Moment by moment preferences don’t mean anything – No attachment.
Adyashanti
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Realize the now is not work but play! AW
“This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
~ Alan Watts
I am a living Buddha, divine emptiness -Adyashanti
“Wake up! You are all living Buddhas. You are the divine emptiness, the infinite no-thing. This I know because I am what you are, and you are what I am. Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?”
~ Adyashanti (20th-21st century American mystic)
INSTRUCTIONS For Teaching The Infinite Way -JSG
Do not meet a problem on the level of the problem.
God, Spirit, is absolutely ALL; understanding explodes -RAdams
Why not make up your mind to drop the past totally and completely, to forget about the future and live in the eternal now, in the eternal moment, fresh, with spontaneity, peace and love? Why not make up your mind to do this? When you make up your mind to do this something happens to you. Your mind begins to fade away.
The past impressions that have been with you for so long begin to fade away. All of your fears, emotions, anger, sorrows begin to fade away into the nothingness from whence they came. You have only to be aware. To be aware of what? That you are a God. As you think of yourself as a God that notion begins to expand within you.
So you begin to laugh at yourself because you’re able to see and perceive that all of the Gods that ever existed are you, your Self. They are not within you, they are you, you are those Gods. You are Krishna, you are Vishnu, you are Shiva, you are the Christ, you are everybody that has ever lived. It is you. … You are the one that has given life and substance to every condition in this universe.
Robert Adams
When you see through everything -RAdams
Everything is sacred. Everything is holy. Because everything is God or consciousness or absolute reality. If anything were not God it wouldn’t exist. Everything that exists is God. Most of us when we think of God we think of only the good things. We think of harmony, peace, love , etc. But in truth God is everything.
God is in the serial rapist. God is in the mass murderer. … The only problem which appears is that you see it differently, that’s all. It is your identification, it is your perception. It is what you see. This is what matters. This is what counts. So, if you’re able to see through appearances and see the reality, how can the appearance hurt you?
Robert Adams
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. [2] There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. [3] Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. [4] Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” [5] While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!” [6] When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. [7] But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.” [8] When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. [9] As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
Matthew 17:1-9 NIV
Various -rjs
My spirit’s craving to move higher, farther, deeper than my earthsuit can afford is being fulfilled by the toughest of challenges.
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♡ ● ♡ ● ♡ ● I can always tell if I am completely on track with God by how I’m feeling about every person who comes to mind. On track with God, I love absolutely everyone easily and unconditionally.
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It doesn’t really make sense – spiritually speaking – to haggle over terminology which can clearly be seen as “steps” Spiritward. See, right there is a discrepancy: God inheres within, therefore no “-ward”, right? Yes, right, if you’re not missing any ‘walking it out’ along the way! Here’s the kicker: what we perceive as more advanced may simply not be so at all, in the larger scheme of things
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Praying for one’s enemies – as weird and loathsome as it may seem – bumps one up and out of the material realm where selfishness and egotism run rampant. It’s not easily accomplished owing to the emotionalism attached and the ease in deceiving oneself; but, if taken over by God, is beyond rewarding!
Robin Starbuck 2017-19.
Why have you accepted defeat? -Papaji
Q.My mind is so strong and clever; will you help me?
~ Papaji: Why have you accepted your defeat, that the mind is so strong? Why? It has to be your slave, not your master. As a slave he is very obedient, but as your master or as your teacher he is a butcher! Don’t feel defeated by this man because you have not even seen him! How can you say he is so strong?
You have never seen him! Nobody has seen the mind. Therefore, this is only a ghost. You are haunted by a ghost. Those who say “I have a strong mind,” or “I am troubled by my mind,” they are haunted by a ghost. There is one psychotherapist here in Satsang who will help you with your ghosts (giggles) and he will charge you $100 per hour! So to be haunted by ghosts is very costly!
If you are conscious of the rising of the thought it will not arise. Do you follow this? I will speak again and again. It is very important! When the thought is arising, look at it. Do this and tell me if you understand. All your life the thoughts are arising, so look at them and tell me what happens.
Be vigilant. Invite the thoughts to come. Say “Oh thought, I like you, I love you!” (giggles) and see what thought will come.
A. No thought comes.
~ Papaji: So you know the secret of how no thought will come to you…
Nature of God -JSG
NATURE OF GOD
There is only one answer to the question, ‘What is God?’ and that answer is, ‘I AM.’ God is the mind and the life of the individual. Any mental hedging or inner reservation on this subject will result in ultimate failure. There is but one universal I whether it is being spoken by Jesus Christ or John Smith. When Jesus revealed, ‘He that seeth me seeth him that sent me,’ he was revealing a universal truth or principle. There must be no quibbling about this. You either understand this truth or you do not – and if you do not, there is no need for you to seek any further reason for failure to heal. The revelation of Jesus the Christ is clear. ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.’ Unless you can accept this as a principle and therefore as the truth about you and about every individual, you have no foundation upon which to stand. The truth is that God is the mind and life of the individual. God is the only I.”
“Never forget that you cannot live scientifically as man or idea, but that you must realize yourself to be Life, Truth, and Love. You must accept Jesus’ revelation of the I AM until it becomes realization with you.”
“Consciousness lives Itself – you do not live It.”
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way