Do you believe that is God’s word? -JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

“Now we come to that place of recognition. Do you believe that this was the word of God? Do you believe that this was true? Do you believe that this was the Word as it is given to us in scripture? Do you believe that this is the very message that our Master was giving on the shore of Galilee? Do you believe that he was saying at that time the same truth you are reading here that you have water within your own being that is greater than all the water that is in Jacob’s well?”

Joel Goldsmith, “Showing Forth The Presence of God,” Chapter 7, Section: “Do We Trust The Word of God.”

Everything I see is love -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“Everything I see is love. I see love everywhere. In the clouds in the sky, in the tree, in the birds, in people, in the animals. I am able to see this because I am that myself. Nothing and no one can hurt me any longer. For I have become unhurt-able. No one can show me any evil anywhere because evil is not a power. It has no validity. It is just wrong thinking.

All is well, all is right, all is good. If you truly wish to repent just sit in silent meditation and see that perfect reality within, for all manner of evil merely arise in erroneous thought and like the morning dew before the rising sun can completely be eliminated through the magnificent wisdom and light. You are that light. You are that wisdom. And all is well.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

There is Pure Awareness that is
with you all the time, just awaiting
your recognition, awaiting your
understanding that you are not a
body, that you are a spirit, called
the Atman, Brahman, Absolute
Reality. This is who you really
are. This is your real nature.

Transition from humanhood Video -JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith
https://youtu.be/rA0fT0p3eRs
SPIRITUAL THOUGHT IS NECESSARY. THOSE PEOPLE NEVER WERE OUR ENEMY. UNIVERSAL HYPNOTISM IS ALL THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR PROBLEMS. IT’S WHAT CREATED THE I OF THE WORLD WHERE I WANTS THIS AND I NEEDS THAT. I NEVER HAS ENOUGH, IS NEVER SATISFIED, IS A STATE OF MESMERISM THAT LEADS TO PERSONAL SENSE. NO POWER IN HYPNOTISM. IT’S NO POWER UNLESS ABSOLUTE AS SUCH. HYPNOTIST MAKES STOOGES SEE A WHITE POODLE. SAME WITH DISEASE. You don’t heal the white poodle in the room or the rheumatism: THAT’S THE HYPNOTISM
JUST KEEP ONE TRUTH IN YOUR MIND AND ABIDE IN IT. 
You can’t have hypnotism AND God.

You’re hypnotized in your bubble -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“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

Rupert Spira
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

Joel Solomon Goldsmith
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?

Brahman

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

Adams, Robert

“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

Adams, Robert

“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)