*** When Will I Awaken? **

Many people still ask me, "Robert will I be enlightened in this life or do I have to go through many lives?

Will I awaken in this life?

Will I become free in this life or do I have to go on playing games like everybody else, making believe, when will I awaken?"

And it's very funny to me.

My answer is never!

You'll never awaken!

It's like the water in the mirage asking,

"When will I become real water?

How long do I have to be a mirage?

When will I become the real water?"

Of course it will never become the real water.

For the mirage can never become anything but a mirage.

It will always be a mirage.

So it is with us.

What you are can never be anything else.

For you do not exist as a body at all.

And if you do not exist as a body what can become self-realized?

In other words you have nothing to become self-realized with.

You cannot become self-realized it's impossible.

Forget about it.

Don't even think of it.

Self-realization has absolutely nothing to do with your body or your thoughts or your mind or your practices or your sadhanas or anything else.

Self-realization is the ultimate reality.

It is the pure awareness, the nirvana and that doesn't exist either.

So what exists?

There is no answer.

For what exists can never be known with a finite mind.

This is why we do the work from where we are.

We do not think about becoming self-realized or becoming liberated.

We simply wonder who we are.

We just ask ourselves, "Where does this body come from?

What appears to be a body?"

And we compare it to the water in the mirage.

It's an hallucination.

It has no validity.

In other words you have no existence whatsoever.

You have never had an existence.

Nothing exists.

Yet we appear to exist.

So what to do?

Nothing, there is nothing you can do about it.

That's just the way it is.

Do not try to change it.

Stay the way you are and keep still.

That is the best thing you can do.

Be happy just the way you are.

Of course the only way you can be happy is by keeping still and not reacting to things, by leaving everything alone and being yourself.

When I say, "Being yourself", I mean being you the way you are right now, nothing else.

The world of reality exists by itself.

It just is.

There is nothing you can do to change anything.

Do not try to change anything.

Do not work on yourself.

For every time you're working on yourself you are emphasizing that you're the self, the mortal self that needs to be worked at.

"just be yourself" the way you are right now, in this moment.

I'm not saying to be yourself last week or to be your self a week from now.

Be yourself right this moment, this second, this instant and you'll be safe.

Do not concern yourself how to be the self.

Do not concern yourself what you have to do to be the self.

Don't even wonder what it is to be the self.

Just be!

Do not question it.

Do not try to understand it.

You will always be the way you are, nothing will can ever change that.

So you might as well get on with that and be happy.

Suffering comes when you try to change yourself.

Suffering ensues when you try to develop moksha, liberation.

When you try to transcend yourself, then you suffer.

For you are trying to attain something that doesn't exist and it hurts.

Isn't it wonderful not to do anything.

Never try to attain a thing or become anything else.

What about pain, what about lack and limitation, what about poverty.

What about the rest of these things that exist?

It's all part of life.

Do not try to get rid of it.

Look at it, accept it, be happy with it and leave it alone.

What I'm really saying is, "Get your mind off yourself".

Stop thinking about yourself.

Stop thinking about anybody else.

Whatever is supposed to come to you will come to you.

Whatever you are supposed to have you will have.

Wherever you have to go you will go.

You have absolutely nothing to do with it.

So why not enjoy where you are right this moment.

Stop trying to change things.

The very trying makes them worse.

The body that you're wearing right now is an hallucination.

You are not that person whatsoever.

But because you appear as that person you go through many experiences of what that person has to go through.

Do not fight it.

Do not try to change it.

Leave everything alone.

You'll be very surprised at what happens if you leave everything alone.

But when you try to change bad for good you're fighting a losing battle for it cannot be done.

You may tell me of people who have used their mind to achieve things in the world, to heal themselves of disease, to heal themselves of lack or limitation, to become powerful beings through thinking.

Those things are only changes, temporary changes.

Do not try to be a human being.

Go beyond that.

You go beyond that by doing nothing.

Yet some of you do not understand and think you have to sit down like a lump and do nothing on the contrary.

When you're doing nothing you're doing something.

Something is being done.

Something will always be done by you.

Yet at the same time nothing is being done.

So the question is, "Is something being done or is nothing being done?" and there is no answer.

What do you want to achieve and why do you wish to achieve those things?

Only for your self aggrandizement.

An animal leads a normal life.

It cannot think like we do.

It goes through its life and when it's time to leave their life it leaves it peacefully, happily.

But as human beings we fight, trying to live forever.

Trying to maintain the same beauty we've always had, the same happiness, the same joy.

This is all a waste of energy.

All is well, just the way it is.

You are perfect just the way you are.

There is nothing that you have to do.

There is no-one you have to please.

There is no God that you have to appease.

You are the one.

All of these ideas that are going through your mind of people, places, things, Gods, are all you.

You are creating everything.

Everything that you can think about you're creating.

Everything comes out of yourself.

Just like you're dreaming.

The mistake we make is we try to awaken from the dream, the mortal dream, from this dream.

Yet who is to awaken from it?

The person that wants to awaken doesn't exist.

Do you see what I'm saying?

Nothing exists that has to do anything.

The person who wants to be free does not exist, has never existed.

The person who is looking for moksha does not exist.

Then again what does exist?

Total silence exists.

Pure profound silence.

Never try to comprehend these things.

For you're using the mind, you're using the cells that are the mind, that are connected to the cells of the universe and you make your life miserable by doing this.

There is no difference between you and a tree or a mountain, a sky or the ocean.

The whole universe is composed of hydrogen atoms.

So you're nothing but a hydrogen atom.

How does it feel to be a hydrogen atom?

See how you mind begins to think?

It's difficult for most of you to stay silent.

You are not required to understand a thing I say.

I speak utter nonsense.

It's all nonsense and some of you are taking it in so profoundly like it's important.

Who are you really?

I have no idea?

If you have an idea of who you are you've got a problem.

For you're not that at all.

Again we go back to the beginning when I opened up this sentence.

Who thinks they're something.

You can never be anything.

The 'you' that you think you are can never be a thing.

Always remember this.

The 'you' can never become anything.

The only freedom you really have is to be still and quiet and that is the only freedom you've got.

To be totally quiet.

Everything else is an hallucination, a lie.

So most of you want me to sit here and tell you lies.

Stop worrying.

Stop fretting.

Stop believing something can happen to you, to hurt you.

What you are was never born.

It knows nothing of birth.

The one that knows about birth and death doesn't exist.

So here we are together again.

Why do you come here?

If you have a reason for coming here it's the wrong reason.

There is no reason for doing anything at all.

(long silence)

~ Robert Adams ,When Will I Awaken?

Commen

Never be frightened again by anything.

You look at a situation, you watch it, you observe it, you never react, you leave it alone.

 And then you'll be given the power that you need, to handle it, to go through it, without thinking, without thoughts, without any commotion, without any noise. 

These are the things you must work on. 

Be that Self.

Never be frightened again by anything. 

If I can make this perfectly clear to you. 

Never allow anything in this world to ever frighten you. 

Allow things to unfold as they may. 

Remember you just watch and observe, hold on to the truth.

 Happiness will come of its own accord. 

When you hold on to the truth, when you do not react to life's conditions, person, place or thing, when you leave things alone and you stop fighting life, you're not giving up.

In the Western psychology, we're told that you never give up.

 We are taught to keep on fighting. 

But I'm telling you there is nothing to fight, and the only thing you're giving up is your ego. 

Western psychology has never gone beyond this.

Therefore they do not know of life beyond this. 

Western psychology works in the presumption that you are a body and a mind, so naturally they tell you never give up, fight to the end. Stick up for your rights.

But in the highest teachings of the truth we learn that you have no rights. 

You're giving up your body, your ego, your mind, and when this happens, you go beyond psychology.

 Something happens that psychiatry, psychology are not aware of whatsoever. 

And that is you rise to a higher dimension, where there is happiness, and peace, and compassion, and love, joy, that is naturally yours. 

You begin to feel these things instead of the things you felt before. 

Prior to this, when you were fighting life, when you were sticking up for your rights, when you were trying to get even, when you were working as an ego, you were never able to feel happiness or joy or peace. 

Only sometimes, when you won, when you got your point across, when you won an argument, when you won a fight, when you sued someone and won, you felt happy for a while, but it didn't last long, and you have to go through it again and again.

 But this is as far as the world goes.

 It doesn't know anything else but this.

 
What I'm saying to you, let go of everything. 

Do not hold on. 

Stand naked before God, without any crutches, without anything to hold on to. 

When you can do this, from this moment on you will begin to rise.

 And you will become aware that you are not the body, or the mind, or the world, or the universe, but you are effortless choiceless pure awareness. 

You are boundless space, infinite like the sky. 

You have become everything, and everything has become you. 

Work on yourself.
Robert Adams

For there is only one Self.

What we call consciousness is a word that implies your real nature, your real Self. 

Which is you right now.

 Right now you are the Self. 

Right now you are everything you want to be. 

Right this moment. 

You say to yourself, "No, I'm just a dumb human being," then you are.

 If that is what you want to call yourself.

 But no matter what you say to yourself. 

No matter what you do to yourself you can never change your real nature one iota.
You are Brahman, the absolute reality. 

No matter what you say, no matter what you do, no matter how you act. 

You're still God.

But you are not God the way you feel yourself as a human being. 

You are God as all-pervading, without your mind, without your thoughts. 

There is absolutely nothing wrong with your life. 

You are wonderful, wonderful, perfect! 

Just the way you are.

Yet, some of you feel as if you practice for a year or two and now you feel stunted, you feel as if you cannot go any further. 

Then stop the practice!

 Do not force yourself to practice atma-vichara, self-inquiry. 

Do not force yourself to do anything. 

Stop, and be your self. 

Just be your self. 

Do not try to be anyone else, or anything else. 

Just be your self the way you are. 

When you can really be your self, then you will be the Self. 

For there is only one Self. 

There is not yourself and myself. T

here is the one Self. 

Perfect! Absolute! 

And you are that.
Robert Adams

Be not the do-er

I took out of Ramana Maharshi something that I’ll give you now:

“Work is no hindrance to realization. Doing things does not block you from realization. It is the sense of wrong identification that is the source of all your trouble. Get rid of the false identification.”

And what’s the false identification? 

That you are the doer.

 And you have all experienced from releasing that when you’re released, it happens.

 You’re not the doer. 

Like when Yogananda was sitting in a bed, he was very high, and trying to get his balance he raised his hand, and it went up effortlessly. 

When you’re not the doer and you want your hand to go up, it just floats up with no effort.

 In everything you do the same thing happens. 

No energy, no effort is necessary. 

So, being in action is no hindrance; the hindrance is identifying as being the limited body-mind, is identifying with the ego.

If you tried to do no action, you wouldn’t succeed, because your karma is driving you now into action. 

So if you tried to do nothing, you wouldn’t succeed. 

Whatever your karma is, you would do. 

So, trying to do nothing doesn’t help. 

Only releasing helps. 

And only releasing will get you all the way—as fast as you will do it.

 So, the action, rather than being a hindrance, is really a help. 

Because as you’re in action, you’re being pushed by your feelings, which bring up more feelings while you’re in action for you to release all your feelings.

 So you must do it in the world; you must do it in action. 

You cannot do it isolating. When you isolate you’ll just escape.

Every man is where he is by the law of his being; [his] thoughts have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err. As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances. – James Allen (“As a Man Thinketh”; 1903)

So, the next major point to write down is “Whatever you do, do it to perfection.” 

That’s behaving like a master. 

Behaving like a master brings up the objections to it for your releasing. 

If you don’t do things to perfection, it’s because—actually, your destructiveness, your non-constructiveness, causes you to not do it to perfection. 

But if you make it a point to do it to perfection, up will come these feelings of “I can’t” for your releasing. 

So, make it a point to do whatever you’re doing very successfully. 

That word “perfection” might not be understood; “success” might be better understood. 

Whatever you do, you should be successful in doing it.

Q: I still get confused about the action part of it. You’re saying it’s effortless. You still—the body acts to [accomplish] it, but it’s without . . .

Lester: Yes, it’s without effort. It’s like floating through the air, floating through the thing. As I explained, if you wanted to lift your arm up, it takes no effort: it just floats up. No energy is required. So, effortlessness is when I say, “I am not the doer” and I let it happen. Another way of expressing it is letting go and letting God. But your actual experience is [that there is] no effort.

Q: That makes it a lot clearer, because the body could go through all of the actions of the day, doing things, and yet be effortless if we stay released.

Lester: Right. That’s it. I think the last time I read something that Ramana Maharshi said: “Action doesn’t stop one from realization; identifying as the doer does.”

So, bottom line, it all adds up to “I am my beingness.” And when you come from your beingness, you’ll just watch the bodies float around, including your own, exactly as you would watch them on a movie screen. And when bodies on a movie screen start shooting bullets and wiping each other out, you know it for what it is—just an imagined thing. There’s no death. You can imagine a death, but actually there’s no thing as death. Get rid of the image, get rid of the mind. And, again, you’ll never stop struggling until you go all the way to freedom.

Maybe we ought to continue where we left off last night. It was, “Be not the doer.” Who wants to be a door? (Laughter) So I’ll say, “Be not the door.” (Laughter)

And in general there were a lot of questions on what it means to “Be not the doer.”

 So I think I started off by saying, well, I told you to release to get everything you want.

 When you are released, you have no sense of doership—everything falls into line.

 When you are released you experience the sense of being not the doer.

 So that ought to connect for every one of you. 

When you’re completely released, it just happens with no effort.

 And so you just sit back and watch it happen, is the experiencing you go through.

 That’s being not the doer.

Now, you cannot go into inaction because of your karma. 

But you should use the action to grow by, and one of the big things is “Be not the doer.” Watch it happen. When you are being not the doer your sense is [that] you’re sitting in a theater watching the show go on. Do you have any question on the sense of being in action and being not the doer?

Q: I got to the point where even my will seems senseless.

Lester: It is, if you can “Be not the doer.”

 But if you cannot “Be not the doer” then will is useable. 

Will is effort; it’s making an effort to undo the effort.

 But there’s a power in you, it’s a willpower, where you can decree if you will. So that now willing is good, because you could will out the whole thing if you so decided. I have yet to see the first one do it.

Okay, so, what’s your question now?

Q: You just answered it. Thank you.

Lester: See, with Alan I was able to explain it relative to something that was going on. He wanted to make a preparation for somebody to do something that he would like them to do.

 And he asked me if I would call that [unintelligible] and I said, No. 

Well, in his idea you had to go “da, da, da, da” to get ready for it. 

My concept was, in a matter of thirty seconds I’ll have the whole thing completed when I see this person. 

Because I’m not the doer; it happens right away if I continue to be not the doer. 

If I am the doer then I gotta make preparations, I gotta do convincing, I gotta do asking—a lot of roundabout stuff. 

But when you’re not the doer, it’s the sense of letting go and letting God do it. 

You actually sit by and watch the body action go on, just as you would [watch] a moving picture of your body.

I think you have all experienced times when you were not the doer and you saw things happen, right? 

So you’ve all experienced it, and experience is the main thing that we need to use to learn. 

We cannot learn intellectually through the mind, through the head. 

The mind is the enemy; the mind is the obstacle. 

The only way we can learn is through experiencing. 

And each and every one of you has experienced being not the doer and watching the thing fall into line without effort. All right.

 Now, the thing to accomplish is to have that happen all the time.

 When it did happen, was it miserable? (Laughter)

 But every time you make an effort, you’re unhappy. 

You’re striving, you’re struggling.

 Every time you make an effort, you’re not happy. 

But the moment you let go of identifying yourself as being the body, things are effortless. I should say “body-mind.” 

They’re opposite sides of the same coin, the mind and the body. The mind says the body is there.

(8:00) So, experiencing, there’s something you should know: the difference between the intellect and experiencing. 

Everything you accumulate even now in the intellect, you’re going to have to drop [in order] to get that intellect, that mind, totally quiet. 

Everything you’ve learned in your lifetimes, you’re going to dump. 

Afterwards, you’re omniscient. 

Afterward, you’re in touch with your beingness, which is omniscient.

 And what thinking would omniscience require? If everything is known, what is there to think about? So you shift from using your head, which is your block, to quieting that head, so only your beingness remains. And everything is effortless, everything falls perfectly into line, and you’re in the perfect happiness that there is, that’s really your basic nature.

You should be unattached in your works. But for an unpractised man it is an uncommon thing to reach the point where no crowd and no task hinders him. 

It calls for diligent application, so that God is ever present to him and shines before him completely unveiled at all times and in all company.

 Skillful diligence is required for this, and in particular two things. 

One is that a man has shut himself off well inwardly, so that his mind is on its guard against the images without, that they remain without and do not unfittingly keep company and walk with him, and that they find no resting-place in him. The second is that he should not let himself be caught up by his internal imagery, whether it be in the form of pictures or lofty thoughts or outward impressions or whatever is present to his mind; nor [should he let himself] be distracted nor dissipate himself in their multiplicity. A man should train and bend all his powers to this and keep his inner self present to him. – Meister Eckhart, The Talks of Instruction (Walshe)

(10:49) I remember in the early days they’d put a tape recorder on, and it meant to me, “Oh, I wish that were not on.”

Question: It would stop.

Lester: No, it would go, and when I’d replay it, it was blank.

 There’s nothing out there but your picture. And for some years, when anyone took a picture of me, I wasn’t in the picture.

 And if it was a crowd, everyone would come out but me. Until Neva Dell [phonetic] came to town and had a national conference here. She kind of put me up high, and “Oh, I must be in the picture.” 

So I said, “Oh, Lord, it had better come out this time.” And from that time on, my picture comes out now when people shoot it.

 But it’s just another example that there’s nothing out there but your consciousness. I know what did it: “Oh, I’m not that body. That body is just imagination.”

 And so it didn’t come out on the negative—nor on the positive.

Q: I have a question. How do I get myself into the place of being not the doer?

Lester: Practice. Of course, the very best way, as I said before, is releasing. 

When you’re released, you’re not the doer.

 And that bothers you sometimes!

Q: Well, it seems that things happen. You don’t really—

Lester: That’s it—things happen. You don’t have to do them. . . . But the sense is that released sense: you let go, and it happens, in the sense of letting go and letting God.

 You don’t have to do a thing. 

You just watch it happen. 

You’re not the doer.

 Does that answer your question? It’s experiential. 

You’re not going to get it in the head; you’re going to get it in the experience.

the seer, seen, seeing

How do we really heal?

From 1925-1935 writings as compiled by Mary Kretzmann in Divine Will Healing

Perfect health is given by God. Disease is man-made. The baby who is born blind, or who is born a moron, brings such a condition from a past form of existence. Diseases acquired from the past or created through transgressions of the laws in this life are the results of human error. God wants His children to enjoy health and happiness, but they create disease and sorrow by breaking His laws.

Human methods are limited

No doubt some medicines have healing power, since God gave herbs and minerals power to affect the body of man. We know from experience that medicine has power to heal, as is demonstrated by the wonderful healings effected by good drugs and good doctors. However, it must be remembered that medicine and doctors have limited power and often reveal their helplessness when confronted with chronic diseases. Therefore, to put your entire trust in medicine and not in God’s unlimited healing power, is sure to bring disillusionment.

God is the healer

Convince the mind first that all human methods of cure are limited in their healing power, and that only God’s all-permeating, all-healing power is unlimited. While sitting in silence in the morning and evening, and whenever you have time during the day, mentally affirm: "Father, Thy unlimited and all-healing power is in me. Manifest Thy Light through the darkness of my ignorance."

In healing, the power of the healer, great or small, is limited compared to the unlimited healing power of God. Hence, all healers, instead of commanding their own powers in healing, should invoke the unlimited divine power of healing to flow through them. Man’s power may fail but God’s power can never fail. Yet God cannot heal us until we open the gates of our own willingness to be healed.

The key: an interested, joyous will

Life force enters the body through the agency of an interested, joyous will. Learn to perform all your duties with a courageous cheerfulness welling up from within you; then you will see that a flood of vitality will move through your actions and your entire body. Do your daily duties, (even those which you have no interest in), with deepest attention and happiness, remembering that God is guiding and stimulating every worthwhile effort you are making to achieve a noble ambition. With the consciousness of God in your actions, and with the performance of noble actions, God and ceaseless energy will enter your body.

Strong will-power pulls energy from the conscious cosmic rays surrounding the body through the door of the medulla oblongata. A man with strong will-power, by his highly vibrating mind, can shake out disease, failure, and ignorance. But the will vibration must be stronger than the vibration of physical or inner disease. The more chronic the disease is, the stronger and more unflinching should be the determination, faith, and effort of will to get well.

Negative thoughts shut off the supply of energy

Remember that doubt, mental fatigue, worry, indifference, fear, restlessness, and timidity create counteracting static which makes it impossible for the cosmic energy to tune in with man. Mental and physical laziness are accompanied by listlessness and lack of energy.

Enthusiasm and willingness go hand in hand with fresh supplies of energy. The greater the will, the more inexhaustible the energy. Death cannot ensue as long as the will to live is present. It is only because man, after his exhausting struggle with disease, relaxes the hold of his will on life, that death can conquer. So omnipotent is the will of man.

This second is Perfection

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
This second is Perfection

This second in which you now live is right, just the way it is. 

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this second. 

This second is perfection, pure awareness, ultimate reality. 

But we do not live in the second. 

We live in the past or in the future.

 This is why the problems arise. 

But in this very moment, this very second, all is well, extremely well. 

You may be going through the most dastardly experiences in life, yet your mind dwells on these things, they get worse. 

But if you draw in your mind to the moment, to the second, everything will stop, and you'll be in perfect peace.

Learn to live in the now.

 There really is no past and there's no future. 

There's only this moment, and in this moment all is well.

 I know it appears sort of rough to some of you. You're thinking of what you have to do next week. You have to pay your bills, you have to go to the doctor, you have to get married, you have to get divorced. Your needs, your wants, your passions, all these things go through your mind all the time.

 But if you would only learn to live in the now, in the moment, nothing is ever happening in the moment.

The moment is eternal peace, eternal love, joy, happiness.

 Feel this. Feel the moment I'm referring to. 

How beautiful. 

When your mind begins to wander, creation begins for you.

 You lose the moment, and the world begins for you.

 According to your karma, your consciousness, your samskaras, you start creating this world, as soon as you begin to think. 

Thoughts are not your friend. 

They do not really belong to you. 

Do you feel the perfect silence?

As you breathe and you inhale, feel as if you're sucking in the whole world, the whole universe, and as you exhale, you're letting it out again.

 This exercise makes you feel that the whole universe comes from you, goes out and comes back.

 Like when you're sleeping. 

In deep sleep the universe is not here, the world is not here, your body is not here.

 As you awaken, everything is here.

 Do this with your breathing. 

You inhale, there's absolutely nothing. 

The universe has gone back into yourself. 

You exhale, and the universe is out there again, external to you.

 There is only the one Self, and you are that. 

You have no body. You have no mind. 

You are like boundless space.

The old you is beginning to disappear. 

The old you is thousands of words, millions of thoughts, reacting to everything that comes along. 

This you no longer exists. 

You are fresh and new.

 There is no longer any karma that can hurt you or do anything to you, no longer any samskaras that you have to experience. 

You have already crossed the ocean of samsara, and you are already the Bodhisattva. 

There's nothing you have to earn. 

There's nothing you have to pray for.

 There's no one you have to see. 

There's absolutely nothing you have to do. 

You are already free.

You are beyond freedom, beyond liberation, beyond delusion, beyond ignorance.

 You are neither wisdom nor ignorance.

 There are no words for you whatsoever. 

There's no description of what you are. 

There's no one to say. 

You are that pure awareness that has always been and will always be.

 There is absolutely nothing you have to do to earn it, for you are awake from the dream

. Feel this freedom you've never felt before.

 Feel the joy, the happiness, the love that you have become.

 Feel the reality.

the forgetting of God’s infinite being

The separate self or ego is an inevitable corollary to the forgetting, overlooking or ignoring of the true and only self of eternal, infinite awareness, or, in religious language, the forgetting of God’s infinite being. ~

 Rupert Spira

The Land of the Jnanis

The choice you make determines what happens to you from here on.

It's very simple.

You either realize that you are not of this world, that you are absolute reality, your divine nature is pure awareness, and you rest in that,
or you worry, and you fear, and you try to make things happen, and you're always scheming, and planning, and looking at
the future with dismay, worrying about the past.

The choice is really yours.

And even when some of you say, "I am absolute reality," you’re still referring to the body, for you are saying, "I am," and you don't know I am as consciousness.

You're saying, "I am absolute reality," meaning that your body, your ego, is absolute reality, and this is a great mistake. 

You have to understand when you say, "I am absolute reality," I am and absolute reality are both synonymous.

You're declaring the highest truth.

You can say it this way,
you may say, "I am is absolute reality,"
for if you’re having problems, if you think something is wrong, and you say
"I am absolute reality," you're really saying my problems, and my negative thinking, is absolute reality.

That's what you mean by I am.

So remember what I am really means.

I am is God. I am is nirvana, emptiness. I am is consciousness, and that is your reality.

So there’s no real difference between me and you. 

Absolute reality, consciousness, is all-pervading.

If it's all-pervading, how can you be something else?

You see the folly of your thinking?

There is only absolute consciousness.

 There is only the reality. 

It is all-pervading. 

There’s nothing else.

Just being aware of this, your thoughts stop. 

There is nothing to think about. 

There is no thing you have to do. 

There are no mantras you have to keep chanting. 

There are no formulas that are going to turn you into a jnani. 

There are no yoga practices that you have to keep doing.

 You simply have to be aware that absolute reality is omnipresent, all-pervading, and there is no room for anything else.

I am is Brahman.

 It goes further than that.

 I am is Parabrahman, beyond Brahman. 

It's unpronounceable, unfathomable. 

You are that. 

You are that consciousness, and there is absolutely nothing to think about.

 There is no thing you have to get rid of. 

There is no special reading you have to do. 

There is no one you have to really see. 

You simply have to be aware of the fact that absolute reality is all there is. 

There’s not even room for a thought, for a question, for an answer. 

There’s no room, because the absolute reality takes up all the room.

There is nothing to wonder about. 

You do not have to be worthy. 

You do not have to deserve it. 

There is no use thinking about your past, because your past never existed and never will exist. 

The past and the future are just dreams. 

Awaken from the dream by realizing absolute reality is the only power. 

It is everywhere.

 There is not the world and absolute reality, and then you have to overcome the world to find your reality.

 There is no world to overcome. 

There is no God to pray to.

 Brahman is yourself. 

Shiva is your consciousness. 

You are that.

What else is there to know? 

You do not have to be a scholar of the Upanishads. 

You do not have to memorize various passages. 

You have to become like a little child and stay centered in the present. 

No one exists but you. 

You are the only existence. 

There is no other existence.

If you took this room and everything in it, the tape recorders, the bodies, the flowers, the carpet, and began to melt it down to its most minutest particles, you would get pure energy from everything. 

Everything will come from the same source.

 That source is absolute reality. 

It is the substratum of all existence. 

And that source is you. 

You are that. 

You are nothing else. 

Everything else is a lie. 

You’re searching, and you’re striving, and you’re looking for this, and you're looking for that.

Give it up. 

Stay put. 

Do not allow your mind to think past your nose. 

Catch your mind. Observe it thinking, and laugh.

Where do the thoughts come, that you think about? 

They are formed by habit. 

For years you've been using your mind to think, and you believe the only way you can survive is through thinking. 

But now you are beginning to understand that what you call your mind is not really your friend. 

It is an optical illusion that keeps you earthbound, and makes you worry about your affairs, and concerns you with the ways of the world.

But what if you understood that the world doesn't exist? 

The world is like the water in a mirage.

 It appears to exist, just as your body appears to exist, but when you investigate you will laugh, for there is nothing at all that exists.

 If you wish to listen to your mind, you're going to have a hard time on this earth, for you will find that some things go good one day, and seem to go bad the next day. 

And then you're happy when you get things going your way, and you become miserable when they go the other way.

This is the way of the world. It plays games with you. 

You have to awaken. 

You have to surrender all of your games, all of your mental attitudes, all of the past and future, all of your beliefs and conceptual thinking. 

All of these things must go, all of your objects and subjects, all of your so called human intelligence, everything you've learned.

It has to be transcended and then you'll be free.

But as long as you hold on to the slightest thing… It may be that you're in love with the rose.

 If you look at the rose and believe in the rose, it will keep you earth-bound. 

You are the rose. 

The rose exists because you exist, just as the world exists because you exist. 

When you cease to exist, the world ceases to exist. 

When you cease to exist, there's only the reality, and you become absolutely free.

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams Volume 1
# Chapter: The Land of the Jnanis

Depicts the Chakras- such a cheerful image

what did Albert Einstein say?

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music. Albert Einstein

Way of Grace Study Group

Are you interested in opening to Grace?

Would you like to take part in a new study group to explore the  'Way of Grace' by Miranda Macpherson?.

We will meet on 4 consecutive Sundays, 2pm for a 2.15 start, finish at 4pm.

February 10th    Relaxing into the Ground of Grace.
February  17th   Receiving the Blessings of Grace
February  24th   The Transforming Power of Grace
March      3rd     Living the Embodiment of Grace

Venue - Station Road, Perranporth.


Facilitated by Zannie Rose

£40 per series of 4 meetings

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