Sitting in the Silence.

The wise person  does really not look to change anything.
 They become quiet. 
They have patience. 
They work on themselves. 
They watch their thoughts, watch their actions and observe themselves getting angry, observe themselves getting depressed, observe themselves getting jealous and envious and the rest of it.

 Little by little they realize, "That's not me. That's hypnosis, that's a lie."
They do not react to their condition. 
To the extent that they do not react to their condition, to that extent do they become free. 

They no longer care what anybody else is doing. 
They compare themselves with no one. 
They compete with no one. 
They simply watch themselves. 
They observe themselves.
 They see the mental confusion. 

They don't run around shouting, "I am absolute reality. I am God. I am consciousness."
 Rather, they see where they're coming from and they leave everyone else alone. 

Such a being unfolds at a fast rate. 
It makes no difference what predicament such a being is in.
 It doesn't matter, for such a being is already free.

When the mind rests in the heart, that means when the mind does not go out any longer and identify with the world, when the mind rests in the heart there is peace, there is harmony, there is pure being. 

When you allow your mind to go out of your Self it begins to compare, it begins to judge, it begins to feel offended, and there is no peace. 
There's no rest. 
How do you begin? 

Well, first you realize the place that you're in right now, whether you think it’s good or bad, whether you think you're happy or sad, whether you think you're rich, or poor, or sick, or healthy, the place where you're in right now is your right place. 

That's the beginning. You stop trying to be someone else.
 You stop trying to change your life. 
You're in your right place, right now, just the way you are.

 If you can become happy and peaceful in the place where you are right now, all of a sudden you will find circumstances will change in your favor, and then again you will be in your right place. 

Whatever change comes along as far as your body-mind is concerned, you are in your right place.

The more you can see that, the more you can look at what I just said intellectually, intelligently, the more peaceful you become, the more the karmic patterns begin to break away and you begin to awaken.
It may be gradual at first.


 You notice that things that used to annoy you, no longer annoy you. 
You notice that people that you live with, the conflicts you've had, they stop because you've stopped. 

 There's no more trying to get even. There's no more trying to win your point. There's no more trying to find the right book, or the right teacher, or the right anything. 

You remain centered. You remain free. When something comes along, whether it's good or bad, you simply sit where you are and you ask, "To whom has this come?" and you laugh, for you have separated yourself from your body-mind and you begin to realize that your body-mind is going through the experience but not you. 
So there is nothing to worry about. There's nothing to fear. There's nothing that can upset you. 

There's nothing that can harm you. You realize whatever someone does to your body, physically, or with words, or otherwise, can never, never hurt you because you are not your body. 
 No matter what anyone tells you, no matter what you see with your eyes can never affect you, for you are not your mind.
You have actually separated your Self from your body and your mind. 


That's only the beginning. As you go further your body and your mind drop off. 
I don't mean that you die.
 I mean that they become less and less important to you, and you no longer identify with them at all. 

You actually know, and you feel, and you experience, that your body and mind do not exist, yet you exist. 

You do not exist as your body or your mind. 

You exist as absolute reality, as consciousness, and you no longer believe that your body and your mind are a modification of consciousness. 

You just know that there is no body and there is no mind. 

You are egoless. 
There is no reason for your body, mind or the world to exist. You may first feel this slightly, but you will notice the greater the feeling, the greater the happiness. 

You are beginning to merge in consciousness. 
You are beginning to feel reality. 
The world goes on, people do what they always do, yet you see it quite differently.
 You no longer see the same world you used to see. It's like reading a magazine. The images in a magazine are in front of you but you are not the magazine and you are not the images. 

Who you are may still be a mystery. Remember, as long as you can express it, it's not that.
-- Robert Adams, Transcript 39, Sitting in the Silence.