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About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

Ouspensky, P.D.,Communication pitfalls

Ouspensky, P.D.

‘In Search of the Miraculous’ – P.D.Ouspensky

G. I. Gurdjieff – “Knowledge is one thing, understanding is another thing.’’

“People often confuse these concepts and do not clearly grasp what is the difference between them.
“Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being. Understanding is the resultant of knowledge and being. And knowledge and being must not diverge too far, otherwise understanding will prove to be far removed from either. At the same time the relation of knowledge to being does not change with a mere growth of knowledge. It changes only when being grows simultaneously with knowledge. In other words, understanding grows only with the growth of being. MORE:

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895 – 1986 was an Indian philosopher, speaker and writer. In his early life he was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the Theosophy organization behind it.

Tao Te Ching – Master Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching – Master Lao Tzu 💎
Translation by Stephen Mitchell
13
Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
you position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t see the self as self,
what do we have to fear? See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.

14
Look, and it can’t be seen.
Listen, and it can’t be heard.
Reach, and it can’t be grasped. Above, it isn’t bright.
Below, it isn’t dark.
Seamless, unnamable,
it returns to the realm of nothing.
Form that includes all forms,
image without an image,
subtle, beyond all conception. Approach it and there is no beginning;
follow it and there is no end.
You can’t know it, but you can be it,
at ease in your own life.
Just realize where you come from:
this is the essence of wisdom.

Mystics say one Self, ego, being JSG

ALL THE MYSTICS OF THE WORLD have revealed that there is but one Selfhood, one Ego, one infinite Being. God created individual being, individual you and me, in the image and likeness of Himself, not through the act of human conception and birth, but He sent man forth into expression as the showing forth of all that He is and has—and this without any processes.

Joel S Goldsmith

The Vastness of you. RS&RJS

THE VASTNESS OF YOU

Are you located inside your sensation/feeling/thought or is your sensation/feeling/thought located inside you?

Answer: It’s located inside you.

What happens when that sensation/feeling/thought is over? Where does it go?

Answer: It goes further within and dissipates. After all, you are the vastness of all infinity. As “it” goes anywhere, it’s gone!

DrRobinStarbuck

Withdraw your permission RS&RJS

WITHDRAW YOUR PERMISSION !

Imagine you’re having a dream and you wake up a little bit – kind of like lucid dreaming. Then you realize that the dream is really a nightmare but you still continue allowing it to happen.

It’s getting more and more unpleasant and you almost forget that it is in fact just a dream. The moment you refuse to give it permission to continue its gone!

Btw, withdrawing permission to continue from a wide-awake world mind illusion works just as efficiently and effectively! You can have a happy day instead.

DrRobinStarbuck

Nisargadatta Maharaj

True happiness is uncaused and this cannot disappear for lack of stimulation. It is not the opposite of sorrow, it includes all sorrow and suffering.

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The ONE who is prior to the appearance of the elements is always there.

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

OM 🕉 symbol

OM = AUM, everything, source, vibration, consciousness of whole universe, infinite, absolute, opposite of Maya(illusion, world), …

Here is some explanation for you and maybe other members can add, especially from Arabic meaning. Online ‘The Om symbol is a combination of curves, a crescent and a dot. The meaning of the Om symbol, while purely looking at its visual form, comes from the states of consciousness that Aum represents. The letter ‘A’ represents the waking state, ‘U’ represents the dream state and ‘M’ is the unconscious state, or state of deep sleep.

In the symbol, the waking state is represented by the bottom curve, the dream state is the middle curve and the state of deep sleep is represented with the upper curve. The crescent shape above the curves denotes Maya, or Illusion, which is the obstacle that sits in the way of reaching the highest state of bliss. The dot at the top of the symbol represents the absolute state, which is the fourth state of absolute peace and bliss, that is only one state actually. ‘ Yod from Hebrew would definitely be similar to the dot, which is the ‘I’ name of God as also explained by Rupert Spira, and crescent moon has definite meaning in Hebrew and all esoteric traditions and relates to evolution of consciousness. Hope I was able to help a bit. Anna Bharati Wysocka

Anna you covered the most commen in your comment.
The symbol is the first letter in Sanskrit = A.(A is build of 3 lines or I’s.(I-I)
The part 3 from the symbol is the number 3 and means 3.
Its the same as the trinity in Christianity.
Father, son and holy spirit.
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
All there is…
First dot were all is coming from.
Half circle can be the circle of ring pass not the second.( hidden part)
And then the 3.
Creation…
Its first sound from the new bourn when it comes out from the mother screaming aaa, auuu and ending aummm.
First is birth, second withholding (continuing)and third destruction.
Out breath, pause and in breath then a knew pause that compleat the round. (fourth).
The tail on the 3 that becomes a circle is not always a circle but is included as a tail in the number 3 in Sanskrit.
Often its just a tail(snake, continuous.
But as circle a conclusion of all.
Included in the dot is the the 3 from previous round as its always this 3 that are and it becomes the 3 again…
a little on the subject!

Robin Starbuck I think you can see the link the tail.
Arabic is one of the oldest writhen language.
All languages come as symbols from sound.
Hinduism and Islam are living close and Islam and Christianity are bourn from the same.
Before it become language it was pictures symbols and that become letters and words.
9 is a deep symbol in it self as number nine then as snake, boat, link, spiral, broken circle and circle, nr of initiations to fulfilment, 3×3….
Arabs used it alot as boat(link),snake in there old language and in the Om symbol we can also se it as a link to the new dot a new birth a new round…or just as all there is and will always be in continuum…
So when it become letters and words all languages are conected by symbols,words, sounds that they got from each other and mixed in to there own.


love and light🌟
Rickard. Anderholm

Vedantric vs tantric approaches Spira video

Advaita vedanta – path of exclusion, inwards facing path, direct path to realization of our true Self
Kashmir Tantric approach – path of inclusion, outwards facing path, identification with All
Rupert Spira suggests and teaches both, as they both have strengths and both have weaknesses, and both lead to same ‘place’ of realization if understood and practiced correctly.
Anna Bharati Wysocka

Stop thinking. RA

“[If you stop thinking] you will function much better than you do now, for you will always be taken care of. The universe loves you. It will always supply you with your needs. Forget about other people, what they do, what they don’t do. Do not listen to malicious gossip.

Be yourself. Understand who you really are. You are the absolute reality, unconditioned consciousness. Work from that standpoint. Do not work from your problems. Do not get lost in meaningless gossip. Understand your true reality. Be yourself.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)