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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

Why have you accepted defeat? -Papaji

Non-duality

Q.My mind is so strong and clever; will you help me?

~ Papaji: Why have you accepted your defeat, that the mind is so strong? Why? It has to be your slave, not your master. As a slave he is very obedient, but as your master or as your teacher he is a butcher! Don’t feel defeated by this man because you have not even seen him! How can you say he is so strong?
You have never seen him! Nobody has seen the mind. Therefore, this is only a ghost. You are haunted by a ghost. Those who say “I have a strong mind,” or “I am troubled by my mind,” they are haunted by a ghost. There is one psychotherapist here in Satsang who will help you with your ghosts (giggles) and he will charge you $100 per hour! So to be haunted by ghosts is very costly!

If you are conscious of the rising of the thought it will not arise. Do you follow this? I will speak again and again. It is very important! When the thought is arising, look at it. Do this and tell me if you understand. All your life the thoughts are arising, so look at them and tell me what happens.

Be vigilant. Invite the thoughts to come. Say “Oh thought, I like you, I love you!” (giggles) and see what thought will come.

A. No thought comes.

~ Papaji: So you know the secret of how no thought will come to you…

Nature of God -JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

NATURE OF GOD
There is only one answer to the question, ‘What is God?’ and that answer is, ‘I AM.’ God is the mind and the life of the individual. Any mental hedging or inner reservation on this subject will result in ultimate failure. There is but one universal I whether it is being spoken by Jesus Christ or John Smith. When Jesus revealed, ‘He that seeth me seeth him that sent me,’ he was revealing a universal truth or principle. There must be no quibbling about this. You either understand this truth or you do not – and if you do not, there is no need for you to seek any further reason for failure to heal. The revelation of Jesus the Christ is clear. ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.’ Unless you can accept this as a principle and therefore as the truth about you and about every individual, you have no foundation upon which to stand. The truth is that God is the mind and life of the individual. God is the only I.”
“Never forget that you cannot live scientifically as man or idea, but that you must realize yourself to be Life, Truth, and Love. You must accept Jesus’ revelation of the I AM until it becomes realization with you.”
“Consciousness lives Itself – you do not live It.”
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way

Some hard points -rjs

Robin Starbuck

This mystical path is just simply not what people construe it to be at all. If you really want it, you will do anything for it. Nothing will be too much to ask and nothing will be too much for you to expect. There are very, very few people that I know of who have attained it. It doesn’t really matter because in Spirit all is perfection. It’s already done. The problem is people just simply don’t realize it. Like everybody else they’re sound asleep in their hypnotism. The hardest thing to break through is to convince them that they are hypnotized when they think that they’re not! How do I know all this? I’ll tell you how. Because I’ve been dealing with my own hypnotism and every time I think it’s gone I wake up to the fact that there’s more!

Both situations are cause for much celebration. The first is having dealt with it so much that I feel like it’s finally gone. The second is realizing that there is so much more on a higher level. Why is this cause for celebration? Because obviously there’s much more to be gleaned from staying on the same track. So on this track I ask myself “How am I hypnotized now?” And that takes me right back to basics. The fact is that infinite God, Spirit, is absolutely all there is and is perfection and omnipotence. If I can remember that right now I mean really, really remember it I can celebrate all over again just how unspeakably glorious it is. What was that little cough in my throat? What throat? Am I believing that I have a body again? Am I believing that I am something less than Spirit, God, again? Or maybe I never even left it. As I dictate I see that this book will probably be suitable for fewer and fewer persons than I originally had hoped. I don’t know if I have said this out loud before but I have a sneaking suspicion that this book will be much more useful well after my so-called death. I of course will never die but I’m certainly not going to live in this body forever.

I know I shouldn’t be disheartened when people who I thought were tracking with me ask a question that shows that after all this time they still haven’t gotten a clue. It’s not a burden for a human being named Robin to be concerned about whatsoever. I am not such a person, such a human being. I see now why it is that “I” is so important: I am God. I am Soul. I am Spirit. I am Christ. Now you astute reader if you’re tracking with me you’re smart enough now to recognize that “I am” is yourself. Am I right? Of course I am!

I Robin need to remember that people will come into the truth at their own pace and the fact that many will require a few hundred or a few thousand years is not a tragedy on my heart: I don’t have a human heart any more than I have a human body. If God can’t have a human heart, how can I?

I got thrown off base a bit by a few people’s approbations of my Quantum Dimensions of Healing. They made much of the quantum part and proportionately very little of the healing part and I bought into it thinking I had to vindicate quantum science when in fact my shining contribution LOL is the healing aspect. Healing can be found on every level of apprehension, of education, of acceptance and of understanding. Need I say to you at this juncture that if you don’t use the term healing in the way that it’s meant to be here then you won’t find healing here and you’ll find a disconnect where there isn’t any.

Yes, yes, yes, of course it’s true that nothing needs to be healed in Perfection. The understanding and grasp on perfection is that which heals: it IS the application, the treatment, which by the way is not rendered null and void simply because one is appealing to the mystical realm.

Not an enemy but a huge bright Light -rjs

Robin Starbuck

Was with a group of buds just now
in the Stillness when suddenly I could see
difficult people as the Transfigured Christ.
Not mortals at all but beams of light!

Yes that was their place in my life.
Not an enemy but a huge bright Light.
For where I desired to go spiritually
every shocking wake up call was
exactly what I had needed.

Now when difficult memories invade
I’ll know they were and are necessary lights.
Wondering though why the Christ-man is not seen more universally as a body-less, irradiance of unending Light.

True enLIGHTenment -SB

Simon Bartholomé

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
~ Hafiz

“Within you is the light of a thousand suns. Within you is unimaginable beauty.”
~ Robert Adams

“Our self – luminous, open, empty Awareness – cannot be enlightened. It is already the light that illuminates all experience. Nor can a separate self be enlightened, for when the separate self faces the light of Awareness, it vanishes, just as a shadow does when exposed to the sun.”
~ Rupert Spira

”No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit, the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.”
~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

“Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
You cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.
You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that’s freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
~ Rumi

“The world shines because of my light: without me, nothing is. It is in me that thoughts and feelings rise and set. I am their changeless witness. I am the Light of Consciousness in all thoughts and perceptions and the Light of Love in all feelings.”
~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

“There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart.”
~ Chandogya Upanishad

“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali or Allah, you actually worship the one light that is also in you, since it pervades all things. Everything originates from light, everything in its essence is light.”
~ Anandamayi Ma

“I am the light of the world.
You are the light of the world.”
~ Jesus

Experiencing is seamless awareness -RSpira

Non-duality, Rupert Spira

All that is known is experiencing and experiencing is not divided into one part (an inside self) that experiences and another part (an outside object, other or world) that is experienced. Experiencing is seamless and intimate, made of Awareness alone. This intimacy, in which there is no room for selves, objects or others, is love itself. It lies at the heart of all experience, completely available under all circumstances.
Rupert Spira

DROP IT !! -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Just make the statement “drop it!”
and forget about everything.
Do not think what you are thinking.
Do not allow yourself to have those thoughts.
When the thoughts come, when you feel futile say,
“Drop it!”
If you make the statement as an exclamation, just say,
“Drop it!”
Something will happen to you, you will feel a peace, you will feel radiance.
You will feel free.
•~•~•
But don’t do like a mimsy-wimsy and say,
“Drop it”.
(laughter) Say,
“Drop It!”
That means everything can go to hell.
The whole world, the whole universe, everything.
All my problems.
All my fears.
You have dropped it, it’s finished, it’s gone.
It’s like what I did one Thursday night I said,
“Wake up!”
Same thing.
You are dropping all your theories, all of your knowledge, everything.
You drop it and let it go.
But do not analyze it.
Do not think about it.
Do not put it in certain category.

The Ego Keeps You in Bondage
Robert Adams

Why negative experiences? -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“The reason why so many people are in negative experiences and not become self-realized is due to the fact that they accept their negative experiences. They accept what the senses show them and tell them. They accept the world as it appears as real. They accept their body, whatever it’s going through to be real. How can you become self-realized if you’re doing this?

It is up to each one of you to drop the world from your mind, mentally. Not to make any changes. Some people still believe that if they make positive changes they will be happier. They’ll have more of an opportunity to study, to meditate, to think. Again ●●remember self-realization has absolutely nothing to do with all of these things. It has nothing to do with meditation, nothing to do with thinking, nothing to do with changing to a positive atmosphere. “

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Self-knowledge is freedom from personal self -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The reward of Self Knowledge is freedom from the personal self.

Once you say,
“I want to find Truth,”
all your life will be deeply affected by it.
All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.

If you are earnest, whatever way you choose will take you to your goal. It is the earnestness that is the decisive factor. Earnestness is the homing instinct which makes the bird return to its nest and the
fish to the mountain stream where it was born. The seed returns to the earth when the fruit is ripe.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Silence comes with the absence of desire -JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Silence is not to be cultivated, it is not to be deliberately brought about; it is not to be sought out, thought of, or meditated upon. The deliberate cultivation of silence is as the enjoyment of some longed for pleasure; the desire to silence the mind is but the pursuit of sensation. Such silence is only a form of resistance, an isolation which leads to decay. Silence that is bought is a thing of the market in which there is the noise of activity. Silence comes with the absence of desire. Desire is swift, cunning and deep. Remembrance shuts off the sweep of silence, and a mind that is caught in experience cannot be silent. Time, the movement of yesterday flowing into today and tomorrow, is not silence. With the cessation of this movement there is silence, and only then can that which is unnameable come into being.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Commentaries on Living, Series II

‘Karma’, Chapter 18