throwing me a little bit
“Awareness being only aware of itself”
I think it is just a little silly semantic thing.
Can I think of it as Awareness is aware of everything and everyone?
Is the substitute to think of it that way?

RS.
When you have a dream at night, you dream the dreamed world within your own mind, and then you enter into your own dream and view the dream from the perspective of the dreamed caracter. And everything you see - you, the person in the dream -, everything you see is infact the inside of your own mind, the dreamers mind, so its like that.
God - can I use the term God? You are a devotee?

Questioner:
I'm very comfortable with the word God.

RS.
Okay, so lets use the word God, because it connects with the heart,
more then Awareness or Consciousness.

So, each of us are like dreamed caracters in God's dream. And each of our minds are the agency through which God - the only dreamer - sees the inside of its own mind as the world. So all God ever knows is God.

If ...imagine - if God could know something other than God -.
For God to know something other than God, something other than God would have to exist. And if something other than God existed, then God would not be God, because God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. If God is not everything then He must be finite. And if He is finite He must be temporary. And if He is temporary, He must come and go. And what He comes and goes in would be greater than Him, therefore God would not be God. So God, if God is anything He must be everything. So it is not possible for God to know someone or something. It is not possible for something to exist, to co-exist with God, it is not possible for something to have its own being. The being of all seeming things is borrowed from God's being, the only being there is. So there is no question of God knowing anyone or anything other than itself.

Questioner:
Okay, I believe I got that, that sounds good to me. Thank You Rupert, I got that.

RS
And that means also that God cannot be known by anyone other than Himself. He cannot be known by a finite mind because there is no finite mind apart from God's mind. Each of our finite minds is just a temporary contraction or a temporary limitation of the only mind there is, God's infinite mind. So there is no question of God being known by another mind, because there is no other mind, there is no other entity apart from God's being that could either know or not know God.

This beautiful passage in the Sufi Poet and Mystic Amin-Al-Din Balayani said:

"No one sees Him except Himself.
No one reaches Him except Himself.
No one knows Him except Himself.
He knows Himself through Himself.
And He reaches Himself by means of Himself alone.
No one other than He knows Him.
No Prophet, no perfect Saint, 
no non-dual teacher knows Him.

His prophet is He.
His messenger is He.
His message is He.
And His word is He.

He sent Himself from Himself,
through Himself, to Himself.
There is no intermediury or means other than Him.
There is no difference or distinction between the sender,
that which is sent, and the one to whom it is sent.
The very existence of the prophetic word 
- or the non-dual teaching - 
is His existence,
for there is no existence to any other 
who could pass away 
or be named 
or have a name."

~ Rupert Spira

non reaction - tolle

problems - adams

"Think of the problems you believe you have. Think of the nonsense that you go on with everyday. Think how furious you become, how you always want to stick up for your rights, as if you had any. The problem is you think. If you would only stop thinking. You say, 'How can I function if I stop thinking?' Very well, thank you! As a matter of fact you would function much better than you do now, for you will always be taken care of. The universe loves you.

It will always supply you with your needs. Forget about other people, what they do, what they don't do. Do not listen to malicious gossip. Be yourself. Understand who you really are. You are the absolute reality, unconditioned consciousness. Work from that standpoint. Do not work from your problems. Do not get lost in meaningless gossip. Understand your true reality. Be yourself."

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

know - spira

God is not another - mooji

no coming and going - watts

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.
— Alan Watts
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maya - adams

light - tolle

are you a jnani- adams

"We're going to talk about something I don't usually talk about which is what is a Jnani? The reason I'm talking about it this evening is because many people ask me this question and I usually do not answer. If they call me on the phone and they ask me, "Robert are you a Jnani?" I usually keep silent when such a question is asked. But I've been keeping silent for a long time and people keep asking the question. So I'll try to explain what this is all about.
What I usually do now when people ask me the question, "Are you a Jnani?" I say, "First tell me, what do you mean by you and what do you mean by a Jnani?" and they usually say, "You Robert, I mean is Robert enlightened?" And I have to laugh at that because Robert cannot be enlightened. There is no such thing as Robert being enlightened. Robert is an idiot. (students laugh) Robert has absolutely nothing to do with enlightenment.

So if I say, "I am a Jnani." I'm referring to Robert and that is erroneous. Therefore be careful when people tell you that. When they tell you, "I'm enlightened. I'm a Jnani." Be very careful of people like that. Because I refers to the I-thought. The I-thought is an illusion, it's part of maya it's all a mirage. The I can never be enlightened. I can never be enlightened it's impossible. I can never be self-realized. But the Self which is your self, my self the one Self, which exists all by itself. Self contained absolute reality is enlightenment itself.
Now the question you may say...you may ask, "Is I-am enlightened?" I-am is enlightened when you speak of I-am. Not a you enlightened. Not a you self-realized. I-am, enlightened, those words are all synonymous. I-am enlightened is the same thing, but that is not a person place or thing.

In other words we're all the same. We're all one. There is really no difference between me and you. I guess that the only difference is when you look at me you see a person. You see a simple human being. When I look at you I see the Self. I see pure awareness. Why do I see this? I don't know? For when you look at me you see yourself what you think you are.

Consequently when you think you're a human being and have human attributes you're going to see the same in me. And you will ask me a silly question, "Am I enlightened?" If you want to know anything about enlightenment you have to become enlightened yourself. If you want to know anything about self-realization you have to become self-realized yourself. That is the only time you'll ever know this. Other wise words are a waste of time."  – What Is A Jnani?, 25  November, 1992

“There is no body that is unenlightened and has to become enlightened. There is just no body. And yet the appearance is very strong. The mind is very strong with some of us. It tells us all sorts of things. It fools us, it plays games with us, it makes us believe something is wrong someplace or it goes to the other extreme and makes us believe I am enlightened. Now the very thought that you think you are enlightened shows you that you are not. There would be noone left to claim that. The claimant has been transcended. You just become beingness. You just become your Self.” – T76: There Are Not Two Bodies!

“You are not to think that you're already enlightened. This very thought keeps you from being enlightened. Do not believe that you have to be enlightened or that you're already enlightened, let go of all of those things, those qualities. Of being enlightened or trying to be enlightened. They're both erroneous. You see there is noone to try to be enlightened. And there is noone who is enlightened. Both are impostors. That is what I mean when I say, "Just be." You're trying to become enlightened or you think you're enlightened.

When a person is awake, when a person is aware, when a person is liberated, they really cannot say, "I've been liberated." Because the I has disappeared. The I that says, "I am liberated does not exist." There is no longer such a thing at all, doesn't exist at all never did exist. Who is to say, "I am liberated?" Only the ego can say that. So there's silence. Therefore do not look at anybody else, what they're doing. And don't look at your thoughts that tells you you're liberated or not liberated, that you have to work for it or you don't have to work for it. Leave everything alone. Drop everything. Leave your thoughts alone. Do not try to make your thoughts believe anything. Stop thinking and be yourself. When someone tells me, "Robert you're enlightened so it's easy for you." I look at them real funny. I don't know what they're talking about. What's enlightened? Who is enlightened? What does that mean? There is no such thing. Those are just printed words in books. Forget all that. Do not attempt to become anything.” – T191: Just Be

something and nothing - adams

“when you try to drop something,
you believe in yourself”

Many people ask me, "Robert will I be enlightened in this life or do I have to go through many lives?
Will I become free in this life or do I have to go on playing games, making believe?"
My answer is never! You'll never awaken!
It's like the water in the mirage asking,
"When will I become real water?
How long do I have to be a mirage?
When will I become the real water?"
Of course it will never become the real water.
For the mirage can never be anything but a mirage.
It will always be a mirage.
So it is with us.
For you do not exist as a body at all.
You cannot become self-realized it's impossible.
Nothing exists. Yet we appear to exist.
So what to do? Nothing.
"Get your mind off yourself".
Stop thinking about yourself.
Stop thinking about anybody else.
Whatever is supposed to come to you will come to you.
Whatever you are supposed to have you will have.
Wherever you have to go you will go.
The body that you're wearing right now is an hallucination.
You are not that person whatsoever.
Do not fight it. Do not try to change it.
You'll be very surprised at what happens if you leave everything alone. But when you try to change bad for good you're fighting a losing battle for it cannot be done.
All is well, just the way it is.
There is no-one you have to please.
There is no God that you have to appease.
You are the one.
Then again what does exist? Total silence exists.
Pure profound silence. Never try to comprehend these things.
There is no difference between you and a tree or a mountain, a sky or the ocean. The whole universe is composed of hydrogen atoms. So you're nothing but a hydrogen atom.
The 'you' can never become anything.
The only freedom you really have is to be still and quiet.
To be totally quiet.
What you are was never born. It knows nothing of birth.
The one that knows about birth and death doesn't exist.
Robert Adams

,Remember, when you try to get rid of something, 
when you try to drop something, 
you believe in yourself there's something that you've got to drop.
Do you see what I'm saying?
You believe there's something there, that has to be gotten rid of, 
and this keeps you back.

There never was anything that you have to get rid of.
There never was anything that has been interfering with your freedom.

~Robert Adams -T187 Something And Nothing - 1st October, 1992

i am everywhere

I am everywhere and I am You. Nothing can take You away from me or me away from You. We Are One.

Consciousness Is a 'Movement and a Rest'

Become Interested in the Experience of Being Aware

What is Choice?

snow goose - lao tzu

journey without distance - ACIM

Never separate- Spira

: Yes. It is thought that divides thought from Awareness. It is a thought that says that the image is separate from the screen. Just as the image is never separate from the screen, the thought is never separate from Awareness. In fact, thought and Awareness are just two names for the same reality. Just as image and screen are two names for the same thing. It is thought that divides them; that makes two things out of one reality. It doesn’t actually divide them; thought just imagines that they are divided.

i adore myself - gita

Indeed how wonderful! I adore myself. For I have taken form But I am still one. Neither coming or going, Yet I am still everywhere.

sages - adams

"A Sage has absolutely no teaching to give you. If you want to have a teaching, you’ll have to go to a spiritual teacher, a yogi, a meditation master. But a Sage never has a teaching to give you whatsoever. The idea is to just be in the presence of the Sage, that does the teaching. A Sage does not teach tantric yoga, kundalini yoga, hatha yoga, raja yoga, laya yoga or anything else. For all teachings are from the mind. Where else would they come from. They are all mental concepts. The Sage is beyond the mind, beyond the mental concepts. So how can a Sage give a teaching? A Sage is absolute reality, pure awareness." Robert Adams

true knowledge - nisargadatta

no problem - watts

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. No problem. — Alan Watts |

i know that i am - ramana

You know that you are. You cannot deny your existence at any moment of time. For you must be there in order to deny it. Ramana Maharshi

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