You’re hypnotized in your bubble -RAdams

“For some reason you have been hypnotized to believe that you’re separate. So you’ve got to take action, you’ve got to work, you’ve got to stick up for your rights. You have to do all sorts of things. It’s just like when you’re dreaming you believe you have to do all kinds of things also. And then you find out your dream was just a bubble.

It came from nowhere and ends in nowhere. This world is exactly the same. What you think is the world is only an extension of your consciousness. The whole universe emanates out of your mind. You are dreaming the mortal dream right now, right this minute. Because you’re thinking there is you and me.

There are the trees outside, the flowers, there is furniture and you believe it’s all external to yourself. This is what keeps you back from your freedom, from your unalloyed happiness, from your total bliss. By thinking that the things of this world are apart from you.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Self-enquiry vs Self-abidance -RSpira

What is it that is aware of our thoughts feelings desires etc? Whatever it is it is I. That’s what we call I.
WHO OR WHAT AM I ? AWAY FROM OBJECTIVE CONTENT AND TOWARDS THE SOURCE.
SELF-ENQUIRY STARTS WITH A QUESTION OR INVESTIGATION: WHO OR WHAT AM I?
Once that question has been asked there is nothing more for the mind to do.
WE ASK THE QUESTION THEN WAIT FOR THE ANSWER. THAT WAITING IS SELF-ABIDANCE (SANSKRIT FOR ATMA VICHARA).
Ramana Maharshi called it sinking into awareness. Christian Mystics call it practicing the presence of God. It is realizing that inquiry doesn’t really mean asking a series of questions and thinking thinking thinking but rather asked the one question and then exercise self abidance where the true self is not a thing that you think about the true self is that which knows and sees rather than the so called person asking.
Rumi called this non-process process “flow down and down and down into ever-widening rings of being.”



Joel Goldsmith videos

https://youtu.be/vRQm6G9j_Ks
NO POWER
God doesn’t maintain me or give me power:

GOD IS ALL. GOD IS ONE. GOD IS.

THERE IS NO SEPARATION.

16 years JSG practitioner, read bible daily without really grasping it.
Lao Tsu and Baghavad Gita teaching became clear as a bell. JSG read Gita 6-10 times a year when one evening that entire book revealed itself. “It was mine.” Then he prayed about the bible to be able to teach and finally got it starting with Moses.
How could God say “Thou shalt not kill”?
That was the Law. But Jesus brought grace instead. They have to be read with spiritual consciousness and then it can be demonstrated. ZEN BUDDHISM is taught this way to open the consciousness through KOANS. THOUGH CONSTANT COGITATION THE STUDENT SUDDENLY GETS SATTORI!!! SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT ENABLES YOU TO KNOW THE UNKNOWABLE. TRUE ALSO OF BIBLE. LIKE RJS DIVING OR DANCING OR PAUL IN BIBLE. SAME PRINCIPLE IN BAGHAVAD GITA. HIGHEST YOGA, HIGHEST SPIRITUAL LEARNING. SEE ME SEE GOD.I AND FATHER ARE ONE. THINGS OF GOD ARE FOOLISHNESS TO MAN. PAGAN STATUES = STATUES OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. ONLY REPRESENTATIVES. YOUR PICTURES, STATUES AND OTHER REMINDERS ARE FINE: KEEP THEM SECRET.
No amount of human learning but spiritual understanding. Lazarus come forth.
A koan would be to tell a fisherman to leave his net. How could he take care of his family?
THE STUDENT WILL EITHER LAPSE BACK INTO THEIR MATERIAL LIFE OR MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES TO GO FORWARD SPIRITUALLY. THE PRACTITIONER TOO.
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ADVANCED HEALING MEDITATION mechanics in the beginning. We’re not too advanced for them. – YOU TO YOUR BODY FROM INSIDE IT: BE STILL AND KNOW I AM GOD. Until 128+
= practicing the presence of God.

The nothingness of the claim precludes God from having to do anything.


MIKE, ROBIN, BILLY NYC

https://youtu.be/IO0jh-p7N3Q
OMNIPOTENCE, OMNISCIENCE, OMNIPRESENCE
THE SEAL IS PUT ON A LESSON WHEN YOU HAVE A MEDITATION AFTER IT.
BEFORE AND AFTER MEDITATIONS ARE GOOD.

Why Neti Neti Brahman? Why no positive description?

Neti Neti

Why Neti Neti Brahman? Why no positive description?

The description of Brahman: “Not this, not this” (Neti, Neti); for there is no other and more appropriate description than this “Not this.” Now the designation of Brahman: “The Truth of truth.” — Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.3.6 —

“NOT THIS, NOT THIS”: Brahman does not possess any distinguishing marks which can be described by words. By the elimination of all differences due to limiting adjuncts, the words Not This, Not This refer to some thing which has no distinguishing mark such as name, or form, or action, or heterogeneity, or species, or qualities. These two negative particles are used in an all-inclusive sense, so as to eliminate every possible specification that may occur.”

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As the mind becomes quiescent… -RAdams

“You are wonderful, made in the image of God, but what God? The God that you created in your mind. So if your God is a good God then you think of yourself as a good person. If your God is a santa clause God who lives in the sky, with a long beard that you pray for to give you things, the anthropomorphic type of a God saying, ‘God I need this, I want this. Please let me have this,’ whatever God you believe in you become. You become the God that you worship.

Or should you worship a God at all? If you believe that you’re an ego or a human being that is blown around like a leaf, then you should worship a God. For you have to turn to someone, you have to turn somewhere. But if you realize that God is within yourself, if you understand that you are the God that you’ve been worshiping all these years, it’s a whole new ball game. For you stop worshiping and you start meditating. By meditating I mean you keep still. You become quiet. You no longer need use words.

As the mind becomes quiescent, as the thoughts subside, the divine harmony which has always been appears to awaken within you. You become radiantly happy for no reason. You become totally peaceful for no reason. You gravitate to the place that you’re supposed to be. The right people come into your life who are supposed to be in your life. Everything happens by itself. You need not do anything.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

When you realize body is a dream… -RAdams

“When you realize and know that your body is a dream, nothing will ever bother you again. Nothing can ever hurt you again. … Just by knowing this, the knowingness goes deeper and deeper and deeper inside of you, until everything is transcended totally and completely and absolutely. And even though you still appear to be walking around in a body, there’s nobody home! Nothing can ever happen to you again!

Do you see what I’m trying to say? If somebody shoots you, hits you over the head, tears your eyes out, and all these other good things, it will not be happening to you! This sounds strange, I know, to some of you, but it’s the absolute truth. All of these things can only happen to a human being.

As long as you believe you’re a human being you’ll experience these things over and over again like all good human beings do. But as soon as you give up the body, I don’t mean dying, I mean giving up the body and you will say, ‘This is not me. This was never me. I am not a being that gets older and older and older and dies. That’s not me at all! I am pure consciousness. I am Brahman.’

Then something very interesting will happen to you. You will see through the dream to reality. The world will never fool you again. The world to you will be like water in the mirage. It will be a hallucination. The world will never hurt you again.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

How to BEGIN meditation video -JSG

[A LOT LIKE RJS PACE-PRAY]
DON’T NOT TRY TO STILL THE MIND, DO NOT TRY TO STOP YOUR THINKING. DON’T MAKE AN EFFORT TO BECOME SILENT; TAKE A SCRIPTURE OR METAPHYSICAL BOOK UNTIL A THOUGHT IMPRESSES ITSELF

THINK IT THROUGH FOR YOURSELF. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? AND FOR ME?

TALK IT THROUGH. “HE THAT IS WITHIN ME …I CAN DO ALL THINGS
THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENS ME. WITH ME ALL THE TIME… If I make my bed in hell the Father is within me. PAUL SAID I’VE BEEN TRYING TO LIVE MY OWN LIFE BUT I KNOW NOW I CAN’T DOUBT YOU. CALL IT CHRIST IF YOU LIKE
TALK IT THROUGH YOURSELF: FILL YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS… OOO I HEAR SOMETHING ELSE NOW. GOD IS SAYING IT TO HIS OWN CHILD.
SOMETIMES WONDERFUL. IF NOT GO BACK FOR A NEW MEDITATION. GIVE MR. A TRUTH. LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR.
CONVERSATION BETWEEN SELF AND GOD.
FORGIVE THEM: FATHER FORGIVE THEM THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.
THE I WITHIN US IS DYING DAILY.
WE LEARN HOW TO FORGIVE.
PRAY FOR YOUR ENEMY.
EVERY TIME YOU WITNESS DEFORMITY, THEY’RE COMING YO YOU FOR HEALING.
HEAL THE SICK
ONLY THE WILL OF GOD IS POWER. THAT’S MEDITATION, THAT’S PRAYER.
SOMETIMES ONLY PEACE WILL COME. REST IN IT. RELAX IN IT. RELAX IN IT.

Everyone is me: ❤ Various

“It is beyond intellectual knowing and cannot be grasped by the ordinary mind. When we awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is everything – mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation. There is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one’s own body.”
~ Bruce Lee

“If there is anything besides the Self, there is reason to fear. The ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists, so there is no second and no fear.”
~ Ramana Maharshi

“My mind fell into that vast expanse of Consciousness. Touching one drop of it, I melted away and became one with the Absolute. And now I know that nothing is different from me.”
~ Shankara

“I cannot but see you as myself. It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

„When you really love someone, there’s no longer an ‘I’ or an ‘other’.”
~ Jean Klein

“Love is the recognition of our shared being.
Love is the experience that others are not others.
The Awareness with which all people and animals are aware of anything is the very same Awareness with which you are aware of these words right now. Treat people and animals as such, that is, as your very own self.”
~ Rupert Spira

“Ultimately, of course, there is no other, and you are always meeting yourself.
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
What you do to others, you do to yourself.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“You and I; We are one. I cannot hurt you without hurting myself.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.
What seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this One, produced by a deception.
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger

“There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.”
~ Ram Dass

“We are One. There is only one of us. Our name is Consciousness.
Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world.
You are not alone as a person, as an individual. You are alone as the entire universe, as everything.”
~ Mooji

“Even if I am with a million people, I am always alone. I do not see people as people. I see them as myself.”
~ Sadhguru

“The one who knows himself will know what it is to be animals, plants, rocks, everything that exists. If you miss realisation of your own Self, you have not known anything.”
~ Papaji

“There is nothing that is not you.
You are me and I am you. Isn’t it obvious that we inter-are? You cultivate the flower in yourself so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself so that you do not have to suffer. I support you, you support me.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“I am bigger than what I do, bigger than my body. I am everything and everyone. I am no longer a fragment of the universe. I am the universe.”
~ Jim Carrey

“As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one’s own Self in every one of them.”
~ Anandamayi Ma

“I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am present in all bodies. It is not imagination; it is Self-realization.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“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