“Why not understand your divinity right now and accept it. It’s not hard to do. Remember, there’s nothing to let go of. You do not have to affirm yourself to death, saying things like, ‘I let go now of all of my fears, all my sorrows.’ There are no fears and no sorrows to let go of. There never were any like that. They do not exist. Try to remember there’s absolutely nothing to let go of.
There’s only to be. In other words, you do not have to redeem yourself. You do not have to pray to an anthropomorphic deity up in the sky somewhere. There’s nothing you have to do, for you are already that. You have always been that, and you’re that right now; beautiful, happy, joyous, fulfilled, complete, absolute. It’s wonderful. “
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
“Seeing ourselves as an autonomous entity, an individual, is the basic error of our conditioning. This fractional viewpoint makes understanding an impossibility. It is a fictitious concept, totally lacking in substance and independence, just like the images that appear in dreams.
Everything we do on the level of the concept “me”, any action influenced by the concept of the individual ‘I’, trap us in a vicious circle.
Pure spontaneous action, free from choosing, is the action of infinite consciousness. When the action occurs spontaneously, it is entirely free of the opposing force that any form of choice implies.
In truly creative moments, everything takes place without an ‘I’ interfering. Things occur of their own accord, such action is total action.
In this way agitation ceases and the dynamism in it dies away into the observer, the ‘I’ that contains all.
Once we arrive at this clear-sighted vision, nothing appears to be more obvious than the ultimate reality of unlimited consciousness.”
Life is a process of challenge and response, and whenever the response is inadequate, there is conflict; and the inadequacy of the response can be removed only through understanding the process of relationship. And as we understand more and more the process of relationship, which is the process of myself in action, there is a possibility of the mind being still. A mind that is not still—whether it is pursuing knowledge or greed or becoming something now or in the hereafter—such a mind is incapable, obviously, of discovering because there must be freedom to discover. And as long as the mind is trying to be something, there can be no discovery. It is only in freedom that there can be discovery, and freedom is virtue, because virtue gives freedom. But, to strive to be virtuous is not freedom; it is another form of becoming, which is self-expansion.
So, virtue is the denial of becoming, and that denial takes place only with the understanding of what is. And when there is this radical transformation through self-knowledge, then there is a possibility of creative living. For, truth is not something to be achieved; it is not an end; it is not something to be gained. It comes into being from moment to moment. It is not a result of accumulated, stored-up knowledge, which is merely memory, conditioning, experience. But truth comes into being from moment to moment when the mind is capable of being free from all accumulations. For, the accumulator is the self—the self that gathers in order to assert, to dominate, to expand, to self-fulfill. Only with the freedom of the self does truth come into being—not as a continuous process, but to be discovered from moment to moment. Therefore, to discover, the mind must be fresh, alert, and still.
Choiceless Awareness – Collected Works 5 Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The ‘I am’ is the sum total of everything you perceive.
It appears spontaneously and disappears, it has no dwelling place.
It is like a dream world.
Do not try to be something,
even a spiritual person.
You are the manifested.
The tree is already there in the seed.
Such is the ‘I am’.
Just see it as it is.”
~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj
The question of what one is comes only in manifestation,
in comparison with other phenomenon.
In my state there is no phenomenon;
my existence is prior to any manifestation.
There is no question of who or what I am.
The separate self can’t imagine what is true because it’s always making what is look like something else.
The only totally unreal part of the appearance is the separate self. What is apparently is what is.
Under the belief of a separate self the I is always looking to find fulfillment find happiness fill its needs. That sets up a story line for the good and the bed and I will judge everyone according to what I feel is right.
IT’S REAL AND UNREAL. The separate sense of self gets real and has no clue what unreal is.
THE TALKING IS DIFFICULT BUT It’s so simple ….. undeniable ….. obvious …..
BUDDHA AT THE GAS PUMP WITH RICK ARCHER INTERVIEWING TONY PARSONS
Position 39 paraphrase: RICK: You say there’s no God but use words like Beloved, Divine, etc. TONY: yes but there’s no one in authority controlling…
RICK: You use words like consciousness and awareness to imply that there’s duality But what about pure consciousness or pure awareness where consciousness or awareness is all that there is? TONY: Yes that’s it that’s right! It’s just an ocean of pure awareness, pure consciousness,no object whatsoever. Robin RJS says that’s exactly what Rupert Spira says all the time! BUT TONY INSISTS AND RIGHTFULLY SO THAT ALL THE GREAT TEACHERS PAST AND PRESENT ARE CAUGHT UP IN TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE AND THAT IS DUALISM: THERE’S NO ONE TO HELP AND NO ONE TO BE HELPING. THIS CAN BE RECOGNIZED BY ANYONE ANYWHERE EVEN IN THE GUTTER!!!
RICK: ShanKara says ONLY BRAHMAN IS REAL. THE WORLD IS AN ILLUSION. BRAHMAN IS ALL THERE IS.
TONY: YAAAAAY !!!!
Tony Parsons emphatically agreed!
