I just can’t see any reason under the sun to pit one’s spiritual path against another’s and vehemently teach it.
Infinity certainly has enough infinititude to graciously allow multifarious paths! Millions of people are and have been enjoying great discovery, revelation and – dare I say – enlightenment from a well-honed progressive path or a no-compromise direct path.
Why not choose your path, knowing it’s helped millions and allow in your heart the fact that “the other” path has also helped millions? In the ginormous Heart of Love there’s gotta be a place for those who prove with their very lives that Spirit is All – just like you do.
DrRobinStarbuck
It’s a lot easier –
a major shortcut – to say
“No, absolutely not!”
I’m better than okay.
Nip it in the bud
Proactively speaking
And BE the realm of
Eternal, sublime perfection
From the very get-go.
Don’t leave a hair or fingernail
a nagging, sinking feeling –
back where you never were!
Stand on the Absolute,
complete, total Allness, Oneness, Nowness of Spirit, God.
Find out all you possibly can
about perfect unattachment.
What do “I don’t care” and
“I’m not here” really mean?
Tell us if you can
if you really know –
where it is that
you really are.
You’re pure Spirit, right?
Why are you lying on that bed?
Answer: I’m not.
Why are you in that city,
village, country?
Answer: I’m not.
Why are you …? I’m not.
What are you then?
I am Allness, fullness,
Spirit, Life, Love –
everywhere at once!
I am bounded by nothing at all.
I am without time or space.
I’m not what you think you see –
looking out there! I’m free!
I’m in China, Egypt too!
England and Istanbul.
T h i s m o m e n t everywhere
in Allness – just like you.
DrRobinStarbuck
Let’s consider the term ‘procrastination’ and acknowledge that by definition of its nuances, it’s entirely negative. Let’s exercise our due diligence and root it out.
“I will meditate on this right now” is ALREADY TOO LATE ! “This” represents a lie. Three more seconds of this lie and you’ve got some major shoveling to do!
You’re an elephant. No, I’m not. You’re in Afghanistan. No, I’m not. You’re a scientist. No, I’m not. You’re sick. NO, I’M NOT !!
Misión acomplí! No “need” to meditate. BEing at one with Spirit is pure joy now. There’s nothing underhanded anymore: you’re not going to God to get something – you ARE everything real and spiritual.
DrRobinStarbuck
A devotee of Ramana Maharshi, who had been with him about twenty-five years, had a son that died, and he was grief-stricken. So he begged to have an audience with Ramana. Now Ramana rests from twelve to two. He agreed to see his devotee. When the devotee entered the hall, Ramana was reclining on his couch with his eyes closed, and he started to cry and tell him all his troubles, how much he loved his son. And then he asked Ramana, “What is God?” Ramana didn’t answer. He kept still for about fifteen minutes. Then he opened his eyes and he said very softly, “What is, is God.”
What is, is God. It’s like when someone asks the question, “Is the world real?” The world, by itself, is an illusion, but God, as the world, is real. As we progress we find there never was a God, so there never was a world. But for the sake of talking, because God is, the universe is. Everything, from the lowliest microbe to the fullest galaxy, is God in expression. Everything is God. Every leaf, every piece of clay, every star, every planet has no basis for its existence, by itself. Because God is, everything else is.
That’s what Ramana meant when he answered, “What is, is God.” He was trying to explain to the devotee, “Your son dying, that is God. Your son living, that is God. There’s no real difference. Only in your mind.”
Robert Adams Transcript 3 My Confession 16th August, 1990
Nisargadatta Maharaj, born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was a Hindu guru of nondualism, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya and Lingayat Shaivism. WikipediaBorn: April 17, 1897, Mumbai, IndiaDied: September 8, 1981, Mumbai, IndiaGuru: SiddharameshwarParents: Shivrampant Kambli, Parvatibai Kambli
I wonder if I am conveying anything at all? You see, we are considering the liberation of the mind so that the mind can be in that state of creation which is not concerned with expression, though expression may come from it. A creative mind is never concerned with expression; it is not concerned with action, with reform. Creation is a timeless movement—a movement which is never concerned with the immediate, and only the immediate is concerned with reform.
I do not know if, while walking alone in the woods or along a street, you have ever noticed a moment when everything in you is silent, completely still. There is an unexpected, uninvited moment in which the mind, with all its anxieties, with all its worries and pursuits and compulsions, has completely come to an end. In that unexpected, spontaneous moment, time has totally ceased. And if you happen to be gifted as a painter, as a writer, or as a housewife, you may express that moment in action; but the action is not that moment. The action of painting may give you fame, money, position, prestige; and man, seeking these things, goes after the technique and loses the other. That moment must have happened to most of us at sometime or other in our lives, and then we wish to capture, to hold, to continue in that moment. So, the experience of that moment darkens the mind with its knowledge of that moment and thereby prevents further experiencing. That is why experience as knowledge is destructive to the new.
Please, this is not just my special way of looking at life. These are facts. The more experience you have, the more the mind is made dull; there is no innocency of the mind; there is never a moment when the mind is not caught in knowledge, which is essentially of time. So, if you observe, you will see that knowledge—to know, to practice, to hold—darkens the mind; and the mind, being darkened, seeks greater, wider stimulation, so it turns to religions, to philosophies, theologies, speculations, or to the latest drugs.
The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti – Volume XI 1958-1960: Crisis in Consciousness
Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you want to make this world a better world in which to live look within yourself and inquire, “Who lives? Who’s world is this? To whom does this world belong?” Some of you are saying to yourself, “It belongs to God.” How can it belong to God if you don’t even know what God is? The word God is just a word that you’ve been trained to say.
You picked up the word in your church, in your synagogue, in your mosque, in your temple, God. People kill for God, rape for God, murder for God, do all these dastardly things in the name of God, their God. My God is better than your God. It’s like a world full of kindergarteners, fighting with each other, killing each other, murdering each other. Trying to achieve success for ourselves or we step on somebody else. We’re filled with fears, frustrations, most of us become psychopaths and we think we’re living. You’re not living until you know who you are, until you find out what you are. What you are doing now is vegetating. Most of us are not satisfied with our lives and we try to improve our lives and what do we do we try to improve everything external to ourselves and this can never be done. We try to change our environment, meet certain people, do certain things and we think this will make us happy. But it only lasts for a short time doesn’t it? And you’re back to what you were before. This world can never make you happy, it’s impossible. It may appear to make you happy for a while because you’re gaining something that you want. But it will only last a short time. True happy … true happiness comes from nothing. When your happiness arises from nothingness then you’re really happy, because nothing made you happy and nothing can take it away. If something makes you happy then if something takes it away you will be miserable. But if you learn to achieve happiness from nothing this is everlasting. It will never leave you because there is nothing to change.
Robert Adams
T225: Who Were You Before You Were Born?
NON-ATTACHMENT – GOLDSMITH
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Release God from all responsibility to you. Drop all concern for the things of this world. Take no thought for your food, for your health, or for your family life. Take no thought for the world’s peace; take no thought for the enemy—physical, mental, moral, financial, or political. Have no fear of the enemy, because your assurance is that God’s grace is closer than breathing.
Joel Goldsmith
Showing Forth the
Presence of God
Chapter 3
Frank Johnson expands and with razor-sharp precision expounds my topic, drawn from my inquiry into how to put Eastern wisdoms to use in the Western world:
GIVING UP ATTACHMENTS
In response to a popular query re. exactly how one could proceed with the task of putting off attachments, I cautioned that I am not a behaviorist, meaning I don’t concern myself with matters on the outside at all.
This issue is 100% a spiritual one, so setting up a plan to adjust your behavior will most assuredly miss the mark. As a matter of fact, it’s an all-or-nothing situation as with Abraham and Isaac.
If you arrive at the point where you need absolutely NOTHING AT ALL, then you’ll know the nature of true bliss. You’ll see for the first time what total freedom is truly about.
DrRobinStarbuck
Frank Johnson adds:
“True. The religious mind would have you think that change comes about by YOU taking control of your behavior. How many believe that in order to advance to some “higher level”, or to achieve some kind of spiritual breakthrough or intuitive tune-up, you need to really focus on doing better? We’ve all heard the expression… “What would Jesus do?” Does that really work?
Yes, you may achieve some limited or measured results, but ultimately and hopefully you’ll come to realize that all that “doing” is still just you. All that religious effort is still coming from you. What if you were to actually stop, and do something radically different. What if you really did what Jesus did… actually accept the divine reality of your Being? Right now, just as you are!
What if that God that we believe in is the LIFE that we already are and we were never told the truth. How many Believers ever take the time to realize or accept the truth within of who they are? What if you were to realize that the gospel message was not about “you doing something”, but that it was about the change that takes place when we accept and awaken to the truth of who we are.
What if the “I Am” that Jesus knew in himself is the “I Am” of you and me? What if YOU have been fighting the truth of your own Being all this time? Maybe the change we were looking for is found when we finally stop and just learn what it means to “Be”. To learn what it feels like to rest in the truth that it is God–our true Life, that works in, as, and through our physical being. This is how real change takes place. For now we realize that all this time we never knew the truth of who we are.”
Frank Johnson
Oh, that every man, woman and child would say ‘yes!’ to the nudge in their heart that is forever drawing them home to their Source, the reality of who they – and everyone else – are! DrRobinStarbuck
