Monthly Archives: July 2020

Loneliness in the body -RSpira

Rupert Spira
Not only a feeling of loneliness or despair, THERE’S ALSO A SENSATION IN THE BODY.
We do all we can to distract ourself from the feeling.
The story part always has a main character – the non – existent self. But it will also leave a subtle contraction in the body. It’s very It’s very important that the thought aspect and the feeling aspect both are allowed to come up and appear In the presence of awareness. So be sure that you don’t get too busy to remember to bring both of them up. Do anything you can keep the awareness their. The sensation is appearing in it And it has not yet been clearly seen. It’s still a vestige of me. It’s still hiding in the vestiges. The sensation is nothing more than that – it’s not more real than a tingling. It still has a me-ness attached to it. The The sensations are being felt for what they truly are. There is no separate me-ness there.
THAT’S WHERE THE FEELING SEEMS TO BE LODGED IN THE BODY. That’s the time to really look at this If you start to talk to them your just frighten them away again. And theyll go down inside the body We want to We want to understand these feelings in order to recognize that they are a by-product Of your understanding and not a goal.
We are so unused to exerting this effort that we spent living in a contracted state thinking that this what it means to be a human being. It’s It’s really not a big effort as it seems to. It’s really the relaxation of a big effort. Did you have to make a big effort at 1st then by all means do it. Make the effort and with doing that little-by-little it will become less and less. You are actually attuning yourself to the way things already are. You’re re-education yourself. You’re not creating a new state for the body.

Not nothing, not something -RSpira

Rupert Spira
The reason we think that awareness is nothing is that we think that all of this around us is something. In the waking state there are no things but just consciousness. Deep sleep is not a non conscious nothing. The belief that it is I the body that is experiencing is the real problem. Because we see with our eyes and when we close our eyes we don’t see for that reason we believe that we reside just behind the eyes and we feel that we as a body are aware. We don’t realize that I-awareness is aware. If there If there is a lingering feeling that I awareness is in the body we won’t get it right. The body is experienced not the experiencer. One’s entire experience in New York seems to confirm that belief that I is in the body and experiences it that way. That’s absolutely the crux of the matter. If this knot is untied everything becomes clear. Creativity absolutely is true. Awareness is empty like the TV screen is entirely transparent therefore anything can be produced on it.

Don’t resist fear -RSpira

Rupert Spira
Be knowingly in presence of awareness.
WITHOUT SLIGHTEST RESISTANCE, LOOK DIRECTLY AT FEAR
Just experience the roar sensation without interpretation, without thoughts. Just referring to the sensation itself, putting the thoughts aside you wouldn’t even know the thoughts had anything to do with the sensation.
AWARENESS CANNOT KNOW FEAR.
Think of the sensation of tingling in the bottom of your feet. This really no difference between that feeling and the feeling of fear if you don’t put a label on it and analyze it. A sensation is one thing and a thought is something completely different. You don’t have to be controlled by thoughts ever again. The sensation of fear Is nothing! You could You could actually live with that sensation your whole life it’s just Awareness of presence that’s all.

Strive with sincerity and honesty -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj
  1. DEVOTEE AND THE BLESSINGS OF
    GOD

The Bhakta pours out his devotion, molds his behavior in every respect in accordance with the will of God. In turn, he finds that God is pleased with him, and this, his
conviction, takes him nearer to God and his love and friendship with Him grow richer and richer. The process of surrendering to the will of God in every respect results in His blessings.

One who is blessed by God is a blissful soul. Being at peace with himself, he looks at the objects of enjoyment with perfect indifference. He is content with whatever he has and is glad to see others happy.

If a person believes that he is blessed by God and is still unhappy, it is better if he
give up this delusion and strive for the coveted Grace with sincerity and honesty.

Divine plenitude and favor is not judged by the objects of sense, but by the internal contentment. This verily is the blessing of God.

Self Knowledge and Self Realization
By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Edited by Jean Dunn

A few tender moments with Runta -rjs

Robin Starbuck

RUNTA
My brother had 5 cats, one of which produced a litter of kittens. All the babies were doing fine save one which he explained was the runt of the litter, hence the name “Runta”. He explained that mama had abandoned her because she was so weak and tiny.

This story doesn’t have an entirely happy ending but a few precious moments.

I took Runta to my apartment, kept her in a little bed that I fashioned and placed under the nice warm lamp that I was using to do my college homework. I fed her as best I could with an eyedropper and petted her very gently with one finger.

Runta purred!!!

I wish that were the end of the story but the poor little thing died a few days later.

I can still hear and feel her purring.

Robin Starbuck 2014

Have you ever entered into the silence to listen to the Spirit
and then heard nothing??
ME NEITHER !!!

rjs

Human v Spiritual Consciousness -rjs

Robin Starbuck

SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Every single problem on earth can be solved with spiritual consciousness. But this God-consciousness needs to be developed through taking no thought for the very issues that vex humankind. THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE FOR HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS: we need to do our level best to lay it aside for spiritual consciousness, knowing that the two, having nothing in common, are constantly at war with one another.

We must take a stand and shun all that would pull us away from our conscious awareness of God’s all-power.

Now here’s the kicker! STOP AT ONCE THINKING IN TERMS OF OPPOSITES: disease & health, lack & supply, abuse & care. A split focus is devastating to the attaining and maintaining of spiritual consciousness. That’s why we look away from so-called human solutions in our endeavor to shore up our concentration on God alone.

Jesus knew, as he trod the globe, that people were seeing false appearances everywhere and he saw right through them! We need to do likewise.

There are NO MAGIC WORDS having power all their own!! One needs the conscious awareness behind the words in order to even be in contact with God. Such awareness comes from God’s grace and generally entails much study and prayerful application of the principles spelled out.
~Dr. Robin Starbuck 2018

Nothing outside of Awareness, God -RSpira

Rupert Spira
Nothing outside of Awareness, God.
Only awareness is aware. I always and only refers to awareness’ awareness of itself.
We’re not talking some highfalutin metaphysical abstract philosophy. In any situation that we can name such as having dinner tonight, having stumbled as a child, having a near death situation – nothing has any reality other than the experience of it. We have nothing except the KNOWING of it.
We are now dismantling the edifice human nature has made of reality.
There is no highfalutin separate self philosophy: there’s just knowing. Gradually, gradually, gradually we begin to colonize the way we think and feel to dismantle prior philosophy which our culture has built re reality and our nature and consciousness.
LIKE THE GAME CALLED JANGA. TAKE OUT ONE PIECE OF THE EDIFICE, THEN ANOTHER, THEN ANOTHER, THEN ANOTHER. FINALLY THE WHOLE EDIFICE COMES TUMBLING DOWN. YOU DON’T HAVE TO INVESTIGATE EVERY SINGLE WRONG BELIEF YOU HAVE.
When everything that can be removed from us is removed, what remains is simply shines by itself. It’s not a new experience, it’s just the revelation of the light of our being. Our self-shining being could pass unnoticed by the mind.
Do not fall into the trap of thinking anything in your experience needs to change.
Nothing can veil this knowing because there’s nothing that can veil it.

Nothing has existence -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

By itself nothing has existence.
Everything needs its own absence.

To be, is to be distinguishable,
to be here and not there,
to be now and not then,
to be thus and not otherwise.

Like water is shaped by the container, so is everything determined by conditions (gunas).
As water remains water regardless of the vessels,
as light remains itself regardless of the colours it brings out,
so does the real remain real,
regardless of conditions in which it is reflected.

Why keep the reflection only in the focus of consciousness?
Why not the real itself?

To know that consciousness and its content are but reflections, changeful and transient, is the focussing of the real. The refusal to see the snake in the rope is the necessary condition for seeing the rope.

One must also know that a rope exists and looks like a snake.
Similarly, one must know that the real exists and is of the nature of witness-consciousness. Of course it is beyond the witness, but to enter it one must first realise the state of pure witnessing.
The awareness of conditions brings one to the unconditioned.

To know the conditioned as conditioned is all that can be said about the unconditioned. Positive terms are mere hints and misleading.

Those who make plans will be born to carry them out. Those who make no plans need not be born.
To me you are your own God. But if you think otherwise, think to the end.

If there be God, then all is God’s and all is for the best. Welcome all that comes with a glad and thankful heart. And love all creatures. This too will take you to your Self.

~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj
Excerpt from: I AM THAT
Chapter: “Existence”

Surrendering* to God (healing) = Self-enquiry* -RSpira

Heal Yourself, Rupert Spira
THE PATH OF NOT KNOWING = SELF SURRENDER, SELF- ENQUIRY, ADVAITA.
IT’S ONLY FULL TIME COMMITMENT.
NOT SURRENDER TO ANYTHING BUT SURRENDER OF EVERYTHING !
RUPERT’S DEFINITION OF GOD IS 🎯 SPOT ON – FITS PERFECTLY WITH JSG, NON-RELIGIOUS.
Resting and intention are mutually exclusive. Rupert was taught to rest in God and have his thinking and his seeing and his hearing rest in God without intention. He was taught this from early childhood.
“O Lord Thou are the Love with which I love thee”
There is no communication from God TO you because there is no you.
THERE IS ONLY GOD’S SELF-AWARE BEING KNOWING ITSELF.
When you pray to the Father you are really surrendering: its exactly what we’re talking about here – self surrender, self inquiry.
The answers come to you in a way you can appreciate. There’s a contraction in your mind that seems to take place. That’s That’s when the answers come in one form or another.
I rjs have often had amazing experiences in which I finally dropped everything (surrendered) and then became imbued with light … and glorious miraculous answers. I see I was experiencing the Self … aware of and loving … itself.
“Faith” is a surrender to infinite consciousness.
It’s a complete surrender of everything that limits you, a complete letting go. It’s another name for self enquiry, another name for traveling back like king Lear traveling back to who he really is which is John Smith.
SURRENDER = SELF-INQUIRY (THE LETTING GO OF ALL THAT IS SUPERFLUOUS TO YOU.
LETTING GO, LETTING GO, LETTING GO, UNTIL YOU ARRIVE AT THAT ELEMENT OF YOURSELF THAT YOU CAN’T LET GO OF.
It’s It’s not something that you do with your mind.
When there is an issue and you want to know whether it would be a good idea to go into it to find out anything about it, if you’re truly on the path of self-inquiry/ surrender, that need won’t arise.
“As long as I can remember trusting that Existence wwl take care of me.” To which Rupert answers yes yes if that’s clear to you that’s all you need to know. You’re free! That is it – you’ve got it all. I surrender my lamott knowledge. You know what is best to take care of this character.
I surrender myself into YOUR safe keeping. Whatever the YOUR is: “Existence,” “the heart of God” … whatever it is … it’s the FEELING ATTITUDE. You surrender the need to make sense of what happens.
This surrender, let go, let go, let go, will take you home.

Free will & choiceless awareness -RSpira

Levels, Rupert Spira
“I CAN’T FIND ANYTHING IN MY EXPERIENCE THAT MIGHT LEGITIMATELY BE CALLED A/MY SEPARATE SELF.”
Rupert really is “there”!
When asked if he feels a separate self when he raises a finger or arm or when he has a conversation or anything at all he says no. I myself rjs would like to add that probably he means not anymore. In other words he has demonstrated that level where he no longer flips back-and-forth.
Rupert shares Jean Klein’s analogy of the separate self and the clown that comes in after the performance and takes a bow for something that he has not done!