“Devote yourself … to reaching union with Brahman. To unite the heart with Brahman and then to act: that is the secret of non-attached work. In the calm of self-surrender, the seers renounce the fruits of their actions, and so reach enlightenment. Then they are free from the bondage of rebirth, and pass to that state which is beyond all evil.”
~ Bhagavad Gita
Anything that you respond to is a product of your mind.
It is your mind that becomes angry.
It is your mind that becomes stubborn.
It is your mind that wants to get even.
It is your mind that is hurt.
But if you subdue your mind, tell me, where is the anger?
Where is the depression?
Where is the response to conditions? There isn’t any.
When the mind is subdued there is only eternal peace and that peace is the self, consciousness.
Consciousness is always peaceful, always happy. It has nothing to do with conditions. All conditioning comes from the mind.
Therefore I say to you,
do not try to change conditions.
Do not try to change situations.
Simply learn how to control the mind by
making it passive and quiet, and then you will find that things turn out better for you than you can possibly ever hope for.
There are no problems.
There is nothing wrong.
Everything is unfolding as it should. Everything happens in its own time.
Space and time are illusions. They really do not exist. They’re stationary. Causation doesn’t exist either. No thing has a cause, therefore no thing has an effect. Cause and effects are again products of your own mind.
When the mind is quiet, karma ceases. Samscaras are non-existent. There never was a cause for anything. But if you feel that in a previous life you did something wrong and now you are paying the price, or if you think that you did something
wrong in this life and you’re paying the price, then you’ll pay the price, because that’s what you think.
There is virtually no price to pay, because nothing ever happened. If it appears to have happened to you then you have to go through the consequences of having the effect return, or karma will come back to you, because that’s what you feel, that’s what you believe.
It’s all in your feelings and your belief system.
But if you feel as if you’re born at every moment, every moment becomes brand new.
Where is the effect?
There is no time for any effect.
There is no space in which to have the effect. Space and time and causation become one, the present moment.
And if you feel like that then you can look into the future, which doesn’t exist, and see what’s happening.
It all has to do with your mind.
As long as you feel situations you know it’s your mind that’s doing it.
~ Robert Adams
One Self, One Consciousness
January 03, 1991
Go Beyond and Leave All Behind -NM
The moment you no longer believe
you are the body and mind, the energy
used up in this error will be freed. Leave
the mind and body free to be what they
are and you will no longer be their slave.
They are only fragments of the whole
which you are. Simply take note of
your imperfections and this awareness
will take care of them. Once you
understand that you are not the body
and the mind, you can then accept
whatever happens. Understanding
your fundamental autonomy
brings you to an attitude
of total acceptance.
Jean Klein
[I Am]
“Think of the experiences you’ve been having in your life from the moment you open your eyes in the morning until you go to sleep at night. What goes through your mind? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you believe in? What is happening to you everyday?
The worst thing you can do in the morning is turn on the TV and read the newspaper. That is the worst thing you can do.
The best thing you can do in the morning when you wake up is to ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What am I doing here?’
The worst thing you can do at night before you go to sleep is to think about your job or your family or your finances or your sicknesses or … all the other things that have been going on in your life.
The best thing you can do before you go to sleep … is to inquire, ‘To whom do these activities come? To whom has the days activities come? Who has experienced these days activities.’ “
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
Identification with this ‘I’ [with an identity]
is the root of suffering. When you have a
preference for a certain kind of experience,
you suffer. When you have a preference for
who you should learn from, you suffer.
When you are constantly interpreting how
things are or how they should be, what you
deserve and what you do not deserve, you
suffer. Wherever there is pride, attachment,
judgement and desire, there is suffering.
When we awaken from ignorance into
our true nature, suffering is absent.
Mooji
Have you wandered off
Just a little bit
And felt like nothing is
Or ever was
Quite right?
Who are you to think
That in a flash
You could be right back on target?
You could turn – not so much away
From loveless, lifeless darkness
You could, right this very instant, turn
To the Light.
Now everything”s become
Unspeakably beautiful
Full of love and joy
And unending recognition
Of who it is
That you are!
~ Robin Starbuck, 2018
When we ponder the world and all its
Titillating eccentricities, replete with heartache and pain
Wonndering what Spirit must be like…
Immortal Milton depicted it as a great white light – could it really inspire such abject boredom?
It behooves us to pass “Go” and head directly for The Fourth Dimension itself.
When? Where? How?
Now. Here. Focus.
It’s hard to imagine in our puny pea-brains
Just how exquisite, wonderful, delicious, thrilling, altogether lovely and loving
This realm of spiritual sublimity really is.
But how can we know with those tiny fallible minds of ours?
We Can Not.
Therein lies the key: the realm of pure Spirit is entirely spiritual.
And the onus is upon us to adjust our receptors to make way for a whole new way of perceiving.
~ Robin Starbuck, 2018