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

Be ready to turn away from worldly things -RAdams

Adams, Robert

You have to be ready to turn away
from the worldly things. You have to
be prepared to jump within yourself.
To dive deep within yourself. And
to sort of ignore the world
for a while.

This doesn’t mean that you have to
give up anything. It means that while
you are going through your daily chores,
while you are doing your work in this
world, you simply have to become aware
every once in a while that everything is
Consciousness. Just by being aware of
these things [pain, sorrow, happiness, joy,
etc.], you awaken. You become free. Just
by being aware. By thinking to yourself
when you get up in the morning,
“Everything may appear real to me, but
all is Consciousness. Everything is
Consciousness. Consciousness
is space, pure choiceless
Awareness.”

Robert Adams

Always, always, always first turn within -JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith
https://youtu.be/Q82KNXISPkg
“I” IS GOD. DON’T FINITIZE THE I.
GET OFF THE WHEEL OF LIFE [SAMSARA] ON WHICH YOU GO ROUND AND ROUND BUT NEVER GET ANYWHERE.
Let I, the very Spirit of God, govern my body. Your body responds to influences until you get hold of the nature of I.
I is the Christ, your true identity. The son of God.
Joel greatly disliked the concept of death, burial or cremation until one day when he had a haircut and manicure and discovered he wasn’t in the hair or fingernails that were trimmed off: nor was he in the rest of the body.
That was his first emancipation from the body. While in the Practice, Joel realized that all the synonyms for God [Spirit, Soul, Mind, Life, Love] put God outside himself, the thinker, but God as “I” cleared up all that.
THE ONLY WORD THAT DOESN’T MAKE GOD OBJECTIVE TO THE THINKER IS “I”. THERE YOU HAVE THE SECRET OF LIFE. THE I THAT I AM IS MY SUPPLY, MY OPPORTUNITY, MY TALENTS. IN THE I THAT I AM IS THE GRACE OF GOD, THE LAW OF GOD. In the I that I am is the embodiment or the fullness of the Godhead bodily. THE GODHEAD BODILY IS EMBRACED IN THE I THAT I AM. You need nothing from anyone or anything out here. I am self sufficient I am self contained. I am my father are 1. All that my father has is mine. All the supply the companionship the love the everything that I could possibly want or need is mine and all that I need to do is to release you. You owe me nothing.
YOU OWE ME NOTHING !!!
Why? Because I am not dependent on man whose breath is in his nostrils. I am not dependent on the good will of any one because all that my father has all of that is mine. It is your good pleasure to share it doesn’t matter if they deserve it or not.
EVERYTHING IS EMBODIED IN CONSCIOUSNESS WHERE I IS GOD. Anything that is in are of God is likewise in you. Everything is and bodied in you because everything is in the father and I and the father are one so don’t be looking for good to come to you at all. Just open out a way for the hidden splendor to escape. It’s all in you as consciousness which is all that you are. RJS. The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Even Joel wondered what that meant until he finally got it that no accidents could happen in the divine mind which is God and therefore could not happen to him or the man down the street.
DON’T EVER THINK YOU’RE IN AN AIRPLANE: AIRPLANES ARE IN YOU !!! You are never in an automobile, an automobile is in you. You are divine consciousness. There is only one Self, the divine Self. We are all the Godhead. That is illustrated with the concept of morality. Either we are 100% moral or we are immoral.
THIS IS NOT ME (Joel): IT IS ONLY A FORM OF ME. The minute that you think that pounds or dollars our supply you cut yourself off from a ternal supply. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. We are the Godhead bodily.
WE ARE ONENESS WITH GOD AND THIS CONSTITUTES OUR ONENESS WITH ALL SPIRITUAL BEING.
“LET US TURN WITHIN” IS ONE OF JOEL’S OWN PERSONAL SECRETS. “NEVER, NEVER, NEVER DO I MAKE A HUMAN MOVE WITHOUT TURNING WITHIN.” Before Before retiring at night and upon awaking in the morning the 1st thing to do is to turn within and certainly 30, 40, 50 times a day. I of myself am nothing, know nothing, have nothing but by virtue of God. And so it is that I must turn within and that is not within my body. When the next need arises I am ready for it. Since we know the nature of the I that I am and we know though oneness of the I that I am NOW I MUST GIVE RECOGNITION TO THAT WITHOUT EVER DOING ANYTHING WITHOUT TURNING TO THE I WITHIN. It can It can happen very quickly and often does but sometimes you have to wait for a little while until you feel of release and then you go! NEVER BE EGOTISTICAL ENOUGH – EVEN IF YOU’RE JUST GOING INTO THE KITCHEN – TO DO ANYTHING WITHOUT FIRST TURNING WITHIN. Not my Not my will but thine be done. O those are only words not if you turn within and turn within over and over and over again until you finally do it naturally. They only The only way we can know the father’s will is to shut out material sense and listen. Speak Lord for thy servant heareth.
REMEMBER THAT WE KNOW SOMETHING NOW THAT WE HAVE HERETOFORE NOT UNDERSTOOD: WE KNOW THE SECRET OF THE RESURRECTION. We know that the imprisoned Christ which seems to be locked up and this tomb which is the human body shows us that the spiritual illumination hasn’t yet come. I never was there but was always risen.

Peace is your natural state -RM

Ramana Maharshi

PEACE AND HAPPINESS

D: How can I get peace? I do not seem to obtain it through vichara.

M: Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. Your vichara has been made only in the mind.
Investigate what the mind is, and it will disappear. There is no such thing as
mind apart from thought. Nevertheless, because of the emergence of thought, you surmise something from which it starts and term that the mind. When you probe to see what it is, you find there is really no such thing as mind. When the mind has thus
vanished, you realise eternal peace.

D: Through poetry, music, japa, bhajana, the sight of beautiful landscapes, reading the lines of spiritual verses etc., one experiences sometimes a true sense of all-unity.
Is that feeling of deep blissful quiet
(wherein the personal self has no place) the same as the entering into the heart of which Bhagavan speaks?
Will practice thereof lead to a deeper samadhi and so ultimately to a full vision of the Real?

M: There is happiness when agreeable things are presented to the mind. It is the happiness inherent to the Self, and there is no other happiness. And it is not alien and afar. You are diving into the Self on those occasions which you consider pleasurable; that diving results in self-existent bliss. But the association of ideas is responsible for foisting that bliss on other things or occurrences while, in fact, that bliss is
within you. On these occasions you are plunging into the Self, though unconsciously. If you do so consciously, with the conviction that comes of the
experience that you are identical with the happiness which is verily the Self, the one Reality, you call it Realization. I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the heart.

🕉 Maharshi’s Gospel
Being Answers of
BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI
to Questions put to Him by Devotees

True silence will happen by itself -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“True silence has absolutely nothing to do with the world. True silence is omnipresence, is all-pervading. Your real nature is silence. Always remember, it is different than just keeping still. Anyone can keep still for a while, maybe a couple of seconds, before the mind starts attacking you. But true silence is when you go deeper, where you forget about your body, you forget about your affairs, your mind, your world, and you enter that atmosphere where there is bliss-consciousness.

True silence is the nature of creation. The planets turn on their axis, the galaxies spin through space. … Everything is in a state of flux. Everything moves. Yet, it’s all very silent. You do not hear a thing. If you get up at four o’clock in the morning and go outside and look, what do you hear? You hear silence, deep silence, total silence, beautiful silence. It is not hard to get into that type of silence. You simply begin to sit still and become oblivious to everything.

It will happen by itself. You will go deeper, and deeper, and deeper, and deeper, until you’re no longer aware of your body or your surroundings. The true silence can be kept up at all times. You do not have to sit to go into the silence any more. In the beginning stages you do, for you’re learning how to keep silent. But as time goes by, you can be shopping in the market place, you can be working in the factory, you can be washing dishes, you can be doing all kinds of things, and you will be in the silence.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

No resistance, no ignoring -rjs

Robin Starbuck

RESISTANCE TO HIGHER SPIRITUALITY
Don’t think for a moment that Spirit, God, ‘Creator’ of the universe (of Spirit) describes itself in cryptic language just to make your life miserable! That couldn’t be further from the truth!
There is no easy way to use a language – any human language – and explain issues of a non-human (non-mortal) nature. But the hard, cold fact is that humans are in essence mentally lazy. They hear earth-shattering truths but fail to follow them to a substantial conclusion.
“Matter as such does not exist.” So spake Einstein. But the world goes on and on ad infinitum with nary the slightest doubt as to the solidity, the all-pervasiveness and absolute dominion of same. It’s as if our mighty mortal man would quell the very knowledge gleaned by quantum- and astro-physics in the name of getting on with their summertime slumber.
~ Dr. Robin Starbuck

Fear gets transformed -JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

P: But what do you do exactly?

K: When fear arises from whatever cause, remain with it, without any momentum, without any movement of thought.

P: What is it then?

K: It is no longer the thing which I have associated with the past as fear. I would say it is energy held without any movement. When energy is held without any movement, there is an explosion. That then gets transformed.

Exploration into Insight
J. Krishnamurti

When striving’s done -rjs

Robin Starbuck

All morning I had a question.
But I didn’t know what the question was!
So then I had two unknowns.
It was most disconcerting!
I yearned to go all the way
Out of the “me” realm
Of the Unreal.
Didn’t care an iota about
Rewards and accolades of flesh.
Wanted to be where striving’s done
And seeing all aright was my
Healing gift to everyone.
“Me” knew that there was a message
A message that would consign her
To having never existed at all.
What is it?
What can it be?
“Unlike most people, you are
Starting to see that there is
NO UPPER LIMIT AT ALL.
Humans love to compromise two realms
Two realities, mis-connections
Pulling them back down when they would soar
But not you Robin and you’ve paid dearly
But this is your prize – to try
To share.”

DrRobinStarbuck, 2018

Universe is dream -RAdams

Adams, Robert

This universe is a dream just as
when you are dreaming. No one can
ever tell you that the dream is a dream
as long as you are dreaming. Yet you
awaken from your dream, and the
dream never existed. It came
out of you and it returned to you.

This world in which we live is the
same thing. There is absolutely no
difference. You are living the mortal
dream. Consequently, great sages
have told us we have to identify with
Consciousness, with the Absolute
Reality, not with what is going on.
The only freedom we have got
is not to react to anything,
but to turn within and
know the truth.

Robert Adams