All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck

About Dr. Robin Starbuck

Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

Nothing to say -rjs

Uh-oh!
I really have nothing to say.
Nothing at all.
But was driven to open fb
Okay here goes nothing!

When all the opposition
Within you gives up
And you feel spent
Waiting for the next affront
And see there’s none,

Take IT in – IT’s all there is
And IT’s better than yours:
IT’s you!
Oh how glorious! Amazing!
Never knew IT’d be so free!

Did you?
Yet here IT is!!!
Oh for goodness’ sake!
IT’s so unspeakably simple
Un-graspable,

Unentangled, wholly perfect,
Object-less.
Egotism, popularity, acquisition,
Accomplishment’s rewards
Tossed.

No path, no journey, no work
At all – just unspeakable
Unutterable undeniable
Peace, Life,
Love.

Robin Starbuck

End of seeking -rjs

“Seeking” has become an unglorious word –
And I get it.
Why keep seeking and seeking and seeking
For that which is right smack
In front of you?
But alas for those who can’t yet
Look at a chair, a smudge somewhere,
A smiling little face, a highway robbery
And feel overwhelmed with sadness and joy
To the point of tears,
Nearly out of control laughter,
Simultaneity, unicity, sublimity –
For those dear “me”s:
It’s right here.
DrRobinStarbuck.com

Want/need a miracle? -rjs

I can’t stress this enough
coz it keeps happening to me:
Want/need a miracle?
Look completely away from
the need, and be so absorbed
in the larger demonstration
that you l-i-t-e-r-a-l-l-y don’t care
at all anymore about the physical
manifestation since a-l-l of your
attention has been permanently
refocused. Your new attitude:
“I don’t even remember the issue
that brought me to my spiritual knees.
They can take it, and so can I. Let this
enable me to hear You (my true Self)
better and I’m already a happy camper!”
Miracles happen! 😀 Timing’s amazing!

Light is flirtatious by nature -rjs

Light is flirtatious by nature – now here, now there, but never pinpoint-able: sometimes a point and sometimes a wave. We tried and tried: first a wiggly wave, then a tenacious dot! Such was the nature of our elusive beam of light, but now we’ve got it! Or, have we? A photo may be worth a thousand words but we need several million words to interpret the still inexplicable.
DrRobinStarbuck

Wonderfully, gloriously meaningless -TP

Excellent beginner interviewer

24:37 There is a shift in the world away from authority and teaching – something anarchic: THIS IS PURE FREEDOM! There’s no hierarchy, there’s no lineage, there’s no authority! There’s nothing to look up to and try to achieve: there’s just freedom.

There are non-dual teachers out there who say “Just let go!” but it doesn’t work because the me, the mind, the I, can’t do anything BECAUSE IT DOESN’T EXIST!  The nature of me is living in what’s next. What is illusory is the belief that there is a me that can choose to let go. 

Nothing has to happen. -rjs

Nothing has to happen. 

● Nothing has to happen. 

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● Nothing whatsoever has to happen. 

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■ Not even …..?

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● Nothing.

DrRobinStarbuck 

Ode to nothing -rjs

Ode to nothing

Can you imagine never having been born?
You don’t exist . . . and yet, here you are!
Or are you?
Go deeper
And still deeper.
You. Do. Not. Exist.
There’s absolute proof!
Nothing … absolutely nothing exists.

Not now, not ever.
A feeling of tremendous relief,
joy, calm excitement,
Indomitable peace
Simply are.
But there’s no you.

Nothing to strive towards.
Nothing to leave.
Nothing to give up.
No progress.
Nothing good.
Nothing bad.
Nothing.

DrRobinStarbuck

The Void -rjs 2018

The Void – rjs 2018

DEEP MEDITATION: THE VOID

No need to fill the Void with

Direction. 

No characterization, just

Endless Void, nothing’s calling, nothing’s

There. 

No need for company, I am 

That. 

Don’t leave. Don’t go. Stay on

Forever. 

Silence is singing Its precious 

Song. 

Stillness … Oh, the burning, glorious

Stillness. 

There’s no me, there’s no you, there’s

Emptiness sublime. 

Vastness inexplicable. 

Beyond describable joy. 

Nowhere to go for it 

Nothing to learn. 

Nothing to do. 

Don’t leave … see the Void

With your feelings. 

Everything is nothing. 

Nothing is All. 

No need to sleep. Simply

No need. 

Breathing’s unlabored, 

Strivings ceased. 

What incredible Void

Of emptiness

Awareness. 

Praise No One –

Just Be.

DrRobinStarbuck

2018