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

Substance of appearances MB

The world of form
Appears
Thus it is an appearance
Like all appearances
It disappears

What is the substance of that which appears and disappears?

Like all night dreams
Like the weather
The substance of the world body mind
Is its dreamer.

We have never known a world
Outside of ourself.

Magdi Badawy

The home of the world is the mind.
The home of the mind is consciousness.

Magdi Badawy

What we refer to as the body is an open borderless space of awareness that embraces everything.
Within this space of being/presence, awareness is everything, without any separate doer or observer.
The breath, thought, the swinging branches of the trees, the song of the birds in the distance intermingle as one seamless fabric.

Magdi Badawy

This moment Now

Look into this very moment
Sink into it
Breathe into it
Invite yourself to dissolve
In this moment of not knowing

What am I?
What is it that is right now?

The depth of it
The breadth of it
Not knowing
Pure being, deepening
This very moment
Of stillness and silence

Magdi Badawy

Reward or punish JSG

To go to bed at night with the final few minutes before sleep filled with God is, in itself, enough to give us a restful night and a peaceful
moming. Always, we are thinking something: we are either knowing the truth or not knowing the truth; we are either thinking spiritual
thoughts or carnal thoughts. Always, we are either placing our faith, hope, and trust in the Infinite Invisible that is within our very own
being or in something covered with silver and gold, or of a fleshly nature. In one way or another, we are setting in motion the law that
in the end either rewards or punishes us.

Joel S. Goldsmith
A Parenthesis in Eternity, p.61

From nowhere – Mooji

HAS MOOJI BEEN READING MY DIARY? Lol, I don’t have one, but:

“Nothing has to be wrong for the mind
to launch an attack.
Nothing has to be wrong for it
to make up big stories, out of nothing actually.
There only has to be a seed of a thought
given attention, ‘Hmm, there’s still some separation…?’
And the mind says, ‘You see?
I’ve been trying to tell you!’ and there you go,
sailing off down the road with the unstable
and unreliable mind. It can happen just like this.
The mind doesn’t need any substance or truth.
You can give him anything.
He is like a goat—he eats anything.
And we are quick to believe anything it says.
Our life is chiefly made up of thoughts, interpretations
—and wrong interpretations also,
based upon fear, desire and rejection.
This is why I say: pay attention
to the sense of being—the Self.
Be one with the Self, rather than trying
to pick and choose through
the innumerable thoughts and sensations
that mind tends to see
—which one is true and which is false.
You can spend lifetimes doing this
and you will never come to the end of it.
As soon as you finish pruning this tree,
new leaves are coming.
So don’t waste time cleaning up the mind.
Stay as the Self. As you train your attention
and mind to stay as the Self, the space
in which the mind and person lives vanishes.
Thus you come to experience a completeness,
a contentment in just resting in and as the Self.
And when you are content, the interest
will fall away from these other rooms
and their contents.
The feeling of separation, or even union,
all of this becomes redundant as thoughts.
You simply are. There is a unity in that.
There is a harmony in this.
And where no doubts come,
there is even no need for union or separation.
You experience real unity
beyond even the concept of unity.
This is your natural state.”
Mooji

A TREATMENT OF Matthew 5:43-48

A TREATMENT OF Matthew 5:43-48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ [44] But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, [45] that you may BE [emphasis mine] children of your Father in heaven. [You already are, but need to realize it.] He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. [God loves everyone equally.] [46] If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? [Not looking for remuneration, but attitude adjustment.] Are not even the tax collectors doing that? [Lol] [47] And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? [48] Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

REPEAT: ‘BE PERFECT … AS YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS PERFECT.’
There’s no room for ambiguity here!

The BOTTOM LINE: If you want to fulfill God’s dictum to be perfect, you’ll need to appeal to the spiritual dimension where nothing exists but divine perfection, Bringing it Home…, to the truth of who we all are! <3

Will the whole earth awaken?

Whether the earth earthly will ever approximate full recovery, I know not; but I do know that those who are ready can find their way. A lackadaisical approach will certainly never bear fruit though as there is some pain to be dealt with but everything and I mean everything becomes all joy when the prize is the epitome of phenomenal.
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HF The critical moment

Now tomorrow, when you run out into your human world, you’re not running in the Kingdom of God; you’re not walking in reality when you do that; you’re going through your imaginary life. There comes a place where you stop. You really stop your imaginary life. You don’t walk in an imaginary life continuously. You come to a direct stop and you accept, if you understand, that the Spirit of God which you are, is not the flesh that is running out into an imaginary life. And that’s where you rest. You refuse to be an imaginary person. And you wait upon the Lord. I think we’re going to do that a little later.

I can tell you this: when you make that stand, something begins in you that doesn’t seem to happen until you make that stand. A certain kind of New Life begins to make Itself known to you. And to your surprise, when you refuse to be the imaginary person of flesh, going about the imaginary chores of the material world, in that Silence, in that inspired moment, when you can shake away in your Consciousness all that you are not, and resolutely refuse to be it, into that vacuum falls the birth of the New Self.

“Beyond Words and Thoughts” Interpreted by Herb Fitch Class Eighteen: Equal with God

Herb Fitch

How much to share?

Both Christ and Goldsmith made it clear to refrain from giving too much truth to the uninitiated. When doing so, we are crucifying said truth. Seeing and knowing that God is all, and that all else is illusion, would actually disqualify the need to speak of it. Most especially since words could never come close to giving what the Truth really is anyway. Every word in every language pales in comparison to one moment of Silence and Stillness, wherein God’s presence is made flesh without our ego’s need to feed it to the world. Since the substance of the world, in Truth, is really the very substance we are trying to give it, then the act of telling the Truth is, in itself, the greatest lie we could ever give. ~ Michael Blaydes

Inadequate desire

INADEQUATE DESIRE
Are you wanting
with your whole heart
to stop flipping between
Spirit and flesh,
flesh and Spirit?

My guess is you’re
nowhere near wanting
it badly enough.
That is not a moral judgment –
absolutely not!
It’s an effectiveness observation.

Let’s assume however
you’d like nothing better
than to get the “h” out of
that interminable cycle
of flip-flopping through life.
Would that be alright?

So, you do your diligence –
maybe reading, listening,
praying, communing, silencing…
or a fine-tuned combination
when suddenly perfectly
normal, non-negative intrusions
come & wipe out everything.

Believe not two existences LDW

Believe not in cause and effect. Believe not in two beings, two minds, two worlds, and two existences of everything. See! Know! Understand! GOD AS AN INFINITE INDIVISIBLE TOTAL ALL, IS ONE WHOLE. This ONE-ALL is pure, perfect Being, Life, Mind, Consciousness, Individuality, Embodiment and World. There cannot be, therefore, ANOTHER being, life, mind, consciousness, individuality, embodiment and world BESIDES THE ONE ALONE. To believe in ANOTHER would be not only to dishonor GOD, but also to disown one’s very own Self and Being.
Lillian DeWaters
God and Oneself