After all, for who is the suffering?

After all, for who is the suffering?
For the one who identifies with the thoughts.

As an example, somebody gets fired from their job.
They start to worry about that and this leads to worrying
about the future, because when you worry about the past,
getting fired, you're going to start worrying and thinking,
"How will I pay my rent next month? How will I buy food?" 

And the mind loves that. It starts feeding you more.
Pretty soon you imagine yourself evicted from your house
and you see yourself in the welfare lines, and you see yourself
become a homeless person, and sure enough you do,
because that's what you believe. 

That's where your mind is leading you.

As long as you feel you have a mind,
it becomes very, very powerful. 

Then you can say that, "Thoughts are things,"
for your thoughts will materialize in this world of effects,
that which you believe is real. 

Subsequently, if you start worrying about your job, being terminated,
and you start worrying about food, and you start worrying about evictions
and all that stuff, you're really saying to yourself mentally,
"That's what I want to happen," and you always get what you want. 

You've got to watch yourself.

The secret is not to change your thoughts,
but to get rid of your thoughts completely.
We're not trying to change negative thoughts to positive thoughts,
for all positive thoughts lead to negative thoughts,
negative thoughts lead to positive thoughts, that's duality. 

We're trying to transcend the whole bowl of wax, to go beyond,
and that's what happens when you live spontaneously,
it happens by itself.

Living spontaneously is a meditation. 

Do not concern yourself with the fruits of your efforts. 

Everything will take care of yourself, of itself.

In other words, what I mean by that is,
if you're in a job for twenty-four years, do not concern yourself
if you get terminated or you don't, that's not the point. 

The point is who do you think you are? 

Do you believe that you're that frail human being
that has been terminated, or that frail person
who has lots of marital problems,
or that frail person who doesn't know if he's going to die or live? 

Forget about all these things, go beyond it. 

Identify with the absolute awareness. 

Identify with the total reality which you really are. 

You do not identify with those things by affirming them.
You identify with those things by what? 

By silence. 

You see the difference?
-Robert Adams - T. 20 - Before I Am - 1st November, 1990