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
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Dreaming the universe -RAdams
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
There is no matter. -Max Planck
THERE IS NO MATTER AS SUCH
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck
The New Science
Talk to yourself about stopping the mind -RAdams
“[Stopping your mind is] so easy and yet so hard. The reason it appears hard is because you have become attached to your way of thinking, you have been attached to person, place and thing for so many years. You’re attached to your memories, to your body. This is the reason it appears difficult.
But when you begin to understand and realize there is no body, there is no attachment, there is only total freedom, the mind becomes totally annihilated. This is something you have to work with yourself.
This is something you have to talk to yourself about, something you have to see for yourself. Seeing is being. As you begin to see the great truth, that you are the imperishable Self, the mind will automatically run away and become dissolved.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
Self-knowledge, I, myself, key to happiness & peace w/o practice -RSpira
AWARENESS NOT ONLY LIES IN THE BACKGROUND OF, BUT ALSO PERVADES, ALL OF OUR EXPERIENCE.
It’s It’s not necessary to deny or repress or get rid of any experience. If we go deeply into the heart of any experience we find our true self there, peaceful. Awareness like the physical space in the Room in which you are sitting it’s always the same whether you were 10 years old or now.
AWARENESS = CONSCIOUSNESS = SELF
3 TERMS RUPERT USES INTERCHANGEABLY.
AWARENESS IS PRISTINE, PEACE, HAPPINESS, UN-RESISTED.
DON’T MAKE A PRACTICE OUT OF ANYTHING. IT’S TOO LATE FOR AWARENESS TO BE RESISTED: IT JUST IS.
Follow the I, not healing -RAdams
“We always imagine somebody’s going to heal us. We go and see all these healers, psychics, channelers, everybody in town. We want advice from psychic readings. We want to know what’s going to happen to us. What can possibly happen to you, if you were never born to begin with? You have no history. You are pure consciousness. Forget about healings. Forget about psychics. Forget about readers and channelers.
Look to your Self for the answers. Everything is within you. Learn to be still. Find out who’s worried, who fears, who’s unhappy, who’s depressed, who’s sick and you will say, ‘I am, but who am I?’ and follow the I to its source. And the ‘I’ will disappear of its own accord. The realization will come, that you are Absolute Reality and that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
Can’t bring Spirit, God, to physical problem -JSG
I cannot repeat too often that failure comes directly from the attempt to bring God or Spirit into a human problem. It cannot be done because to God there are no human problems. To God there is no material universe. To say, “Oh, why doesn’t God heal me?” is useless. In the kingdom of God, there is nothing to be healed and no one to be healed, but we will never know that until we leave the realm of physical existence and attain a soul-quietness.
Then what we have been calling some discord in the physical body is not that at all. The body is a spiritual vehicle of life, a spiritual formation of life. It will not be that to us, however, while we are entertaining a concept of it in our thought as a physical structure, needing change, alteration, healing, or improvement.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Showing Forth The Presence Of God
Chapter 8, Section
We Cannot Bring God To A Human Problem
Egoic sense of self needs conflict -ET
The egoic sense of self needs conflict
because its sense of a separate identity
gets strengthened in fighting against
this or that, and in demonstrating
that this is “me” and this
is not “me”.
Eckhart Tolle
its sense of a separate identity
gets strengthened in fighting against
this or that, and in demonstrating
that this is “me” and this
is not “me”.
Eckhart Tolle
Built into the very structure of the
egoic self is a need to oppose, resist,
and exclude to maintain the sense of
separateness on which its continued
survival depends. So there is “me”
against the “other,” “us”
against “them”.
Eckhart Tolle
They are looking outside
for scrapes of pleasure or
fulfillment, for validation,
security, or love, while they
have a treasure within that
not only includes all those
things but is infinitely
greater than anything
the world can offer.
Eckhart Tolle
Karma quotes: -Gita, RAdams, RM
Karma quotes:
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“As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge [jnana] burns to ashes all karma.”
~ Bhagavad Gita
“As you get closer to awakening there will be many upheavals in your life. Due to the fact, all of the karma is coming to you at once. That’s how it affects some people, not everyone. All of your karma that would take many incarnations to get rid of is coming to you all at one time. That’s why there appears to be upheavals in your life.”
~ Robert Adams
“If you plant a cactus, how will you reap mangoes?”
~ Kabir
“The Ordainer controls the fate of souls in accordance with their prarabdha karma (destiny to be worked out in this life, resulting from the balance sheet of actions in past lives). Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”
~ Ramana Maharshi
When thinking body, ‘within’ seems to be -RM
- A student who is preparing his thesis for the Ph.D. degree asked:
S. God is said to be immanent, how do you justify your confining Him to the heart?
Bh. God is said to reside in the Heart in the same way as you are said to reside in your body. Yet Heart is not a place.
Some place must be named as the dwelling of God for those who take their bodies for themselves and who comprehend only relative knowledge. The fact is neither
God nor we occupy any space. We are bodiless and spaceless in deep sleep, yet in the waking state we appear to be the opposite.
Atman or Paramatman is that from which the body is born, in which it lives, and into which it finally resolves.
🕉 GURU RAMANA
MEMORIES AND NOTES
By S. S. COHEN
Chapter: XIV. HEART, LIBERATION
Is not everything the work of God?
“Without desire, resolve, or effort,
the sun rises; and in its mere presence,
the sun-stone emits fire, the lotus blooms,
water evaporates; people perform their
various functions and then rest. Just as
in the presence of the magnet the needle
moves, it is by virtue of the mere presence
of God that the souls governed by the three
[cosmic]
functions or the four-fold divine
activity perform their actions and then rest,
in accordance with their respective karmas.
God has no resolve; no karma attaches
itself to Him. That is like worldly actions
not affecting the sun, or like the merits and
demerits of the other four elements not
affecting all-pervading space.”
Shri Ramana Maharshi