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

Vedantic AND Tantric -RSpira

Heal Yourself, Rupert Spira
DISTANCE VS NON-DISTANCE: VEDANTIC VS TANTRIC APPROACHES TO EMOTIONS AND HEALING 13:05
We turn away from our objective experience of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, Whether pleasant or unpleasant and we turn in the opposite direction toward that with which object experience is known.

I am aware of my experience. Whether I am deeply depressed or ecstatically happy the I is exactly the same in both cases. That’s the 1st step to establish what I am. I am the presence of awareness independent of all experience. We go back again and again and again Until we not just understand but we establish in our experience Til we know and feel ourselves To be that 1. That recognition Is the recognition of what we essentially are. That recognition is not enough to put an end to the years and the layers Of feelings and indeed beliefs That we’ve accumulated over the years. Even after we’ve recognized what we are we need to go back again and again to our beliefs and feelings. We’ve been repeating them over the decades again and again until they are a well worn habit. Both the habit of thinking and the habit of feeling Is ever had a cated put a plant the moment we recognize our true nature! Having turned around and faced our habits and beliefs we have to turn back And face our experience. But we don’t face it again as our separate selves anymore we face it knowing who we really are. As awareness our feelings are completely welcome just as everything in this Room Is. The space in this Room does not have to negotiate With every person that comes into the Room and say I like you and I don’t like you. This space cannot negotiate with who were what is in it because the space is empty and it doesn’t judge or a opinions. The space in this Room cannot resist what’s in it even if we were to fight each other. It’s a benevolent indifference. Now we can invite our feelings to come back Because we welcome within us that is within our space of awareness We let these feelings soak. Now we can welcome feelings Rather than trying to get rid of them as we have been doing all our lives. The separate self is very clever in applying non-dual teachings To get rid of feelings but that’s fake Welcoming that’s welcoming something so that you can get rid of it. You say this to a feeling You must be able to answer yes to that question Because then you would know that there’s no trace in you With which to get rid of it. Look at it what is a feeling! For which you have absolutely no response Put the story that accompanies this suffering Aside because they’re not dealing with beliefs and feelings We are dealing with the espec’s of the feelings that is important When you next find yourself suffering with a sense of lack Don’t let your mind go into the story. Just go to The feeling and sensation of lakh . It may take some time . You turn towards it and you invite it Bring it closer and closer and closer Til you can honestly say I have no resent ment towards these feelings and what remains.

Rupert Spira

Consciousness/Presence/Awareness is like an ocean of water.

The waking state is like the waves on the surface of the ocean. The dream state is like the currents in the middle of the ocean. Deep sleep is like the stillness in the depths of the ocean.

But all there is to the surface, the currents and the depths is the water. It’s all a movement of water. All there is to experience is knowing, the activity of consciousness. The only real content or texture of any experience is the knowing of it.

Rupert Spira

Put the problem OUT … to heal it -rjs

Robin Starbuck

Would you like to try a very basic level healing experiment with me right now? If so, let’s try this: choose some small problem that has been bothering you but you’ve managed to ignore. Have you got it?
Good. Now I’m going to ask you to put it so far out of your conscious awareness that we’re not going to discuss it at all. No, it’s not the pink elephant game – it’s not a game at all. The issue could be a specific mental or physical anguish. Let’s give it a general name so we’re all on the same page. Let’s call it recurring headaches (This has never been my particular case: I’m just keeping it general for us now.).
Now what we’re going to want to do is talk in great detail about what IS true. For this we will need to see through false appearances right straight to the reality that Jesus “saw” which healed every single time. He saw everyone as they really are – perfect! Right where the headache seemed to be Jesus saw God’s own child, unencumbered and free!
Actually I believe it’s safe to say it was never a two-step process with Jesus (believing the lie and then un-believing it); He simply SAW THROUGH the seeming and beheld the person healed.
The only thing that remains for us is to be consistent, tenacious and strong. Whenever the slightest thought or remembrance surfaces, take charge for dear life!
See yourself as God created you: perfect, whole, happy and COMPLETELY FREE. Now do it again and again and again. DO NOT GO BACK – EVER !!!! Walk in freedom from now on. This is your eternal life.

Robin Starbuck 2017

MORE HEALING
Weird stuff going on here! This morning my eyes were excruciatingly itchy – unbelievably itchy!! I was reminded of an incident many years ago when one eye was so itchy and I rubbed it so hard that my boyfriend had to drive me to the hospital for emergency treatment. I had to wear an eye patch for several loooong days! Ugh!!
But, no problem, I’ll just put on some antihistamine eye drops … No, stop!! But Papa they’re just over-the-counter … No! I want you to apply your healing principles. But they’re sooo itchy… No! You can do it!
So I said one sentence to negate the claim: “No!!! – you can’t be itchy because God can’t have itchy eyes!! Then about 10-20 statements of AFFIRMATION, declaring that God is all power and present everywhere! He created me and my eyes out of the selfsame substance that He consists of. Jesus never missed – He saw only spiritual reality where humans see a lie. I got so involved in my affirmations of Truth that I didn’t even realize that all the itchiness had entirely disappeared. 3-4 hours later, I felt a little bit itchy again, so I said more sternly than ever, “No!” As I began to repeat my healing affirmations, it immediately disappeared – this time permanently! Praise God, praise God, praise God!!!

Robin Starbuck 2015

I am the God I’ve been looking for -RAdams

Adams, Robert

All is well. There are no mistakes. You’re in your right place, right now. When I say you are in your right place, do not think about where you appear to be, whether rich or poor, sick or healthy, sad or happy. This is not your right place. Your right place is devoid of all these things. Your right place is boundless space, choice-less awareness.

You are the God that you’ve always been looking for. You and you alone are the Sage, and the saint, and the awakened being, that you’ve been striving to attain. You are that right now. This is your right place, and there is no other place.

Robert Adams

Surrender yourself totally. How do you surrender yourself? By letting go, letting go of all the concepts, letting go of all the ideas, letting go of the beliefs, letting go of all your prejudices, all of your emotions. Just drop it. If you can do this, all of your sadhana, all of your meditations, all of your prayers, are no longer necessary.

Robert Adams

Rupert vs Rupert re Consciousness -RSpira●

Rupert Spira
RUPERT V RUPERT: NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
E X C E L L E N T !!!
Sheldrake: Does your philosophy relate to Western idealism or not? SPIRA: Yes it goes all the way back to PARMENIDES who says there’s a single unchanging infinite reality from which everyone and everything derived their apparently independent existence. I think exactly the same way and if you were to ask me the nature of this independent reality I would say its consciousness. Spira was educated in the Vedantic Kashmir Shaivite tradition (Not science and Western philosophy). What we perceive as the physical universe is what the activity of that consciousness looks like from a localized prospective.
I reasoned that when we dream at night we dream of the world in our dream mind. We cannot directly from our mind. In order to dream we have to localize ourself and enter into our own imagination as a character in the dream from whose perspective the activity of the outside world appears as the outside world in our dream. This gives us a very good model for the ultimate dreamer in infinite consciousness whose activity is the universe (not an entity made out of matter).

Who am I – Jean Klein

Jean Klein
GIVE UP WHAT YOU ARE NOT AND YOU’LL ENTER A WHOLE NEW DIMENSION.
ENLIGHTENMENT DOESN’T COME THROUGH THE MIND.
WHO IS AFRAID? IN SILENCE IS THE COMPLETE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE EGO.
Some teachers teach self enquiry by looking at the body and listening to it, while other teachers teach self inquiry by teaching that we don’t have and we are not a body. But you Jean Klein do both.
We don’t need a teacher to learn who we are or what we are or what Enlightenment is. These things cannot be taught like physics or mathematics can. But we do need a teacher to guide us along the way and yes there is definitely an inner teacher.
MATURITY COMES FROM INQUIRING WHO AM I. THE DIRECT WAY REQUIRES MATURITY.
Looking for happiness and peace etc and not finding it eventually you will find yourself in this objectless dimension.
YES, SOME OF THE TOOLS OF THE PROGRESSIVE WAY CAN BE USED IN THE DIRECT WAY BUT THE DIRECT WAY POINTS DIRECTLY. THAT’ SWHY YOU DON’T GO WITH SEVERAL TEACHERS.
THINKING IN THIS WAY IS PRAYING. WE DON’T ASK FOR ANYTHING.
Deep sleep is like meditation.

Stop postponing -Papaji

Enlightenment

The mind likes to keep busy. It will
set up some goal for you, and then it
will try to accomplish it. It will make
these brief bliss states your goal,
and then it will make you work hard
to attain them. And then you will
think that you have accomplished
something good, something
spiritual. This is just postponement.
You are postponing enlightenment
until next year, or your next life.

Papaji

Just don’t believe anything of the world -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Do not believe what the world tells you, what the newspapers tell you, what the TV tells you. Separate yourself from all these things. Become free from attachments. The world in itself is neither good nor bad. It is an appearance. You can play in the universe, you can suffer in the universe. It’s all how you see it.

Do not react to it, whether you’re going through good times or bad times. They’re both impostors. Look to your Self. You are the one. … You are beyond words and thoughts, beyond gods and goddesses, beyond everything and anything that you can ever think about.

Robert Adams

Four videos of Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille
THE FLOW
The flow flows by itself. Neither can you make it flow nor prevent it from flowing.

https://youtu.be/IFQtRdB5p2s
LOVE, BELIEF, PARMENIDES AND MORE
As long as we believe there’s a human being at the receiving end of grace As long As long as there is a giver and a receiver of grace we are out of grace.

DIALOGUE WITH FRANCIS LUCILLE
No of course you don’t want to be agitated and frustrated. That’s not when The Choice occurs The Choice occurs when you decide to be a separate self.

HOW DO I STOP BELIEVING I AM SEPARATE ?

Go beyond the false -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Don’t talk of means, there
are no means. What you see
as false, dissolves. It is the
very nature of illusion to
dissolve on investigation.
Investigate – that is all.

You cannot destroy the
false, for you are creating it
all the time. Withdraw from
it, ignore it, go beyond,
and it will cease
to be.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Unbelievable beginnings -rjs

Robin Starbuck

SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON’T QUITE “GET” ME. I don’t want to write a post about me but Papa says I gotta do it so here goes. I didn’t ever want to say this coz I so strongly dislike religious terminology but I believe I’m “anointed”. Good grief I said it!! Now all’s I gotta do is vindicate my statement, then I’m done, right Papa? Okay here goes.
I had more on my shoulders than most adults do in a lifetime, not expected to live time and again and I was like 5, 10, 15 years old. I can’t bear to relive the pain of being left so all alone – with a bible!!! – to heal myself when it was so beneficial to keep me down. I don’t know how I survived but I sure did learn to rely entirely on God.
Not physical rape but emotional dogged me since forever, and yet I can smile victoriously as I learned to use each and every incident as a stepping stone to deeper/ higher/ farther exploitations of Holy Spirit than I ever deemed possible.
I guess somewhere along the way I discovered that my niche was in the very process of dis–covering my spiritual being and abode commencing almost at birth!
Btw, lest I forget, you precious reader are not one iota less anointed than I am. Now I think I’ve said it all.