Like when you're sleeping.

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.

~Robert Adams - T. 167 - The Highest Teaching is Silence -
2nd July, 1992

Vi

There is not one who prays and one who listens.
The prayer and the listener are the same person.
There is no differentiation.
~Robert Adams - T.39 - Sitting in the Silence - 27th January, 1991

Again, if you were the witness of your dream at night,

Again, if you were the witness of your dream at night,
you would not try to improve yourself, improve your affairs.
You would not even react to anything. 

Because there's nothing to improve, because you're not that at all.
The dream is like the images on the chalkboard,
they can be erased and new images put on
and erased and new images put on. 

The dream is like bubbles in the ocean, the bubbles come,
the bubbles go, but the ocean remains the same.
The dream is like the water in the mirage. 

It doesn't exist but it seems real. And so it is with you.

You appear to be real. Everything appears to be real to you,
but it's not.

 And again I say, do not believe what I say.
Find out for yourself. Prove it to yourself.
The only way you can prove it to yourself,
is by practicing sadhana, spiritual disciplines. 

If you do nothing, you get nothing.
You just go through life like a leaf in the wind
and your life will end and you'll appear again somewhere else. 

Because you continue to dream.
In that dream there is reincarnation, there's karma, there's God.
There's all kinds of things happening in the dream.
But also remember, the dream came out of you originally
to begin with. It emanated from you,
where else would it come from? 

There's no one to cause the dream but you.
Who caused the dream that you dream at night? 

You may dream about God.
You may dream about karma and reincarnation.
You could dream that you're an angel.
You may dream that you go to heavenly planes.
You hear blissful music. 

What's causing this to happen? You! There's only you.
You are the cause of everything that takes place. Everything!
Again, to prove this you go into sleep,
into deep sleep and you don't dream,
there's no dream taking place. You're in dreamless sleep. 

The universe is gone, the world is gone, your body is gone,
God is gone, your troubles are gone, everything is gone!
This is why when you awaken,
you say, "I feel refreshed. I slept good."
Because you were without the world and its manifestation.
You must become the witness to this dream also, not the doer,
but the witness.

There's quite a difference.
The doer believes the body and the mind are real.
So they have to take action and make things happen,
get involved in the world. 

But the witness really just imagines that everything's okay,
even though they have not had a realization yet,
but they try to witness everything to the best of their ability.
They become the seer, the witness of all the happenings
on this earth. But there's no reaction. 

And if there's no reaction, the mind becomes weaker and
weaker and weaker, for it has nothing to do anymore.
Until the mind is slowly transcended
and you become free and liberated.

-Robert Adams - T.231 - Witness The Dream -14th March, 1993

I can only explain to you how the universe works,

When it's time to give up this body, to drop it,
you can't take anybody with you, nobody, no possessions, nothing. 

All the things you've been fighting for will have to be left behind.
All your beliefs, your politics,
everything will all have to be left behind.
So how fortunate you are to be able to hear these things.

Do not spend your life discussing politics or the world
or people or places. Save yourself! Save yourself!

I suppose this is another reason why we have Satsang,
so you can hear these things over and over again,
until it clicks and something happens.
You are the only one who can really save yourself. 

Take refuge in the Self. 

At the end of each day, go back to the day in retrospect,
and see how you reacted to situations.
This will give you a good idea of where you're coming from.
It's between you and yourself. 

See the kind of day that you had. "What affected you today,"
you say to yourself. Were you affected by life, life's vicissitudes?
Is your mind always thinking, thinking, thinking constantly and consistently about person, place and thing?
You have to be totally honest with yourself. It's your life.
You can do whatever you want with it.

I can only explain to you how the universe works,
what's going on and the experiences that I've had.
You must learn to love yourself just the way you are. 

If you really love yourself you will love others.
Whatever quality you have, that's what you see in others.
Remember, there's no machine that churns out
pieces of the universe. 

There's no God that's created this universe.
It's all coming from your own mind. It comes from yourself.
You are the one. You must think of these things
when you awaken in the morning. 

Do not get up and put on your clothes and go to work right away,
get involved in the TV and newspaper. It's your dream!
What are you doing with it? Are you lost in your dream?
Are you taking the world as being real and reacting accordingly? 

It's your choice.

-Robert Adams - T.231 - Witness The Dream -14th March, 1993

When you're in the silence.

When you're in the silence. When there is noone to judge.
No thoughts to fear. Noone to fight, in that second you are God.

Again when I say you are God, again it's a misnomer.
You can never be God, what you are right now. 
Because when I say you, you're thinking of the self,
this little self, your small self,
and when I say, "You are God!" 

You are believing you are God as a person.
This is impossible. No human being can ever be God.
But the you which is the absolute reality,
which is Brahman, which is sat-chit-ananda is God! 

So you have to get your body out of the way, so-to-speak.
You have to get yourself out of the way and allow God
to shine through as the Self, as nirvana, as sat-chit-ananda.
Think of yourself this way.

When you say, "I am the body," realize you made a mistake.
When you say, "The body is going through karma,"
realize you made a mistake. 

When you say, "The body suffers," realize you made a mistake.
When you say, "The body does its own thing,
separate from the Self," realize you made a mistake. 

There is nothing separate from the Self.
The Self alone is. The Self is Brahman, period! end!
There is nothing else. 

There is not a body that becomes Brahman,
from practicing spiritual disciplines for years and years and
years there will never be a body that becomes Brahman.
Therefore do not dwell on the body at all.

Always think of yourself as the Self,
as consciousness, as pure awareness.

When your mind wants to think of the body or someone else's body,
immediately put a stop to this by simply knowing there is no body. 

There is nobody to experience anything.
How happy you will feel when you can just understand this. 

You will feel such happiness, such joy, such bliss.
Just by understanding what I'm talking about.
For as soon as you take the mind off the body,
the mind becomes weak and starts to disintegrate. 

But if you keep your mind on the body or somebody else's body,
the body of the world, the body of the universe, it's all the body,
the same body — remember there is no difference between
your body and the universal body. It's all the same body. 

Because you think you are a body you think the universe is a body.
But there is no universe and there is no body,
it's all an hallucination.

This realization really brings you happiness,
total happiness, total bliss, total joy.

Just to understand and know this, know it with all your heart,
with all your soul, with all your being,
that you were never a body and you will never be a body.

-Robert Adams - T230: You Have Created Me Out Of Your Self -
11th March, 1993

►Spiritual progress ensues automatically from choosing goodwill,

►Spiritual progress ensues automatically from choosing goodwill, forgiveness, and lovingness as a way of being in the world at large rather than viewing it as a gain-seeking transaction.◄

From: “Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment” (2006), Chapter 1: Shame: Despair, p. 41

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From an overall understanding of the nature of consciousness, it can be seen that justice (karma) is automatic as a consequence of the interaction of the vibration of the soul within the overall infinite field of consciousness. 

The science of truth and consciousness calibration research confirm the scriptural passage, “Every hair on one’s head is counted” (numbered). 

All is known by the infinite field of Divinity by which justice therefore automatically prevails. 

Mankind’s fantasies are projections from the unconscious of an anthropomorphic god who is vengeful, jealous, wrathful, and the alleged ‘cause’ of disasters.

 However, it is obvious that natural disasters of greater proportion than have happened during the history of mankind occurred before man even existed and are, in fact, presumed to have been the condition that brought about the termination of the age of the dinosaur.

To summarize, as is commonly known, karma (spiritual fate) is the consequence of decisions of the will and determines spiritual destiny after physical death (the celestial levels, hells, purgatory, or the so-called inner astral planes [bardos]). 

Included also is the option of reincarnation in the human physical domain, which, by consciousness calibration research, can only be done by agreement with the individual will. 

Thus, all humans have, by agreement, chosen this pathway. 

In addition, consciousness research confirms that all persons are born under the most optimal conditions for spiritual evolution, no matter what the appearance seems to be.

Karma really means accountability, and, as cited in previous spiritual research, every entity is answerable to the universe.

 It is also well known that positive karma (good works, prayer, selfless service, benevolent acts, etc.) can compensate for and undo negative (‘bad’) karma.

 In this process, ‘merit’ accrues, which at times can even be drawn against in confronting vicissitudes. 

►Spiritual progress ensues automatically from choosing good will, forgiveness, and lovingness as a way of being in the world at large rather than viewing it as a gain-seeking transaction.◄

Working through one’s ‘karma’ includes not only this lifetime but historical, long-forgotten evolutionary aspects as well. 

Spiritual work may bring up repressed attitudes, thoughts, or beliefs from the personal unconscious, as well as aspects of the collective human unconscious that are energetically aligned analogously to the chakra system of the Jungian archetypes (e.g., the heart of the child, the spleen of the warrior, the naiveté of the adolescent, etc.).

Due to the nature of human development, even a mature, intelligent, fully-grown adult still has repressed or forgotten, but still functional, infantile and childish drives that operate out of awareness.

One of the most common is the out-of- awareness balance between the ‘good me’ and the ‘bad me.’ (This is the area of the split and compartmentalized Jekyll-and-Hyde personality disorders.)

The good/bad dichotomy may be the source of multiple psychological difficulties, of which projecting the ‘bad me’ onto others is the most common.

From: “Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment” (2006), Chapter 1: Shame: Despair, pp. 41–42

Feel the Reality

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.

~Robert Adams - T. 167 - The Highest Teaching is Silence -
2nd July, 1992

Highest Teaching= Silence

There are certain principles we should always remember,
if we wish to be happy all the time.

The first one is, the highest teaching in the world is silence,
to be still. There is no higher teaching than this.

Silence is Brahman. Silence is grace. Silence is absolute reality.

I'm speaking of real silence, not just keeping quiet for a while. 

Real silence is when you go deep within and
you become totally oblivious to your surroundings.

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 - T. 167 - The Highest Teaching is Silence -
2nd July, 1992

"Leave people alone. Do not try to change anyone

"Leave people alone.

Do not try to change anyone. 

Do not look for problems.

 Do not allow your mind to think past your nose. 

Yesterday is gone and it can never come back. 

Every human being makes mistakes.

 Do not regret the past, it's part of your learning experience. 

are not a sinner.

You are not a bad person, makes no difference what you've done.

 The deed may be evil, but you are not. 

Look at yourself as total existence, and act from there.

 Expect nothing and you'll never be disappointed.

 Give of yourself.

 Expect nothing in return."

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

There is only consciousness."

There is only consciousness."
I know this sounds strange to some of you
because you're so identified with your body-mind that you say,
"What about the experiences going on here?
What about this?
What about my rent that I have to pay next week?
And what about my husband who left me?
And what about my job that I have been terminated from,
that's all very real." 

Of course it’s real because you are identifying with the body.
So it is very, very real.
There are not two worlds.
There is not the world of the body, and the world of the universe,
and the world of your problems and affairs,
and also the world of consciousness. 

There is only consciousness and you are that.
Just listening to this sets you free. 

It sets you free from all doubt and limitation.
You begin to feel immortality.
You begin to understand that you were never born.
How can consciousness be born? 

And if you were never born how can you die? What dies?
Well, some of you say, "The body,"
but I tell you there is no body who dies.
There is just nobody home.
There never was a body, there is no body,
and there never will be a body.

If you can't see that yet, or feel it, don't worry about it.
All I ask you to do is to sit in the silence.
Everything will be revealed to you.
This is why I always tell newcomers,
"Don't believe me. Don't believe a word I say.
Find out for yourself."

-Robert Adam - T.40 - Only Consciousness Exists -
31st January, 1991

Everything is consciousness, everything.

Everything is consciousness, everything.
When you ask, "What is consciousness?"
there is no valid answer, so I remain silent.

Therefore you can say that consciousness is silence.

You have to become a living embodiment of consciousness.
The only way you can do that is by keeping still.

If you want to solve any problem in life do not try to solve it verbally.
Become quiet.

It is a known fact that people like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison,
and others, when they had a mathematical equation to solve,
they would sit in their rocking chair for hours in the silence and
everything would be revealed to them.

That's how Einstein came up with his theory of relativity,
if you read his life story. He used to spend hours sitting by himself
in the silence, and everything was revealed to him scientifically.

So it is with you.
If you want the answer to any problem, do not run to a psychiatrist,
or a lawyer, or even a doctor, but sit by yourself and listen.
Yourself has all the answers. Why?

For every atom of the universe is within you. You are that.
You are the entire universe.

You are the microcosm in the macrocosm.
Therefore all the answers in the universe must also be in you.
All of the solutions, all of the wisdom,
all of the happiness and bliss you've been searching for,
it's within you.

That's what Jesus meant when he said,
"I and my Father are one," and also,
"if you have seen me, you have seen the Father."

He wasn't talking about a person called the Father.
He was talking about a universal principal of harmony,
of bliss, of joy. He was speaking of consciousness.

It's within you. It is you. You are that. You have always been that.
It isn't far away. It's right where you are.

And as you sit in the silence, and think of these things,
you will begin to realize something very interesting.
You will begin to realize and understand,
"Well, if my body is consciousness, it cannot be a body,
for it cannot be both.

It cannot be consciousness and my body. So it’s duality."
So as you start to think about the word consciousness
in the silence, it is revealed to you that you have no body.
There is only consciousness. And it doesn't seem strange at all.

For when you begin to understand and fathom
what consciousness really is you will realize it is self-contained.

Consciousness knows only consciousness.
It doesn't know the universe. It doesn't know bodies.
It doesn't know problems. It doesn't know wars.
It doesn't know man's inhumanity to man.



It doesn't know anything you know.
It only knows itself as pure awareness.
And as you sit by yourself in the silence
this becomes perfectly clear.

And all of a sudden the realization comes to you,
"I have no problems.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the world.
There is nothing going on.
There is only consciousness."

-Robert Adam - T.40 - Only Consciousness Exists -
31st January, 1991



 

There is nothing to figure out, and nothing to understand.

There is nothing to figure out, and nothing to understand.
You are not a person. There is no such thing as a person.
The so-called person is merely a thought in the mind of God.
In truth, it is not even that. 

There is only pure Awareness, Consciousness,
formless, unborn, and undying, and that is who you are.
How can the apparent mind possibly comprehend this?
It is not possible. 

The finite can never understand the infinite.
The mind does not exist.
You are free now. You have always been free.
You have absolutely nothing to let go of,
nothing to overcome, and nothing to attain.
You have no samskaras, no problems, and no karma.
Whatever seems to happen to your mind and body
has nothing to do with you. 

When you truly understand this, you are free.
Seek the Source of the mind, the Source of the I-thought,
by constant patient self-inquiry. 

When the mind is quiet, you shine in all your glory.
Be yourself and be happy.

~ Robert Adams

Self Confidence

Self-confidence is a critical skill that we need to live our lives fully and effectively.

 It is also very helpful to have confidence in the Self, The Supreme One, Isness.

These two often go together.

 The more you are confident in your unlimited nature the more you have self-confidence in whatever you endeavour.

 Plus, self-confidence helps you to embrace the freedom that you are. In this release we dissolve the barriers to greater self-confidence and greater confidence in the Self. 

Tip: True self-confidence begins with having confidence in your real authentic Self. The more you recognize the truth of who you are and trust that truth about yourself the more you gain confidence in the Self. This also helps in building self-confidence for external action. So give yourself permission to trust your Beingness.

Release
In this moment could you allow yourself to Be What You Are?
In this moment, when you think of being self confident, having confidence in your personal self and/or in the One Self - what does that bring up inside of you?

What thoughts feelings beliefs ideas attitudes.
Could you welcome it, let it be here?

Welcome any wanting to control your confidence, any wanting to build it up
any wanting to hold on to whatever you have?
-any wanting to do anything with or about your level of self confidence.

Could you welcome any sense of self confidence, whether you have it or not- is somehow personal, about you or who you are?

Just for now as best you can could you let go of any feelings of lack of self confidence ....
or you may be remembering from your past.

and could you be open to complete confidence in your self and or The Self?

(its just a choice )
Lets run through that again....
Welcome any sense of lack of self confidence- any place in your life where you are not doing things because you are not confident about your ability.
or who you are...and any doubt you have about Being The One, which also shows a lack of confidence in One's Self, that is The All.

Welcome, one, both.either....

Welcome what that brings up inside of you...
welcome any sense its personal, about you, who you are.

welcome any wanting to fix, change, control, do anything with/about it.
Could you let go of any self doubt- set free any lack of self confidence.
Could you allow yourself to be confident in/to trust your self/Self?

..the One Self that is The All?

Rinse and repeat several times daily

I AM

Do not allow the world to run your life.

Life is very short in this body and all of the things
you're going through will soon come to an end. 

If you have not made any spiritual headway
you will be under the delusion of karma. 

And you will return again and again in a delusory body form 
going through many experiences that appear real to you.

The only way for it to come to an end is to give it all up now.
Make up your mind that this is going to become the year for you
to totally become realized. To awaken totally.

And by following the three precepts as outlined,
this will happen to you faster than you can breath, if you allow it to.

Do not allow the world to run your life.
Do not let the world fool you.
All this is an illusion.

Be yourself. Know yourself.
Realize that you are Brahman, the pure awareness. 

Your nature is pure consciousness and
one day you will have to awaken. 

So why not begin now. Why wait?

~Robert Adams - T117: Three Precepts For Self Realization

All Present All Powerful

Always remember to go into the 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

You are not the body-mind

From your experience, see if this talk from Lester resonates:

"You may see fully who you are and not be able to maintain it. What happens is that, being the infinite Self, we can get a glimpse of the infinite, hold it for a while, and then suddenly feel as though we've lost it.

 The reason for that is that the mind has not been eliminated. The subconscious thoughts of limitation are submerged for the moment. You may go completely into your Self and let go of the mind temporarily. You haven't eliminated the mind, you just momentarily let go of it. 

So there you are, for the moment, totally the infinite Self. However, the mind that has been submerged, re- emerges and then the ego takes over and you just can't understand what happened to you, what brought you back into the heaviness of the world again. 
What is required is that we re-establish that state of the Self again and again until it becomes permanent.
 Each time we do it, we scorch more of the mind, until finally we have scorched the entire mind. Then we are permanently established in the Self.
 Then you sit back and the mind is out there and the body is out there and you are not the mind, you are not the body.
 As long as you know you are not the mind and the body, both of them can go on to their heart's content, and you know that they cannot touch you."

Change no-one- change nothing

Three Precepts For Self Realization

Life is very short in this body and all of the things
you're going through will soon come to an end. 

If you have not made any spiritual headway
you will be under the delusion of karma. 

And you will return again and again in a delusory body
form going through many experiences that appear real to you.

The only way for it to come to an end is to give it all up now.
Make up your mind that this is going to become the year for you
to totally become realized. 
To awaken totally.

And by following the three precepts as outlined,
this will happen to you faster than you can breathe,
if you allow it to.

Do not allow the world to run your life.
Do not let the world fool you.
All this is an illusion.
Be yourself. Know yourself. 

Realize that you are Brahman, the pure awareness.
Your nature is pure consciousness and
one day you will have to awaken. 

So why not begin now. Why wait?

~Robert Adams - T117: Three Precepts For Self Realization

The Rishis of old have told us this.

The Rishis of old have told us this.
Great Sages have taught this. 

Do not go after the beauty of the world for that only lasts for so long.
Find the beauty within yourself.
Find the truth within yourself that is forever. 

The real beauty within yourself does not stop at death of the body.
It's a continuum, it's forever. 

When you awaken you see the world
as a superimposition on yourself that comes and goes.

Think of yourself as a chalkboard and
someone is drawing all sorts of scenes on the chalkboard. 

Happy scenes, then they're erased.
Unhappy scenes, and they're erased.
And this continues over and over again. 

But what happens to the chalkboard?
Nothing, it remains forever the same. 

So it is with the Self.
The Self is absolute consciousness. Pure awareness. 

Nirvana. Absolute reality.

 You are that, it is you.
There is no coming and going, there is no change. 

If you touch a semblance of this in your heart you will feel such joy
that you will search forever for the truth of your being and
then you will truly find happiness.

~Robert Adams - T.64 - Everyone Is Searching For Happiness -
26th May, 1991