All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck
Jim Newman • Non Duality • Zoom mtg • 03 May 2020
There is NO THING that you have to overcome -RAdams
“The Self pervades all space and time. There’s nothing else. So how can you think there is such a thing as sickness, lack, limitation, depression, and these things that some of us go on with believing we have a fight on our hands, something to overcome,. That’s a joke, funny, ha-ha. There is no thing that you have to overcome. There is no karma that you have to overcome.
There are no samskaras. You’re not a sinner. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with you. You’re perfect just the way you are. You are the Self, the immutable Self, self-contained absolute reality. You have always been this. You are this. And nothing can tarnish this. Just by understanding what I’m saying will liberate you, totally.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
What is AND ISN’T God? -rjs
Is there anyone among you who hasn’t heard definitions and/or synonyms of God that have given you pause? Which teacher can you count on to sort through the miasma? Including the possibility of no God at all? Would that you could simply discern for yourself what’s most nearly right! Methinks you can.
Don’t let anyone deprive you of the personal development that accompanies genuine experience
TO BE CONTINUED
rjs
Are you really aware? -RSpira
Everybody is aware, all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. All people share the experience of being aware, but relatively few people are aware that they are aware. Most people’s lives consist of a flow of thoughts, images, ideas, feelings, sensations, sights, sounds, and so on. Very few people ask, ‘What is it that knows this flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions? With what am I aware of my experience?’
The knowing of our being – or rather, awareness’s knowing of its own being – is our primary, fundamental and most intimate experience. It is in this experience that the peace, happiness and love for which all people long reside. The happiness we have sought so long outside of ourselves, in situations, objects and relationships, turns out to be always present and available in the simple knowing of our own being as it truly is.
The knowing of our own being shines in each of us as the experience ‘I am’ or ‘I am aware’, or simply the knowledge ‘I’. This obvious, familiar and intimate experience has no objective qualities and is, therefore, overlooked or ignored by the majority of people. This overlooking of our own being is the ultimate cause of unhappiness.
Rupert Spira
Solitude -SB
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
~ Carl Gustav Jung
“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how calm and peaceful it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”
~ Jim Carrey
“To practice solitude is to practice being in this singular moment, not caught in the past, not carried away by the future, and most of all not carried away by the crowd. You don’t have to go to the forest.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
~ Albert Einstein
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
~ Nikola Tesla
“You have to get away from all that madness for a while because we become insane, we get confused with our roles, as being who we really are. Man is not his role. Man is something deeper than that. So, go into the forest or some place ALONE in nature, all by yourself, and find out who you really are! And when you no longer confuse yourself with your particular temporary body, but identify with the entire process of nature and the whole cosmos… When death comes, what a funny thing that will happen. Death comes, and will find no one to kill.”
~ Alan Watts
Tony Parsons online meeting 18 April 2020
There was no particular teacher or leader that inspired Tony but there was Teachings like Christian mysticism and Lao Tsu and Zen and Buddhism, William Blake, Aldous Huxley, etc, that inspired him but he always knew that something with missing Because they would direct it towards a person as a teaching.
I met some Christian Mystics who had this message as well as people like Lao Tsu etc Who seemed to have the message perfectly but then they turned it into a teaching And that brought dualism into the picture. That’s where it all falls apart for me. This message is contained in all sorts of religions etc but when they teach it that’s where It ends for me. This message is found more in the East but as soon as it ends up as a teaching it’s not this message anymore.
Another guy as Tony a question about after having listen to Tony for quite a long time every night before going to sleep he began to encounter a lot of fear and wondered what that was all about. Tony said that was simple the body mind doesn’t want to give up it doesn’t want to die. “Me” will do whatever it can to survive including stopping listening to the message.
” What we’re talking about can’t be understood. It can’t be taken home and re used To get anywhere because there isn’t any place to get to and the reason there isn’t any place to get to is What you long for constantly is all there is so you can’t get it. There’s no place to get to. Me will decide to check it out “deeply” but there’s no it. They say it’s living in the Now but that’s rubbish – it’s just a way of avoiding its demise. It misleads because It wants to protect the habtation in which it is living which is called me, protect it from dying as a “me”.
Tony Parsons
UNKNOWABLE WONDER
As the apparent story of human life on earth seems to move into a new era, it is interesting that a unique and surprising perception of the human condition has also simultaneously arisen.
When human beings appeared on earth they were like any other animal but with the addition of a more complex and sophisticated brain. This brain developed in such a way that part of it assumed that the world it inhabited was a separate subject object reality which it saw as possibly threatening its own survival. Consequently it constructed a centre, a self conscious identity, as a further investment in its survival and a possible influence in manipulating what it presumed to be a dualistic reality. This is apparently contracted energy arising in boundless energy.
Hence the sense of I, the self, the me, was born, together with the belief that it was real as was everything else that was happening. Out of this experience of separation arose a need to understand and to know the meaning and purpose of life.
Inevitably, this demand for guidance or meaning attracted a multitude of responses in the form of religions, philosophies, teachings and disciplines which could feed this personal, insatiable hunger.
Within all of this dualistic communication there was also an attempt to investigate the possibility of an impersonal explanation for existence which could be seen from a singular or so-called “non-dual” perspective. This kind of communication seems to have originated in the East with Advaita Vedanta, Lao Tzu, Long Chempa, Huong Po, Zen Buddhism and in the West, Christian mysticism.
However, all of these communications, without fail, directed their message towards personal choice and supported them with personal advice and teachings or processes intended to lead the follower along a path towards transformation. It was as though so-called non-duality was still seen as a state or a “something” that could be acquired and personally experienced.
More recently there have arisen some contemporary communications based on scientific and psychological evidence, logic and reason. They are abundant with complex and convoluted explanations, often accompanied by a set of contemporary commandments. All of this is directed to the self and confined to the limitations of a dualistic perspective, just like everything that went before.
However, it seems that a unique and radical communication has appeared very recently. Because it recognises the concept of self as illusory and the idea of seeking as futile, it offers nothing of any use or value to the apparent seeking energy. All of the dualistic story of the person which is believed to be real and to have meaning and purpose, is only the appearance of nothing. There is no-one and nothing left but the singular immediacy of nothing apparently happening.
This seems to be the only revelation of unconditional love which engenders a resonance whilst also being unknowable.
Tony Parsons
8 May 2020
Revised 27 July 2020
This is a communication which illuminates the paradoxical nature of non-duality and exposes the deluded idea that it is something that can be acquired and experienced.
“It is so obvious and simple that the grasping of it obscures it. Never found, never lost, never knowable, being is the consummate absence that is beyond measure.”
It seems that in the boundless energy that is oneness there can also arise a contracted energy which brings about apparent self-awareness. A powerful and convincing sense of self-identity seems to arise together with a belief in personal free will and choice in what is experienced as a real life story. All of these personal experiences can only apparently arise in what seems to be a very real but dualistic reality in which everything appears to be separate. This sense of separation can bring with it a sense of loss and a need to seek guidance, an understanding or a path or process that can promise fulfilment. There are attempts to seek unity which are totally futile because the separate seeker is apparently the very dualism from which it is trying to escape.
“Looking for being is believing that it is lost. Has anything been lost, or is it simply that the looking obscures? Does the beloved dance constantly just beyond our focus?”
This dilemma is illuminated in this unique communication which makes no demands, has no expectations and does not cater in any way to the seeker’s need for answers, processes or a path to follow. This uncompromising message can be both confronting and liberating.
“Life is not a task. There is absolutely nothing to attain except the realisation that there is absolutely nothing to attain.”
The whole personal investment in making spiritual progress, becoming more aware, more still, more open or more anything at all can simply unravel in this radical revelation. The whole perception of “the self” or “the world” it seems to live in, can be transformed and leave nothing to support the illusion of personal separation, control and continuation.
Suddenly, the absence that was feared is the absence which is unknowable, but paradoxically is also the very fullness, the freedom that was longed for.
Tony Parsons online meeting, 13 June 2020 -TP
No, this message regarding non duality as presented by Tony Parsons and Jim Newman doesn’t erase 2000 years of spirituality teaching and exploring – not at all. This message is available because at this time and for the past 20 years or so the world has been open and ready to receive a message of real non duality. It’s not like the non duality being taught and sold because that is by definition duality: having a teacher and a student is duality.
Tony and Claire
All is pure Spirit -Ramakrishna
“One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.”
~ Ramakrishna
