See everything as dream & stay out -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!”

~ Robert Adams

SEE ALL AS A DREAM,
… AND STAY OUT OF IT !

“In the waking state, the world emerges due to ignorance, and takes one into a waking-dream state.

Both sleep and waking are misnomers. We are only dreaming.

True Waking and True Sleeping, only the Jnani [Sage] knows; We dream that we are awake, we dream that we are asleep. The three states are only varieties of the dream state.

Treating everything as a dream liberates. As long as you give Reality to dreams, you are their slave.

By imagining that you are born as so-and-so, you become a slave to the so-and-so.

The essence of slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process; to have past and future, to have history.

In fact, we have no history, we are not a process, we do not develop, nor decay.

So see all as a dream,
And stay out of it!

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Realize everything is nothing -RAdams

Adams, Robert

REALIZE EVERYTHING IS NOTHING;
… STAY IN THE SILENCE,
… AND DO NOTHING !

“You all strike me as very funny,
because you believe you are the body;

You believe you are your mind,
You believe you are your experiences.

No matter how many times I tell you – you’re ‘Nothing’! – you won’t believe me!

You want to be some’thing’.
Why won’t you be Nothing?!
It’s fun being Nothing!

When you’re Nothing – there’s no world, there’s no God to pray to;
There are no ‘others’; Who can do anything to you?!

There’s no death,
There’s no rebirth;
There’s just ‘Nothing’!

Yet, the ‘Nothing’ is ‘Everything’!

Be ‘Nothing’.
You’ll Love being ‘Nothing’.

You don’t believe me, do you?
You think you have to be ‘something’.

What a group!

You think you’re ‘personal’; that you are an ‘ego’; you’re always wrapped up in ‘me’, ‘me’, ‘me’, ‘me’, ‘me’. True?

You’re always thinking about yourself;
… ‘I need this’.
… ‘I want that’.
… ‘This is wrong’.
… ‘This is right’;

There’s always something!

Nothing is the way it appears;
No ‘thing’ that exists – is, as it appears!

Whether it’s the world, or The Universe, or other people – other situations, or conditions, No ‘thing’ IS, the way it appears!

And as long as you identify with the things that appear, and are not Real, you suffer accordingly.

Anything that you think about – anything that your senses tell you is Real.., is only ‘an appearance’!

It is only ‘an appearance’ – and there’s absolutely nothing wrong!

If it were a Real Entity,
If the world were Real,
If the universe were Real, you would have something to worry about, for everything is subject to the law of change.

Everything changes constantly.

You become frustrated, you become confused, you become confounded – when you have faith in the world, because the world is always changing.

It tells you something one day, The next day, it tells you something else!

Even science agrees with this;
Science tells us that everything is composed of atoms and energy. And when the atoms spin at a certain rate of speed, this determines what the object is.

Science tells us that our eyes see a reflection of light, and the reflection of light causes the image to appear before us; as a tree, as a person, as a mountain, as an ocean, as the moon.

In other words, science is beginning to see that no ‘thing’ exists, the way it appears to exist!
It only exists, because ‘you’ exist!

If you weren’t around to see it, there would be no existence. It is only because you are around and awake, so-to-speak; you awaken the ego, and things appear as they appear to you; yet, no ‘thing’ appears the way it looks!

They say that the sun – millions of years ago, exploded, and caused our planets to be the way they are today; and everything is evolving:
…’The Big Bang Theory’.

That’s all well and good;
But where does the sun come from? They say that there is a Central Sun;

All of the galaxies in the universe revolve around The Great Central Sun, and it takes 24,000 years for a galaxy to revolve around that Central Sun;

The closer the galaxy gets to the sun, the more evolved the planet becomes. The farther away the galaxy goes from the sun, the greater the dark ages on that planet.

They say it takes approximately 12,000 years to go as close to The Central Sun as you’re going to get, and 12,000 years to pull away from it.

In other words, the planet is 12,000 years in ‘The Dark Ages’ – coming out of it, and 12,000 years in ‘The Golden Age, going back to The Dark Ages.

That’s what they say.

Where did The Central Sun come from? Who gave it birth?

Since the beginning of time, there have been individuals who have pondered this question.

Where did IT ALL come from?
Where did Creation come from?
Out of what did IT evolve?

Great Rishis in India, great seers in Japan, in Egypt, thousands of years ago, sat beneath trees, pondering these questions.

If God created everything, where did the God come from? Who created the God?

There is always a something – and a somebody, that appears to be responsible for this creation.

So these olden day Rishis – Seers, pondered these questions, and something very interesting happened; as they pondered – externally, the cause of creation, all of a sudden they found themselves becoming ‘introverted’; They began to look within themselves.

They began to Realize ‘I AM’, and – inadvertently, they posed the question:
… ‘Who am I?’
… ‘Who am I?’
Without knowing what they were doing.

They didn’t even voice it verbally.
They just felt it: ‘Who am I?’

And as they did this, sincerely – religiously, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.., something happened!

And it came to them; ‘I am ‘That’!
… They were amazed!

Remember, these great thinkers from the past, did not know each other; they did this independently; in Egypt, in Africa, in India, Japan.

They all came up with the same answer: ‘I Am That!’

In other words, there is no external world. There is no thing, but mind.

And because there is mind;
… There is a Universe.

Therefore, ‘I Am’ The Creator of The Universe. Everything exists, because the mind exists; and they believed, they were the mind!

They came a long way, for they now Realized that everything was an emanation of the mind.

When they had this Revelation, they didn’t stop there!

They pondered: ‘What is mind?’
‘Where did mind come from?’

‘If my mind is the cause of creation’, they pondered, ‘where did the mind come from?’

Again, they pondered this for days – weeks, months, years.., until again something happened.

This time they Realized; that mind is the cause of ‘the relative world’, and ‘the relative world’ is false!

So, the mind that I think is so important, must also be false!

In other words – there is no mind! If there’s no mind – then, ‘who am I’?

It took a long time to discover that they were mind, and everything came from the mind.

Now they were Realizing that they are Not the mind.

They inquired:
… ‘Then who am I?’
… ‘Who am I?’

And they abided in themSelf.
… They became ‘The Self’!

They lost track of the body,
… The Universe,
… The mind.

They were not in a state of Samadhi, because they were Awake.

During their Awakened State:
They became Nothing.
There was ‘no mind’.
There was ‘no universe’.

There was ‘no God’!

There was ‘no body’.
There were ‘no others’.

There was just Absolute Nothingness; and they Realized – this is The Self!

Not ‘myself’ – but, ‘The Self’!
… And they were absorbed in The Silence.

From that moment on, the world still appeared to them, but they were able to see right through it.

All pain disappeared, worry, fear, desire; it all disappeared. It was ‘transmuted’.

Now these ancient Rishis were unable to share this with devotees – or disciples, because IT’s a ‘personal experience’.

Since IT’s beyond words, IT’s beyond mind, and beyond thoughts.., how can one actually share ‘This’?!

Therefore, these ancient Rishis became Silent. They never spoke.

Yet, there was such power emanating from them, that if the right devotees came to them, and just sat with them: doing nothing, saying nothing, wanting nothing, desiring nothing; they too achieved the same results.

It was amazing!

This technique was passed down through the ages. It was commonly called Advaita Vedanta or Jnana, and it is still The Supreme Truth.”

~ Robert Adams ~

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Advanced spirituality

If you already know that matter is unreal
Even though it appears as ubiquitous as the sky,
Go very deep with what you know to be true.
Your very seeing through the seeming
Can bring untold awakening to an heavily hypnotized world –
While acts of personal self-promotion confuse and confound every attempt
To reveal No Thing to those who are finally ready to hear.
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Dimensionlessness -RSpira

Rupert Spira
DON’T MISS THIS ONE !
DIMENSIONLESSNESS !
There is only one perceiver.
Very off-putting – apparent solidity crumbled away. Everyone meets different obstacles gently seeing they’re not really obstacles and carry on. Go backwards towards the Source of perception. What is on the other end of your attention. That’s what you call I: you don’t find any THING. The perceiver is the best the mind can do. It’s a dimensionless point. Everything is appearing IN this dimensionless (having no boundaries) point.
AWARENESS IS NOT VAST OR BORDERLESS: IT IS DIMENSIONLESS.
As a concession to the mind the teaching says it is vast and everlasting but in reality it is neither vast nor everlasting, it is dimensionless.
REAL THINKERS DON’T THINK. They bring the mind aaaalll the way to the end of consciousness, to the brink. The best we can do is a blank open space But then that becomes an object. Nothing is real in the way it is conceived . Only Brahman is real. The conventional view is that they world and everything in it is made of matter but that is not true. Brahman is the world. What is really true in our experience is being aware. The KNOWING of experience is Brahman. Then when we go back to the body-mind-world we find that WOW MY EXPERIENCE IS REAL !!! But it’s not made out of stuff called mind and matter it is made out of pure knowing. In that sense it is real but it is not real as matter it is real as pure consciousness.
It’s not a coincidence that physicists have not found this stuff called matter and it’s not a coincidence that psychologists have not found this thing called mind. It’s not that this is this will find matter in a few more years. It’s not there. So yes this understanding could generate in you a great fear because everything you’ve invested in is not real in the way you thought it was. But this same understanding can be a source of tremendous joy! Nothing of value is being taken away from you but the tyranny of the ego which has been your battleground for your relationships. Free of the ego your relationships with your friends with your family with your dog can be tender and loving free.

DON’T MISS THIS ONE !
DIMENSIONLESSNESS !
There is only one perceiver.
Very off-putting – apparent solidity crumbled away. Everyone meets different obstacles gently seeing they’re not really obstacles and carry on. Go backwards towards the Source of perception. What is on the other end of your attention. That’s what you call I: you don’t find any THING. The perceiver is the best the mind can do. It’s a dimensionless point. Everything is appearing IN this dimensionless (having no boundaries) point.
AWARENESS IS NOT VAST OR BORDERLESS: IT IS DIMENSIONLESS.
As a concession to the mind the teaching says it is vast and everlasting but in reality it is neither vast nor everlasting, it is dimensionless.
REAL THINKERS DON’T THINK. They bring the mind aaaalll the way to the end of consciousness, to the brink. The best we can do is a blank open space But then that becomes an object. Nothing is real in the way it is conceived . Only Brahman is real. The conventional view is that they world and everything in it is made of matter but that is not true. Brahman is the world. What is really true in our experience is being aware. The KNOWING of experience is Brahman. Then when we go back to the body-mind-world we find that WOW MY EXPERIENCE IS REAL !!! But it’s not made out of stuff called mind and matter it is made out of pure knowing. In that sense it is real but it is not real as matter it is real as pure consciousness.
It’s not a coincidence that physicists have not found this stuff called matter and it’s not a coincidence that psychologists have not found this thing called mind. It’s not that this is this will find matter in a few more years. It’s not there. So yes this understanding could generate in you a great fear because everything you’ve invested in is not real in the way you thought it was. But this same understanding can be a source of tremendous joy! Nothing of value is being taken away from you but the tyranny of the ego which has been your battleground for your relationships. Free of the ego your relationships with your friends with your family with your dog can be tender and loving free.

Everything is nothing = all you need to know/do -RAdams

Adams, Robert

EVERYTHING IS NOTHING : It’s just that simple to quiet your thoughts and enjoy perfect peace

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Many people ask me, ‘Robert, what is really the fastest way to quiet the mind?’ Many of you realize now that when the mind is quiet, liberation comes by itself. There is really nothing else you have to do to become liberated. When the thoughts stop, everything takes care of itself. Then you are in your natural state.
Therefore what should you do to quiet the mind? Should you practice self-inquiry? Should you become the witness, the observer? Should you do pranayama, breathing exercises? Should you practice the I-am meditation? All of these things are good, but yet ours is the easy path, the direct path.
Here’s the easiest way to do this. If you would realize in your heart, that everything is nothing, your mind would become still. You would become perfectly still. Ponder what I just said. If you would only realize in your heart that everything is nothing, there would be no thoughts.
This is very profound. This is really all you have to do. Realize in your heart, not in your mind but in your heart, that everything you behold, everything you see, is actually nothing. There will be no thoughts. You will become free.
~ Robert Adams 20th century American Advaita mystic

THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

The wise person -RAdams + +

Adams, Robert

“As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.”
~ Buddha

“The wise person leaves the external world alone. They have very little to do with the external world. They have trained themselves that when they behold a situation, there’s no reaction, no identification. You become non-hurtable. You cannot be hurt any longer by words, by deeds, by whatever.”
~ Robert Adams

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
~ Ram Dass

This ‘you’ is wholly illusory -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Words and their Fulfillment

It was a morning when Maharaj was perhaps feeling his physical weakness a little more than usual. One could clearly notice the inexorable effects of the vile illness on his body, irrespective of his indomitable spirit. He looked frail and exhausted.
He sat in his usual place, quite still, almost immobile, totally oblivious of the pain which must certainly have been intense. Then he started talking quietly, very softly; one had to concentrate a great deal to catch his words.

What you see, said Maharaj, as my presence as a phenomenon means my absence as the noumenon. Noumenally, I can have neither presence nor absence because both are concepts. The sense of presence is the concept which turns the unicity of the Absolute into the duality of the relative. Unmanifested, I am the potential which in manifestation becomes the actual.

I wonder, Maharaj continued, if these words really convey anything to you;
are they mere words?
Of course, I don’t doubt your sincerity. You have come here — many of you from long
distances and at considerable expense — and spend quite some time sitting on the floor, which most of you are not used to; and you certainly seem to pay attention to what I say. But you must understand that unless there is a particular type of receptivity, words would only accomplish a very limited purpose. They might perhaps arouse your intellectual curiosity and titillate your desire for knowledge, but they would not open themselves up to reveal their true significance.

Now, what is this special type of receptivity? Here again one finds the endemic limitation of communication by words. Would it mean anything to you if I said that ‘you’ have come here to listen to me, but you must listen to me on the basis that this ‘you’ is wholly illusory, that there is really no ‘you’, who could listen to my words and get any benefit!
Indeed, I must go so far as to say that unless you give up your role of an individual listener expecting some benefit out of what you hear, words for you would be mere empty sounds. The obstruction preventing apperception is that although you might prepare yourself to accept the thesis that everything in the universe is illusory,
in this illusoriness you fail to include yourself!

Now, do you see the problem — or is it more a joke than a problem?
When — let me not say ‘if’ — you accept this basis for your listening, that is to say, you give up all concern for the listener wanting to be a ‘better’ individual by listening to the words and hoping to ‘work’ towards a perceptible improvement, then do you know what would happen?
Then, in that state of intuitive listening, when the ‘listener’ no longer intrudes, words would throw up and expose their subtle, inner meaning, which the ‘fasting’ or open mind will grasp and apperceive with
deep and instant conviction. And then will words have achieved even their limited fulfillment!

When the listener remains in a state of suspension without intruding on the listening as such, what in fact happens is that the relative, divided mind is automatically restrained from its natural
proclivity to engage itself in tortuous interpretation of words, and is thereby prevented from maintaining a continuous process of objectification. It is then the whole mind that is enabled to be in direct communion with both the talking and the listening as such, and thereby to bring about the Yoga of words, enabling the words to yield their innermost meaning and their most subtle significance.

~ POINTERS
FROM NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
By Ramesh S. Balsekar