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

Everything is God, leave alone -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Be aware of yourself, always. The world goes through its own karma. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. You belong to God. Everything you see is God. This is why you should be nonjudgemental. Leave everything alone. By practising these things, you become radiantly happy. Everyone wants something. If your mind stops thinking, what happens? Some of you believe you will not have anything, that you will have more problems. But it’s in reverse. You experience bliss, joy and happiness when you don’t want anything. From what we know, people want something and when they get it, they become more miserable than ever before.

Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart

‘You’ doesn’t exist, pure consciousness -RAdams

Adams, Robert

If you know the true reason you are coming here it will make a tremendous difference in your life. You are coming here to awaken, to awaken from the dream of maya and of a personal I. You are coming here to find peace and happiness. Therefore just being here is a meditation in itself.

The modality I use to help you is silence, not words. There are no weekend seminars. There are no special mantras. There is no initiation. There is nothing. Yet the nothing is everything. You believe you are the doer, and everything you accomplish is your deed. That is a lie. You don’t even exist! You were not even born! How can you be the doer? There is no one who does anything. Yet everything gets done. It is a paradox.

When you realize you are not the doer everything gets done in a better way. You stop identifying with object and subject. You become free of all attachments. As long as you believe that you are responsible for anything that takes place, you have a problem. You will have to repeat that experience over and over, until you realize that you have absolutely nothing to do with that experience, or anything else for that matter! You are pure consciousness. Your real self is absolute reality. You have nothing to do with this world.

Robert Adams, Excerpt from Satsang 14

Tim Frekes disagrees w/R.Spira’s “Consciousness is.”, calling it theory -RSpira

Rupert Spira

Have you ever experienced anything that was not in consciousness? The obvious answer is in the question. It’s supposed to be no I haven’t, according to Spira. Now Tim has found out that he’s been wrong all these decades in assuming that because it is not true: it is not self evident. Once you see the world in this way you can get locked into it. These ideas are NOT SELF-EVIDENT. THEY’RE THEORY-LADEN. They’re an interpretation in the moment not given in the moment. All of it. This that you’re experiencing, sensations in consciousness. That’s a theory. It’s not self-evident. I’ve assumed there’s such a thing as consciousness. That doesn’t mean that I’m conscious: that’s self-evident. There is a thing called presence or pure consciousness called consciousness. IS THERE? THAT WAS A MOMENT FOR ME! IS THERE A THING CALLED CONSCIOUSNESS? Or is that a thing called a rarefication – that means you take something that isn’t a thing and imagine it’s a thing. I think that’s what I’ve done there. I think consciousness is an activity. It’s a WAY OF EXPERIENCING. I am experiencing this consciously. I’m also experiencing a whole lot unconsciously. I am experiencing some things with my psyche. It’s a way of experiencing. That’s a verb. It’s not a thing. And from that I’ve constructed this idea that there is a thing which is itself a ground of everything and is formless. I invite you to doubt that. I’m not saying that it’s wrong although I do think it’s wrong but all I want to get across in this video is to say that it’s an interpretation. It’s a thing, a presence called consciousness and within it arises sensations. Is that true? Is this raising my hand consciousness or is it a sensory experience of my hand, which is a common sense interpretation? THIS IS NOT AN APPEARANCE IN CONSCIOUSNESS A WORLD OF WHICH I AM CONSCIOUS. Let’s leave aside for the moment whether these 2 interpretations might be right and whether there might be other interpretations, which is what I’m exploring in my forthcoming book. That these are sensations arising in consciousness is NOT SELF-EVIDENT. IT’S AN INTERPRETATION OF THE EXPERIENCE. So if you take away the theory, the question, what you’re left with is Have you ever had an experience which wasn’t a conscious experience? And the obvious answer is no! That’s self evident and that’s what’s missing. When you take pure consciousness as a concept that you’ve applied to your It could be either. There’s a materialist interpretation and an idealist interpretation of this. Spiritual versus scientific is another way of looking at it together That’s why I’m excited about what it is that I’m working on. This idea that you’ve all heard in non-dual circles and spirituality that ALL EXISTS IN CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT NECESSARILY TRUE. It’s a theory about reality to evaluate as a theory, an argument, not a given. It doesn’t show that it claims that and that’s a big difference. When I saw that I was able to extricate myself from THAT WAY OF SEEING THINGS. I’m able to see things in a new and in my opinion a much better way and that’s what I’m going to share with you in the coming months. I’ve written 35 books and what is fundamental and in my most recent I’ll share as this philosophy unfolds.

Love can only win -SB many

Simon Bartholomé

“There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.”
~ Sadhguru

“To love is to recognize yourself in another. The “otherness” then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Love is not a feeling. Love is the experience that others are not others.
Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.
We consider love to be a relationship. We consider love to be a feeling that takes place between two people. Love is not a relationship. It is the collapse of relationship. In the experience of love, the self and the other dissolve. Love is the dissolution of the apparent separation between self and other, and a revelation of the prior unity of these two apparently separate selves. So love is not an experience that the separate self has. It is the dissolution of the separate self, the revelation of reality, the revelation of consciousness. Consciousness is love.”
~ Rupert Spira

“Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not “in love”, one is love.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved, but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.”
~ Osho

“Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. Love will arise in your heart when you have no barrier between yourself and another, when you meet and observe people without judging them, when you just see the sailboat on the river and enjoy the beauty of it. Don’t let your prejudices cloud your observation of things as they are; just observe, and you will discover that out of this simple observation, out of this awareness of trees, of birds, of people walking, working, smiling, something happens to you inside. Without this extraordinary thing happening to you, without the arising of love in your heart, life has very little meaning.”
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The universe only pretends to be made out of matter. Secretly, it is made out of love.”
~ Daniel Pinchbeck

“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
In true love there is no heartbreak. A broken heart means broken demands, broken expectations, broken hopes.”
~ Ravi Shankar

“We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are. Your true nature is love.
Life is love. All else is imagined confusion.
There is no one who doesn’t live in love. There are few who realize it.”
~ Byron Katie

“Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world.”
~ Mooji

“In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself embracing all.
When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.
I cannot but see you as myself. It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Love is verily the heart of all religions.
Love itself is the actual form of God.”
~ Ramana Maharshi

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
~ Jesus

“Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness. The end of separation is the salvation for all.”
~ Adyashanti

“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.”
~ Yukteswar Giri

“The ordinary human being does not know what love is. When somebody gives you pleasure, you tend to think you love that person. But in reality it is yourself you love – your ego has been pleased by the other person’s attention; that is all. Would you go on ‘loving’ that person if he/she should cease to give you pleasure?
Love gives without expecting anything in return.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
We all have the seeds of love in us. We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return. When we understand someone deeply, even someone who has done us harm, we cannot resist loving him or her.
Happiness is only possible with true love.”
~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
There comes a time when nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love.
For love, I come to you without me, come to me without you.
There is no love greater than love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.
Except for love, nothing you see will remain forever.”
~ Rumi

“Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.
The love that you search for everywhere is already present within you. It may be evoked by any number of people or events. But finally, you must realize you are this love. The source of all love is within you.
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart.
Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.”
~ Gangaji

„When you really love someone, there’s no longer an ‘I’ or an ‘other’.”
~ Jean Klein

“Love is the absence of separation. I don’t love others. I am the others.
The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total love.”
~ Ramesh Balsekar

“Love is not something that we ‘do’ – it is an effortless recognition, beyond the story of time and space, that I am already what you are.
Love is not a presence, but an absence, of separation, and the illusion that in our essence we are divided. Love is simply what we are, prior to the exhausting and seemingly endless search for it. No need to seek love – it is already here, closer than breathing.
Trying to fall in love is like trying to make your heart beat backwards. It can’t be done. And so we don’t fall in love; we simply notice that we are in love already, and always have been. We are all so deeply in love that we don’t realize it.
There are no conditions to love. And no end to its depths.
Love is the answer. The question is unimportant.”
~ Jeff Foster

“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”
~ Liam Neeson

“Love is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of love, you really haven’t learned anything.”
~ Muhammad Ali

“It doesn’t matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!”
~ John Lennon

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
~ Jimi Hendrix

“Love always wins in the end.”
~ Francis Lucille

Many thanks to Simon Bartholomé