No longer any noise in your mind -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“In silence there is power, in silence there is the highest truth, in silence there is pure awareness. When we talk too much, when we get involved in too much discourse with people, when we talk too much about philosophical teachings, spirituality, it loses the essence of the teaching.

When you hear about your self, you hear me telling you, you are pure awareness, boundless space, sat-chit-ananda, you are the Self, when you’ve practiced observation, observing, being the witness, when you’ve practiced vichara, self-inquiry, and you’ve done this for many years, it is then time to be silent.

It is then time to keep quiet, not to allow your thoughts to go any further. When I say to keep silent, I do not mean just keeping quiet, when your mind keeps thinking, thinking, thinking, I am referring to quieting the mind. When there is no longer any noise in your mind, when the mind becomes quiescent, the reality appears by itself.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

No possession, no pain -Osho

Non-duality

You have just forgotten yourself.

Nothing is lost, nothing is missing, nothing has to be found. Just remember. A simple remembering – the simplest things are very difficult, that’s true – and this is the most simple thing.

None of the problems are yours. As far as you are concerned, no problem can enter in you, but you can get identified with something which is not you.

I remember a story. A man’s house caught fire. The house was on fire, and it had taken the man’s whole life’s effort to make that beautiful place. Thousands of people had gathered, but there was nothing that could be done. The fire had become so big. And you can understand that man: tears were coming from his eyes. It was his whole life burning in front of him. And then suddenly his son came running and he said, ”Dad, why are you worried? We sold the house yesterday. You were out… but we have sold the house. It is now for somebody else to cry and weep, not for you. And we have got enough profit out of it.”

The man immediately wiped away his tears and became just a spectator like the others were spectators. The identity, the invisible identity, ”It is my house,” was no longer there. There was no pain, there was no misery, there was no problem at all. And he was really happy in a way: ”Now we can make a better house.” He was feeling relieved; the house was burning, and he was feeling relieved.

And then a second son came running. He said, ”It is true that we had negotiated the sale, but the papers were not signed and the money has not been transferred. So it is our house that is burning, and you are looking at it as if you are just a spectator!” Again those tears were flowing and again the heart was breaking. And nothing has visibly changed: the house is burning, the man is standing there. But these people who are bringing messages are changing everything! When he becomes identified, he is burning with the house. When he gets unidentified, he is relieved and he has nothing to do with the house; it is somebody else’s house.

To be a beggar I only mean that although you live in palaces, but don’t let palaces live in you. Ownership is illusion, as permanence is illusion. Except the Eternal all is accidental. Except the Eternal all is misery, all is a bondage.

AND WHAT IS IT YOU GUARD WITH FASTENED DOORS?

DROPPING THE IDEA OF OWNERSHIP IS RENUNCIATION. RENUNCIATION IS NOT DROPPING THE POSSESSIONS BUT POSSESSIVENESS. Look at your possessions. Do you possess them?. If your house is destroyed you will weep, you will scream, you will go mad, but if you die, your house is not going to weep, it is not going to go mad. So who was the real owner?. The house owns you. It doesn’t care a bit about you: whether you live in it or not. This sutra is meaningful in this sense that only the self can be possessed and nothing else. And if you cannot possess your self, what else do you think you can possess?”.

“So be a master – the master of your own self – and don’t make any effort to possess anything. I don’t mean to leave everything. That’s not the point. Use everything, but don’t think in terms of possessing. Use the house, but don’t be the owner. Use wealth; don’t be the owner of it. Use the whole world, but don’t think that you possess it. You are just a traveller. You come to a point where the things you wanted are there, whatever you desired has happened, but you have become the slave. The kingdom now appears to be nothing but an imprisonment and whatever you possess, or think that you possess, is not really possessed, because it can be taken away at any moment. Even if no one takes it away, death is bound to take it. In religious terminology, that which can be taken away by death is not yours. Death is the criterion. There is only one criterion to judge whether you really possess something. Judge it against death and see whether you will still have it after your death. If death takes it, you never possessed it. It was just an illusion. Ownership is illusion, because permanence is illusion. But there is something that death cannot take over and that something is hidden within you. You already possess it. It is your innermost nature. It has come with you; you are born with it. Or rather, it will be better to say that you are it, not that you possess it. If you possess it, it can be taken away. You are it, it is your very being. It is your very ground; it is your existence. That is what is called atman, Soul, Consciousness. Atman means that which you are already. No one can take it away from you; not even death can destroy it”.

Osho- The Path of the Mystic

Keep giving up reactions to life -RAdams

Adams, Robert

ROBERT ADAMS
Excerpt from: Satsang
Q/A: ‘Mind, Senses and Doer’

As you keep giving up all the reactions to life. As you begin to surrender everything to the one Self. The one Self which is the absolute reality, the pure awareness takes over. And will do whatever you have to do, even better than you can do it yourself. This power that knows the way will take you over completely. And it will speak for you. Do everything for you that you have to do and yet you will feel that you are not the doer. Yet everything will be done perfectly.

Many people are afraid to give up their senses. For they believe that they will turn into a vegetable. But this is not true. You will always function. You will always do what you came to this earth to do. And you will even do it better than you ever can imagine. So do not concern yourself about these things. SImply go within, surrender everything to the Self. Give up everything.

SZ: But in our daily lives we have to also sometimes pay attention to many things. Life requires us to solve many practical problems.

R: Yes of course. But as I said the Self will take over and do all these practical things for you without you believing that you’re the doer. Everything will be done. You will see.

SZ: We have to pay attention to many things therefore we cannot give up the tendency to follow the arising things.

R: As you follow the arising things as you say all of the senses will become destroyed and the Self will take over. And the Self will do the things that has to done. Everything will be okay. You don’t have to worry.

SZ: Do you mean, when I abandon the tendency to fix the things by my attention, the Self will take over and will automatically fulfill all the functions?

R: Yes, exactly.

SZ: And when things are arising, I follow them or not by my senses?

R: No, the idea is to get rid of the senses. You do not want to use your senses to do anything. What you should do in your case, is to inquire, “To whom do these things come?” And as they come you say to yourself, “They come to me. I feel these things. Then who am I? What is the source of the I that feels these things?” And the I will disappear one day and you will be completely free.

SZ: Another question is that, our body must be prepared to receive the grace of the liberation? If the body is not prepared then the shock of the grace will cause great harm to our bodies? And does that mean our growth for liberation will take time?

R: If you inquire correctly. Every time a thought comes to you, just like the thought that you just had. If you ask, “To whom does this thought come? Who is thinking these things? To whom do they come? Who do they come to?” and you say, “They come to me.” The me you’re referring to is the ego, the mind. So you ask further, “What is the source of this ego or the mind? What is the source of the I that thinks all these things?” And you keep still, then slowly but surely the I will begin to be dissolved and the one Self will take over and there will be no problems.

SZ: But when I think about the practical problems of life I must think to solve the problem. Is that true?

R: You think what about the problem? You have to solve the problem? Do you think you have to solve the problem?

SZ: Yeah.

R: As long as you’re speaking as you are, you’re speaking from the senses. So you will have to solve the problem. But if you go beyond the senses by inquiring, “To whom do the senses come?” You will realize that you have no senses whatsoever. And you will be free of solving problems by yourself. Things will come easy for you. Everything will happen like it’s supposed to.

See all the questions you’re asking is from the sense of your ego, your mind. Get rid of all this and everything will take care of itself.

No external thing can bring happiness -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“We believe erroneously that person, place and thing bring us happiness. There is no thing external to you that can ever bring you happiness. Why? Because happiness is your very nature. You are happiness all by yourself. When you go after happiness outside of yourself, you have to know that it’s a temporary condition.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Nothing exists without your being there to experience its existence -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Your direct insight tells you
that yourself you know first, for
nothing exists without your being
there to experience its existence.
Whatever can be described
cannot be your self, and
what you are cannot
be described.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Your direct insight tells you
that yourself you know first, for
nothing exists without your being
there to experience its existence.
Whatever can be described
cannot be your self, and
what you are cannot
be described.
Nisargadatta Maharaj

Take the unnecessary steps -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“The ultimate reality is part of us already. But yet we go through all kind of practices, meditations, sadhanas, trying to awaken the kundalini, doing all kinds of Tantric exercises, learning the Kabbalah, practicing Taoism, doing all these things that are completely unnecessary and ridiculous. … They’re not a waste of time because if you didn’t do them, you wouldn’t be here, you wouldn’t be in a class that teaches Advaita Vedanta.

You wouldn’t be seeking complete freedom. Everything you’ve done has led you to this. Yet, it is all a bunch of nonsense. How can they both be correct? How can it be necessary and also be a bunch of nonsense? As long as you refuse to awaken, and you refuse to see yourself as no body, you’re going to go through all these rituals and all these experiences, and practice all these teachings, and memorize the bible, and the sutras, and everything else.

You’re going to go through all kinds of teachings again, and again, and again, and again, perhaps for many, many lives, until you awaken to the fact that it is not the teaching that’s going to awaken me, … it is no person, place or thing that can ever awaken me, and free me from bondage to myself, from bondage to maya [illusion], to the universe, to the world.

And this is the beginning of wisdom, when you realize this.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

If you only knew, you would go mad with joy -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“You wish to be involved in worldly games. You wish to be involved in gossip, anger, greed, bewilderment and occult practices. These are the things that hold you back. You have to develop a sense of trust and faith. Trust and faith in what? In the power that knows the way. …

It’s within you. It will guide you, it will lead you, it will take care of you. There’s nothing to worry about, nothing to concern yourself about. You have with you a joy, a compassion, a love, a peace, if you only knew existed, you would go mad, it’s so grand and beautiful. You are that.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

What is watching pain is yourself -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

N.MAHARAJ: Visitor: Thoughts grab us and take us away.
Maharaj:” Thoughts have so much power because of the identification with the body.”
Visitor: It is very difficult just to watch pain. I become afraid.
Maharaj:” What is watching pain is yourself. With Consciousness, you have to hold Consciousness. Give attention to this ‘I’ taste. Don’t give attention to fear, give attention to what you are. Once you know what you are you become fearless. Remove the concept of death from your mind. There is no death as such. I am sure you are not going to die. That is only a concept or idea.
Your identification with the body has continued since childhood, so in order to get rid of it also takes time.
For the Beingness to sustain itself there is occupation. Whatever you gain has no value. You will come to understand the hollowness of this game. Only in your ignorant phase, you take everything as so important. We give undue importance to things that come and go.
I am talking from the standpoint where I do not know of myself, that ‘I Am.’ I don’t belong to the realm of waking and sleep states. How can I presume that I am like this or that? You presume that I am something or somebody.”

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No effort can take you there, only the clarity of understanding. Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all.
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There is nothing to seek and find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the ‘I am’. Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent , It will emerge, or, rather, it will take you in.

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~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You don’t have to give up anything. Mentally detach. -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Never pray to God for release of your problems.
Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better.
This is wrong prayer.

If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you’re in. This is correct prayer.

Do not try to change anything. Be yourself. Work on yourself. Begin to see things in a new light. See your situation differently. There are no bad things, there are no good things. But thinking makes it so. Stop thinking of the extremes, good and bad, right and wrong.
Rather look at yourself in the moment.
Stay centered.

See yourself as a Divine Being, an Infinite Being, totally free and liberated. Do not feel sorry for yourself because you are in a position and in a situation you don’t like. This just holds you there more. And again as we mentioned before, even if you run away from a situation, you will attract some of the circumstances elsewhere.

Running away is never the answer. Changing yourself is the answer.

Take a look at your own life and see if it is not true what I’m saying. The changes you’ve gone through in your life. I know so many people who have left their home and family and gone to India to meditate, to find gurus, teachers. They have come back very depressed, even suicidal. For they’ve given up everything. Remember, there’s nothing you have to give up. Only mentally do you give up attachment.

Always look at the world as a reflection of you. You are the world. The world can be nothing without your approval. It sounds strange, but true. You have to stop identifying conditions apart from yourself. I know it seems hard to do. When you see the riots we’ve just had, the murders, the looting, it seems really difficult to realize you are one with this. But think about this.

Why should you only think you are one with the good things? If you are One, you are One with everything. Never just the good things that you enjoy and you like and bring into your life. You are All-Pervading,
Omnipresent, and you are One with all there is.
The correct way to observe this is to look at everything in the world intelligently without any comments, without any
reactions.
Do not be for or against anything.

Train yourself to observe, to watch, to look without any reaction.

~ Silence of the Heart, Dailogues with Robert Adams.

T.155@This is your Dharma.

Your duty is to be – and not to be – this or that

Ramana Maharshi

Your duty is
to be:
and not to be
this or that.

“I AM that I AM”
sums up the whole truth.
The method is summed up in
“BE STILL”.
What does “stillness” mean?
It means “destroy yourself ”.
Because any form or shape is the cause of trouble.
Give up that notion that “I am so and so.”

“ The I' is always there – in deep sleep, in dream and in wakefulness. The one in sleep is the same as that who now speaks. There is always the feeling ofI’.
Otherwise do you deny your existence?
You do not.
You say `I am’.
Find out who is.”

“ If you hold this feeling of ‘I’
long enough and strongly enough,
the false ‘I’ will vanish
leaving only
the unbroken awareness of the real,
immanent ‘I’,
consciousness itself.”

“ The only permanent thing is Reality;
and that is the Self.
You say “I am”,“I am going”,“I am speaking”,“I am working”, etc.
Hyphenate “I am” in all of them.

Thus I – AM.
That is the abiding and fundamental Reality.
This truth was taught by God to Moses: “I AM that I-AM”.
“Be still and know that I-AM God.”
so “I-AM” is God.

You know that you are.
You cannot deny your existence
at any moment of time.
For you must be there
in order to deny it.
This (Pure Existence) is understood
by stilling your mind.
The mind is the outgoing faculty
of the individual.
If that is turned within,
it becomes still in course of time and
that “I-AM” alone prevails.
“I-AM” is the whole Truth.”

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi