forgiveness is a disregard for illusions

 if chasing the next moment is your practice, you will always be unhappy, because the next anything is a phantom.

one self adams

There is only one Self.
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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.

~ Robert Adams Satsangs
#Transcript 49
I Acknowledge You
3rd March, 1991

Spira

Rupert Spira - Quotes

"Nothing ever disappears. Only forms are constantly transformed."

“The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.”

"All experience - thoughts, images, feelings, sensations and perceptions - appears and disappears, but awareness remains present throughout all changing experience, just as a screen remains present throughout all movies."

"Look in all experience for that which does not appear, move, change, evolve or disappear, and know yourself as that."

"See thoughts and feelings like a train that enters a station and then leaves; be like the station, not like a passenger."

“Only that which is always with you can be said to be your self and if you look closely and simply at experience, only awareness is always ‘with you’.”

"Deep sleep is not the absence of awareness. It is the awareness of absence."

“We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.”

“Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.”

“The belief that we were born, that we change, evolve, grow old and die is simply a belief to which the vast majority of humanity subscribes without realizing that they are doing so. It is the religion of our culture.”

"To begin with, we seem to be in the world, then the world seems to be in us, and finally the distinction between ourself and the world dissolves."

"The reason we all experience the same world is not that there is a world made of matter appearing outside Consciousness. It is because each of our finite minds is precipitated within the same infinite Consciousness. It is because our minds share Consciousness that we feel we share the world."

"When we wake up from a dream, we understand that we were not a self in the dream but rather that the entire dream took place in us. Similarly, when we wake up from the ‘dream’ of everyday life we discover that Consciousness is not in the body but that the entire body, mind and world are in Consciousness."

"God is the very self of each of us."

"To imagine oneself a separate self is the ultimate blasphemy. It is normally considered that to say 'I am God' is blasphemous. However, what is truly blasphemous is to say 'I am a separate self'. It is not blasphemous to feel and say that I am the totality of experience. It is a position of love in which everything and everyone are included."

"The absolute knowledge of our own being is the only knowledge there is, that could serve as a foundation for world peace. Because it's the only knowledge there is, that is the same for all people, at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions."

“When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.”

“Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.”

"Love is not a feeling; it's lack of otherness."

“Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.”

"A single sensation/thought/perception appears in consciousness and thinking alone conceptualises.”

“In reality, which means in our actual experience, all experience is one seamless substance. The duality between the inside self and the outside object, world or other is never actually experienced. It is always imagined.”

“In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.”

“Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.”

"Locate yourself nowhere; find yourself everywhere."

“The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.”

“We don’t have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness.”

“Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.”

“Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn’t appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen ‘hides’ in plain view, so happiness ‘hides’ in all experience.”

“Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.”

"Our essential nature of pure Awareness gains or loses nothing from the entire human adventure."

I Am............Rupert Spira

Meditation: Our Essential Nature Is Prior to Experience

The Separate Self Is the Veiling of Love

Meditation: Our Essential Nature Is Prior to Experience

Transparent openness......Rupert Spira

The Realisation of Deathlessness

Beyond the 'witness'........Rupert Spira

you simply have to watch - papaji

i am here

adams awaken

Many people still ask me, "Robert will I be enlightened in this life or do I have to go through many lives?
Will I awaken in this life?
Will I become free in this life or do I have to go on playing games like everybody else, making believe, when will I awaken?"
And it's very funny to me.
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 become anything but a mirage.
It will always be a mirage.
So it is with us.
What you are can never be anything else.
For you do not exist as a body at all.
And if you do not exist as a body what can become self-realized?
In other words you have nothing to become self-realized with.
You cannot become self-realized it's impossible.
Forget about it.
Don't even think of it.

Self-realization has absolutely nothing to do with your body or your thoughts or your mind or your practices or your sadhanas or anything else.
Self-realization is the ultimate reality.
It is the pure awareness, the nirvana and that doesn't exist either.
So what exists?
There is no answer.
For what exists can never be known with a finite mind.
This is why we do the work from where we are.
We do not think about becoming self-realized or becoming liberated.
We simply wonder who we are.
We just ask ourselves, "Where does this body come from?
What appears to be a body?"
And we compare it to the water in the mirage.
It's an hallucination.
It has no validity.
In other words you have no existence whatsoever.

You have never had an existence.
Nothing exists.
Yet we appear to exist.
So what to do?
Nothing, there is nothing you can do about it.
That's just the way it is.
Do not try to change it.
Stay the way you are and keep still.
That is the best thing you can do.
Be happy just the way you are.
Of course the only way you can be happy is by keeping still and not reacting to things, by leaving everything alone and being yourself.
When I say, "Being yourself", I mean being you the way you are right now, nothing else.
The world of reality exists by itself.
It just is.

There is nothing you can do to change anything.
Do not try to change anything.
Do not work on yourself.
For every time you're working on yourself you are emphasizing that you're the self, the mortal self that needs to be worked at.
"just be yourself" the way you are right now, in this moment.
I'm not saying to be your self last week or to be your self a week from now.
Be yourself right this moment, this second, this instant and you'll be safe.
Do not concern yourself how to be the self.
Do not concern yourself what you have to do to be the self.
Don't even wonder what it is to be the self.
Just be!

Do not question it.
Do not try to understand it.
You will always be the way you are, nothing will can ever change that.
So you might as well get on with that and be happy.
Suffering comes when you try to change yourself.
Suffering ensues when you try to develop moksha, liberation.
When you try to transcend yourself, then you suffer.
For you are trying to attain something that doesn't exist and it hurts.

Isn't it wonderful not to do anything.
Never try to attain a thing or become anything else.
What about pain, what about lack and limitation, what about poverty.
What about the rest of these things that exist?
It's all part of life.
Do not try to get rid of it.
Look at it, accept it, be happy with it and leave it alone.

What I'm really saying is, "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.
You have absolutely nothing to do with it.
So why not enjoy where you are right this moment.
Stop trying to change things.
The very trying makes them worse.
The body that you're wearing right now is an hallucination.
You are not that person whatsoever.
But because you appear as that person you go through many experiences of what that person has to go through.
Do not fight it.
Do not try to change it.
Leave everything alone.
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.

You may tell me of people who have used their mind to achieve things in the world, to heal themselves of disease, to heal themselves of lack or limitation, to become powerful beings through thinking.
Those things are only changes, temporary changes.
Do not try to be a human being.
Go beyond that.
You go beyond that by doing nothing.
Yet some of you do not understand and think you have to sit down like a lump and do nothing on the contrary.
When you're doing nothing you're doing something.
Something is being done.
Something will always be done by you.
Yet at the same time nothing is being done.
So the question is, "Is something being done or is nothing being done?" and there is no answer.
What do you want to achieve and why do you wish to achieve those things?
Only for your self aggrandizement.
An animal leads a normal life.
It cannot think like we do.
It goes through its life and when it's time to leave their life it leaves it peacefully, happily.
But as human beings we fight, trying to live forever.
Trying to maintain the same beauty we've always had, the same happiness, the same joy.
This is all a waste of energy.

All is well, just the way it is.
You are perfect just the way you are.
There is nothing that you have to do.
There is no-one you have to please.
There is no God that you have to appease.
You are the one.
All of these ideas that are going through your mind of people, places, things, Gods, are all you.
You are creating everything.
Everything that you can think about you're creating.
Everything comes out of yourself.
Just like you're dreaming.
The mistake we make is we try to awaken from the dream, the mortal dream, from this dream.
Yet who is to awaken from it?
The person that wants to awaken doesn't exist.
Do you see what I'm saying?
Nothing exists that has to do anything.
The person who wants to be free does not exist, has never existed.
The person who is looking for moksha does not exist.
Then again what does exist?
Total silence exists.
Pure profound silence.
Never try to comprehend these things.
For you're using the mind, you're using the cells that are the mind, that are connected to the cells of the universe and you make your life miserable by doing this.

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.
How does it feel to be a hydrogen atom?
See how you mind begins to think?
It's difficult for most of you to stay silent.
You are not required to understand a thing I say.
I speak utter nonsense.
It's all nonsense and some of you are taking it in so profoundly like it's important.

Who are you really?
I have no idea?
If you have an idea of who you are you've got a problem.
For you're not that at all.
Again we go back to the beginning when I opened up this sentence.
Who thinks they're something.
You can never be anything.
The 'you' that you think you are can never be a thing.
Always remember this.
The 'you' can never become anything.
The only freedom you really have is to be still and quiet and that is the only freedom you've got.
To be totally quiet.
Everything else is an hallucination, a lie.
So most of you want me to sit here and tell you lies.
Stop worrying.
Stop fretting.
Stop believing something can happen to you, to hurt you.
What you are was never born.
It knows nothing of birth.
The one that knows about birth and death doesn't exist.

So here we are together again.
Why do you come here?
If you have a reason for coming here it's the wrong reason.
There is no reason for doing anything at all.

(long silence...)

~ Robert Adams, When Will I Awaken?

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Knowing is never veiled......Rupert Spira

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i am is not the real - nisargadatta