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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

Enlightenment vs reincarnation

Enlightenment

ENLIGHTENMENT vs REINCARNATION

This is a thing I don’t really want to talk about but I’m getting that nudge so here goes. The issue is reincarnation and the reason is to see if we can’t allow ourselves a modicum of good, old-fashioned pressure back into our ever-mellowing search for eternal enlightenment.

Why should we want to allow any kind of pressure into our search? It’s because if you’re searching at all, you’ve bought into third dimensional time and space. Of course we could simply opt for the dimension of pure Spirit but I’m afraid we’ve really not fully awakened to it or we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

The shocking truth is when we visit the Realm of the Real, we are most probably less than 1% aware. I’m not liking those odds! But still you say so what, what’s the big rush? Why not enjoy myself and go wherever my feelings lead me?

The above questions betray the fact that you are presently entirely wrapped up in the dream of life in matter and its concomitant wheel that goes nowhere – the wheel of karma.

Reincarnation makes perfect sense if you believe in birth and death: it’s well-documented and perfectly logical – if you believe in birth and death! I fully agree with you – the prospect of coming back to start over and try again as who-knows‐what is most disconcerting!

We need to take those aforementioned “odds” very, very seriously and start making our forever-exit plan! Yes, by all means let’s get the hell out of the third dimension … and I mean for good!

You see, not only can you find great comfort in the fourth dimension (and beyond) but you can stay there, and you can do so now!

Jesus had no difficulty seeing the lame man, the dead girl, the loaves & fishes, raging storms, impenetrable walls. But he also saw spiritual reality right where obstacles appeared to mortals. We can too.

How badly do you want to wake up? If you came to realize you’re less than 1% awake and aware, would you want to give up? Would you still take it as flippantly as you have been? Would you continue hanging onto some of your most cherished grievances?

OR WOULD YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER DISPENSE WITH THAT SELF-APPLAUDING EGO THAT HAS CAUSED YOU SO MUCH PAIN THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES ? TIME IS RUNNING OUT !

DrRobinStarbuck

Nothing ever happened COLLAGE

Authors

Just something to consider…. [Mark Bates]

Events happen, deeds are done, but there is no individual doer thereof.
~ Buddha

When one sees oneself as neither the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, then all mind waves come to an end.
~ Ashtavakra Gita

All your activities happen spontaneously and they will continue to happen.
Your claim of being the doer is totally false.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is neither creation nor destruction. neither destiny nor free will. neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
~ Ramana Maharshi

How foolish it is to believe that you are doing the writing �when, in fact, you are merely the pen in the Writer’s Hand.
~ Wu Hsin

Self-Realization or Enlightenment is nothing more than the deepest possible understanding that there is no individual doer of any action – neither you nor anyone else. Also you are not the thinker of any thoughts, nor the experiencer of any experiences – they happen. When IT happens, no bright lights are likely to flash in your head!
~ Ramesh Balsekar

People, confused by ego, think they are doers of all kinds of work while it is being done by the energy of nature.
~ Bhagavad Gita

Nothing to do, Nothing to force, nothing to want – and everything happens by itself.
~ Lama Gendun Rinpoche

Truly clear mind JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

A mind in contemplation is free of symbols; it has no visions because visions are projections of that background in which it has been conditioned. A mind in contemplation is no longer making effort, as effort is generally understood; therefore, there is no observer, there is no censor. A mind in contemplation, which is the state of meditation, is completely silent, and that silence is not induced. You can discipline your mind to be silent, but that is merely conformity to a pattern in the hope of getting what you desire; therefore, it is not silence. A mind in meditation is absolutely silent, and that silence is not projected, not wished for, not cultivated. That silence is from moment to moment, it has no continuity; therefore, it cannot be practiced, it cannot be developed any more than you can develop humility. Do you understand? If you cultivate, develop humility, you are no longer humble; you don’t know what humility means. Leave the cultivation of humility to the saints, to the leaders, who are full of vanity and therefore cultivate the opposite, hoping thereby to become still more respectable. The cultivation of virtue is effort in limitation, so this quality of silence is not something to be cultivated.

The mind in meditation is in a state where there is no movement of thought, and therefore no projection of the background in which it has lived. Only the mind which has understood all that we have been talking about—understood in the sense of having perceived the fact, not merely having accepted the words, the explanations, which are ashes—and is therefore completely silent with a silence that is not induced by breathing or any other trick—it is only such a mind that can know the immeasurable, the eternal, that which has no beginning and no end.

February 28, 1960.

The Collected Works of
J. Krishnamurti – Volume XI 1958-1960: Crisis in Consciousness
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Direct experience of your own JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

So thought creates the thinker, the censor, the observer. And is it possible to think without the censor? Do you understand? Is it possible to observe without the observer? Don’t agree or disagree, sirs. Please, you have to find out. One direct experience of your own is worth more than all the books put together. If you can find out for yourself what is true, you can burn all the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Bible; they are not worth looking at.

Now, you have to find out directly for yourself whether it is possible to be in that state of thinking without the thinker, experiencing without the experiencer. Please, sirs, it is not complicated. In the moment of your intense anger, is there an observer? It is only after the emotional upheaval has taken place that you say, “By Jove, I was angry.” Then comes identification, and the condemnatory process begins; there is contradiction, conflict, an effort to conform to the pattern recognized by society as being respectable. Do you understand, sirs? The pattern is recognized as being respectable; otherwise, you would not try to conform to it. And respectability is a horror, an ugly thing because it opens the door to mediocrity.

So, our problem is to understand the state of the mind which is in meditation because meditation is essential—but not the meditation that most people practice sitting in a room and repeating a lot of words; that is not meditation. Repetition merely puts the mind to sleep, and you can do that very easily by taking a tranquilizer. I know you will dislike what is being said because you have found that your traditional repetition of certain words and names for ten minutes or so gradually makes your mind quiet, but it has only gone to sleep, and that is what you call meditation. You also call it meditation when you solicit, pray, beg for something for yourself, for your country, for your party, or for your family. You put forth the begging bowl of inward poverty and ask somebody to fill it. That is not meditation. Meditation is something entirely different, as you will see. The state of meditation is possible only when there is space in the mind for observation, and that space is denied to a mind which is suppressed, disciplined to conform to a pattern. A mind in the state of meditation, contemplation, is not striving to be anything.

Sirs, I am only trying to convey in different words what has been said previously. If you have not followed the talk for the last forty minutes or more, you won’t understand what is being said now.

The Collected Works of
J. Krishnamurti – Volume XI 1958-1960: Crisis in Consciousness
Jiddu Krishnamurti

God’s blessings not dependent on anything JSG

God's existence

One important point in spiritual living which requires a tremendous transition in consciousness is that the blessing of God in our individual experience is not dependent on anything. It is not dependent on our first being good; it is not dependent on our first obeying laws or going through rites or ceremonies.

The blessings and grace of God are not dependent on any thoughts we think or on any acts we do or do not do.

The blessings and grace of God are free.

They are not a reward for studying books; they are not a reward for attending church; they are not a reward for being benevolent or for tithing.

Joel Goldsmith
Showing Forth the
Presence of God
Chapter 3

Can anyone heal people?

Heal Yourself

CAN ANYONE HEAL PEOPLE ?

I maintain that the person with the problem should learn what needs to be done because it’s all about their own spiritual growth. While it’s true that health is never withheld, there is an awakening that needs to take place.

We aren’t meant to live separated from our Source, Spirit, God, and that’s where our focus should be.

DrRobinStarbuck

I AM -rjs

Robin Starbuck

● I AM AT ONE WITH GOD.
● I AM ONE WITH GOD.
● I AM WITH GOD.
● I AM GOD.
● I AM.
● I .
□ Note well: Some mystics have gone through this progression many, many years ago while others have yet to meet it. Furthermore you who have not experienced it in its entirety have undoubtedly met many other glorious illuminations that the likes of myself have not yet seen.

DrRobinStarbuck

I AM one with God

God's existence

● I AM AT ONE WITH GOD.
● I AM ONE WITH GOD.
● I AM WITH GOD.
● I AM GOD.
● I AM.
● I .
□ Note well: Some mystics have gone through this progression many, many years ago while others have yet to meet it. Furthermore you who have not experienced it in its entirety have undoubtedly met many other glorious illuminations that the likes of myself have not yet seen.

DrRobinStarbuck

Apology is good for the soul

Methodology

I learned an important lesson about a week ago. I commented on a friend’s post, not realizing that my comment mitigated against his entire message to a very specific audience.

In my zeal to ‘correct’ him, I was sending out a message that was unloving, unimportant and most certainly, unnecessary.

Let me please be far less critical, and far less demanding, drawing merely from my own perspective, as truly helping another, means knowing when to lovingly back off.

DrRobinStarbuck

Re-typing = no good

Errors

Isn’t it possible to copy and paste FROM AN ORIGINAL? People will copy and paste, or simply share from here with its many typing mistakes. They will think they have a correct copy so they will in turn share it. Joel’s books are immaculate and not subject to misinterpretation because of re-typing with mistakes. (I know this because I shared another post that was re-typed with many errors. I noticed it later after it was shared from my post 3 times.)

The Mystical I

Page 32, “I Am Come”

   As long as you have no graven image of God in your thought, not praying to afar – off or close – at – hand God, as long as you are abiding in I – I, Omniscience, I, Omnipresence, I, Omnipotence, – then by the grace of God your needs are met.

   Now, as of old, the danger is that you will pray for material things or desire material things, which means that you would like God, Spirit, to fulfill your concepts rather than to express God’s way and God’s will. To pray and have in mind anything or any condition that you want from God is to create the barrier separating you from it, because there is no God separate and apart from you, and that “you” has no problems.

I and my Father have no problems. I and my Father are incorporeal, spiritual. I and my Father are truth. In this right identity, His word goes before me to “make the crooked places straight.” His word that knows my need fulfills it.

   Do you not see that setting up an “I” with some problem, with some desire, with some need to be fulfilled is setting up a selfhood apart from God? Do you not see that this is a denial of the Masters teaching?

   I and the Father have no problems. I and the Father are not immature or aged: I and my Father are ageless. “Before Abraham was, I am…. I will never leave thee…. I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

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ONE OF VERY MANY. :'(