You are not the body-mind

From your experience, see if this talk from Lester resonates:

"You may see fully who you are and not be able to maintain it. What happens is that, being the infinite Self, we can get a glimpse of the infinite, hold it for a while, and then suddenly feel as though we've lost it.

 The reason for that is that the mind has not been eliminated. The subconscious thoughts of limitation are submerged for the moment. You may go completely into your Self and let go of the mind temporarily. You haven't eliminated the mind, you just momentarily let go of it. 

So there you are, for the moment, totally the infinite Self. However, the mind that has been submerged, re- emerges and then the ego takes over and you just can't understand what happened to you, what brought you back into the heaviness of the world again. 
What is required is that we re-establish that state of the Self again and again until it becomes permanent.
 Each time we do it, we scorch more of the mind, until finally we have scorched the entire mind. Then we are permanently established in the Self.
 Then you sit back and the mind is out there and the body is out there and you are not the mind, you are not the body.
 As long as you know you are not the mind and the body, both of them can go on to their heart's content, and you know that they cannot touch you."

Change no-one- change nothing

Three Precepts For Self Realization

Life is very short in this body and all of the things
you're going through will soon come to an end. 

If you have not made any spiritual headway
you will be under the delusion of karma. 

And you will return again and again in a delusory body
form going through many experiences that appear real to you.

The only way for it to come to an end is to give it all up now.
Make up your mind that this is going to become the year for you
to totally become realized. 
To awaken totally.

And by following the three precepts as outlined,
this will happen to you faster than you can breathe,
if you allow it to.

Do not allow the world to run your life.
Do not let the world fool you.
All this is an illusion.
Be yourself. Know yourself. 

Realize that you are Brahman, the pure awareness.
Your nature is pure consciousness and
one day you will have to awaken. 

So why not begin now. Why wait?

~Robert Adams - T117: Three Precepts For Self Realization

The Rishis of old have told us this.

The Rishis of old have told us this.
Great Sages have taught this. 

Do not go after the beauty of the world for that only lasts for so long.
Find the beauty within yourself.
Find the truth within yourself that is forever. 

The real beauty within yourself does not stop at death of the body.
It's a continuum, it's forever. 

When you awaken you see the world
as a superimposition on yourself that comes and goes.

Think of yourself as a chalkboard and
someone is drawing all sorts of scenes on the chalkboard. 

Happy scenes, then they're erased.
Unhappy scenes, and they're erased.
And this continues over and over again. 

But what happens to the chalkboard?
Nothing, it remains forever the same. 

So it is with the Self.
The Self is absolute consciousness. Pure awareness. 

Nirvana. Absolute reality.

 You are that, it is you.
There is no coming and going, there is no change. 

If you touch a semblance of this in your heart you will feel such joy
that you will search forever for the truth of your being and
then you will truly find happiness.

~Robert Adams - T.64 - Everyone Is Searching For Happiness -
26th May, 1991

This mysterious power knows what your needs are.

 
How often do you take thought.

Most people take thought every moment, you're always thinking,
worrying, trying to correct something, trying to figure it out.
And that's what keeps you from the kingdom of heaven.
So what do you do, nothing.
You stop fighting, stop trying to make things happen.
You leave the world alone.
You do not try to fix anything. You do not even try to change.
You simply become your Self, just the way you really are.
Keep your mind on your Self.

Your real Self is your heart, not your human heart,
but your spiritual heart.
Your heart is God.
Keep your mind stayed on God in your heart.
If you want to use your imagination to begin with,
you can image a sphere of white light in your heart
on the right side of your chest, your spiritual heart.
And allow all your thoughts to merge into your heart.
In other words, do not allow your thoughts to go outward.
When your thoughts go outward conditions take place.
When you keep your thoughts in your heart centered,
all of a sudden you find peace, pure happiness it comes by itself.
We have to allow the power that we don’t understand
to take care of us.
This mysterious power knows what your needs are.
~Robert Adams - T2: There Is No Birth!

When in trouble You can say,

When in trouble
You can say,
"Self, here I am again in trouble.
I have no idea what to do next,
but you are really me,
even though you are all-pervading,
you are expressing as myself.
You know what to do.
I therefore, surrender completely to you.
I surrender my body,
I surrender my affairs,
I surrender the world.
I have no need to worry or fret.
You will take care of everything."
And you let go.

If you only learn to do this first, before you take any other action,
you will be pleasantly surprised what happens.

~Robert Adams

How shall I overcome my passions?

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A Pilgrims’ special train brought several visitors from Bengal. One of them said that he had read Mr. Paul Brunton’s book and since then he was anxious to see Sri Bhagavan.

He also asked: How shall I overcome my passions?

Bhagavan: Find their root and then it will be easy.

(Later) What are the passions? Kama (lust), krodha (anger), etc. Why do they arise? Because of likes and dislikes towards the objects seen. How do the objects project themselves in your view? Because of your avidya, i.e., ignorance. Ignorance of what? Of the Self. Thus, if you find the Self and abide therein there will be no trouble owing to the passions.

(Later) Again, what is the cause of the passions? Desire to be happy or enjoy pleasure. Why does the desire for happiness arise? Because your nature is happiness itself and it is natural that you come into your own. This happiness is not found anywhere besides the Self. Do not look for it elsewhere. But seek the Self and abide therein.

Still again, that happiness which is natural is simply re-discovered, so it cannot be lost. Whereas the happiness arising from other objects are external and thus liable to be lost. Therefore it cannot be permanent and so it is not worth seeking.

Moreover craving for pleasures should not be encouraged. One cannot put out burning fire by pouring petrol over it. An attempt to satisfy your craving for the time being, so that the passion may later be suppressed, is simply foolish.

There are, no doubt, other methods for the suppression of passion. They are (1) regulated food, (2) fasting, (3) yoga practice, (4) medicines. But their effects are transitory. The passions reappear with greater force as soon as the check is removed. The only way to overcome them is to eradicate them. That is done by finding their source as stated above.

Talk 523

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GETTING RID OF MENTAL DEPRESSION

Those who know the inner meaning of the folk saying, ‘He who has planted the tree will also water it’, will, through that firm conviction, never suffer mentally, irrespective of what may happen. If it is the divine will that the tree should wither away, you should know that this pitiable sight is also the responsibility of the one who has allowed it to wither.
Guru Vachaka Kovai v 474

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Even If....

Even if at times you feel you have done the worst thing imaginable or that the whole world is against you or rejects you, even if you feel no-one understands you, loves you or accepts you, do not entirely trust your mind. 

Do not think it is on your side.

 Know this: You never have to apologise for your existence.

 You are not here by accident but by the will and love of the Supreme Lord of the Universe. 

You are not merely "living" life; you are Life Itself and also the witness of life.

 All challenges in life arise to motivate, mature and direct your mind towards true wisdom. 

Thus, by opening your heart to Truth, they stimulate and inspire you to go beyond the inhibited personal self and its projections, misconceptions and false beliefs.

 Ultimately challenges lead you, through Grace, to discover your Real Nature and Self as unborn Awareness.

-Sri Mooji-

Scorch those thoughts

The question I pose to myself: "Could I drop the thinkingness and Decide to be Imperturbable?"

"The only obstacles to immediate full realization here and now are the thoughts, everyone of which is limited.
 Eliminate those thoughts and you'll see this infinite Being that you always were and are and always will be. 
The difficulty is the past habit- patterns of thought, the unconscious constant turning and churning of thought in a mechanism we have set up that we call the unconscious mind. 

The unconscious thoughts are simply our thoughts now that we do not look at, and so we call them unconscious.
 This is the enemy we set up. 
To lessen these unconscious thoughts, we first make them conscious.
 When we make them conscious, then we may let go of them and they are gone forever. 
This quiets the unconscious mind.
 Now, the more we eliminate the thoughts, the more obvious our real Self becomes. 
 The more obvious our real Self becomes, the more we are able to scorch the remaining thoughts, until the mind is totally quieted." ~
Lester Levenson

Who AM I- the profound question

Waht if  the answer to the question "Who Am I?" is the Quiet that follows the question, beyond the question mark.

 What if that Ineffable Stillness that transcends words or thoughts or anything is the real "I".

"Pose the question “Who and what am I?” and await the answer to present itself.

 The thinking mind can never give the answer, because all thought is of limitation. 
So, in quietness and meditation pose the questions: 
“Who am I?” 
“What am I?” 

When other thoughts come up, strike them down. 
If you can't, ask 
“To whom are these thoughts? 
Well, these thoughts are to me.
 Well then, who am I?”
 and you're right back on the track of “Who am I?” 
Thus you eliminate the thoughts as they come up
Continue this until you get the answer to the question “Who and what am I?” regardless of how long it takes. 
The answer is the unlimited Self. 
The only way It becomes obvious is when the mind stills almost completely. " ~Lester Levenson

Why should you have to do anything to awaken

Why should you have to do anything to awaken
when your divine nature is already awakened?
Why should you have to strive or overcome conditions
or straighten out your life?
In the dream that you're dreaming you give importance to your humanhood. 
That's the only problem you really have,
giving importance to your humanhood. 

And once you do that, every other lie comes into experience.
That you got to straighten conditions out,
you've got to do this and you've got to do that, but they're all lies. 
Consciousness has nothing to do.
Absolute reality is absolute reality just the way it is.
It doesn't have to practice any sadhanas, chant any mantras,
or do anything. 

Why not awaken now? What are you waiting for?
Make up your mind that you're going to awaken right now,
and allow your mind to turn into your heart,
which is pure awareness. Do it.

Some of you are still asking, how do you do it?
Through silence, experiencing the moment, the now, the reality.
Nothing is happening now.
No one is suffering.
Now is the only moment you've got.

Abide in the now.
Everything is perfect right now. 

Feel It. Don't think about it. Feel it.
There are no yesterdays, there are no tomorrows.
All of your so called sins have been transcended.
No past and no future. 

You are fully alive now. Right now.
Enjoy.

~Robert Adams - Transcript 68 - Happiness - 9th June, 1991

The energy field of that which you are

"The energy field of that which you are, which gives us an intense sense of aliveness when we let go of the obstacles to it, is ever present.

 That energy field called bliss is the vibration of life itself. We could call all that is at the top of this ie that which is God, that which is Spirit, that which is one's Higher Power, that which Krishnamurti calls What Is, Isness, Beingness. The energy of that is the energy of life itself. 

Constantly present, ever present. Like the sun it is always shining but because of these clouds here we don't experience it. 

So it's not necessary to program ourself with the Truth. It is only necessary to remove that which is false.

 The removal of the clouds from the sky, the elimination of the negative, allows one to experience the energy fields of that which is positive. 

So it is only the removal of the negative that is necessary. The willingness to LET GO of habits of negative thinking etc. 

 The removal of the obstacles to the experiencing of this will result in an increasing sense of aliveness, with it a joy of one's own existence. 

 As this joy of one's own existence comes in, first subtly and then stronger and stronger, there's a diminished awareness even of the presence of the body.

 One's physicalness, as one gets up into higher levels of happiness, there is a joyfulness, the body is looked to as a source of pleasure. 

It's held as a pleasurable, enjoyable experience, but as we move towards the top of the box the experiencing of the body begins to diminish altogether. 

 There is a progressive experiencing of joy which is diffuse. There is an inner progressive state of serenity accompanied by a peaceful blissfulness, and at this point the experience of the body may disappear altogether into sort of a sublime state in which one is joyful aliveness. 

One is that which is loving bliss. 

At that point the awareness of the body may be almost nil. It's as though it's present in the room but it's no more important than anything else in the room. 

 That loss of identification with the body. And we watch the body from that viewpoint going about its business happily but we are no more concerned about it than we are anything else in the room. 

That loss of identification with the separate limited self, the loss of identification with the limited physical. And with it of course the body is expressing the Absolute Truth. The Infinite Truth, that one is the Infinite Beingness of the universe. 

And therefore the value of replacing a negative thought, in the place that we just cancel we place the statement 

"I am an infinite being and I am not subject to that."

 And so everything that we cancel we replace with the truth. In place of the negative thought we put something in that's positive, because we choose to love ourself instead.

 So we can also use the form, we can say
 "I cancel that"
 "I no longer buy that"
 "I'm not subject to that", instead I choose to love myself, instead I choose to love myself. 

And so we see that lovingness then is the great healer. We have within our capacity, within the power within us, all the powers of self healing, all we have to do is remove the obstacles. 
 Perfect health is an expression then of spiritual awareness.
 The willingness to let go of the negative and allowing it to be replaced by that which is loving."
Chapter 19 00:06 to 04:08 of Dr. David Hawkin's Office Visit, Set I: Stress, Health and Spiritual First Aid

remember your real nature

Everyday you have to remember your real nature,
you have to remember who you are.
That you are pure awareness.

You are the absolute reality which is like boundless space.
The only difference between boundless space and absolute reality,
in absolute reality there is consciousness. 

Consciousness is like boundless space.
It is everywhere present and all the images are only
superimpositions on consciousness. 

Your body is only an image.
It is not the truth about you.
It is an image. It is an image on boundless space. 

This means it doesn't exist. It appears to exist but it doesn't.
Just by remembering these things that
I'm sharing with you will free you.

Start your day off this way by remembering who you are.
You can say this to yourself, 

"I am not this body who runs around all over the world.
I am not this body who has problems.
I am not this body that sees things wrong.
I am not this body at all. I never was this body.
I am that which has always been and that which will always be.
That which has never been born. That which never dies.
Eternal, self sufficient, I am that!"

~Robert Adams - T214 : Signs of a True Spiritual Master

the world is only thoughts

The whole idea is to transcend your mind

The whole idea is to transcend your mind, kundalini, gunas, everything.
Do not get involved in yoga practices. It keeps you earthbound.
Get involved in trying to understand who you are.
Try to realize that I have to experience the gunas,
the kundalini, enlightenment.
I want to experience these things.

 Focus on the I. 

The I who wants supernatural powers. The I who has problems.
The I who can't seem to get along.
The I who believes something is wrong and something is right. 

Focus on the I. Who is the I? Where did the I come from? 

When you're sleeping at night the I is not there, for you're asleep,
but something is still watching you sleep.

The kundalini people say that when the kundalini shakti
travels to the head
you become enlightened, but the Jnani sees it differently.

The kundalini rises from the heart,
from the right side of the chest and goes through a channel
to the brain.

But when it gets to the brain, this is not enlightenment.
This is when you become aware of the world.

You become aware of the body, and the mind phenomena.
It is when the kundalini goes from the brain back to the heart,
the spiritual heart center, that enlightenment comes.
~Robert Adams - T81: Absolute Nothingness

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