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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
“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.
“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
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Mind-Adams
Annihilating the Mind
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When I say to keep silence,
I do not mean just keeping quiet,
when your mind keeps thinking, thinking, thinking,
I am referring to quieting the mind.
When there is no longer any noise in your mind, when the mind becomes
quiescent, the reality appears by itself.
Why do you want to experience the reality? Because you have read in books, teachers have told you, the reality is infinite peace and wisdom, the reality is pure knowledge, the reality is immortality, and everyone wants this.
So we practice all forms of sadhana, we go and see various teachers, we read many books.
Now what all these things should lead to is the silence. After a few years it should not lead to further books, it should not lead to further running around the world, looking for masters who can give you the secret potion, so that you can become self-
realized.
It means to be quiet, to cause the mind to become totally still, not to get involved in talking, talking, talking, about nonsense, to talk very little.
Notice as you keep still this way, how thoughts enter your mind, how they begin to tell you things about yourself,
about the speaker, about the room. The thoughts tell you everything that keeps you back from achieving your realization. Thoughts can do you no good, no matter what kind of thoughts they are. They can only take you so far, confuse you.
You have to see this about yourself. You have to be totally honest with yourself, see where you are coming from, examine your feelings, your emotions.
Again, what is going through your mind. Most people cannot sit in the silence even for a second. The mind waves begin to move.
As long as your mind keeps feeding you information, you can never really awaken, for what you call the mind is merely a bundle of thoughts about the past, and about the future and about the present. That's all the mind is. The mind keeps you earthbound. That is its job, to make you part of this earth, to attach you to person, place and thing.
Therefore the wise person, from the very beginning, begins to do things to keep the mind still, to quiet the mind.
What is the highest thing you can possibly do to quiet the mind?
And the answer is nothing.
As long as you're doing something you're using the mind. Therefore the highest teaching is, do nothing.
When you learn to do nothing, the mind will stop thinking all by itself, but when you do something, the mind will accumulate more knowledge, of things that you are doing, and become ever stronger, and stronger and stronger.
Remember you are not trying to acquire more knowledge, and add on to the knowledge you already have. You want
to empty yourself totally, absolutely and completely, of all so called knowledge.
You're afraid to do this, for you think you will become a vegetable. It's hard to imagine a person with no mind. But, when you begin to realize your mind is only an accumulation of thoughts, thoughts from past lives, thoughts from this life, only thoughts, then you begin to see that the mind has to be totally transcended and transmuted.
And those of you who have been practicing sadhana for many years, have come to the point where now you can do nothing.
You no longer have to meditate.
You no longer have to practice atma-vichara.
You no longer have to practice being the witness, Vipassana meditation.
Those things are no longer necessary. They have taken you to a certain point, and here you are.
You now have absolutely nothing to do. You are free.
If you think about this aright, you will see that your body, what you call your body, will still function very well without your thoughts. This is sort of a hard one to grasp, for you have been taught you have to use your mind to function.
You've been taught that your mind uses the body to function on this earth plane.
That's how it appears. But in truth there never was a body, there never was a mind and there was never anyone to function.
When this is understood properly, you become the epitome of compassion, of loving kindness, of peace, of humility,
simply by understanding what I just said. You do not have to earn these virtues. Some of these virtues are actually
yours already, they've always been yours, compassion, loving kindness, peace, happiness. Since they are already yours and you have them already, you simply have to sit still, quiet the mind, and they'll come up to express themselves.
It's similar to the sun covered by clouds. When the sun is covered by clouds, you think there is no sun, the sun has
disappeared. Yet once the clouds dissipate, the sun shines once more with all its glory and splendor. And so it is with the mind. You have believed that the mind causes you to function, to shine, and this is not necessarily true. The mind is here to keep you earthbound.
When you stop thinking, the mind becomes the infinite, becomes God,
becomes boundless space, nirvana, pure awareness.
It doesn't really become that.
You've always been that.
The mind
merely disappears, as a mind, and your true nature is expressed.
Many people try to develop virtues before they try to remove the mind. This is impossible to do. If you have anger, fear, and many of these negative conditions, it is very difficult to make them disappear. It is very difficult to get rid of them, to transcend them. No matter what you do to try to transcend them, to try to give them up, they just becomes stronger.
It is only when you work on the removal of the mind, by quieting the mind, then all of these things we discussed, the fears, the frustrations, the anger, disappears of its own volition.
It's so easy and yet so hard.
The reason it appears hard is because you have become attached to your way of
thinking, you have been attached to person, place and thing for so many years. You're attached to your memories, to your body. This is the reason it appears difficult.
But when you begin to understand and realize there is no body,
there is no attachment,
there is only total freedom,
the mind becomes totally annihilated.
This is something you have to work with yourself. This is something you have to talk to yourself about, something you have to see for yourself.
Seeing is being.
As you begin to see the great truth, that you are the imperishable self,
the mind will automatically run away and become dissolved.
~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams
=================
When I say to keep silence,
I do not mean just keeping quiet,
when your mind keeps thinking, thinking, thinking,
I am referring to quieting the mind.
When there is no longer any noise in your mind, when the mind becomes
quiescent, the reality appears by itself.
Why do you want to experience the reality? Because you have read in books, teachers have told you, the reality is infinite peace and wisdom, the reality is pure knowledge, the reality is immortality, and everyone wants this.
So we practice all forms of sadhana, we go and see various teachers, we read many books.
Now what all these things should lead to is the silence. After a few years it should not lead to further books, it should not lead to further running around the world, looking for masters who can give you the secret potion, so that you can become self-
realized.
It means to be quiet, to cause the mind to become totally still, not to get involved in talking, talking, talking, about nonsense, to talk very little.
Notice as you keep still this way, how thoughts enter your mind, how they begin to tell you things about yourself,
about the speaker, about the room. The thoughts tell you everything that keeps you back from achieving your realization. Thoughts can do you no good, no matter what kind of thoughts they are. They can only take you so far, confuse you.
You have to see this about yourself. You have to be totally honest with yourself, see where you are coming from, examine your feelings, your emotions.
Again, what is going through your mind. Most people cannot sit in the silence even for a second. The mind waves begin to move.
As long as your mind keeps feeding you information, you can never really awaken, for what you call the mind is merely a bundle of thoughts about the past, and about the future and about the present. That's all the mind is. The mind keeps you earthbound. That is its job, to make you part of this earth, to attach you to person, place and thing.
Therefore the wise person, from the very beginning, begins to do things to keep the mind still, to quiet the mind.
What is the highest thing you can possibly do to quiet the mind?
And the answer is nothing.
As long as you're doing something you're using the mind. Therefore the highest teaching is, do nothing.
When you learn to do nothing, the mind will stop thinking all by itself, but when you do something, the mind will accumulate more knowledge, of things that you are doing, and become ever stronger, and stronger and stronger.
Remember you are not trying to acquire more knowledge, and add on to the knowledge you already have. You want
to empty yourself totally, absolutely and completely, of all so called knowledge.
You're afraid to do this, for you think you will become a vegetable. It's hard to imagine a person with no mind. But, when you begin to realize your mind is only an accumulation of thoughts, thoughts from past lives, thoughts from this life, only thoughts, then you begin to see that the mind has to be totally transcended and transmuted.
And those of you who have been practicing sadhana for many years, have come to the point where now you can do nothing.
You no longer have to meditate.
You no longer have to practice atma-vichara.
You no longer have to practice being the witness, Vipassana meditation.
Those things are no longer necessary. They have taken you to a certain point, and here you are.
You now have absolutely nothing to do. You are free.
If you think about this aright, you will see that your body, what you call your body, will still function very well without your thoughts. This is sort of a hard one to grasp, for you have been taught you have to use your mind to function.
You've been taught that your mind uses the body to function on this earth plane.
That's how it appears. But in truth there never was a body, there never was a mind and there was never anyone to function.
When this is understood properly, you become the epitome of compassion, of loving kindness, of peace, of humility,
simply by understanding what I just said. You do not have to earn these virtues. Some of these virtues are actually
yours already, they've always been yours, compassion, loving kindness, peace, happiness. Since they are already yours and you have them already, you simply have to sit still, quiet the mind, and they'll come up to express themselves.
It's similar to the sun covered by clouds. When the sun is covered by clouds, you think there is no sun, the sun has
disappeared. Yet once the clouds dissipate, the sun shines once more with all its glory and splendor. And so it is with the mind. You have believed that the mind causes you to function, to shine, and this is not necessarily true. The mind is here to keep you earthbound.
When you stop thinking, the mind becomes the infinite, becomes God,
becomes boundless space, nirvana, pure awareness.
It doesn't really become that.
You've always been that.
The mind
merely disappears, as a mind, and your true nature is expressed.
Many people try to develop virtues before they try to remove the mind. This is impossible to do. If you have anger, fear, and many of these negative conditions, it is very difficult to make them disappear. It is very difficult to get rid of them, to transcend them. No matter what you do to try to transcend them, to try to give them up, they just becomes stronger.
It is only when you work on the removal of the mind, by quieting the mind, then all of these things we discussed, the fears, the frustrations, the anger, disappears of its own volition.
It's so easy and yet so hard.
The reason it appears hard is because you have become attached to your way of
thinking, you have been attached to person, place and thing for so many years. You're attached to your memories, to your body. This is the reason it appears difficult.
But when you begin to understand and realize there is no body,
there is no attachment,
there is only total freedom,
the mind becomes totally annihilated.
This is something you have to work with yourself. This is something you have to talk to yourself about, something you have to see for yourself.
Seeing is being.
As you begin to see the great truth, that you are the imperishable self,
the mind will automatically run away and become dissolved.
~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams
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