It’s your resistance to the feeling that makes it unbearable not the feeling itself. Go back to that voice that tells you you were awareness itself and not that sensation. That voice of pure awareness doesn’t know the meaning of resistance or not liking something.
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Love yourself, you are the universe -RAdams
Give thanks and love Thyself
You must always have gratitude for the way you are. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Love yourself just the way you are. By loving yourself just the way you are, you will transcend those things that have appeared to annoy you, to bother you, to cause you pain. They will all go. You will no longer be aware of them. Let go of everything. Have no desires whatsoever, dive deep within the SELF. Do not react to the outside world or your body. ALL IS WELL. When you are without thoughts, without needs, without wants, desires, then YOU are God. ‘YOU’ are the universe. You are Divine Love. YOU Are Beautiful.
Robert Adams
I couldn’t find where this quote originated…Satsang or Collection.
Pure awareness, consciousness, absolute reality -RAdams
[When you awaken] you’ll understand that you are pure awareness, effortless, choice-less, pure awareness. You are consciousness, the absolute reality, the Brahman, the ultimate reality, the I am that I am, bliss. You will feel an ineffable bliss that is beyond description, an unalloyed happiness that you can’t even imagine exists.
Yet all the words that I’m using will not really come into your mind, because you’ll have no mind. There will be no words. You will just be these things that I am talking about, and you will be that forever.
Robert Adams
Once reduced to human “you”, it’s gone! -JK
Ever-changing world VS Never-changing Self -RAdams
Awakening isn’t something that someone can give you.
Awakening is your true nature.
It’s your real self.
You are already awake but you believe you are asleep. You believe you are human, that you are the doer. You believe all of your experiences are real. And then, if you go a
little higher, you think all of your experiences are karmic. But I say to you there is no karma, and there are no experiences. You are bright and shining just the way you are.
But if you want to play the game of karma, you can. It’s a game. Now where did it come from? You created it out of your mind.
There are those people who teach courses on karma and reincarnation and they believe that’s it. So naturally you are creating your own destiny. And the joke is you keep coming back again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, having all sorts of experiences, until one century from now, or one billion years from now, you get tired of playing the game. And you say, “Wait a minute. I seem to be going around in a circle. Does it never end?” And then you finally ask the question, “For whom is the game? Who believes in their humanity? Who believes in their experiences? Who is it that seems to suffer? or Who is it that seems to be happy?”
Remember that human happiness and human suffering are two sides of the same coin. There is no difference. You get tired of the whole thing. So you pose the question to yourself, “For whom is this karma? For whom is this world?
For whom is this game? Who has to go through these things?”
But instead of doing this most people go to a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a preacher, to ministers and so forth. They never get the right answer, because those aforementioned people tell you how to deal with effects.
You go to a doctor and you say, “My arm hurts when I hold it like this.” So he says, “Don’t hold it like that.” And that’s what we all do. We are looking for answers for an external means, and you can never get an answer to your problems or to anything from the world, because the world changes continuously. One time the answer may be this way and another time the answer may be that way, depending on circumstances, depending on the time.
As an example, fifty years ago if you had a cold and you went to a doctor they would draw blood. They would give you all kinds of antibiotics and they would give you everything that was in style in those days. Today if you have a cold they do something else. Everything changes. There are people who are going to do what’s in vogue at the time, but the real answer is within yourself. The solution is within you. Yet you go about it in the wrong way when you’re looking to solve a problem with another problem, which is your mind. You cannot use your mind to solve a problem, because your mind is the cause of the problem to begin with. And you cannot ask anyone else for the
solution, because they are using their minds to give you the solution, which they think is right.
The answer of course is to know yourself. When you focus the attention on your Self with a capital ‘S’ the problem becomes resolved automatically.
How do you focus your attention on yourself? By asking, “What am I?” or, “Who
am I?” Simply ask, “Who am I?” when anything takes place in your life that you wish to change. Do not try to change the thing that is disturbing you. Even if you do it’ll pop up somewhere else. Go right to the source. “What is the source of my depression? I am. I am depressed. Who is the I that is depressed? Where does it come from?” You never answer. You just have a listening attitude when you ask the question. Then the answer comes back to you saying, “The depression comes to me. I feel it. I have it.” Then you have to realize that it is the I that has it, because you just said, “I have it.” So the I has the problem, not you.
It is always your personal I that has the problem. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. Just understanding this, awakens you. I is not the self. The personal I is the ego. So when you say, “I don’t feel good, I don’t feel happy, I am worried,” or anything else in life, even when you say, “I feel good, I feel wonderful,” you’re still talking about your personal I. And your personal I is part of the world of duality.
Therefore when you say, “I feel good in the morning,” the first thing that comes along that you don’t like you say, “I feel bad.”
You do not want to use that method. What you want to say is to yourself, “This has nothing to do with me. I feels bad. I feels good.” That’s not bad English, just showing you how to talk to yourself. I is separate from you. You have nothing to do with I.
Just being able to see that resolves your problem. If you will try it you will see I’m right. When you get depressed, when you feel out of sorts, when you feel something is wrong, when you feel angry, or whatever,
ask yourself, “Who feels this? I do.” And then realize, “I have nothing to do with myself.”
Your perfection is always shining. You are pure consciousness. You are not the personal I. Let the personal I have all the problems it chooses. It has nothing to do with you. But observe for yourself. Become the witness to the fact that the personal I has the problem, and not you. That’s all you have to do. Just watch it and look, intelligently, and see where the problem comes from.
The Collected Works of Robert Adams.
The Fourth State of Consciousness.
I, myself, am the Christ-Self -JSG
The more you recognize Christ as the identity of every individual, however, the less capacity he has left for being animalistic. That is what in this age is changing a great part of the world. Many who want to remain in their animal nature are having the capacity to be animalistic taken away from them by those who are seeing spiritually the true nature of man.
‘I, myself, am the Christ-Self. I, myself, am the real man, the spiritual man, the Son of God. All that the Father has is mine: all the divine qualities, all the divine nature, all the divine being. This is the truth about me and the truth about every man.’
The natural man comes along and says, “Ah, but”; and then that is when you, in your higher recognition, must turn and say, “‘Get thee behind me, Satan!’ I know all about the claims of Satan. I know all about the claims of the carnal man, but I stand on the dignity of my true nature. I know who I am.”
In the proportion that you see that, you are meditating. This is contemplative meditation, and it leads to an inner stillness and quiet, and then sometime when you are not thinking at all, when you are not even thinking of meditating, all of a sudden the truth will pop up: “Knowest thou not, thou art the Christ of God? Knowest thou not, thou art the temple of God?”
You look up, “Who spoke; who spoke?” It was the “still small voice.” You brought yourself to an inner stillness where you could hear that Voice by this continued realization of your true identity.
“A thousand shall fall at [the] side, and ten thousand at [the] right hand” of those who dwell in the truth of spiritual identity. But if you live consciously in the realization of the Christ and let the Christ dwell in you as your Self, you will bear rich spiritual fruitage, because all that the Father has is yours as the Christ. Divine sonship is your relationship to God. The more you abide in this truth and let this truth abide in you, the more it will be so unto you. The less you let it occupy your consciousness, the less spiritual Grace you will know.
Whether you say, “Christ in the midst of me is mighty,” whether you say, “I in the midst of me is mighty,” whether you say, “Christ goes before me to make the ‘crooked places straight,’” or whether you say, “I go before me to make the ‘crooked places straight,’” makes no difference because it is only a matter of terminology. You are recognizing your divine sonship, and this is what is necessary. You must know this truth without ceasing. You cannot wait for a problem to arise; you cannot wait for eight o’clock in the morning or seven o’clock at night. You can start that way as a young student, but you cannot remain that way for long. It must be a praying without ceasing; it must be a knowing of the truth; it must be an abiding in Bible passages and promises.
There must be a conscious dwelling in the realization of your true identity and the recognition that there is also a natural man hovering about. It will tempt you to be sick; it will tempt you to sin; it will tempt you to lose your temper, it will tempt you to do a lot of things; and some of them you will even fall for; but be assured that that natural man will have less and less place in your life as you abide more and more in the nature of your true identity. Know who you are, and live with it silently and secretly. Then you will know that I will never leave you or forsake you, because I am your Self. You can never be divided from your Self; and your Self is spiritual, divine sonship. To know this is illumination.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Living The Illumined Life.
Chapter Twelve: Spiritual Illumination;
With the Recognition of Christhood, the Natural Man Dies
Kindle: page 214-216
Ego (two selves) is not -RM
D.: Why is the world so wrapped up in ignorance?
M.: Take care of yourself. Let the world take care of itself.
See your Self.
If you are the body there is the gross world also. If you are spirit all is spirit alone.
D.: It will hold good for the individual, but what of the rest?
M.: Do it first and then see if the question arises afterwards.
D.: Is there avidya? [ignorance as cause of suffering through desire, evil.
M.: For whom is it?
D.: For the ego-self.
M.: Yes, for the ego.
Remove the ego; avidya is gone.
Look for it, the ego vanishes.
The real Self alone remains.
The ego professing avidya is not to be seen. There is no avidya in reality. All sastras are meant to disprove the existence of avidya.
D.: How did the ego arise?
M.: Ego is not.
Otherwise do you admit of two selves?
How can there be avidya in the absence of the ego?
If you begin to enquire, the avidya which is already non-existent, will be found not to be or you will say it has fled away.
Ignorance pertains to the ego.
Why do you think of the ego and also
suffer?
What is ignorance again?
It is that which is non-existent.
However the worldly life requires the hypothesis of avidya.
Avidya is only our ignorance and nothing more. It is ignorance or forgetfulness of the Self.
Can there be darkness before the Sun?
Similarly, can there be ignorance before the Self-evident and Self-luminous Self?
If you know the Self there will be no darkness, no ignorance and no misery.
It is the mind which feels the trouble, misery, etc.
Darkness never comes nor goes.
See the Sun and there is no darkness. Similarly,
see the Self and avidya will be found not to exist.
~ Talk 363
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Don’t stick up for rights => karma -RAdams
You are in your right place right now. Going through those experiences that are necessary for you. The worst thing you can do is to condemn yourself and your lot. This just pulls you deeper into maya [illusion]. Be happy where you are. Never compare yourself with anyone.
Be yourself just the way you are. Be thankful for what you are and where you are. It is only by being thankful, by acceptance that you begin to let go of your humanity. Every time you resist you’re accruing greater karma to you. Every time you try to stick up for your rights you are accruing greater karma to you.
And you will always have rights to stick up for. Only the nature of them will change. But you will be sticking up for your rights all of your life. And then you will take up another body and continue doing the same thing. It’ll never end.
Robert Adams
Aware of mind w/o response -RAdams
That’s how you conquer your mind. By being aware of it, and no longer responding to it, no longer to react to the mind. Something that usually makes you angry, before you’d respond, and you’d want to win the argument, but now your reaction is no reaction. You simply smile and you watch. When your mind sees there’s no response it will become weaker and weaker, until it disappears.
It’s just like arguing with a person. What happens if you stop arguing? The person goes away. They don’t know what to think. They just won’t have anything to do with you. They just leave. So when you stop responding to your thoughts your mind will go away, and become weaker, and weaker, and weaker, until there is no mind.
Robert Adams
Transcendental consciousness sets you apart from rest of world -JSG
WRONG: You reap what you sow.
There is still a belief in your thought that something you did is responsible – omission or commission – is wrong! I = God = give you supply.