What called you to India? To visit the society in a traditional way. Went with no purpose. Found teacher. Do you know yourself? Strictly speaking you don’t need a teacher to tell you what you are, but what you are not. The teacher should show you that you are not body senses and mind, but you are the Self.
All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck
Love-imbued immortal life -rjs
Of the
2 powers
Good and evil.
The latter is unreal.
Once you see that it’s
Not about ignoring reality
But about removing unreality
Everything starts to fall into place
Miraculously and gloriously
In your Spirit – filled
Love-imbued
Immortal
Life.
Robin Starbuck 2017
Our own light of presence is shining on all -RSpira
The light of consciousness shines on everything. When you’re in love everything glows
God = Consciousness -RAdams
Do not compare yourself with anyone. Do not believe that fate has dealt you a bad card and that you’re suffering mentally, or physically, or financially, or otherwise, and saying “Why did this happen to me?” You are not to blame. You’re identifying with the world, with the body, with the mind. This is the only reason you believe you’re suffering. No one really suffers.
If you really understood who you were, you would never believe that anything was wrong with your life. To believe something is wrong with your life is blasphemy.That is the only blasphemy that exists. When you believe you’re not in your right place. When you want to change. When you think somebody is doing something to you. When you have fears, that’s blasphemy. For what you are saying is this thing called God does not exist.
I use God synonymously with consciousness. You think God, consciousness, does not exist and that you have to struggle for yourself. You have to overcome burdens and you have to pay the price. Even the belief that it’s karmic is wrong. The best thing you can do is not react to anything, but to act from your heart with love, compassion, peace, and let the chips fall where they may.
Quantum physics background for Self-enquiry
In Quantum Physics, Even Humans Act As Waves
Ethan SiegelSenior ContributorStarts With A BangContributor GroupScienceThe Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it.
“Is it a wave or is it a particle?” Never has such a simple question had such a complicated answer as in the quantum realm. The answer, perhaps frighteningly, depends on how you ask the question. Pass a beam of light through two slits, and it acts like a wave. Fire that same beam of light into a conducting plate of metal, and it acts like a particle. Under appropriate conditions, we can measure either wave-like or particle-like behavior for photons — the fundamental quantum of light — confirming the dual, and very weird, nature of reality.
This dual nature of reality isn’t just restricted to light, either, but has been observed to apply to all quantum particles: electrons, protons, neutrons, even significantly large collections of atoms. In fact, if we can define it, we can quantify just how “wave-like” a particle or set of particles is. Even an entire human being, under the right conditions, can act like a quantum wave. (Although, good luck with measuring that.) Here’s the science behind what that all means
The debate over whether light behaves as a wave or a particle goes all the way back to the 17th century, when two titanic figures in physics history took opposite sides on the issue. On the one hand, Isaac Newton put forth a “corpuscular” theory of light, where it behaved the same way that particles did: moving in straight lines (rays) and refracting, reflecting, and carrying momentum just as any other kind of material would. Newton was able to predict many phenomena this way, and could explain how white light was composed of many other colors.
On the other hand, Christiaan Huygens favored the wave theory of light, noting features like interference and diffraction, which are inherently wave-like. Huygens’ work on waves couldn’t explain some of the phenomena that Newton’s corpuscular theory could, and vice versa. Things started to get more interesting in the early 1800s, however, as novel experiments began to truly reveal the ways in which light was intrinsically wave-like.
Is the World an Illusion? -RSpira
FROM WHICH POINT OF VIEW ARE YOU REFERRING? rjs
Non-existence vs illusion
LUCID WAKING: JOHN SMITH CAN STILL PLAY THE PART OF KING LEAR WHILE KNOWING HE’S REALLY JOIN SMITH. Awareness doesn’t fall asleep anymore. It’s the essence of prayer or self-enquiry. 1. Lost in experience 2. I am John Smith. Inward-facing. 3. John Smith doesn’t forget who he really is anymore. Outward-facing.
Stop using your mind (ego) to control thoughts -RAdams
“When the Sage thinks of something, it is like a fan that has been pulled out of the socket. It’s still turning, but there’s no power. The power is dead. The power has been cut off. In other words, the thoughts of a saint are dead. The thoughts of the Sage have no power, no power whatsoever. This is why it is said, a Sage does not think, a Sage has no thoughts. What it really means is that the sage’s thoughts are dead. When the thoughts are dead, you live in absolute reality. You live in pure awareness. When the thoughts are dead you live in sat-chit-ananda [existence-consciousness-bliss], in nirvana.
So what are you to do to also cease the thinking, so the thoughts can become dead? You simply do not attach yourself to the thoughts. By not attaching yourself to the thoughts, by not reacting to the thoughts, by not responding to the thoughts, they lose their power and begin to fade away. You do not give it any energy. You do not give it any power. Do not say to yourself, ‘I have to stop my thoughts.’ Do nothing like this. Just slow down, slow down, let the thoughts do what they may. Allow the thoughts to go their own way. Do nothing with your thoughts. Do not think about them. Do not fight them. And above all, do not try to stop them.
You may think this is sort of difficult, but it’s not. It’s like when you first wake up, before the thoughts come. You’re still drowsy from sleep. And when the first thoughts come to you, you hardly pay any attention to them. That’s the attitude to have. Do not pay any attention to your thoughts whatsoever. … There are so many practices [used to stop the mind]. You have Vipassana meditation. You have pranayama. You have so many different methods to stop your thoughts. All of these methods are good to an extent. They make you sort of one-pointed, but they will not stop your thoughts.
This is why people who have been practicing pranayamas, breathing exercises, Vipassana meditation, even Zen meditation, and other forms of yoga meditation, have been practicing for years, and years, and years and years. Perhaps they have achieved a semblance of peace, but they have not become liberated, due to the fact that they are using methods, whether it is a koan, or it’s watching your breath or your feelings, or whether it’s changing your thoughts to something positive, whatever you’ve been doing, you’re using your mind to do it. And your mind will always fool you. It will make you believe you’re getting somewhere, you’re becoming something great. But it’s really the ego. It is the ego that is controlling the mind.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
Die before you die, get it out of the way. Transition
Eternal unborn
“There is much to be said for dying now and not waiting until the body dies; things might be a little rushed then, and one might find it hard to concentrate. Now, in the midst of what you take to be your life, there can be, if needed, a ‘positive’ practice of building up and strengthening the sense of individual self until it is strong enough to undergo the negative’ process of realizing that it is a sham, unreal after all, never did exist; and then perhaps it can be let go, let die,let fall away.
Then there can be a liberation from that ego that haunted and plagued us all our lives with fears of its own demise, for it turns out not to be anything real, nothing even to struggle against or try to defeat. The ego, and the death it has convinced you is your greatest fear, is only a tired tape recording in an empty room, which from outside you thought was a powerful and fearful enemy; but now the plug is pulled and the voice slurs to a stop.
This is what it is to ‘die before you die;’to step through the gateless gate into Void, and to walk the universe alone.”
~ Perfect Brilliant Stillness.
Rupert & ●healing
Just as nothing happens to the screen when a character in a movie becomes sick, so ●nothing happens to awareness when the body falls ill. It is for this reason that to ●know one’s true nature of pure awareness is the ultimate healing. If one knows oneself as pure awareness, or the simple experience of being aware, one is always in ●perfect health.
Rupert Spira
Being Aware of Being Aware
Work on yourself. Surrender everything -RAdams
“As you continue to work on yourself, … the day comes when all this is gone, and you are gone. You become nothing, a good-for-nothing. You go beyond nothingness, which is ineffable, something that can’t be explained, for there are no words or thoughts to understand this. Yet, you’ve got it all within you. Everything you need is within you. You are the one.
All the tools that you need are within yourself. But you have to make the move to do something. As I said, leave the realization to me. Work on yourself. Get rid of all the stuff that’s kept you bound for so many years. You know what it is, the fears, preconceived ideas, all these things that have kept you in bondage all these years. Let go of them. Give them up. Surrender everything.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)