“The whole idea is to be silent. Not to add affirmations or words to your garbage pail. It is already filled with garbage. By garbage I mean, preconceived ideas, dogmas, opinions, samskaras from previous lives, you’re filled with these things and you are a reacting machine, you react, that is what you do all day is react, react, react. Therefore when you try to learn more knowledge and you read more books all you’re doing is adding on to the garbage pail.

Of course most of you realize, the highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

[Samskaras = imprints or impressions left on the mind by experience]

If you really want to awaken you must put this first in your life.
How do you put this first in your life?
By learning to be calm and peaceful under all conditions.
By observing everything in your life and leaving it alone.
By allowing people to live their own lives and not judging or condemning.
By beginning to see that the person you dislike, that the condition that you do not like, is only yourself.
Whatever transpires is yourself.
There is only yourself.
If you realize there is only yourself, whatever you do for others or to others you’re doing to yourself.
In other words, where you are coming from in consciousness that is what you see.
If you believe you’re a body, you’re a mind, if you believe in the things of this world
then you see them everywhere you look. You see other bodies.
If you believe in suffering, you will see other people suffer.
If you believe in crying you will see crying wherever you look.
Whatever you believe in your mind you are creating in your life.
But if you go beyond the mind where there is absolutely nothing going on,
you will be in a place that cannot be described.
~Robert Adams -T.232: The Ground Upon Which I Stand
Is Holy Ground.

“Learn to be still. When I say, ‘Learn to be still’ I’m not [saying] to meditate. Remember when you meditate there has to be a subject and an object. When I say, ‘To be still,’ just be still. Be still, do not think of anything special. Just be still, quiet. …

Think of all the noise that some of you made this morning as you got out of bed, the talking, the arguing, the mind chattering. That is what I’m referring to, be still. You can talk to your mind this way, tell your mind to ‘be still!’ When your mind begins to chatter say, ‘Be still!’

When the mind starts telling you all kind of things about somebody else say, ‘Be still!’ When the mind brings things of the past say, ‘Be still!’ That’s all you have to do. You are the power. You can still the mind if you really want to, just by telling it to be still.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“If you’re running around looking for material gain you’re wasting your time. If you’re looking to make yourself happy physically you’re wasting your energy. I can assure you, you will be wonderfully happy if you go within the Self and try to understand who you are. Then you will really be happy. You will have … happiness that you never believed existed.

You are the one and there is no other. You are the one that has always been and will always be. See yourself that way. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. The reason you feel sorry for yourself is because you think of the past and the future. If you will only stop thinking, all of your sorrows would end. … Everything will come to a screeching halt if you shut your mind.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Abide in the Now

Why should you have to do anything to awaken, when your Divine nature is already awake?

Why should you have to strive or overcome conditions or straighten out your life?

In the dream that you are dreaming, you give importance to your humanhood. That’s the only problem you really have. Giving importance to your humanhood. And once you do that, every other lie comes into experience.
That you’ve got to straighten conditions out, you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that, but they’re all lies.
Consciousness has nothing to do.

Absolute Reality is Absolute Reality just the way it is.
It doesn’t have to practice any sadhanas, chant any mantras, or do anything.

Why not awaken now?
What are you waiting for?

Make up your mind that you’re going to awaken right now, and allow your mind to turn into your Heart, which is Pure Awareness.
Do it!

Some of you are still asking, how do you do it?
Through Silence.
Experiencing the Moment, the Now, the Reality. Nothing is happening Now.
No one is suffering.
Now is the only moment you’ve got.

Abide in the Now.
Everything is perfect right now.
Feel it.
Don’t think about it.
Feel it.

There are no yesterdays, there are no tomorrows. All of your so-called senses have been transcended. No past and no
future. You are fully alive now. Right now. Enjoy.

Remember, as your mind starts thinking, grab hold of it by observing it, and go back to the Now. Whenever you fall away in thoughts, keep remembering to catch yourself. There are many of you allowing your minds to run away.
Stay in the moment.
There is no thing happening in the moment.
The moment is eternity.
If you’re doing this correctly, you should start to feel a joy welling up within you. A joy, a bliss, a peace that you never felt before.
Feel it.

Nothing else exists except for this Peace, this Love, this Awareness.
Call it by any name you like; doesn’t matter. You are That.

~ SILENCE OF THE HEART
1999 edition
Dialogue with Robert Adams

T. 068 @ Happiness – June 9, 1991