You will acknowledge the layers of cloth. The problems the inconsistencies. The things that appear erroneous. That you are always ready to acknowledge. You are ready to stick up for your rights. To fight for your beliefs. Yet these are the things that have to go. All of these things have to go. You have to become virtually empty. Totally empty. There is nothing that can hurt you. As I explained before unless certain things happen in your life that seem to hurt you - I use the word seem because the hurt is only an appearance - you can never grow. This is why when a true Sage comes into your life he or she pushes your buttons. To see what you're all about. To see what will happen. If you really have true grit and can hold on or if you're still weak and drop away.
Think of the things that are going on in your life right now, good or bad. There are still people who tell me, "Robert I don't think I need this teaching because I've got everything I want."
How can we misunderstand a teaching like this.
If the world is an illusion if it doesn't really exist then having everything you want is a double illusion.
The idea is not to want anything.
It sounds paradoxical.
Everything has already been given.
You are well cared for.
[…] When you hold on to things you stagnate.
We [are] meant to loose everything to let go not to hold onto things. This is why God told Moses when he was walking in the desert for forty years, "Everyday you shall receive new manna from heaven but do not save it, share it with everyone and leave the rest.
A new manna shall be provided for you daily."
The ones that didn't listen and they put manna away for the next day all kinds of terrible things happened to those people.
They quarreled amongst themselves, they fought each other for the manna, they claimed there would not be enough tomorrow and they died at the wayside.
But those who had faith in God's words and didn't concern themselves about the morrow were well supplied and they made it to the land of milk and honey.
I think that is how the story goes? Where was the land of milk and honey? You don't know Fred?
SF: The desert?
R: Sounds good.
Well this is something like us.
We go about things in the wrong way.
The entire banking system of the world is simply a plot for certain people to become rich.
The whole world is nonsense and as long as we abide in the world we're going to suffer.
By abiding in the world I mean, mentally.
Again this does not mean that I'm telling you to give up your job and live in a cave and leave your family.
I'm referring to go on with your work and do whatever you have to do but to mentally let go of attachment to person place and thing.
Everything begins in your mind.
Again I tell you so many times do not concern yourself with how your work is going to be done or whether or not it will be done.
The same power that grows the grass, that causes the sun to shine just right, so that life is maintained and sustained. That power will maintain and sustain you. If you trust it and have faith in it. And one day you will recognize and learn that you are that power!
And that the maintainer and sustainer comes out of you. You have been giving life to all the world.
It is because of you that the universe exists.
It's your fault, you did it. Look what you've done.
A fine mess you've made. So what are you going to do about it?
It's as if you exhaled and created the universe and inhaled and annihilated the universe.
That's a good picture to have of God.
They say a breath of God takes two hundred and forty thousand years.
So when God exhales the universe comes into existence and lasts approximately two hundred and forty thousand years.
And then God inhales and everything is dissolved for another two hundred and forty thousand years. Then God exhales again and the world is created again. That's a stupid story.
(students laugh)
SH: It sure is, yeah. (students laugh)
R: But whatever the story is it's a story and it's a lie.
Why can't I just tell you nothing exists.
No thing is the way it appears.
You start with yourself.
This is the reason if you can get rid of your body and realize one day that you are not the body or the mind the whole universe will disappear for you.
So do not try to get rid of certain things in your life for they will just be replaced with new things.
If you try to get rid of your husband or your wife and then a new one comes along that is worse than the last one. This goes on and on. Do not try to get rid of anything externally.
But work on removing the lie that you are a body-mind.
That's all you've got to do. It's been made too easy for us.
It simply boils down to the I-thought.
The I-thought is the culprit.
All of these things that I've been talking about are all attached to the I-thought.
Great Sages have therefore told us if we can only learn to remove the I-thought you'll have a different picture of everything.
Everything will disappear in this world.
For everything is only in the I-thought and as far as I'm concerned the easiest way to do this is to inquire from where the I-thought comes.
Can anything be more easier?
Just to find out where the I-thought came from will remove all of your problems you ever had.
Will set you free. It's all you have to do.
Spend your spare time asking yourself where the I-thought came from.
Can anything be more simpler? "Where did the I-thought come from?"
There is no answer to that question because the answer will only build up your ego.
That is why there is no answer.
You therefore follow the I-thought to it's source and a place has been designated where you should follow the I-thought to and that is the spiritual heart.
The spiritual heart is consciousness, absolute reality, God, nirvana, sat-chit-ananda, Brahman.
As the I-thought is dissolved in the spiritual heart you become your Self, simple. All you've got to do right now is to do it, and you will be free.
Feel free to ask questions or make silly statements or do anything you like.
-- Robert Adams, T101: The Jnani Does Not Come In Peace!
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