Cosmic Joke

Wake up! Give up all your foolish habits. There's absolutely nothing to fear and nothing to fight. There's absolutely nothing to overcome, nothing to rectify. There's absolutely nothing to achieve, nothing to want, to desire. How can you desire anything when you are the universe? What I appear to be sharing with you may sound like it is far away someplace, but it's not. You are that. You are that. You are that infinite consciousness which knows no other. You are free. Enjoy your freedom. You must think of yourself from now on as being unlimited beauty and joy, all-pervading, self-contained.
Nothing can ever harm you. The universe is not set up in it's illusory form to harm anyone or to bring dastardly conditions upon any situation. What you behold in this world is an appearance, an optical illusion, a dream. You can accept when you go to sleep, you dream. You can accept the fact that you may dream that you're going to a satsang like this, and you are sitting there listening, absorbing. Then you wake up and there's no one but you. In the same way, you awaken now to your total reality. This has been another dream. You have to question everything. 

 Do not accept anything without questioning it. Ask, "Who's feeling this? To whom does it come?"
Realize that you are not the I-thought. You are not the ego, nor the mind, nor are you the doer. Therefore, "Who am I?" and then whatever else comes to you, deny that also. If something tells you, "I-am consciousness," that has to be denied because I can never be consciousness. Negate everything that comes to you when you practice self-inquiry. Negate absolute reality, God, everything must be gotten rid of, all concepts. They're just words. When you awaken to your Self there will be no words that you speak. You will just become being, absolute being. Not being this or being that, just being, your true Self. Yet, in the meantime, as you are experiencing this mortal dream, deny all the experiences that come to you.

-- Robert Adams, T94: The Cosmic Joke
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