Everybody is running around with their problems trying to resolve them and solve them. And ●●I just look, I just ●●watch and I wonder ●●how can you believe you’ve got a problem? ●●Why do you think someone is trying to hurt you? ●●Why do you believe someone is trying to take advantage of you? Why are you hurtable? And you don’t know why.
The answer is simple. Because ●●you are identifying with the personal I. That’s the only reason. Remember you ●●cannot solve any problem by solving the problem itself. You’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. As I’ve said before, “When one problem is solved another one pops up somewhere else.” It never ends. But, when you ●●annihilate the I, when the mind becomes quiescent and it rests in the heart, your natural state which is called the fourth state, after waking, dreaming and sleeping, ensues by itself. It comes by itself. Just like the sun that has been covered over by clouds. Only a fool would say, “The sun doesn’t exist because they can’t see it.” The clouds dissipate and the sun shines once again in all its glory and splendor.
So it is with us. We’re covered with clouds of ignorance that make us believe, I’m hurtable, I’ve been raped, someone is trying to do something to me. I don’t mean raped literally, I mean in your mind. Someone is taking advantage of me, someone is trying to do this or do that to me. Those are all lies. You’re doing it to yourself because you’re thinking past your nose. ●●You are allowing your thoughts to run rampant with you. ●●Your thoughts are taking you over continuously and leading you astray. You are not putting a stop to this you are allowing it to happen. Is it any wonder that you feel anger, frustration, out of sort?
Because you will not put a stop to these thoughts when they begin. This is also true with thoughts of dying, or sickness, or whatever. There is no such thing. Nothing exists but I-am.
And you should practice that form of meditation. When you inhale you say, “I.”
You exhale you say, “am.” If you have to meditate, meditate on that with your breathing.
●● The day will come when you awaken, and you will not have to do anything. But in the
meanwhile, you do the best you can. But as you are doing the best you can, realize that
●● consciousness is what you are, and consciousness loves you for you are its own. It will never leave you nor forsake you.
If you can’t do anything else ●●surrender to consciousness. What I mean about sur-
render, ●●surrender your ego, your problems, your emotions, your fears, your frustrations, your hurts, your anger. ●●Give it all up. Say, “Take it consciousness.”
If that’s too abstract to you, give it all to me. I will take it and chew it up for you and spit it out. So when you wake up in the morning and feel out of sorts, you feel angry
or frustrated say, ●●”Okay Robert, take this from me. I’m giving it to you.” And I’m happy to take it off your shoulders so that you can carry a lighter load. If that is what you have to do, do that.
But ●●by all means do not get carried away with your emotions. ●● Stop in the middle and watch. Watch your emotions ruling you. ●● Watch your fears controlling you. And watch your anger popping up. ●●Do not try to stop it, just watch, observe, look intelligently and ●●realize who it is that is getting angry or frustrated, It’s ●●not you. It is not even your ego, because there is no ego. It’s not your body, because there is ●●no body. It’s not your mind, because there is ●●no mind. Therefore, what is making you angry? Nothing.
It is like the story I tell of the Zen monk who is in his quarters and he’d get angry every now and again. He would start arguments with his fellow monks, always looking for something wrong, always complaining, whining, always telling people his troubles and he’d get real angry. So this fellow monk said, “Why don’t you go see the Roshi, the head of the monks and tell him to help you.” So he said, “Okay,” and the Roshi lived about two miles down the road. So he went down there and he explained his position with the Roshi. So the Roshi said, “Okay, so here’s what I’ll do, “Take my staff and hold onto it.
Now whenever you get angry my staff will remind you to come to me and I will get rid of your anger for you.”
So he went back to his quarters and that night he really got angry at some other monks. So he looked at the staff, and remembered the Roshi, so he started to run to the Roshi. And he finally got there, he was jogging all the way. So the Roshi said, “What’s wrong?” And he said, “I got angry.” The roshi said, “Show me your anger.” Well in the jogging the anger went away. He had nothing to show him, and he said, “I am not angry right now.” The Roshi said, “Go back to your quarters, and when you get angry again come and tell me about it.” The next day he got angry again. He ran to the Roshi and the same thing happened, in his running to the Roshi his anger disappeared. And the Roshi said, “Where is your anger?” And he said, “It’s gone now.”
This went on about twenty-five times.
Finally the last time, the Roshi said, “Okay, I’ll tell you what you do now. When you get back to your quarters take my staff I gave you and ●●when you get angry beat the living hell out of your anger with my staff.” And this was ●●so funny to the monk that he became realized, he became enlightened. Because he realized he would take the staff and beat himself, and his real Self could never get angry. But it was his body that appeared to be angry. And just that running back and forth twenty-five times and the ●●answer the Roshi gave him made him open his eyes and become enlightened.
So it is with us. ●●Do not look at your problem as a problem. Look at it as a no-thing.●● It doesn’t exist. Again, if your ●●ego does not exist, if your ●●body does not exist, if your ●●mind does not exist, ●●how can you be angry? ●●Where would it come from? ●●Who gave it birth? And is true of every other problem you believe you’ve got.
●●●Just by watching it like I just pointed out, it will disappear and you will awaken to your true Self.
~ Robert Adams Satsangs
T30: The Ultimate Happiness
