All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck

About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

No journey after all -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

There was never any journey.
I am, as I always was.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I, who am no ‘thing,’ is everything I am not, but the apparent universe is my Self.

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not—body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that—nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.”

~ Nisargadatta
20th century
Indian Advaita mystic

Mind flooded with new understanding -RSpira

Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira: collapse the distinction.
There is no “intensely aware”!
Being aware is neutral.
You don’t have to practice being aware. It’s easier than easy. It’s 100% effortless.
With time you’ll learn to always go back to your self after your attention has been diverted by an experience. I recommend practicing “noticing” what is already the case. If you need to practice it, then make the effort until it becomes natural.
What is absolutely true is always absolutely true.
Pathless path, effortless way. There is no room for the place, the person, the way – they are all the same.

You are the Dimensionless Now -RSpira

Rupert Spira
From the screen’s point of view, it is too busy being the now to be aware of what’s being played on the screen.
“I am taking a plane from one place to another place” is my thought about what I am doing. The doing of it is my experience or my awareness and my awareness never changes.
Our experiences are just like dreams in our bed. We are simply aware. All you need to do is just lie there comfortably aware. Just let the awareness flow through you.
THAT’S HOW IT IS WITH AWARENESS – ALWAYS COMFORTABLE IN ITS BED.
Don’t flow in it, let it flow through you.

You’re your guru

Self as God

YOU are the very guru YOU are searching for. Taking another as your guru is looking outside of yourSelf. It is by going within in Silence you’ll find the very thing you’ve been seeking has been seeking You, and You are IT.
~Jeremy Wheeler

Treatments work! rjs

Treatment

Very early on in life I learned how to give treatments by focusing on divine Spirit, absolute Truth, God.
The stuff of the world was/is unreal IN SPIRITUAL REALITY and manifestations of this truth would invariably appear in my life. The thrill was/is almost overwhelming!
I always made sure to “handle” fear and mental malpractice as well as “extend” my treatment to include the whole world.
It’s been exhilarating!
DrRobinStarbuck

Ramana Maharshi prayers to God -RM

Ramana Maharshi

He saved me,
his humble devotee,
from destruction,
bringing me to salvation
through his own ambrosial being,
even as I languished in the dark night
of my mind’s deadly delusion.
Then indeed did the holy feet of my noble Master,
bestowing his grace in holy silence,
become immovably established within my heart,
illuminating my inner being
with the golden light of true spiritual practice.

(Muruganar – Sri Ramana Anubhuti)

You’re everyone you see -HF

Herb Fitch

You are everyone you see. I don’t mean it as a symbolism or something to think about. I mean it’s the fact of life. You are everyone you see. That man over there is no less you than what you call yourself. Yourself is not this body. You are the infinite invisible. And it’s silly – when you have all – to be settled down into a microcosm where you have nothing. All substance is you. There is not another substance in the world. When we get back to the atom and follow it down to the micro atom it disappears.
Herb Fitch 1990
Chicago Healing Seminar
4A Raise the Dead

Go to the very end of conflict -JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Question: If you go to the end of conflict for yourself, must you then just accept the conflict which is in the world?

KRISHNAMURTI: Can you divide the world so very neatly and definitely from yourself? Is the world so very different from yourself? You see, sirs, I think, if I may say so, that there is something which has not been understood by us. For me, conflict is a very destructive thing, inwardly as well as outwardly, and I want to find out if there is a way of living without being in conflict. So I do not say to myself that it is inevitable, and I do not explain to myself that as long as I am acquisitive, there must be conflict. I want to understand it, to go through it, to see if I can shatter it, to see if it is possible to live without it. I am hungry to do that, and no amount of description, explanation is going to satisfy me—which means that I have to understand this whole process of consciousness, which is the ‘me’, and in understanding that, I am understanding the world. The two things are not separate. My hate is the hate of the world; my jealousy, acquisitiveness, my urge for success—all this belongs also to the world. So can my mind shatter all this? If I say, “Tell me the way to shatter it,” then I am merely using a method to conquer conflict, and that is not the understanding of conflict.

So I see that I must keep awake to conflict, be aware of it, watch every movement of it in my ambitions, my greed, my compulsive urges, and so on. And if I just watch them, perhaps I shall find out, but there is no guarantee. I feel I know very well what is essential if I would find out—namely, a passion, an intensity, a disregard for words and explanations so that the mind becomes very sharp, alert, observant of every form of conflict. That is the only way, surely, to go to the very end of conflict.

The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti -Volume XII 1961: There Is No Thinker, Only Thought
Jiddu Krishnamurti