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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