Sitting in the Silence.

The wise person  does really not look to change anything.
 They become quiet. 
They have patience. 
They work on themselves. 
They watch their thoughts, watch their actions and observe themselves getting angry, observe themselves getting depressed, observe themselves getting jealous and envious and the rest of it.

 Little by little they realize, "That's not me. That's hypnosis, that's a lie."
They do not react to their condition. 
To the extent that they do not react to their condition, to that extent do they become free. 

They no longer care what anybody else is doing. 
They compare themselves with no one. 
They compete with no one. 
They simply watch themselves. 
They observe themselves.
 They see the mental confusion. 

They don't run around shouting, "I am absolute reality. I am God. I am consciousness."
 Rather, they see where they're coming from and they leave everyone else alone. 

Such a being unfolds at a fast rate. 
It makes no difference what predicament such a being is in.
 It doesn't matter, for such a being is already free.

When the mind rests in the heart, that means when the mind does not go out any longer and identify with the world, when the mind rests in the heart there is peace, there is harmony, there is pure being. 

When you allow your mind to go out of your Self it begins to compare, it begins to judge, it begins to feel offended, and there is no peace. 
There's no rest. 
How do you begin? 

Well, first you realize the place that you're in right now, whether you think it’s good or bad, whether you think you're happy or sad, whether you think you're rich, or poor, or sick, or healthy, the place where you're in right now is your right place. 

That's the beginning. You stop trying to be someone else.
 You stop trying to change your life. 
You're in your right place, right now, just the way you are.

 If you can become happy and peaceful in the place where you are right now, all of a sudden you will find circumstances will change in your favor, and then again you will be in your right place. 

Whatever change comes along as far as your body-mind is concerned, you are in your right place.

The more you can see that, the more you can look at what I just said intellectually, intelligently, the more peaceful you become, the more the karmic patterns begin to break away and you begin to awaken.
It may be gradual at first.


 You notice that things that used to annoy you, no longer annoy you. 
You notice that people that you live with, the conflicts you've had, they stop because you've stopped. 

 There's no more trying to get even. There's no more trying to win your point. There's no more trying to find the right book, or the right teacher, or the right anything. 

You remain centered. You remain free. When something comes along, whether it's good or bad, you simply sit where you are and you ask, "To whom has this come?" and you laugh, for you have separated yourself from your body-mind and you begin to realize that your body-mind is going through the experience but not you. 
So there is nothing to worry about. There's nothing to fear. There's nothing that can upset you. 

There's nothing that can harm you. You realize whatever someone does to your body, physically, or with words, or otherwise, can never, never hurt you because you are not your body. 
 No matter what anyone tells you, no matter what you see with your eyes can never affect you, for you are not your mind.
You have actually separated your Self from your body and your mind. 


That's only the beginning. As you go further your body and your mind drop off. 
I don't mean that you die.
 I mean that they become less and less important to you, and you no longer identify with them at all. 

You actually know, and you feel, and you experience, that your body and mind do not exist, yet you exist. 

You do not exist as your body or your mind. 

You exist as absolute reality, as consciousness, and you no longer believe that your body and your mind are a modification of consciousness. 

You just know that there is no body and there is no mind. 

You are egoless. 
There is no reason for your body, mind or the world to exist. You may first feel this slightly, but you will notice the greater the feeling, the greater the happiness. 

You are beginning to merge in consciousness. 
You are beginning to feel reality. 
The world goes on, people do what they always do, yet you see it quite differently.
 You no longer see the same world you used to see. It's like reading a magazine. The images in a magazine are in front of you but you are not the magazine and you are not the images. 

Who you are may still be a mystery. Remember, as long as you can express it, it's not that.
-- Robert Adams, Transcript 39, Sitting in the Silence.

to the sage there's only silence.

The silence is another way of saying
to keep your mind stayed on God all the time. 

God is the silence and you are that. 

Feel the silence right now. 

You can feel it. 

It's a thing of beauty. 

You know when you're getting into the true silence,
you begin to become happier, and happier and happier
for no reason. 

It makes no difference what's going on in the world. 

The world is in one place and you're in another place. 

In the deep silence you are identifying with
the substratum of creation. 

Always remember to go into the silence. 

A sage is always in the silence. 

A sage may be talking, listening, partaking of activities,
but to the sage there's only silence.

~ Robert Adams

Surrender leads to self-inquiry.

For some people it's easy to surrender to let go of everything. Surrender leads to self-inquiry. 

Automatically when you give everything up in your mind something answers you, or something tells you inside, "Who gives it up?" it comes by itself when you surrender. 

It'll happen by itself. 
Don't be afraid to let go, you'll never be alone.
 The universe is your friend.
 It will always take care of you if you do your part first.

 That is to surrender and allow the universe to take care of you.

It's like the story of the man who went to a cave and he felt a beautiful breeze coming from the cave. 
He wanted to find the source of this beautiful breeze. He was a fat man weighed about four-hundred pounds. And there was a tiny hole in the cave he couldn't get through. 
 He was so enamored by a breeze and its fragrance he just had to find out the source of this breeze. So he went on a diet, he lost weight, he wouldn't eat and he still couldn't squeeze through. So he gave up everything.
 He gave up his job, his home, his family. His only thought in his mind was, "I've got to find some of this breeze that smells and feels so beautiful." He wouldn't eat at all. But he was determined to find the site of the breeze.

 He finally got down to a skeleton and he shoved his head through the hole in the cave and half of his body got stuck. He couldn't go in or out.
 Finally he gave up. 
He said, "I've done all I can. There is nothing more I can do."

 Then the Self pulled him through the hole and he became self-enlightened, self-realized.

What this story means to us is when we
 stop fighting so much, 
stop trying to change things, 
stop trying to make things happen and we let go, depending on God, on consciousness, on the absolute reality, then God will pull you through.

 In other words you become self-realized. But as long as you rely on one person place or thing then you're alone fighting your battles. 

This is why true spirituality is not for everyone.

 For most people are not ready to let go of everything. They still want to hold onto things. So they get involved with spirituality and it makes them pure.

They become involved in various meditations, pranayamas, kundalini, tantra, not realizing all these things come from your mind. 
They're all mental things and they will never lead you to self-realization. 
They will only increase the size of your ego. 
So true spiritual life is very easy. 
You just need to surrender, let go of everything.
 Take refuge in the Buddha or the Self or consciousness, whatever you like to call it. 

It's all names. And you take refuge in this by not allowing the world to make you feel anything.
 As long as this world makes you feel something good or bad, you're worldly, and you have battles to fight. 
But when good and bad never impress you again, then you're free. 
Only you can make that choice.
Robert Adams - 4/12/93

This approach was unique to Maharaj

WHY DID NISARGADATTA INSIST ON ASKING QUESTIONS?
Many were puzzled why Maharaj insisted on asking newcomers to put questions to him, even before they got acquainted with his mode of teaching.

 This approach was unique to Maharaj.
One day, he turned to me and said, 
“What a sadhaka (seeker) knows consciously about himself is only one-ninth of his being. The rest is buried as the ‘unconscious’, like an iceberg! 

He has no means to unknot this huge quota of his ‘unconscious’. 
With a single glance, a Saint can unravel a seeker’s entire ‘unconscious’, layer by layer. 

We want to work on it, tackle it and destroy it.

 To do that, we need the ‘password’ from the seeker, the approval of the seeker.

 Each Saint has a unique method of raising this hidden ‘unconscious’ of the seeker to the surface so that he can catch it and work on it. We are only interested in the hidden part of the seeker’s ‘unconscious’. 

As a matter of fact, we also deal with the one-ninth of his conscious level, as well.

 Ramana Maharshi used “Who am I?” 
Swami Ramdas used “Om Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram”. Shirdi Sai Baba used “Allah Malik”. 

I insist on the newcomer putting me a question. This is my method. I answer the question but it is only of secondary importance. 
When the seeker spells out his doubt, his ‘unconscious’ raises itself without his knowledge to the surface through his words.

I catch it immediately and start working on it! 
This is a mystery which no ordinary mind can understand. What is great about dispelling the doubts coming from the one-ninth conscious level, the tip of the iceberg? There are plenty of books which can do that. 

But then, what about the hidden unconscious?
Sri Ganesan, ‘Meeting with Sages and Saints’

The whole universe is a puppet show.

There is no-one on this earth who does anything.
The whole universe is a puppet show. 

We're dancing the dance of Shiva. 

We think we're something important. 

But we're really nothing as we appear. 

Your job is to observe to watch, to see what's going on and
not to react to anything that is happening
but to stay separate from the happenings.

To separate yourself from what is happening.

What's happening is happening to the 'I', to the ego, not to you. 

Nothing can ever happen to you. 

For your true nature is Brahman, absolute reality, pure awareness. 

This is what you really are whether you like it or not. 

Yes you are God whether you like it or not. 

Whether you care or you don't, you are God. 

So what are you going to do about it.
All you really have to do is to know who you are, to know yourself. 

Not intellectually, not physically, but consciously. 

When you see yourself consciously as God
you will see the whole universe as your Self. 

Everything in this whole universe will become you. 

There will be no separation between you and your fellow man,
the animals and the minerals and the flowers.
It will all be one.
They'll be you.
You are that!

~ Robert Adams

Therefore you have to transcend the mind,

The world, as it appears, does not exist.
The universe, as it appears does not exist.
Yet you are, and you will always be.
What are you and what will you always be?
Silence.
There is no answer for that, for the mind can never
comprehend the unknown, the transcendental, the Self.
The mind can never know these things.
The mind only knows itself as a body, as a doer.
Therefore you have to transcend the mind,
transcend the thoughts,
transcend the world,
transcend the universe,
and enter the silence,
where there is total bliss, and peace and harmony.

~Robert Adams - T. 191 Just Be – October 15, 1992

Remain yourself, remain what you are”

From ~~~ Ramana Smrti, P. 201.

Once a visitor started weeping suddenly
and cried out that he was a horrible sinner
who could not reform himself.

He asked Bhagavan if there was any hope for him
and declared that Bhagavan was his Guru
and as his Master he must save him.

On his insistence Bhagavan told him
that fees were due to the Master.
The man said he would give him all his merit
and whatever good he had done.

Bhagavan told him that was not enough
and demanded his sins too.
The man was aghast and refused to offer his sins.
But Bhagavan was adamant.

He said,
“Either give me your sins along with your merits,
or keep both and don’t think of me as your Master”.

Finally the visitor surrendered and declared
that he was giving away all his sins
and their results to Ramana.

Bhagavan said,
“From now on
there is no good or bad in you.
You are just pure.
Go and do nothing,
neither good nor bad.
Remain yourself,
remain what you are”.
A great peace fell over the man and over us all.
He was never seen in the Ashram again.
This was not an isolated incident.

To everyone who deplored his sins
Bhagavan said,
“What do you know about yourself?
What do you know about good and evil
except what is in your mind?

When you see
that the mind invents everything,
all will vanish.
The good will vanish,
the evil will vanish
and you will remain as you are”.

Thus Bhagavan was most tender with people
who thought themselves for some reason or other
to be miserable sinners,
and went to him torn by repentance.
~~~~~

After all, for who is the suffering?

After all, for who is the suffering?
For the one who identifies with the thoughts.

As an example, somebody gets fired from their job.
They start to worry about that and this leads to worrying
about the future, because when you worry about the past,
getting fired, you're going to start worrying and thinking,
"How will I pay my rent next month? How will I buy food?" 

And the mind loves that. It starts feeding you more.
Pretty soon you imagine yourself evicted from your house
and you see yourself in the welfare lines, and you see yourself
become a homeless person, and sure enough you do,
because that's what you believe. 

That's where your mind is leading you.

As long as you feel you have a mind,
it becomes very, very powerful. 

Then you can say that, "Thoughts are things,"
for your thoughts will materialize in this world of effects,
that which you believe is real. 

Subsequently, if you start worrying about your job, being terminated,
and you start worrying about food, and you start worrying about evictions
and all that stuff, you're really saying to yourself mentally,
"That's what I want to happen," and you always get what you want. 

You've got to watch yourself.

The secret is not to change your thoughts,
but to get rid of your thoughts completely.
We're not trying to change negative thoughts to positive thoughts,
for all positive thoughts lead to negative thoughts,
negative thoughts lead to positive thoughts, that's duality. 

We're trying to transcend the whole bowl of wax, to go beyond,
and that's what happens when you live spontaneously,
it happens by itself.

Living spontaneously is a meditation. 

Do not concern yourself with the fruits of your efforts. 

Everything will take care of yourself, of itself.

In other words, what I mean by that is,
if you're in a job for twenty-four years, do not concern yourself
if you get terminated or you don't, that's not the point. 

The point is who do you think you are? 

Do you believe that you're that frail human being
that has been terminated, or that frail person
who has lots of marital problems,
or that frail person who doesn't know if he's going to die or live? 

Forget about all these things, go beyond it. 

Identify with the absolute awareness. 

Identify with the total reality which you really are. 

You do not identify with those things by affirming them.
You identify with those things by what? 

By silence. 

You see the difference?
-Robert Adams - T. 20 - Before I Am - 1st November, 1990

From Whence Did I Come?

You abide in the I.

You abide in the I. 
You always abide in the I
until the I becomes transformed into the Self. 

In the beginning remember abiding in the I
is abiding in the ego, in the mind.

As you continue to abide in the I, the I becomes the real I,
which is the Self. 

Because there is only one I, not two and you are that. 

So abiding in the I is following the I thread to the source
and the source is I-am.

The I-am is another name for absolute reality or consciousness
or bliss. I-am, consciousness as I mentioned before
in previous meetings is self-contained.

 It only knows itself. 

It does not produce this world.
It does not produce the ego or the mind. 

The ego, the mind, the world, the universe,
God is non-existent to the Self. 

As long as you believe you are the body-mind, the world,
the ego, everything else appears real to you. 

And then you also believe that consciousness creates these things. 

Why would consciousness create it? 
It has no reason to.
Remember it's like you have been hypnotized.
That's why you believe you are a body and
that's why you believe you live in a world of many bodies.

 Robert Adams - T.45 - Following The ‘I’ - February 17, 1991

You have to sincerely want to awaken.

You have to sincerely want to awaken.
And I kid you not, to awaken is simple.
 You just have to give up everything mentally. 
That’s all. 
And consider the fact that everything is consciousness.
Everything. 
No thing is as it appears.
 This includes yourself.

-- Robert Adams

There Is No Birth

You have no idea what anything is, but I tell you again,
everything is unborn.

Nothing actually exists and the only explanation is, it's like a dream. 

When you have a dream, do you give birth to everything?
The dream just begins, with everything as it appears.
You do not go to a beginning, or to an end. 

The dream just starts from nothing and it goes on until you awaken.

The waking state is called the mortal dream. 

We're dreaming the mortal dream.

All of the things that you are interested in, all of your fears,
all of your frustrations, goods and bads,
all of your happy and sads, it's all a dream. 

And the more you get attached to it, the more human you become. 

It's like getting attached to a dream and
never waking up and you keep living the dream. 

Consequently, you create your own reincarnation
because you are attached to person, place and thing. 

And this pulls you back into a body, over and over and over again
until you learn to let go, until you start practicing, emptiness.

~Robert Adams - T.2 There Is No Birth! - 12th August, 1990

Don’t insist on trying to clarify what happened in the past.

The minute you identify with your mind, with thoughts, with emotions,
with whatever is arising in the space of pure awareness,
it is as though you open a door for bad company.

When there is an earthquake under the ocean, lots of bubbles are coming up.

They flow up to the surface then they pop and are gone.
Don’t watch the bubbles and say, 'Oh no! That’s a big bubble!'
Don’t become invested or involved with what is coming up, burping up.

You are detoxing. You just be at the burping place.
Don’t be at the dustbin place.
Don’t be picking things up, examining them and putting them in the bag.
You just vomit. You just burp now. Don’t go into the story of burping.

This tendency to examine everything, 'Oh when I was a child…'
is almost justifying why the old ghosts are staying.

Don’t insist on trying to clarify what happened in the past.
For now, just burp. Don’t analyse.

When you vomit something out, when you look at it,
you can’t remember that you ate that type of thing at all!
You always find there’s some carrots in the mix.

The mind is always wanting to analyse,
but what I am saying is that at this moment—don’t do that.

Grace is taking all these things out.
Trust where you are, and that Grace is with you.

there is nobody to be outraged at.

When you hear about the bank robber, hear about the murderer,
you hear about man's inhumanity to man
you want to become outraged,
but as long as you're studying Advaita and
you're coming on this path, you will have to understand that
there is nobody to be outraged at. 

There is nothing to be outraged at. 

It's all yourself. 

There is only one Self and that Self is you. 

You are that Self. 

Out of you emanates everybody and everything.
So you're becoming outrageous to yourself. 

This strikes me to be very funny when I see people
being angry at people, hurting people, hurting themselves.

It comes back to you.
It comes back in different ways, strange ways,
but it always comes back to you. 

Then you say, "Well you mean I'm supposed to be a doormat
and let people walk all over me?"

On the contrary, that will never happen to you
if you're in the right consciousness. 

If you're in the right consciousness
people will not walk all over you at all.

People will leave you alone. 

When you understand that you are the one Self, who can hurt you? 

But think of the ways you get mixed up in this world
by believing situations are real. 

Think of your life just today since you got out of bed. 

How many things turned you on, to anger, to hatred, to disharmony? 

It's your fault, it's always your fault.

~Robert Adams - T. 222 :Uncreate The Universe!
7th February, 1993

Is that 'I' really there?

go directly for the ultimate search within.

 
YOU DO ALL SORT OF UNNECESSARY THINGS, BUT YOU MISS THE ESSENTIAL WHICH IS THE ELIMINATION OF THE
PERSON...

Q: How can a speck like me create the vast universe?

M: When you are infected with the 'I-am-the-body' virus; a whole universe springs into being.
But when you have had enough of it, you cherish some fanciful ideas about liberation and pursue lines of action totally futile.

You concentrate, you meditate, you torture your mind and body, you do all sorts of unnecessary things, but you miss the essential which is the elimination of the person.

Q: In the beginning we may have to pray and meditate for some time before we are ready for self-enquiry.

M: If you believe so, go on. To me, all delay is a waste of time.
 You can skip all the preparation and go directly for the ultimate search within.
 Of all the Yogas it is the simplest and the shortest.

I AM THAT, 257.

You are originally Buddha.

Take a good look at yourself.
You are already saved.

 You are originally Buddha. 

You are overflowing with happiness and glory. 

To talk of paradise or heaven is to be talking in your sleep.
Take a good look at yourself. 

Transcend time and space, and you'll see that you are eternal, you are infinite.

 Should the universe collapse and disappear, you would still be immovable. 

You are all forms and all formlessness in the universe, the universe itself. 

You are the twinkling stars and the dancing butterflies－you are everything. 

Take a good look at yourself. 

All truths are within you.

 To look for truth outside yourself is to search for water outside of the ocean. 

Take a good look at yourself. 

There is no death in eternity, but those who don't know themselves worry about death. 

They fret about it, and they dread it.
Ven.Tong Songchol (1912~1993), one of the great Zen masters in the last century was also called the Living Buddha of Korea.

You have to realize that there is a divine intelligence

You have to realize that there is a divine intelligence
of infinite goodness, the power that knows the way. 

If you would but surrender to this power.
If you would let go and let God so-to-speak
by totally surrendering to this power that knows the way
you will be carried forth in a stream of blessedness
to your highest good. 

This is true.

But if you're always condemning, judging, reacting
and you keep finding things wrong everyday of your life
and what you're really doing in your brain and your mind
and your subconscious is you're saying,
"This is what I want. I want more of this." 

If you didn't want more of something you wouldn't think about it.
You wouldn't feel hurt by it.
You wouldn't allow yourself to fall into the trap of cynicism, depression, animosity or any kind of negativity. 

You'll be above this, beyond this.
But if you're allowing yourself to fall into the trap,
you have to give up total mind, body and soul
to the infinite intelligence that takes care of this universe. 

You can call this intelligence God, absolute reality, divine wisdom. 

It makes no difference what you call it.

You must surrender to it, totally, completely.

Of course in the ultimate truth none of this exists. 

In the ultimate truth I've been speaking nonsense to you. 

For the ultimate truth is silence. 

Total silence and total annihilation
of your thoughts and mind and body. 

But as I said before we have to be true to ourselves
and see where we are on the path. 

We may say, "We're on the path of Jnana Marga," if you like
and it's up to each one of us to remove all of these thoughts, emotions, feelings, negativity, depressions
that haunt us once in a while. 

It's up to each one of us to get rid of ourselves,
to annihilate yourself. 

To get rid of your little self totally, completely.
To get yourself out of the way
and to allow the divine circus to function.
-Robert Adams -T. 193 - Infinite Intelligence - 22nd October, 1992

You are the power.

All of us sitting in this room are
at a different stage of consciousness. 

Some of us are more advanced than others but that doesn't matter.
What matters is what you're doing with your life. 

Noone in this room should believe that the world
has any power over you whatsoever. 

You are the power. 

If you feel the world or some situation has power over you
is because you have given it the power. 

Where else would it come from.
The world the universe by itself is passive, neither good nor bad. 

It is you that makes it what it is.

This is the reason why every one of us here
look at the world differently. 

We live in the same world but we see it differently.
We're are seeing ourselves of course.
We are seeing what we are.
What else can you see.
There are no sinners. There is no evil.
Everyone is a child of God, so-to-speak. 

When you realize you are God's child in God's infinite goodness
and love, as you work on that you will find soon that you are God.
You are the infinite goodness and love. It is you.
But you have to work from where you're coming from.
If you have to pray, pray.
If you have to meditate, meditate.
If you have to do a mantra, do a mantra. 

Do whatever you have to do to raise your consciousness.
Never say, "I can't do anything else. I've done all I can. I'm stuck."
That's a lie. Noone is ever stuck. 

For we live in a universe of flux, change, nothing is solid.
So how can you be stuck.
Everything is continuously moving, moving, moving, moving.
You cannot be stuck anywhere or anytime.
Do you see how you train your mind? 

You train your mind to stuck some place.
You can't go any further and you believe it.
So to you you appear stuck. There is no such thing. All is well.
You are a very unique being.
You are unique because you have within you fantastic power.
After all you created this illusion. You created this maya.
It came out of you.
Your shakti is doing this.
The power that you have has created all of these things.
If you wish to uncreate everything
you have to put yourself in reverse.
Just like a car and go back to the source.
When you return to the source you will find that
you were never a human being,
there never was a world,
there never was bondage or liberation,
there never was a God separate from your Self and you are free. Peace.
-Robert Adams -T. 193 - Infinite Intelligence - 22nd October, 1992

The presence of Divinity as Self is effortless.

» Awareness is a quality of consciousness itself that is not encumbered by having to "do" anything.
 It just "is" and by virtue of its innate capacity, apprehends essence directly.
The presence of Divinity as Self is effortless. «

The original is from
 "Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality",
 Chapter 7 p. 131
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» With refusal to project values, all becomes of equal value by virtue of its existence and the emergence of Creation by which form is an expression of innate formlessness of Oneness. 

Perception focuses on linear uniqueness and differences and therefore on separation. 

The Self is all-inclusive. 

The ego, by projection of presumptive value, sees beauty only selectively and bases it on the linearity subserved by expectations of aesthetics. 

Without editing, the intrinsic beauty of all that exists radiates forth as an innate quality of existence itself.

 In ordinary life, this observation tends to become obscured due to the sheer overwhelming quantity of stimuli.

 One purpose of art is to select almost any particular subject for focus and put it on ‘stop’ so its innate beauty and perfection as an expression of ‘what it is’ stand forth.

 This process reveals the presence of essence behind form. 

Love has this characteristic as well, and the familiar becomes imbued with value because its inner worth has already been ascertained. 

By this process, familiar things become ‘dear’ and treasured, even if only a favorite pair of old slippers. 

To the Self, everything becomes endeared, not because it is ‘mine’, but because it ‘is’. 

Q: The method described is tantamount to eclipsing and precluding the ‘experiencer’ edge of the ego as the predominant focus of interest and psychic energy. 

A: Its function can be bypassed, and therefore its editing process is no longer valued. 
What is devalued tends to disappear. 

►Awareness is a quality of consciousness itself that is not encumbered by having to ‘do’ anything.
 It just ‘is’ and by virtue of its innate capacity, apprehends essence directly. The Presence of Divinity as Self is effortless.◄ 

It ‘knows’ as a quality of identity so there is no necessity to process a relationship between a ‘this’ and a ‘that’, or an ‘I’ and an ‘it’.

 The Reality that is revealed by relinquishment of identification with the experiencer/processor edge of the ego cannot be easily described in words.

 The subjective awareness of existence is an unedited a priori primary knowingness beyond languaging.
 Its Source is the Self and not, as the ego believes it to be, the experiencer aspect of the self. 

Q: Then there really is no ‘razor’ or ‘edge’. 

A: That analogy has pragmatic value until it is no longer serviceable or useful.
 It is like having a boat to cross a stream for a transition, but it serves no further function. 
That is common to all spiritual practices and techniques. 

In the Presence of Divinity, there is no point to spiritual practices anymore than there would be to using the oars once the other shore has been reached.

 Like all denotative terms, the ‘edge’ disappears into the nonlinearity of the Oneness of the Self/Divinity.

 There is no personal self that witnesses the Ultimate Reality because the Knower and the Known dissolve into Identity. « - 

From "Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality", Chapter 7 pp. 130-132
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» The substrate of the existence of All That Is in this moment is Silence. 

The source of our existence is Silence. 

The rug is Silent. This [the wall] is Silent.
 Out of that innate silence - as you expand context - you begin to own the Silence as your Self, and that which is interfering with the Silence is the not-Self.

 The sound becomes the content.
 It's only because of the Silence that you can hear any sound. 

You begin to identify with the Silence as that what you are.
 It comes on profoundly: the knowingness that the Silence is one's own existence beyond all time. 

That which I am existed prior to this universe and will be here long after this universe expires.

 Because universes come and go like the dreams of Indra [from Hindu mythology]. 

The illusion of it all comes and goes. 
And creating and unfolding universes is how I enjoy myself. [Doc laughs.] 
That's my prerogative. 
 I choose to do that. 
When you choose it you're not at the effect of it.
 So you choose to experience existence as you experience it. 
In so doing you let go resisting it, and as you let go resisting it, you dissolve it. 
And you go back into that which you are, prior to this existence. 
And that is the meaning of the Silence.

To be that which you are now, you have to be the whole universe, because it's all part of the whole picture.
 So Indra's dream is: on the out-breath creation arises and on the in-breath it disappears. You've done it for millennia:
 All that is remembering who you are.
 That's your oneness with the Creator. « -
 Paraphrased from August 2002 Lecture: “Advaita: The Way to God through Mind”

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»Let's say:
 "Glory to Thee, O Lord. 
 ★All Glory be to Thee, O Lord.★" 

There is nothing to think about that, is there? 




 A contemplative lifestyle is a very yin way; it's like your life becomes a ‘mudra’ by which your supplication - the Lord - automatically responds. 


"Thee O Lord" - you don't have to worry if God is listening. 

"To Thee O Lord" - God hears [kinesiologically tested as true.] 

"To You O God" - God is not obligated [kinesiologically tested as true.] 
He is not involved, you see. 
You are talking to yourself. "To Thee O Lord" indicates devotion. [...] 
"Those who are devoted to Me are mine." 
That's enough to contemplate on for the next couple of years.
 If you just contemplate that knowingness and just hold it, you eventually reach a state of extreme joy.
 When Divinity reveals its essence one goes into a state of wonderment. « - Paraphrased from October 21 2006 Lecture: “Spiritual Practice and Daily Life”

What you call your life is but a split second in eternity

Life appears to be very short on this earth plane.
What you call your life is but a split second in eternity. 

In other words you're here today and gone tomorrow.
This is how it seems.
But again what is here today and what is gone tomorrow? 

That which never existed to begin with. 

That is here today and gone tomorrow. 

Because in truth there are no tomorrows and there's no today. 

There is nothing. 

How can there be anything wrong in nothing? 

I know some of you do not believe you're nothing. 

You think you're something.

But if you're able to really see your body what it really is, it'll be all space.
Your body is made out of space
with a little dust spinning around some place. 

You're made out of nothing.

But you don't believe me do you,
you think you're something but you're nothing,
zero, nada, emptiness.

~Robert Adams - T. 238 Stop Fighting! - 12th April, 1993

You have space and time to be your Self.

Recognise the serenity of your own inner Being.
Let your attention be one with it.
Feel its vibration.
Do not create any image about this.

Allow the space and the sense of emptiness simply to be.
There is no better place to be than where you are right now.
In this instant, there is nothing to do or undo.
Nothing to change.

Nothing to fix.
Nothing to heal.
Nothing to become.

There is a natural sense of satisfaction or completeness.
Take full rest in your Self.
The world is not waiting for your next move.
You have space and time to be your Self.