Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Like when you're sleeping.



As you breathe and you inhale, feel as if you're sucking in
the whole world, the whole universe,
and as you exhale, you're letting it out again.
This exercise makes you feel that the whole universe
comes from you, goes out and comes back.
Like when you're sleeping.
In deep sleep the universe is not here, the world is not here,
your body is not here.
As you awaken, everything is here.
Do this with your breathing.
You inhale, there's absolutely nothing.
The universe has gone back into yourself.
You exhale, and the universe is out there again, external to you.
There is only the one Self, and you are that.
You have no body.
You have no mind.
You are like boundless space.

Image may contain: mountain, sky, cloud, nature, outdoor and water The old you is beginning to disappear.
The old you is thousands of words, millions of thoughts,
reacting to everything that comes along.
This you no longer exists. You are fresh and new.
There is no longer any karma that can hurt you or
do anything to you,
no longer any samskaras that you have to experience. 

You have already crossed the ocean of samsara, and
you are already the Bodhisattva.
There's nothing you have to earn.
There's nothing you have to pray for.
There's no one you have to see.
There's absolutely nothing you have to do.
You are already free.

You are beyond freedom, beyond liberation,
beyond delusion, beyond ignorance.
You are neither wisdom nor ignorance.
There are no words for you whatsoever.
There's no description of what you are.
There's no one to say.

You are that pure awareness that has always been and
will always be.
There is absolutely nothing you have to do to earn it,
for you are awake from the dream.
Feel this freedom you've never felt before.
Feel the joy, the happiness, the love that you have become.
Feel the reality.

~Robert Adams - T. 167 - The Highest Teaching is Silence -
2nd July, 1992



There is not one who prays and one who listens.
The prayer and the listener are the same person.
There is no differentiation.
~Robert Adams - T.39 - Sitting in the Silence - 27th January, 1991

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