Monthly Archives: August 2020

Become totally honest -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Only you can make yourself free. And it is simply by letting go. Letting go of everything mentally. Remember I’m not saying you have to leave your family or leave your job or leave your house or leave anything. I am saying that you mentally have to become disattached to these things. You may say, “How can I love my family if I become disattached?” What becomes disattached is your ego, the mind. When the ego and mind become weaker, love becomes stronger. Therefore you can love your enemies. Love everything in this world, in this universe and yet not be attached to anything.

This love comes by itself. You do not have to develop it. It only comes when you let go of the other. As you let go of everything else. Things like love, bliss, joy, peace come by themselves.

You have to become totally honest with yourself. You cannot have a secret life and on top of this want freedom and liberation. There are no secrets in the Self. It’s an open book. As long as you’re leading two lives then this teaching becomes entertainment for you.

Robert Adams

Truth needs to be reformulated -RSpira

Rupert Spira

My first teacher, Dr. Francis Roles, once said to me, “The truth needs to be reformulated by every generation.” It is my hope that this book reformulates the Direct Path for those who travelled to the East, intellectually if not physically, but found it difficult to extricate the simplicity of the non-dual understanding from the wealth of exotic concepts in which it was shrouded, as well as for a new generation of truth seekers who are not burdened by previous religious and spiritual teachings.

However, it is important to recognise that the inward-facing path explored in this book is only half the journey. Once the essential, irreducible nature of the mind has been recognised, and its inherent peace and unconditional joy accessed, it is necessary to face outwards’ again towards objective experience, realigning the way we think and feel, and subsequently act, perceive and relate, with our new understanding.

The culmination of the inward-facing path is the recognition of the presence, the primacy and the nature of awareness – or, in religious language, spirit or God’s infinite being – which transcends all knowledge and experience. However, it is not yet the full experiential understanding in which awareness itself, or Gods infinite being, is known and felt to pervade and saturate all knowledge and experience, and indeed to be its sole substance and reality. It is to recognise the transcendent nature of awareness but not its immanence.

Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware

SWEET TO SEE YOU !

What, who, ever existed? No one -RAdams

Adams, Robert

What is the purpose of water in the mirage? Does it have a purpose? You see a pool of water in the desert and you think it’s real. And then you go for it and you’re picking up sand. And so it is with existence. Existence seems so valid, so real, so true. Yet who exists? Have you ever existed? Will you ever exist, what exists? Nothing.

Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Give up all attachments -FJ &rjs

Attachment, Frank Johnson, Robin Starbuck

Frank Johnson expands and with razor-sharp precision expounds my topic, drawn from my inquiry into how to put Eastern wisdoms to use in the Western world:

GIVING UP ATTACHMENTS

In response to a popular query re. exactly how one could proceed with the task of putting off attachments, I cautioned that I am not a behaviorist, meaning I don’t concern myself with matters on the outside at all.

This issue is 100% a spiritual one, so setting up a plan to adjust your behavior will most assuredly miss the mark. As a matter of fact, it’s an all-or-nothing situation as with Abraham and Isaac.

If you arrive at the point where you need absolutely NOTHING AT ALL, then you’ll know the nature of true bliss. You’ll see for the first time what total freedom is truly about.
DrRobinStarbuck

Frank Johnson adds:
“True. The religious mind would have you think that change comes about by YOU taking control of your behavior. How many believe that in order to advance to some “higher level”, or to achieve some kind of spiritual breakthrough or intuitive tune-up, you need to really focus on doing better? We’ve all heard the expression… “What would Jesus do?” Does that really work?

Yes, you may achieve some limited or measured results, but ultimately and hopefully you’ll come to realize that all that “doing” is still just you. All that religious effort is still coming from you. What if you were to actually stop, and do something radically different. What if you really did what Jesus did… actually accept the divine reality of your Being? Right now, just as you are!

What if that God that we believe in is the LIFE that we already are and we were never told the truth. How many Believers ever take the time to realize or accept the truth within of who they are? What if you were to realize that the gospel message was not about “you doing something”, but that it was about the change that takes place when we accept and awaken to the truth of who we are.

What if the “I Am” that Jesus knew in himself is the “I Am” of you and me? What if YOU have been fighting the truth of your own Being all this time? Maybe the change we were looking for is found when we finally stop and just learn what it means to “Be”. To learn what it feels like to rest in the truth that it is God–our true Life, that works in, as, and through our physical being. This is how real change takes place. For now we realize that all this time we never knew the truth of who we are.”
Frank Johnson

Oh, that every man, woman and child would say ‘yes!’ to the nudge in their heart that is forever drawing them home to their Source, the reality of who they – and everyone else – are!
DrRobinStarbuck

You feel very peaceful and happy -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Working on your sadhana, spiritual exercises, spiritual practices [gives you] a sense of peacefulness. You begin to be totally peaceful. Things that used to disturb you [don’t] disturb you any longer. People that used to disturb you, used to give you trouble, they can no longer make you feel angry or upset. You feel an innate peace, the peace that passeth all understanding.

You feel very peaceful in whatever you do. It’s a beautiful peace. It’s a wonderful feeling. You are at peace with the world and at peace with the universe. You have reconciled yourself with the entire universe. With the mineral kingdom, with the vegetable kingdom, with the animal kingdom, with the human kingdom and you feel good about yourself.

Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Everything is God, leave alone -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Be aware of yourself, always. The world goes through its own karma. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. You belong to God. Everything you see is God. This is why you should be nonjudgemental. Leave everything alone. By practising these things, you become radiantly happy. Everyone wants something. If your mind stops thinking, what happens? Some of you believe you will not have anything, that you will have more problems. But it’s in reverse. You experience bliss, joy and happiness when you don’t want anything. From what we know, people want something and when they get it, they become more miserable than ever before.

Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart

‘You’ doesn’t exist, pure consciousness -RAdams

Adams, Robert

If you know the true reason you are coming here it will make a tremendous difference in your life. You are coming here to awaken, to awaken from the dream of maya and of a personal I. You are coming here to find peace and happiness. Therefore just being here is a meditation in itself.

The modality I use to help you is silence, not words. There are no weekend seminars. There are no special mantras. There is no initiation. There is nothing. Yet the nothing is everything. You believe you are the doer, and everything you accomplish is your deed. That is a lie. You don’t even exist! You were not even born! How can you be the doer? There is no one who does anything. Yet everything gets done. It is a paradox.

When you realize you are not the doer everything gets done in a better way. You stop identifying with object and subject. You become free of all attachments. As long as you believe that you are responsible for anything that takes place, you have a problem. You will have to repeat that experience over and over, until you realize that you have absolutely nothing to do with that experience, or anything else for that matter! You are pure consciousness. Your real self is absolute reality. You have nothing to do with this world.

Robert Adams, Excerpt from Satsang 14