Thursday, May 04, 2017

This world is a dream

Point number one:
 This world is a dream, just like the dream I dream at night.

Everything in this world is karmic.

 Nothing is real. 

So I will never again allow this world to dictate to me what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is bad.

Point number two: 
My nature is divine. 

I am not the body nor this world nor have I got anything to do with this world or this body. 

The body goes through its own karma, it takes care of itself, does whatever it's supposed to do. 

It has absolutely nothing to do with me.

Point number three: Everything I observe in this world is myself, nothing else. I only see myself wherever I look. Whatever I'm involved in. I see myself and nothing else.

Point number four: In order to transcend this world and become totally free, I have to somehow awaken from this mortal dream. 

And I can only do this by becoming non-judgmental, peaceful within myself, looking at this world like a moving picture, in all kinds of scenes in a movie. 

I know I'm not affected by these things, by the things of this world or any other world.

Point number five: I-am the substratum of all existence.
 I-am the screen in which the movie is being shown.
 I-am the director and producer of the movie.
 I-am also the actor. I play all of the parts. 

Therefore I will never again become confused in the picture or the screen.
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You should ponder these things every morning when you get out of bed, when you first wake up. 

Become aware of this. Do not turn on the television and watch the news, or read the newspapers, because this will confound you and confuse you totally.

 It's the same old thing always going on in this world, so we get involved in those things. 

You profess to be a student of truth. 

You want to become free and liberated in this life. Yet what are you doing about it. 

You can't live the same old life and expect to be liberated. Changes have to be made within yourself. 

And it is up to you to make these changes, nobody can do it for you. You have to do it yourself. 

You have to see where the years have put you in this world. What your situation is, what you're going through, and transcend the whole thing. There is no other way.

The whole ball-game is yours. You have the freedom to accept your reality, by letting go of everything else, or you have the freedom to want everything else, and let go of reality.

 This is the only freedom we've got. 
Everything else is preordained, predestined.

 So when anybody asked me, "Is everything predestined, preordained?" I say, "Yes and no." 

For the average person it is. 
The person who is walking around reacting to everything in life or is judgmental. 

To that person everything is preordained.

 But to the person who is truly working on themselves by not allowing conditions to upset them, situations to come upon them make them judgmental, that person is working for their freedom. 

And little by little they chip away their karmic blocks, the samskaras, until they become totally free and liberated.
-- Robert Adams, T226: Whatever You See Is The Self

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