Stop assuming Identity to be cooped up in the form, body. Stop assuming your Self to be what It never can be. You are not a human, an animal, a mortal, a personality or a sinner. You are never separate from Existence, the Life that is your Self. Stop assuming biology, ignorance, superstition, duality or sin to be your cause or beginning—the origin of your Life, Being, Substance, Intelligence, Consciousness. Identity—or that you must “emerge,” or “evolve” from an imperfect or lesser state of Existence into the perfect Self. You are none other than the one you are—the Infinite Intelligence, the Sole One-Infinite-Individual who is all of all NOW. Act from this true and only Intelligent viewpoint. Rejoice in who and what you are by rejoicing in what Mind knows Itself to be. Conscious Intelligence alone does all seeing, all knowing, and does it without cessation, interruption, interference.
That Which Is
by Dr. Alfred Aiken
Ramana, Nisargadatta, Robert
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NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ:
- You are not whatever you Experience
Maharaj: Whatever you understand you cannot be that.
You are putting a question like this: a donkey is going by the road and you inquire about him, how are you concerned with that?
You know that you are not the donkey.
Whatever you experience is not you.
In this matter, you will not satisfy your itch by talking; elsewhere you may talk and be satisfied.
What is meditation?
Meditation is to reject all experiences, to be in a experienceless state.
To realize this trick you have to be in meditation.
What is the experience?
The experience ‘to be’, suppress that also. The one who observes both, the no-being and being state is in the true state.
You only get experiences of what you are not, beingness is also an experience merge it with no-beingness.
Beingness goes into no-beingness,
The Absolute does not know that it is, it only prevails.
To turn beingness into no-beingness, assiduously follow meditation or else you will be like a calf frisking. Be in meditation and you will stabilize, and then stop there or else you will be like a calf whose ear has air in it.
Visitor: To meditate is to realize that we do not experience.
Translator: The primary experience ‘you are’, that too should also be negated.
M: Experience has to become invisible together with the‘I love’ beingness.
V: What about noise in meditation?
M: Your senses and limbs are still active; they are not under your control.
By meditation this weakness of your mind should be overthrown.
How intensely should one meditate?
While Kabir meditated, a dog bit him,
someone came and told him ‘a dog has bitten you’
Kabir replied ‘the dog knows and the skin knows’.
A deep yearning must be there, like when you are worried about something, you will be thinking about it: ‘next morning
something must be done for money’ because of it there was no sleep, you’d
go straight for the money, you need it desperately and so you keep thinking
about it.
In the spiritual field you need to progress so intensely that you keep thinking it (your true identity), with persistence, you reach, but you must want it badly.
✅ I AM UNBORN
(Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
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Make thoughts accountable RAdams
The ego is the mind, and the mind is the ego, the very nature of mind is thoughts. Without thoughts, there is no mind because the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thought of “I”(ego) is the root of every other thought, trace this thought back to where it came from and ask “who are you arising to?” … “to me!” … “who am I?” And bam! You cut the thoughts off at their source. Abide in this source by not allowing the mind(thoughts) to roam outwards onto any sense object, by allowing the grace of the source to take over keeping you focused on itself. Ask the same questions again if you find yourself following thoughts, until the phantom that the mind is, vanishes and you relax and float down the stream of the source that you are. This source is the real you, which is eternally here and now.
rjs can’t name it, there’s no ‘beyond God’.
WHEN NO-THING STRIKES
What could possibly be beyond God? Nothing. Haven’t we finally located (localized) where absolute emptiness is? NO !!! You named it. You want to describe and otherwise qualify and delimit it … but there’s no it. There’s nothing.
Every condition a lie -RAdams
Every negative condition you see in the world is a lie. Every positive condition you see in the world is a lie. Reality is beyond positive and negative. Why do you see these things? Why do you worry and fret about your life or about the life of someone else?
What can possibly happen to you? Where can you go? Who suffers? Only the body-ego-mind suffers. To the extent that you can realize that you are not the body-ego-mind, to that extent do you become totally, absolutely free.
Robert Adams
20th century
American Advaita mystic
Power behind illusory universe -RAdams
You understand that the power which maintains and sustains the illusory universe will take care of the illusion. Your job is to let go and let God.
Robert Adams
Can thought be cleansed? -JK
Question: Is the process of cleansing the mind a process of thought?
KRISHNAMURTI: Can thought ever be clean? Is not all thought unclean? Because thought is born of memory, it is already contaminated. However logical, however rational it may be, it is contaminated, it is mechanical. Therefore there is no such thing as pure thought, or “free” thought. Now to see the truth of that demands going into the whole process of memory, which is to see that memory is mechanical, based on the many yesterdays. Thought can never make the mind pure, and seeing that fact is the purification of the mind. Please do not agree or disagree. Go into it, go after it as you go after money, position, authority, and power. Put your teeth into it, and out of that comes a marvelous mind, a mind that is purged, innocent, fresh, a thing that is new, and so in a state of creation and therefore in revolution.
The Collected Works
of J. Krishnamurti
Volume XII 1961
There Is No Thinker,
Only Thought
Jiddu Krishnamurti
No beyond, never born, never die NM
There is no question of going beyond.
I was never born, will never die.
Whatever is – is all the time.
Going beyond is only an idea meant
to remove all other ideas you ‘ve
accumulated.
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Absolute is unicity NM
The Absolute is unicity, by Itself, but it is expressed in manifold ways and forms. As Absolute I ‘ve no experience of myself.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I do not expect I do not plan,
I just watch events happening, knowing them to be unreal.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
You’re a nobody, absolutely RAdams
YOU’VE SAID IT ALL, ROBERT ADAMS !!
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The whole thing is a big joke.
You do not exist.
Doesn’t it make you feel good to know you’re a nobody,
that you do not exist?
You’re not even the absolute reality.
You’re not even consciousness.
Those are all words.
You’re not nirvana, you are not emptiness.
You are none of those things.
What are you?
There is silence.
You are the silence. Total silence.
It is only when you rest in the silence that you appear to awaken.
I say you appear to awaken for there’s no one to awaken,
and there is no silence.
What else is there to say?
~Robert Adams