“Wake up! You are all living Buddhas. You are the divine emptiness, the infinite no-thing. This I know because I am what you are, and you are what I am. Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?”
~ Adyashanti (20th-21st century American mystic)
Why not make up your mind to drop the past totally and completely, to forget about the future and live in the eternal now, in the eternal moment, fresh, with spontaneity, peace and love? Why not make up your mind to do this? When you make up your mind to do this something happens to you. Your mind begins to fade away.
The past impressions that have been with you for so long begin to fade away. All of your fears, emotions, anger, sorrows begin to fade away into the nothingness from whence they came. You have only to be aware. To be aware of what? That you are a God. As you think of yourself as a God that notion begins to expand within you.
So you begin to laugh at yourself because you’re able to see and perceive that all of the Gods that ever existed are you, your Self. They are not within you, they are you, you are those Gods. You are Krishna, you are Vishnu, you are Shiva, you are the Christ, you are everybody that has ever lived. It is you. … You are the one that has given life and substance to every condition in this universe.
Robert Adams
Everything is sacred. Everything is holy. Because everything is God or consciousness or absolute reality. If anything were not God it wouldn’t exist. Everything that exists is God. Most of us when we think of God we think of only the good things. We think of harmony, peace, love , etc. But in truth God is everything.
God is in the serial rapist. God is in the mass murderer. … The only problem which appears is that you see it differently, that’s all. It is your identification, it is your perception. It is what you see. This is what matters. This is what counts. So, if you’re able to see through appearances and see the reality, how can the appearance hurt you?
Robert Adams
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. [2] There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. [3] Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. [4] Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” [5] While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!” [6] When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. [7] But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.” [8] When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. [9] As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
Matthew 17:1-9 NIV
My spirit’s craving to move higher, farther, deeper than my earthsuit can afford is being fulfilled by the toughest of challenges.
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♡ ● ♡ ● ♡ ● I can always tell if I am completely on track with God by how I’m feeling about every person who comes to mind. On track with God, I love absolutely everyone easily and unconditionally.
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It doesn’t really make sense – spiritually speaking – to haggle over terminology which can clearly be seen as “steps” Spiritward. See, right there is a discrepancy: God inheres within, therefore no “-ward”, right? Yes, right, if you’re not missing any ‘walking it out’ along the way! Here’s the kicker: what we perceive as more advanced may simply not be so at all, in the larger scheme of things
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Praying for one’s enemies – as weird and loathsome as it may seem – bumps one up and out of the material realm where selfishness and egotism run rampant. It’s not easily accomplished owing to the emotionalism attached and the ease in deceiving oneself; but, if taken over by God, is beyond rewarding!
Robin Starbuck 2017-19.
Q.My mind is so strong and clever; will you help me?
~ Papaji: Why have you accepted your defeat, that the mind is so strong? Why? It has to be your slave, not your master. As a slave he is very obedient, but as your master or as your teacher he is a butcher! Don’t feel defeated by this man because you have not even seen him! How can you say he is so strong?
You have never seen him! Nobody has seen the mind. Therefore, this is only a ghost. You are haunted by a ghost. Those who say “I have a strong mind,” or “I am troubled by my mind,” they are haunted by a ghost. There is one psychotherapist here in Satsang who will help you with your ghosts (giggles) and he will charge you $100 per hour! So to be haunted by ghosts is very costly!
If you are conscious of the rising of the thought it will not arise. Do you follow this? I will speak again and again. It is very important! When the thought is arising, look at it. Do this and tell me if you understand. All your life the thoughts are arising, so look at them and tell me what happens.
Be vigilant. Invite the thoughts to come. Say “Oh thought, I like you, I love you!” (giggles) and see what thought will come.
A. No thought comes.
~ Papaji: So you know the secret of how no thought will come to you…
NATURE OF GOD
There is only one answer to the question, ‘What is God?’ and that answer is, ‘I AM.’ God is the mind and the life of the individual. Any mental hedging or inner reservation on this subject will result in ultimate failure. There is but one universal I whether it is being spoken by Jesus Christ or John Smith. When Jesus revealed, ‘He that seeth me seeth him that sent me,’ he was revealing a universal truth or principle. There must be no quibbling about this. You either understand this truth or you do not – and if you do not, there is no need for you to seek any further reason for failure to heal. The revelation of Jesus the Christ is clear. ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.’ Unless you can accept this as a principle and therefore as the truth about you and about every individual, you have no foundation upon which to stand. The truth is that God is the mind and life of the individual. God is the only I.”
“Never forget that you cannot live scientifically as man or idea, but that you must realize yourself to be Life, Truth, and Love. You must accept Jesus’ revelation of the I AM until it becomes realization with you.”
“Consciousness lives Itself – you do not live It.”
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
This mystical path is just simply not what people construe it to be at all. If you really want it, you will do anything for it. Nothing will be too much to ask and nothing will be too much for you to expect. There are very, very few people that I know of who have attained it. It doesn’t really matter because in Spirit all is perfection. It’s already done. The problem is people just simply don’t realize it. Like everybody else they’re sound asleep in their hypnotism. The hardest thing to break through is to convince them that they are hypnotized when they think that they’re not! How do I know all this? I’ll tell you how. Because I’ve been dealing with my own hypnotism and every time I think it’s gone I wake up to the fact that there’s more!
Both situations are cause for much celebration. The first is having dealt with it so much that I feel like it’s finally gone. The second is realizing that there is so much more on a higher level. Why is this cause for celebration? Because obviously there’s much more to be gleaned from staying on the same track. So on this track I ask myself “How am I hypnotized now?” And that takes me right back to basics. The fact is that infinite God, Spirit, is absolutely all there is and is perfection and omnipotence. If I can remember that right now I mean really, really remember it I can celebrate all over again just how unspeakably glorious it is. What was that little cough in my throat? What throat? Am I believing that I have a body again? Am I believing that I am something less than Spirit, God, again? Or maybe I never even left it. As I dictate I see that this book will probably be suitable for fewer and fewer persons than I originally had hoped. I don’t know if I have said this out loud before but I have a sneaking suspicion that this book will be much more useful well after my so-called death. I of course will never die but I’m certainly not going to live in this body forever.
I know I shouldn’t be disheartened when people who I thought were tracking with me ask a question that shows that after all this time they still haven’t gotten a clue. It’s not a burden for a human being named Robin to be concerned about whatsoever. I am not such a person, such a human being. I see now why it is that “I” is so important: I am God. I am Soul. I am Spirit. I am Christ. Now you astute reader if you’re tracking with me you’re smart enough now to recognize that “I am” is yourself. Am I right? Of course I am!
I Robin need to remember that people will come into the truth at their own pace and the fact that many will require a few hundred or a few thousand years is not a tragedy on my heart: I don’t have a human heart any more than I have a human body. If God can’t have a human heart, how can I?
I got thrown off base a bit by a few people’s approbations of my Quantum Dimensions of Healing. They made much of the quantum part and proportionately very little of the healing part and I bought into it thinking I had to vindicate quantum science when in fact my shining contribution LOL is the healing aspect. Healing can be found on every level of apprehension, of education, of acceptance and of understanding. Need I say to you at this juncture that if you don’t use the term healing in the way that it’s meant to be here then you won’t find healing here and you’ll find a disconnect where there isn’t any.
Yes, yes, yes, of course it’s true that nothing needs to be healed in Perfection. The understanding and grasp on perfection is that which heals: it IS the application, the treatment, which by the way is not rendered null and void simply because one is appealing to the mystical realm.
Was with a group of buds just now
in the Stillness when suddenly I could see
difficult people as the Transfigured Christ.
Not mortals at all but beams of light!
Yes that was their place in my life.
Not an enemy but a huge bright Light.
For where I desired to go spiritually
every shocking wake up call was
exactly what I had needed.
Now when difficult memories invade
I’ll know they were and are necessary lights.
Wondering though why the Christ-man is not seen more universally as a body-less, irradiance of unending Light.