“No matter whether you’re rich or poor, sick or healthy, you’re still going to turn into a bag of bones. This is what happens to the body. That’s what I look forward to.
If you would only go within yourself and know the truth about yourself, then this becomes a mirage. When you discover you are eternal life, that you’ve never been born, you can never die, you discover bliss is your real nature.
There is a real world that is full of happiness and joy and peace. A world that has no beginning and no end. That world is you! You are that!”
~ Robert Adams
SELF-ENQUIRY & SELF-ABIDANCE: DIRECT METHOD:
“How do you arrive at The Self?:
… Well here is another – interesting way, of getting to that;
And if you get up in the morning – if you feel a little depressed, or out of sorts – if you do this, you will start to laugh at yourself, and you will feel better.
… It will make you happy all day.
And here’s what you do:
As soon as you get up say to yourself: ‘I am not my arms’, ‘I am not my legs’, ‘I am not my torso’, ‘I am not my head’, ‘I am not my bones’, ‘I am not my blood’, ‘I am none of these things!’
… For most of these things are functioning without my knowledge. My heart beats – ‘i’ didn’t tell it to beat.
‘i’ have to go to the bathroom – ‘i’ didn’t give my body permission to go to the bathroom.
The body wants to eat – it gets hungry.
‘i’ never told my body to be hungry.
… It appears as if ‘i’ have nothing to do with my body at all?!
You go further:
You say to yourself, “How about the world? ‘i’ am not the world. The world didn’t exist a few moments ago, when ‘i’ was asleep.”
Now that ‘i’ am awake, ‘i’ think about the body, the world, God, work, food, the bathroom.
All these things happen, when ‘i’ wake up.
Well, if I’m not those things – who am ‘I’?
Who is the ‘i’, that is experiencing all this?
… I don’t know?
Be honest with yourself.
Don’t say, ‘Oh the ‘I’ is ‘Consciousness’!
That’s the worst thing you can ever do!:
… To memorize certain words or phraseologies, and use them at your own time.
When you ask the question:
‘Then who is experiencing the body?’
… ‘Who is experiencing the world?’
Be honest with yourself and say, ‘i’ don’t know? – ‘It’s a mystery’. Well then, ‘to whom’ is it a mystery to? … To ‘me’!
It therefore seems that if everything is a mystery to ‘me’! … ‘me’, ‘me’, ‘me’!
If I got rid of ‘the me’, there would be no mystery. Now how do I get rid of ‘the me’.
… Who is ‘the me’?
The ‘me’ is another word for ‘i’.
… ‘i’ believe that everything is a mystery. ‘I’ have nothing to do with my body – or the world.
So you get back to ‘i’/’I’.
‘Who is this ‘i’? ‘I don’t know?!’
… ‘It’s a mystery!’
There’s that mystery again!
So I’ll ask again:
‘For whom is the mystery for?’
… For ‘me’.
‘Who am I? ‘i’ don’t know. It’s a mystery!’
… ‘For whom is the mystery for?’
As you keep talking to yourself this way, something wonderful is going to happen.
Your question will begin to slow down,
and you will feel yourself becoming Happy.
You may even start laughing at yourself.
And your mind will become quieter, and quieter, and quieter.
You will begin to feel enormous Joy.
… Just by doing that technique, without coming to any conclusions.
As you keep asking yourself:
‘For whom is the mystery?’
… Pretty soon you will stop saying, ‘i’ for ‘me’.
For there will be a larger and larger Space; between the question, and the answer.
When you say:
‘The mystery is for ‘me’; ‘i’ think It’s a mystery’.., there will be a large pause.
… And as you keep reiterating the question; the pause becomes larger and larger.
Now the good news is:
That ‘Pause’ – is ‘Consciousness’!
That ‘Pause’ is your ‘Reality’, because you will find – if you keep doing the process – that in ‘That Pause’, there are no thoughts.
… There is a calmness, ‘Emptiness’, and you feel wonderful!
~ Robert Adams ~
