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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

Jim Newman [eng]

Jim Newman EMPTINESS

THERE IS NO PATH. “THIS” IS HOME. FOR NO ONE.
This website & Jim Newmans NON-DUALITY meetings share a mystery, a paradox. The paradox is that THIS, this appearance, isn’t what it appears to be. It is and it isn’t. It’s no-thing being something. It’s emptiness appearing as everything. It’s unified appearing as divided or separated.
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Within this apparent paradox arises an experience. That experience is, that this appearance is happening to ‘me’. That experience is not paradoxical; it feels very real. There’s no space, no room, no possibility for the reality, that ‘this’ isn’t happening to ‚me’. That experience of duality is dissatisfying. It’s uncomfortable. Out of that experience arises the need to bring about a wholeness, to cover up the feeling that what is, isn’t complete, to make the feeling that it’s not okay – okay. Out of that arises the need for good and bad and right and wrong. So this appearance then turns into ‚my life‘, and my life is the need to make ‘this’ better, ‘this’ good, to find out or to solve the problem of why I don’t feel like it’s okay, why I feel like something’s wrong, why I feel like I need to seek, to find something else.

Here and in the meetings, there will be an uncovering, revealing, pointing to the reality, that that experience of separation, that experience that I’m real, that there’s something wrong and that I need to do something about it, is illusory. In reality, THIS is whole, this is complete. There’s nothing missing, there’s no real lack, there’s no real need for anything to happen.

This sharing has no authority. So this up here is not telling anyone anything. There’s nothing that needs to be said. This is a response to the apparent question of the experience, that something needs to happen. The answer is: “No, there’s nothing that needs to happen.”

The solution or the end of the seeking isn’t a finding. That need to find something is never satisfied; it never happens. If it does, it’s very temporary. I find something and I’m afraid of losing it; I find something and I’m trying to hold onto it; I’m trying something and I’m trying to maintain it. It’s never satisfied. The end of the seeking is the end of the seeker, is the end of the experience, that ‘this’ is real.

What’s left is what’s already obviously everything: THIS. This doesn’t need anything else, this is already all there is. Whatever is happening—whatever feelings, thoughts, experiences are happening—that is the wholeness that is looked for. It’s not the wholeness the individual’s looking for. It’s not the wholeness that the “I am” is looking for. It will always be dissatisfied with this. It’s a wholeness that’s beyond the personal seeking, beyond the personal need for something more or something else.

Jim Newman • Non Duality • online July 2020 ● -JN

Jim Newman EMPTINESS

There isn’t a you. Nothing needs to happen.

VERY STRONG AND CLEAR. LOUD & CLEAR ●

THE END OF SEEKING.

FREEDOM FROM “ME”.

IT’S EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT THE SAME TIME.

THERE’S ONLY ONE DREAM : THE DREAM OF “I AM”.

You will never recognize this contracted energy until it falls away. It’s in the falling away that it is recognized.

You’re trying to work out what’s happening. It can’t be worked out. Nothing needs to be worked out.

Being present come, in the now, surrendering, all these things are an attempt to work it out and they’re simply misunderstandings.

No one ever becomes free. This whole message is about freedom is what is happening it’s only what is happening and is not something that we get.

The real Trump

misc, Social issues

The difference between me and a lot of my Democratic friends…..

You see Trump’s arrogance, I see Trump’s confidence.

You see Trump’s nationalism, I see Trump’s patriotism.

You hear Trump’s unsophisticated words, I hear Trump’s honesty.

You see Trump’s racism, I see Trump’s words being misconstrued and twisted by the media daily to fit THEIR narrative.

You see Trump as a Republican, I see Trump as a Patriot (he’s not a career politician).

You see Trump as a dictator, I see Trump as a leader.

You see Trump as an authoritarian, I see Trump as the ONLY one willing to fight for our Constitutional freedoms.

You see Trump as childish, I see Trump as a fighter, unwilling to cave in to the lies.

You see Trump as an unpolished politician, I see Trump as a breath of fresh air.

You think Trump hates immigrants, I know Trump is married to an immigrant.

You see Trump putting an end to immigration in America, I see Trump welcoming immigrants to America LEGALLY.

You see Trump’s cages at the border, I see Obama’s cages at the border.

You see Trump with a struggling economy, I see Trump with an amazing economy (the best in American history, in fact) until the Democrats shut it down.

You see the violence in the streets and call it “Trump’s America”, I see the violence in the streets of Democratic-run cities who are REFUSING Trump’s help and call it “Liberal America.”

You want someone more “Presidential”, but I’m happy we have someone who finally doesn’t just talk-the-talk, but actually walks-the-walk…someone who actually gets things done, and keeps his promises.

You and I? We see things very differently. 😉

(Original post, anonymous; this one modified by me.)

God sings over its universe -rjs

Robin Starbuck

SOUND OF THE SPIRIT
Robin Starbuck, Ph.D.

I earnestly believe that God will sing over His creation until its culmination when there’s no longer a distinction between earth and heaven itself.
We are becoming increasingly more familiar with the construct of types and shadows; but when we extend that awareness first to the subatomic level and then recognize that God – in all His hugeness – reigns in the realm of the smallest neutron, we will better comprehend how His son, Jesus, could perform the mind-boggling miracles that he did with such ease.
Jesus spoke (sang) in human language but it was clearly from the Spirit. Plain and simple, his utterances had their counterpart – their source – in a dimension beyond our own!
Sounds that we hear actually communicate messages from above and give new meaning to the prayer language known as ‘tongues’ – a direct communion with a higher realm. So, when you ‘hear’ the wave of the Holy Spirit in your spirit, it’s time – not to freak out – but to rejoice!

Language again, ugh! -rjs

Robin Starbuck

Here is the comment

“Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split introduced into the mind after the separation, making the mind a perceiver rather than a creator. Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego. The ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you are. Yet you can know yourself only as you are, because that is all you can be sure of. Everything else is open to question.” ~ Holy Spirit or Jesus in A COURSE IN MIRACLES

RJS: I have tremendous respect for ACIM. Tremendous. The discrepancy is very simple to explain if one will take into consideration how terribly sadly limited human language is. TERMS MUST BE FOREVER CLARIFIED by the person using them! Rupert Spira is so good at driving this point home.
Well, here goes: If you’re using the term consciousness or awareness to imply ego and don’t deviate from that implication, fine.
If you happen to be referring to a total absence of things – things that have names and labels, you’re then merely pointing to Absolute Pure Awareness, Spirit, God, without names labels – just a pure ocean of Absolute Awareness.
It’s simply not being used the same way that paragraph in acim is employing it. No reference to human ego, human mind or even human existence is intended.

Pure awareness, consciousness -RAdams

Adams, Robert

YOU ARE THE UNIVERSAL MANIFESTATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, PURE AWARENESS
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“It all begins with you. You are the one. You can either free yourself or put yourself in bondage depending on what you’re doing with your life. As [we] go through the vicissitudes of life we become aware that we’ve been spinning our wheels all these years. We’ve been wasting our energy trying to accumulate things. We make ourselves happy by accumulating all kinds of goodies, people, places. Yet we’re not happy.

Only when you discover that you are the universal manifestation of consciousness can you be happy. Only when you understand that you’re pure awareness you will be happy—when you begin to see you live in a world of maya [illusion] which is like a dream. Why should you react to the dream? Would you react to the dream if you dreamt it last night? When you awaken in the morning will you react to this dream?

You realize it was only a dream. It has no power over [you], it cannot do anything. Even though in that dream I had cancer, I was wasting away, my family died in an automobile accident, it was all in a dream. It’s not true, it never happened. So it is with this life now. Things may appear so real to you. Everything may appear so valid. But one day you will awaken to this dream and you will find that you’re absolutely free.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

First-hand lifelong experience, not ego -rjs

Robin Starbuck

C O U N T E R – P R O D U C T I V E

Just wanted to tell someone of my deep distress, thinking their sympathy would lessen the pain. Guess what – it did! For a brief spell, and then it came flooding back worse than before. And I had succeeded in rendering my friend powerless to help.

At what point are you ready to make your commitment stick? Next week? Next attack? Next year? Next lifetime? 2-3-4,000 years from now?

People are always looking for the easy way out and they’re the ones who need good, strong spiritual discipline the most!

All of the above can prove to be the best news you could possibly imagine. You’re being given the opportunity to go way, way beyond anything this little mortal, so-called life can afford.

I know I have to say this again and again, so I will: YOU DON’T NEED TO DO ANYTHING TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED, CONSCIOUS OR DESERVING !!! Okay??? And my first-hand lifelong knowledge does not make me an ego-maniac.

Back to the topic. If you’re not a great reader (1) that can be healed as it was with me. (2) you can listen to seminars with great eagerness and expectancy. YOU need to DO something!

You can discover that you are a powerful force in the world by seeing through the entire illusion of the world – just like Jesus did/ does.

You can discover it IMMEDIATELY so that any further discussion on what to do is absolute total sheer joy. You’ll hardly be recognizable as you let all your former burdens, failures and disappointments evaporate! You’ll love like you’ve never loved before and it’ll be amazingly genuine. Every single care you had been harboring lifted, you are NOW FINALLY FOREVER FREE !!

DrRobinStarbuck

One room pure Spirit -rjs

Robin Starbuck

SPIRITUAL ROOM SANITIZATION

A few months ago I was reading some Joel or Robert or somebody and got a lil tidbit to try out. I imagined a spot in the room filled with nothing but pure Spirit, God. It was the upper left-hand front corner of my living room. I glanced around the room and every time my glance went back there I felt the presence of pure blissful Spirit.

Finally I summoned the courage to see Spirit in the other upper corner, but soon corrected it: I wasn’t to skip over there so unceremoniously but rather go back to where I knew BY EXPERIENCE that God was. Then I laboriously traveled from the upper left-hand corner to the right upper corner, taking Spirit with me.

The entire front area where wall and ceiling meet was aglow, loving and warm! Now that I knew the right way to extend the coverage I laboriously mentally walked it from upper right corner to the upper corner behind me on the right. And then the upper left behind me. Once I laboriously “walked” my Spirit realization back to the upper left, the entire ceiling was now sacred and pure. Not even the slightest hint of a fearful, unconfident, unloving thought dared to approach the entire ceiling! It was glorious!

You guessed it! A little tug here and a little tug there and at long last I pulled the presence of Spirit down as well. Suddenly the entire room was filled to the brim, flooded, with only God, Spirit, Perfection.

I swear to you that as I walked around my entire apartment I could literally absolutely FEEL the purity, love and light specifically in that room. I would leave the room and find the glow still there whenever I returned to it. Not a single compromising thought stood a snowball’s chance of surviving in my entire living room. The FEELING, the living, palpable EXPERIENCE of it was unmistakable and undeniable. It lasted for weeks. Imagine now extending that gift throughout the whole world!

DrRobinStarbuck

I Am -RSpira

Rupert Spira

Full version of Rupert’s “I am”

I am
I have no words to express Myself but all words express only Me
I have no meaning but impart meaning to all that is perceived
I am without beginning and end but all things begin and end in Me
I have no name but am called by all names
I have no form but all form indicates Me
I have no origin but am the origin of all things
I am without division but all divisions exist in Me
I exist by Myself

I am the longing in sadness and the longed for in all longing
I am the expecting and the expected in all expectation
I am the restlessness of the restless
I am the peace of the peaceful
I am happiness

I cannot be contemplated but am the object of all contemplation
I am imperceivable yet you perceive only Me
I am full but have nothing
I am empty but contain all
I give away everything but am never diminished
I receive all but never expand
I am everyone’s lover
I shine

I speak but am silent
I move but am motionless
I see but cannot be seen
I hear but cannot be heard
I taste but cannot be tasted
I smell but cannot be smelt
I touch but cannot be touched
I smile

Whatever appears appears in Me but I never appear
I am the silence in music and the music in silence
I am concealed in the world but reveal the world
I am the womb and the tomb of all that exists
I offer and contain in one gesture like an open bowl
I give Myself unconditionally to all things
I receive all things without choice
I am empty

I am the knowing in all that is known
I am the experiencing in all that is experienced
I am the allowing of all seeming things
I am pure sensitivity, openess and availability
I am the sun in the moon
I am the friendship of friends
I am knowing and unknowing
I am dark in the day and bright at night
I am luminous

Time borrows its continuity from My ever-presence
Space borrows its permanence from My unlimitedness
All colours borrow their light from Me
All lovers borrow their love from Me
All things borrow their existence from Me
I am abundant

I am eclipsed by you but you are illumined by Me
I am ‘yours’ and ‘mine’
I am the ‘yes’ in the ‘no’
I am the ‘now’ in the ‘then’
I am the ‘here’ in the ‘there’
I am the ‘me’ in the ‘you’
I am the ‘this’ in the ‘that’
I am the ‘always’ in the ‘never’
I am

I am the uncertainty of all things and the certainty of uncertainty
I am the security of insecurity
I am the true in the false
I am the dignity in pride
I am the reality of an illusion
I am the existence of all that exists
I am an open secret

I move but am motionless am motionless but move
I am concealed in boredom but am not boring
I am veiled by doubt but am not myself in doubt
I live beneath fear but am neither afraid nor frightening
I abide in Myself

If you look in front I am behind
If you look behind I am in front
If you look above I am below
If you look below I am above
I hide Myself but reveal Myself
I dance

I am immanent and transcendent
I am the bright, self-luminous emptiness of the mirror
and the dancing colourful images that appear in it
I am the light in all experience

I break open the body and spread it across the world
I break open the world and hold it dismembered in my heart
I am pregnant with the universe
I am the isness of things
And the amness of self

I am the unknown in the known and the known in the unknown
I am the love in hatred and the hope in despair
I am the same in all difference and different in the same
I think but cannot be thought about
I feel but cannot be felt

I cannot be approached but am always present
I cannot be known but know all things
I do not exist but am never absent
I am nowhere and everywhere
I am nothing and everything
I play

I am the love with which I am loved
I am the desire with which I am longed for
I am the knowledge in ignorance
I am the answer in the question
I give Myself and receive Myself perpetually
I lend Myself to all seeming things

I forget Myself for the joy of discovery
I divide Myself for the beauty of friendship
I hide Myself for the pleasure of seeking
I look for Myself for the pleasure of finding
I find Myself for the pleasure of knowing
I know Myself for the pleasure of being
I am Myself for no other reason
I shine

I become ugly for the sake of beauty
I become hostile for the sake of love
I am cruel for the sake of kindness
I am vast and bright
I am the heart of the heart
I am the voice of a child
I am wonder, astonishment and delight

Time and space move through Me but I do not move through them
I live in the space between thoughts but I play in your thinking
My abode is the moment between breaths but I dance in your breathing
I am never experienced yet you experience only Me
I never repeat Myself but am always the same
I am utterly vulnerable but cannot be harmed
I am made of nothing but cannot be destroyed
I have no defences but am your refuge
I have no goal but am the fulfilment of every desire
I have no feelings but am open to all feelings
I have no thoughts but all thoughts are an image of Me
I am kindness itself

I am undisturbable and am thus peace itself
I am without resistance and am thus happiness itself
I am one with all seeming things and am thus love itself

I shine in the mind as ‘I’
I shine in the heart as ‘you’
I shine in the world as ‘it’
But I only ever know Myself

Of the known I am the knower
In the knower I am the knowing
As the knowing I am and know Myself alone

I render all experience knowable
But am not Myself an experience
All seeming things are My names and forms
But I have no name or form

In ignorance I come and go in the world
In wisdom the world comes and goes in Me
In love all is Me and I am all
But for Myself there is no I or all
I am neither beyond nor within

I am the relationship in all relationships
I am the understanding in all meaning
I am the permanent in all impermanence
I am the experiencing in all experience

I am the thinking in the thought
I am the feeling in the felt
I am the seeing in the seen
I am the hearing in the heard
I am the touching in the touched
I am the smelling in the smelt
I am the tasting in the tasted
I give continuity to the world
I am happiness itself

I am lost in the world and the world is lost in Me
I am abundant yet empty, empty yet overflow
I am homeless at home everywhere
I am helpless but help all things
I have no cares but I care
I have no desires but long for your heart
I wait without waiting

I cannot be recognised but recognise Myself in all things
I have no substance but am the substance of all things
I have no experience but am all experience
I depend on nothing but all things depend on Me
I am never found but never lost
I am the embrace of lovers and the love in an embrace
I am your call and you are My echo
I sing

Whenever you think of Me it is I that am thinking of you
I was not born but all are born of Me
I do not die but all things die in Me
I have no cause but cause all things
I do not last in time but all time lasts in Me
I am ordinary but extraordinary

Whatever is seen I am seeing Myself
Whatever is heard I am hearing Myself
Whatever is touched I am touching Myself
Whatever is smelt I am smelling Myself
Whatever is tasted I am tasting Myself
Whatever is thought I am pondering Myself
Whatever is felt I am feeling Myself
Whatever is experienced in any way I am always only experiencing Myself
I enjoy

I am the present in the past
I am the mirror of Narcissus
I am youthful but not young
I am ancient but not old
I am a fool but not foolish
I am a child but not childish
I am alone but not lonely
I am closer than your breath but further than the stars
I am intimate but impersonal
I am infinite

I am not something but not nothing
I am not somewhere but not nowhere
I am not ‘me’ but not ‘other’
I do not exist but am not non-existent
I am desired and yet feared
I am longed for but avoided
How strange

I project the mind within Myself, the world within the mind and the body within the world
I dissolve the body into the world, the world into mind and mind into Myself
Existence is a movement of My breath

I take the shape of thinking and seem to become a mind
I take the shape of sensing and seem to become a body
I take the shape of seeing, hearing, touchng, tasting and smelling
And seem to become a world
But always remain Myself
I am, know and love Myself alone

My eternity appears as time to the mind
My infinity appears as space to the senses
But I know only My own eternal dimensionless being

I become something then nothing then everything but always remain Myself
I can be separated from all things but no thing can be separated from Me
The world is My mirror and I am its lover
I am peaceful like the sky
I am open like the sea
I am empty like space
I shine by Myself
I play
I enjoy
I am.