Monthly Archives: June 2020

Take the unnecessary steps -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“The ultimate reality is part of us already. But yet we go through all kind of practices, meditations, sadhanas, trying to awaken the kundalini, doing all kinds of Tantric exercises, learning the Kabbalah, practicing Taoism, doing all these things that are completely unnecessary and ridiculous. … They’re not a waste of time because if you didn’t do them, you wouldn’t be here, you wouldn’t be in a class that teaches Advaita Vedanta.

You wouldn’t be seeking complete freedom. Everything you’ve done has led you to this. Yet, it is all a bunch of nonsense. How can they both be correct? How can it be necessary and also be a bunch of nonsense? As long as you refuse to awaken, and you refuse to see yourself as no body, you’re going to go through all these rituals and all these experiences, and practice all these teachings, and memorize the bible, and the sutras, and everything else.

You’re going to go through all kinds of teachings again, and again, and again, and again, perhaps for many, many lives, until you awaken to the fact that it is not the teaching that’s going to awaken me, … it is no person, place or thing that can ever awaken me, and free me from bondage to myself, from bondage to maya [illusion], to the universe, to the world.

And this is the beginning of wisdom, when you realize this.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

If you only knew, you would go mad with joy -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“You wish to be involved in worldly games. You wish to be involved in gossip, anger, greed, bewilderment and occult practices. These are the things that hold you back. You have to develop a sense of trust and faith. Trust and faith in what? In the power that knows the way. …

It’s within you. It will guide you, it will lead you, it will take care of you. There’s nothing to worry about, nothing to concern yourself about. You have with you a joy, a compassion, a love, a peace, if you only knew existed, you would go mad, it’s so grand and beautiful. You are that.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

What is watching pain is yourself -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

N.MAHARAJ: Visitor: Thoughts grab us and take us away.
Maharaj:” Thoughts have so much power because of the identification with the body.”
Visitor: It is very difficult just to watch pain. I become afraid.
Maharaj:” What is watching pain is yourself. With Consciousness, you have to hold Consciousness. Give attention to this ‘I’ taste. Don’t give attention to fear, give attention to what you are. Once you know what you are you become fearless. Remove the concept of death from your mind. There is no death as such. I am sure you are not going to die. That is only a concept or idea.
Your identification with the body has continued since childhood, so in order to get rid of it also takes time.
For the Beingness to sustain itself there is occupation. Whatever you gain has no value. You will come to understand the hollowness of this game. Only in your ignorant phase, you take everything as so important. We give undue importance to things that come and go.
I am talking from the standpoint where I do not know of myself, that ‘I Am.’ I don’t belong to the realm of waking and sleep states. How can I presume that I am like this or that? You presume that I am something or somebody.”

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No effort can take you there, only the clarity of understanding. Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all.
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There is nothing to seek and find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the ‘I am’. Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent , It will emerge, or, rather, it will take you in.

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~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You don’t have to give up anything. Mentally detach. -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Never pray to God for release of your problems.
Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better.
This is wrong prayer.

If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you’re in. This is correct prayer.

Do not try to change anything. Be yourself. Work on yourself. Begin to see things in a new light. See your situation differently. There are no bad things, there are no good things. But thinking makes it so. Stop thinking of the extremes, good and bad, right and wrong.
Rather look at yourself in the moment.
Stay centered.

See yourself as a Divine Being, an Infinite Being, totally free and liberated. Do not feel sorry for yourself because you are in a position and in a situation you don’t like. This just holds you there more. And again as we mentioned before, even if you run away from a situation, you will attract some of the circumstances elsewhere.

Running away is never the answer. Changing yourself is the answer.

Take a look at your own life and see if it is not true what I’m saying. The changes you’ve gone through in your life. I know so many people who have left their home and family and gone to India to meditate, to find gurus, teachers. They have come back very depressed, even suicidal. For they’ve given up everything. Remember, there’s nothing you have to give up. Only mentally do you give up attachment.

Always look at the world as a reflection of you. You are the world. The world can be nothing without your approval. It sounds strange, but true. You have to stop identifying conditions apart from yourself. I know it seems hard to do. When you see the riots we’ve just had, the murders, the looting, it seems really difficult to realize you are one with this. But think about this.

Why should you only think you are one with the good things? If you are One, you are One with everything. Never just the good things that you enjoy and you like and bring into your life. You are All-Pervading,
Omnipresent, and you are One with all there is.
The correct way to observe this is to look at everything in the world intelligently without any comments, without any
reactions.
Do not be for or against anything.

Train yourself to observe, to watch, to look without any reaction.

~ Silence of the Heart, Dailogues with Robert Adams.

T.155@This is your Dharma.

Your duty is to be – and not to be – this or that

Ramana Maharshi

Your duty is
to be:
and not to be
this or that.

“I AM that I AM”
sums up the whole truth.
The method is summed up in
“BE STILL”.
What does “stillness” mean?
It means “destroy yourself ”.
Because any form or shape is the cause of trouble.
Give up that notion that “I am so and so.”

“ The I' is always there – in deep sleep, in dream and in wakefulness. The one in sleep is the same as that who now speaks. There is always the feeling ofI’.
Otherwise do you deny your existence?
You do not.
You say `I am’.
Find out who is.”

“ If you hold this feeling of ‘I’
long enough and strongly enough,
the false ‘I’ will vanish
leaving only
the unbroken awareness of the real,
immanent ‘I’,
consciousness itself.”

“ The only permanent thing is Reality;
and that is the Self.
You say “I am”,“I am going”,“I am speaking”,“I am working”, etc.
Hyphenate “I am” in all of them.

Thus I – AM.
That is the abiding and fundamental Reality.
This truth was taught by God to Moses: “I AM that I-AM”.
“Be still and know that I-AM God.”
so “I-AM” is God.

You know that you are.
You cannot deny your existence
at any moment of time.
For you must be there
in order to deny it.
This (Pure Existence) is understood
by stilling your mind.
The mind is the outgoing faculty
of the individual.
If that is turned within,
it becomes still in course of time and
that “I-AM” alone prevails.
“I-AM” is the whole Truth.”

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

All is well, just the way it is -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“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.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Don’t take world successes and roles seriously -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“You have taken your role as a male or a female too seriously. You have taken your role as a wife or a husband too seriously. You have taken your role as an employee or an employer too seriously. In other words you believe in your self, with a small s, and this is what keeps you bound. You want to change all this.

I know you want total freedom, total joy, total bliss, total happiness, without any fluctuations. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could be totally happy all the time, not just when you’re getting something good in your life. Not only when you get what you want. Everybody can be happy then, that’s nothing.

If you won $50,000,000 you’re going to be happy, right? If you buy a new car, you’ll be happy. If you buy a new house you’ll be happy. If you find the man of your dreams or the girl of your dreams, you’ll be happy. That’s what you think. How long does it last? Mind you, there’s nothing wrong with these things if you see them in the right light.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Very, very committed East & West

Absolute, Advanced spirituality

Fixing the mind firmly on Brahman [God],
the point of concentration,
restraining the sense organs in their respective centers,
holding the body steady and giving up all thoughts for its maintenance,
attaining identity with Brahman [God] and being One with it,
continuously drink the bliss of Brahman in your own Self.
Of what use are other things?
They are entirely false, empty illusions.

— Adi Shankaracharya. Vivekachudamani

Own a Canadian! Lol

Humor - remember that? LoL

Dear Dr. Laura [Schlesinger, radio talk show host]:
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. … I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God’s Laws and how to follow them. Leviticus 25: 44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can’t I own Canadians? I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21: 7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of Menstrual “uncleanliness”—Lev. 15: 19–24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord—Lev. 1: 9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them? I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35: 2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it? A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination, Lev. 11: 10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree. Can you settle this? Are there degrees of abomination? Lev. 21: 20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/ 20, or is there some wiggle-room here? Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19: 27. How should they die? I know from Lev. 11: 6–8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves? My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19: 19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/ polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev. 24: 10–16. Couldn’t we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20: 14) I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I’m confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God’s word is eternal and unchanging. Your devoted disciple and adoring fan. AJC
P.S. (It would be a damn shame if we couldn’t own a Canadian.)

The mind will fade away of its own accord -RM

Ramana Maharshi

“People often ask how the mind is controlled. I say to them, ‘Show me the mind and then you will know what to do.’ The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. How can you extinguish it by the thought of doing so or by a desire? Your thoughts and desires are part and parcel of the mind.

The mind is simply fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.”

~ Ramana Maharshi (20th century Indian Advaita mystic)