Live in the moment.

I therefore say to you, "It makes no difference what is going on
in your life at the present time, drop it. Leave it alone.

Live in the moment. 

Be spontaneous. Forget about yesterday.

Forget about the way you were brought up,
what happened to you, who hurt you. That's the past.
Surrender it totally, completely.
Do not concern yourself with the future.
For the substratum of all existence is divine harmony.
There is nothing but good, happiness and love.
That's awaiting you. In order to experience it you have to see it."

The question I ask you is, "What do you see right now?"

Do you see yourself as a miserable sickly person?
As an old person? As a person with problems?
Why do you see that? Because that's how it appears?
Doesn't water appear in the mirage? But the water's not real.
Doesn't the rope appear as a snake? The snake is not real.
Doesn't the sky appear as blue?
And yet there is no sky and there is no blue. 

In the same way, whatever appears to be going on
in your own life is only for a time. It appears to exist.

It's like watching a movie. You identify with the movie,
it has a beginning, a middle and an end and that's it.
But while the movie was going on you identified with it.
You didn't think of anything else. 

Now you are identifying with the movie called your life.
You appear separate. 

You appear as if you're involved in this and involved in that. 

But I say to you that you are already free.
You are already bright and shining. 

You are already absolute reality. Pure awareness.
That is your nature.

Why do you want to cause so many problems for yourself?
By continuing to think and imagine that things have to be
this way and things have to be that way. 

And you have preconceived ideas of the way
that you're supposed to live or the way you think
you're supposed to live.

So you set up goals and then you try to reach the goals.
And as many of you know when you do reach the goals
they are really never what you really expected.
So you set up new goals. It never ends. 

And because you're so involved in setting up goals
the Lord of karma makes it easier for you. 

He let's you continue in another body.
You are therefore born into a family with goals
and they've got goals for you. 

And the goals never stop, it's unending.
Until you're ready to say, "Wait a minute! Who needs this?
What is it going to lead to?" 

A semblance of wisdom begins to make you understand that
I have been searching for the wrong things. 

For everything in this world is subject to the law of change.
Nothing is permanent including this world.

You begin to turn within.
You begin to realize the happiness that dwells in your heart. 

You begin to talk less, to think less, to complain less,
to criticize less. You begin to leave everyone alone.
To leave the world alone. 

When you see a situation that is not pleasing to your mind
you re-evaluate it and you understand where it's coming from and what it is. 

You become peaceful, harmonious. 

It is only then that you can begin working on yourself really. 

And practicing vichara, inquiry.

But as long as you're filled with hours and times
and you're always thinking about your body or your affairs,
it's best if you surrender these things. 

Give them all to God, give up everything.
Get rid of your needs, your wants.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself. 

You are greater than you think.
Do not think past your nose. 

The world will come, the world will go.
But reality has always been where the world appears to be
and you are that.

-Robert Adams - T66: Freewill And Predetermination