Detach and dismiss -rjs

Robin Starbuck

WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU LEMONS

If you really want to get OUT of that mindset it’s time to realize you’ve never fully tried self-investigation. Add to that a decision to utterly dispense with Attachment.

It wasn’t you but that nasty little mortal mind claiming its hold on you which kept you chasing after things that appear to be doing you in.

For starters all your ATTACHMENTS – each and every one of them – need to be summarily dismissed. They are your unyielding link to a realm you want to see through.

What would life be like if you simply gave up ALL your material attachments including physical wealth, health, popularity – – just gave them all up and surrendered to spiritual awareness instead?

After the initial shock of so much weightiness dropping off you’d begin to rest for the first time ever – rest in a free-breathing trust that clings to nothing at all.

You must, absolutely must, RE-PRIORITIZE. Step out courageously, REFOCUS, and leave your ENTIRE human life behind.

Don’t beat yourself up – you never knew you had a choice to let everything go. Just breathe nice and easy ….. AND NEVER LOOK BACK.

You’ve been so attached to so many “things” that gave you status and applause. Let them go like yesterday’s garbage.

What could you possibly want more than perfect spiritual awareness? For how long? FOREVER !!!

DrRobinStarbuck

Aphorisms in other words!

English for enlightenment

F O R – Y O U R – E D I F I C A T I O N

ORDINARY ENGLISH: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
MPOMBO: Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Twinkle, twinkle, little star
MPOMBO: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: All that glitters is not gold.
MPOMBO: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beggars are not choosers
MPOMBO: Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Dead men tell no tales
MPOMBO: Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beginner’s luck
MPOMBO: Neophyte’s serendipity.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: A rolling stone gathers no moss
MPOMBO: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Birds of a feather flock together
MPOMBO: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Beauty is only skin deep
MPOMBO: Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
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ORDINARY ENGLISH: Cleanliness is next to godliness
MPOMBO: Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

Source unknown

DrRobinStarbuck

Was Jesus black?

Jesus

There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:

  1. He called everyone brother
  2. He liked Gospel
  3. He didn’t get a fair trial
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:
  4. He went into His Father’s business
  5. He lived at home until he was 33
  6. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his Mother was sure He was God
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:
  7. He talked with His hands
  8. He had wine with His meals
  9. He used olive oil
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a Californian:
  10. He never cut His hair
  11. He walked around barefoot all the time
  12. He started a new religion
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was an American Indian:
  13. He was at peace with nature
  14. He ate a lot of fish
  15. He talked about the Great Spirit
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:
  16. He never got married.
  17. He was always telling stories.
  18. He loved green pastures.
    But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Mexican:
  19. He treated his mama like she was a saint.
  20. He always wore llantas and a serape.
  21. He was a carpenter who could fix anything.
    But the most compelling evidence of all – 3 proofs that Jesus was a woman:
  22. He fed a crowd at a moment’s notice when there was virtually no food
  23. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn’t get it
  24. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was still work to do.

By Megan Delgleize

JUST DO IT, All 10 Nisargadatta Episodes are listed earlier but this one is especially good -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

It’s about healing and is very much in keeping with Joel. Also Rupert’s be aware of being aware came from this talk of Nisargadatta. It’s absolutely critical that we stop the thinking thinking thinking thinking! This impedes our being aware of the fact that we are not that person who we are aware of. we are not Flesh and blood material mortals. We are the only self that there is. This self is God. This wasn’t quoting him per se but it was alluded to very strongly and wonderfully! We can get the mind to quiet down and stop the thinking by observing the thoughts without any interest in them whatsoever. After a while they will give up and we will be free. Remember the world including the body can’t give us any pain suffering or even good things, that is, anything at all. The world can’t deliver that to us if we are not there. That is the key – to not be there!!!

“I Am is in the world but it is the key that can open the door out of the world.”

I am that -chaps 1-110 ALL [chap 41-50 healing&awareness -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

CHAP 41-50 Nothing can appear to you, no sickness no disease, no good, no bad, no nothing, if you are not there to receive it. In other words if you were so tuned in to your real self this stuff couldn’t appear to you – good or bad. A lot like JSG. Also like Rupert he says “be aware of being aware”.

I know that it is in the nature of awareness to set things right. let consciousness do its thing. I am not strange I’m normal I see things the way they are.

Want attachments to fall off -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

THE ‘NOT-KNOWING’ … THAT ‘YOU ARE’

Nisargadatta Maharaj:
“Is there anything further you are seeking?”

Visitor:
Just to have all the false attachments, and false identification fall off.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:
That is the whole trouble, one thinks that certain misconceptions have come to him.

All those concepts are ‘Movements In Consciousness’; and once the Consciousness itself disappears – the movements that have come with it, also disappear.

You are already in That State!
… There is nothing to acquire.

Now you know this, and – for you, all this is useless.

Visitor: Right!
I would like Maharaj to explain about ‘The Brahma-Randhra’. I am familiar with the Yoga teaching on it, but Maharaj’s is slightly different.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:
There are two things: the world, and one’s Presence; the feeling of Presence – that is, ‘The Consciousness’, ‘The Beingness’. That is ‘Brahma’ – ‘I Am Present’; ‘Randhra’ means ‘the tiniest of apertures’, and in that aperture is ‘The Silent, Primordial Sound’, which gives you the impression that you ARE – but you really, ARE NOT. This sound – in that aperture gives you the feeling that ‘You ARE’, but be sure that You ARE NOT.”

Visitor: Very good!

Nisargadatta Maharaj:
I take my stand in ‘The Original State’, where I was ‘Not Aware that I AM’. This body and The Beingness have come, but knowing ITs Nature, I do not expect anything from IT. When a Yogi is totally absorbed in his meditation – or Yoga, ‘This Soundless Sound’ – so fills him, that he becomes drunk with IT for a while, and then IT subsides. When the body dies, this Individual Consciousness will merge with ‘The Total Consciousness’ – but even so, that ‘Total Consciousness’ knows that ‘IT IS’, and so long as one knows that ‘IT IS’, IT is in ‘a state of duality’.”

Attaining higher consciousness -rjs

Robin Starbuck

O N T H E A T T A I N M E N T O F H I G H E R C O N S C I O U S N E S S

Have you experienced what felt like
a complete final breakthrough
in which immense spiritual love
pretty nearly overwhelmed you?
Were you quite sure in the face of
such ineffable joy that the cares of
the world had had their last hurrah?

And then, finally, you “needed to”
come back and “face the world”
again at which time you “had to”
assume your “usual place” in it?
And all too swiftly the cherished
position, the pinnacle, evaporated?

I defy you to look again.
Look right at the point you had attained.
You see, it’s still there!!!
It’s gonna need some nurturing now
to bring it fully back and maintain it.
But be sure of this: it is still there.

DrRobinStarbuck 2019

I have a spiritual body -rjs

Robin Starbuck

I Am Spirit. I have a spiritual body. In my spiritual body I can only see absolute perfection. Nothing unlike Divine Love touches me or anyone I see with my single eye. I fill all space because I Am instead of space. I’m remembering my spiritual body stretching out beyond the illusion of time. In my spiritual body everyone is healed, happy, whole and gloriously free, as I Am. What safety, what comradery, what pleasure, what love-for-all resides within my spiritual body!

DrRobinStarbuck 2019

Re-examing our goal -rjs

Robin Starbuck

L E T ‘ S R E – E X A M I N E O U R G O A L

People of a pseudo-psychological leaning tend to judge our best goal(s) in life to be what they deem obvious. If our goal, however, has precious little to do with a so-called healthy, happy, inscrutably ‘wise’ humanly human, maybe we need to unfollow our learned counterparts!

Let’s throw off our obsession with humanity’s baubles and flirtations and ponder life’s most urgent question: how are we demonstrating our eternal life now? Are we even aware of it. For the majority of inhabitants of this planet the prognosis is not good.

Disease and death are unknown in Spirit, God. What good is this knowledge if we don’t intimately realize it? If we’re oblivious of Life which is God, how in the world do we think we can experience it? What’s there to break the illusion of life in a dying body? You certainly don’t think death can be a great enlightener, do you?

At the risk of being repetitive, the only way to awareness is to wake up! Be hands-down willing to roll up your sleeves and get dirty! Or, go back to sleep and we’ll talk again after a few hundred more years!

DrRobinStarbuck 2019