just say Thank You. -Mooji

Sometimes I would share, that if your head feels tired, all this feelings, I would say to people, just find a quiet place, maybe your room, and just say Thank You. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. 

Maybe at the time you start you cannot say what you are thankful for,
because maybe you don't feel thankful for anything.
But you start saying Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

Try to mean it, just say Thank You,
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

And gradually, unexpectedly, most wonderful thing is going to happen, it washes off all this burdens from you, all this heaviness,
it is like a light comes inside your heart again
and you begin to see so many things you can say Thank You for.
Even for the senses, for the mind.
Thank You even for my troubles, because they bring me to you.
Thank You for good things, bad things.

Thank You for the ability to discern.
Thank You for the ability to experience,
to have the sense of knowing.
Thank You for the power to forgive or appreciate.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You life.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
Thank You for allowing me to say Thank You,
just like this, you don´t need to name anything,
just keep saying Thank You.

The vibration of that is very transformative,
it really deconstructs a lot of this tensions
that are really the outcome of too much negative thinking. 

This Thank You reduce everything to neutrality,
and leave such a pure feeling inside your heart.

And if you have anything against anybody
say Thank You to them in your heart.

Thank You, Thank You, Bless You, Bless You.
Thank You, help me to see the good in you that I overlook.

Because if you could really genuinely look
into the heart of each and every person,
you could not resist loving them,
not the person, the person is another kind of strangeness.

It is very difficult to love the person,
it is very difficult to love from your person.
Thank You.
~ Sri Mooji
Monte Sahaja Silent Retreat 2017
24 July 2017

Take it to be a dream

Eternal happiness is what you really are.

The collective unconscious is another name for maya.
It appears to be strong and it pulls you in very deeply. 

The more you identify with it, the greater the pull.
And you identify with it when you feel sorry for yourself,
when you believe something is wrong with you,
when you have wants and needs, when you're human.

You do not want to be human.
Simply because a human being
goes through all the nonsense of the world.
You want to be inhuman.

Do not read the newspapers, or listen to the TV too much,
or go along with all the news that's going on in the world.
That's for human beings.

Be yourself.
You are self-contained. 

Eternal happiness is what you really are.
But that only comes when you let go of your morbidity,
when you let go of all your nonsense, your fears,
your foolishness, preconceived ideas, judgments. 

You have to empty yourself out.
When you empty yourself out
you become filled with consciousness.
~Robert Adams - T105: You Are No-Thing

'NOTHING EVER HAPPENED'

'NOTHING EVER HAPPENED'

Q: Where does life come from, and where does it go?

Ven. Song-chol: Universal law is that there is no producing and no extinguishing. So by transcending time and space, there is nothing to appear and disappear, including life.

In the Avatamsaka Sutra we find, "The One Law is nonproducing,
the One Law is non-extinguishing"; and from the Lotus Sutra we have,

“All Dharma is that of non-change. “

We call this non-producing, non-extinguishing by various names— the ultimate, the absolute, the Dharma realm, causality, the eternally abiding, Dharmadhatu, Dharma nature.

There are a thousand different names, but the meanings are all the same. They all are the basis of the universe and the basis of the Supreme Enlightenment by the Buddha saw that all was non-producing, non-extinguishing.

This Truth is so profound, so deep, so difficult to comprehend that it can be seen only by the ‘WisdomEye’ of the Buddha; …

Ven.Tong Songchol (1912~1993), one of the great Zen masters in the last century was also called the Living Buddha of Korea.

is the world really real or is it an illusion?

People still inquire and they ask me, very often,
"Robert, is the world really real or is it an illusion?"
Now the answer I give is dependent on who is asking the question.
It isn't an easy answer to give. 

Those of us who are well read in Advaita Vedanta
can give these flip answers that the world is an illusion,
only Brahman is real. Everything else doesn't exist. 

This may be true in the ultimate reality,
but as far as we're concerned in our every day experiences,
the world is as real as you make it.

Always remember, you are the creator of the world.
The world that you see is a creation of yourself. 

All that you're involved in, the circumstances in your life,
the vicissitudes you go through every day,
are a result of what you are, nothing more, nothing less.
So, if you feel your attachments,
if you feel the world pressing down on you,
if you feel something is wrong some place,
then the world is real! It's real to you! 

So I would not say it's not real.
This would be giving you the wrong advice. 

The world is real as long as you feel it.
But what I will tell you to do is to go within and ask,
"Who sees the world the way it is?
To whom does this world come to?
Who is the seer?
Who observes the world this way?" 

Of course you do.
But who are you who sees the world the way it is?
The world becomes illusory only to the person
who has transcended the self, the personal self, the ego self. 

Then the world is only images, like the images on the screen.
People are not involved in the screen, they're involved with the images. 

They know nothing about the screen,
they see the images on the screen.
Without the screen, the images would be destroyed.
The images would be bent out of shape.
But with the screen you've got a perfect image.
So it is with the world unconsciousness.
Your true Self is consciousness but you don't know it.
The whole universe is consciousness, but you don't know it.
You identify with the images. 

Your body appears to be an image also, but you think its real.
Your thoughts appear good and real to you.
The thoughts appear very valid.
Your reasoning is very valid.
Therefore, the world is real to you.
And you have to go through experiences in this world,
good experiences, bad experiences, as long as you think its real.
-Robert Adams - T229 - The Choice Is Yours - 7th March, 1993

I AM THAT I AM

When a person begins a spiritual path it is no accident.

What is satsang? Or why are you here?
When a person begins a spiritual path it is no accident.
Again they did not choose a spiritual path it happened by itself. 

As you are aware there are millions of people
who have no spiritual path at all and the world goes on. 

But those of us who have a spiritual path have not asked for one
it just happened to you due to the fact you came this way through karma. 

You've been this way before and you're continuing the path.

When you first began you were like a little child, learning about God.
Does God really exist? Who is God?
You were very inquisitive. 

If you were really sincere in your heart
the guru within pushed you forward. 

Forward to new vistas, new understanding
and you come in contact with a Sage at satsang.

Satsang means sitting at the feet of the Master.
Literally sat means wisdom, consciousness.
The Master, consciousness, presence is all the same. 

It's not my consciousness or my wisdom.
It's not your wisdom, your consciousness,
it's just consciousness and wisdom.

I don't own it neither do you.
So you come to sit in wisdom.
You do not come to get wisdom.
You do not come to give wisdom. 

You come to sit in wisdom, the wisdom which already exists.
Which has always existed and which will always exist.

The wisdom which asks you, "Who am I?
Where did I come from?
Where am I going?
What is my purpose in life?" 

Those question arise of their own accord.
There is no answer to any of the questions.
Never seek an answer. 

If you ever come up with an answer it's the wrong answer.
Where there is no place to go, nothing to attain,
no God to worship, there is no path whatsoever,
there is not even satsang. 

There is no Master, there is no wisdom.
Then what exists? Silence.
Pure awareness, silence, the silence of the heart.
Infinite silence!
-Robert Adams - T233 - The Silence Of The Heart -
21st March, 1993

Am I Aware?

choose magic

The only way you can give anybody anything, is by knowing yourself.

The only way you can ever help other people
is by knowing yourself.
The only way you can ever be of service to others,
is by knowing yourself.
The only way you can give anybody anything, 
is by knowing yourself.
For when you know yourself, you know others.
You will find the others, are yourself. 

There is only one Self. Everything is that Self, everything.
Every leaf, every plant, every cloud, everything is the one Self.
That one Self is you.

Yet most of you have not experienced this or tasted this.
And you cannot accept on blind faith
what you haven't experienced or tasted. 

Consequently, when you find out that something else exists,
that is beyond the humanhood, beyond experience,
you go searching for it. You go looking for it. 

But where do you go searching?
Within yourself, not out in the world.
When you go searching in the world, what do you find?
More world, that's all.

People go looking for answers in this world.
They go looking for special teachers in this world.
All they find is more world.
The answer is within you, nowhere else. You are the one.

You have everything you need within yourself,
to find all the answers of your life and your existence.
You have it. It's you. But something stops us from doing this. 

That something is called the mind.
The mind is not really our friend.
The mind keeps you earthbound,
keeps you attached to person, place or thing.
It makes you believe your happiness is right around the corner.
Your freedom is in New Jersey. Your liberation is in San Jose.
And you go everywhere looking for this, and you're always disappointed.

-Robert Adams - T200 - Who are you?- 15th November, 1992

What holds space together? Consciousness

You don't have to worry. You don't have to fear. Why?
Because you live in eternity. You live in bliss.
You live in total joy and happiness.
You are immersed in consciousness, like space.
Space is immersed in consciousness.
And all the forms, like planets, galaxies, universes,
are superimpositions in space. 

And what holds space together? Consciousness.

You do not have to do anything to understand this.
You simply have to recognize it.
You do not have to pray, or meditate, or do mantras or japa.
There is nothing you have to do to recognize your reality,
that you're the ocean, you're consciousness.
You simply have to see it, and recognize it, and awaken.
That's all you have to do.

~~~~~~
Why is it so hard for most people?
Because you've been attached totally, solidly, to maya,
to ignorance, to the belief in two powers, belief in separation.

You feel in your ego that you're separate from the Self,
you're separate from your source. 

This is the only reason that you suffer.
If you knew who you were,
it would be virtually impossible for you to suffer in any way. 

But this is where it becomes paradoxical.
For again you may appear to be going through some experiences,
yet the enlightened one knows they're not going through anything. 

This is why when the disciples saw Jesus hanging on the cross,
they thought he was suffering.
But Jesus, the Christ, never suffered.
Yet Jesus, the man, appeared to be suffering,
by all of his disciples, by the Roman guards.

~~~~~~
We're seeing two different worlds.
We're seeing the world of the Jnani, or the world of the Sage,
or the world of the enlightened one, that is pure bliss,
absolute reality, pure awareness, pure intelligence,
I am that I am, ultimate reality. 

This is the world the Sage lives in all the time,
and nothing has ever happened to the Sage. 

Nothing can ever happen to the Sage,
due to the fact that the Sage has become eternity. 

The Sage is omnipresence, all-pervading.
Yet when the average person looks at Ramakrishna or Ramana Maharshi,
and others that seem to have died a horrible death from cancer
or what ever, they say and they cry,
"Why does this person have to suffer so much?
They were so good. They were so kind.
I can't understand this. If there's any universal justice,
why does this person have to suffer?"

~~~~~~
Who sees the suffering?
Only the deluded one, the one who is deluded, the ignorant one.
They see through the senses.
They see through the eyes, hear through the ears,
speak through the mouth, taste the agony,
smell the blood, whatever is going on. 

The senses are getting to you as a human being.
Because you believe you're human you have senses
to make you human.
But we know now you can transcend those senses,
totally and completely, and be in another world completely and totally. 

You can transcend the senses and be totally free of them,
totally, absolutely, and be in a completely different world.
And so there is a body that appears to be going through experiences,
but only to the person who sees through the senses.

~~~~~~
So to get back to the dream world, in the dream world,
when you go to sleep at night, you go through many, many experiences,
do many things, you may appear to be killed,
you may appear to become a king or a queen,
you may appear to have many children, a beautiful home. 

Or you may appear to be unemployed, a homeless person.
Yet when you awaken from that dream,
you'll laugh to yourself and say,
"Well thank God it was only a dream," and you forget about it.

This mortal dream world that you're in right now,
you must also forget about, and not identify with it.
This is the way you become free.
This is the way you awaken.
This doesn't mean that you will do nothing.
It means you will do whatever you're supposed to do,
but in your mind you will be doing absolutely nothing.

-Robert Adams - T197 - Why Should We Do Anything? -
5th November, 1992

The Self is the ultimate originator of everything.

If it's difficult for you to just awaken, through plain knowledge,
through Jnana, then you practice self-inquiry.

Those of you who can. 

If self-inquiry seems difficult then you must surrender your body.

I find the easiest thing to do is self-inquiry. 

I know all of you who are here tonight can practice this if you really want to.
This is really a practice of negation. 

You are negating everything in the universe.
Starting with yourself and everything that seems to appear in your mind,
you inquire, "To whom has this come?" That's all.

You have negated the whole universe
and you negate all the thoughts by inquiring,
"To whom does this come? Who is feeling this?" 

Say you're depressed, instead of staying depressed
or taking some valium or trying to do something else that you learnt to do,
like for instance, they say if you feel depressed
if you do physical exercise it will get rid of it,
those things are only temporary solutions. 

When you inquire, "To whom does this come?"
You're seeking a permanent solution.

It comes to you then it comes to me, "I feel depressed!"
You ponder the I.
It is I that feels depressed and not you.
You say this to yourself.
You observe the I, you follow the I, you trace the I,
the I goes back into the Self. 

The Self is the ultimate originator of everything.

When you trace the I back to the Self, the substratum,
you will realize that the I never existed to begin with.
Therefore your depression and everything else
that is bothering you also does not really exist.

You do not work on your problems so called, you work on the I because
it is the I that feels all the problems.
It is the I that believes all the problems.
It is the I that has all of these preconceived ideas all these concepts.
It is the I that experiences karma, samskaras, it's all in the I. 

You therefore have to trace the I back to the heart center,
which is the Self and be free. You have to do it.

Of course as I said, if you will just awaken now.
The reason that most of you will not awaken
is because you are steeped deeply in your beliefs. 

Your belief system is very strong.
You feel things too deeply. 

You remember something that happened to you
twenty years ago and you're still feeling it. 

You feel the reality of this world very deeply.
Therefore you will not awaken. 

Awakening comes easy to a person
who can simply let go of the world.

-Robert Adams - T95 - Get the Personal Self out of the way! -
19th September, 1991

Your mind has been conditioned since you were born.

What do you see?
As you look in this world what do you see?
You're seeing the result of your mind.
Your mind has been conditioned since you were born. 

Not only that, but you have a mind
that has been through many lives, so it appears.
You've had many existences and many worlds as a male, as a female,
and you're under the laws of karma.

Now I realize that some of you know that
karma doesn't exist, reincarnation doesn't exist. 

That's easy to say but aren't you going through it?
How can you say it doesn't exist when you feel it nearly every day?
If you have been totally peaceful today,
if you have had total joy today, total bliss today,
total harmony today, then you can say there is no karma,
and there is no reincarnation, and there is no God,
and there is no universe and there is no body.

But you cannot say that when you are moved by the world.
You cannot say this when the world becomes meaningful to you.
You cannot say this when you forget these things
and you become enthralled by the world
because things are going your way.

As I have told you many times, if I wrote you a check
for $200,000.00 tonight, how many of you
would be back here next Sunday? (laughter)
I'd probably never see you again.

And also you will find that when you become totally bankrupt,
or your wife or your husband leaves you,
or your house burns down,
you immediately call me on the phone.
You come to satsang for you really want to get rid of your troubles,
your problems, your physical ailments.
That's what you really want.

Can you now see what I mean when I say,
"You shouldn't go around saying I am absolute reality,
and I am consciousness, and I am free, I am liberated,
and that the world doesn't exist, and karma doesn't exist,
and reincarnation doesn't exist?" 

Yet it exists for you because you're going through it.
Do not allow your pride to get in the way.
This is the ego telling you these things. 

You have to be totally honest with yourself.
You have to see where you're really coming form.

A Jnani has absolutely nothing to do with this world.
The world, the universe, becomes totally meaningless to a Sage. 

It's not a put on.
It's not imagining that, "All is well," until some catastrophe hits you,
and then you get upset, become violent,
feel sorry for yourself, become depressed. 

You have to see where you´re at, where you're coming from,
what you're really made of. 

You can never know the truth, that there is no world,
there is no universe, there is no God,
as long as you believe the body suffers, mentally or physically.

-Robert Adams -T107 -The Invisible World
(The Five Prerequisites) 31st October, 1991