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Hi everyone,
It seemed everything was in order, but unfortunately, we need to take down the Robert Adams satsangs.
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5 - 14
"So what do you have to do to also cease thinking, so the thoughts can become dead? You simply do not attach yourself to the thoughts. By not attaching yourself to the thoughts, by not reacting to the thoughts, by not responding to the thoughts, they lose their power and begin to fade away. Yet do not give them any energy. Do not give them any power. Do not say to yourself, I have to stop my thoughts. Do nothing like this. Just slow down, slow down. Let the thoughts do what they may. Allow the thoughts to go their own way. Do nothing with your thoughts. Do not think about them. Do not fight them. And above all, do not try to stop them.
You may think this is so difficult, but it's not. It's like when you first wake up, before the thoughts come. You're still drowsy from sleep. And when the first thoughts come to you, you hardly pay any attention to them. That's the attitude to have.
Do not pay any attention to your thoughts whatsoever. But when you say "I am not paying attention to my thoughts", you spoil it. You're not to utter this. You're not to say this. You're just to become this. As you begin to let your thoughts alone, not to pay any attention to them, not to be attached to them, you'll notice something very interesting happening to you. You begin to notice that you're becoming very peaceful, very calm. You become happy for no reason whatsoever. All of these dastardly things that are still going on in this world, man's inhumanity to man, you have your own so called problems. Yet you become happy, you become peaceful, you become blissful. This comes all by itself, because your thoughts have slowed down.
And you have absolutely nothing to do with it. You have not slowed your thoughts down. This is an important point to remember. You have not slowed your thoughts down, not you whatsoever. For you are the mind, and you've not used your mind to slow down your thoughts. You have done absolutely nothing, except to ignore your thoughts. Ignore the thoughts completely, totally, absolutely. Again, do not fight your thoughts. Ignoring your thoughts is not fighting your thoughts. Do not try to change your thoughts. Above all do not try to stop your thoughts.
Just enough to detach them, and ignore them. The example here is, what happens to your friends whom you ignore. If you have a friend and the friend is talking to you, telling you things, and you ignore your friend, what happens? The friend will walk away. The friend will go away and that will be the end of the friend. And he or she will no longer be your friend. For you have ignored them totally, completely. You've not scolded them. You have not lectured your friend. You have not been evil to your friend. You have just ignored your friend. Your friend will back away and go away, because your friend gets no response from you whatsoever. This is how you want to treat your thoughts, same way.
It makes no difference if the thoughts are good or bad, they're both impostors. In reality there are no good thoughts, there are no bad thoughts. We're not trying to replace bad thoughts for good thoughts. We're trying to LEAVE THE THOUGHTS ALONE. Not to do a thing about them. I want to make this perfectly clear. This is the highest way to handle your thoughts."
Robert Adams, Enter the Silence
50 - 4
Questioner: All teachers advise to meditate. What is the purpose of meditation?
Nisargadatta: We know the outer world of sensations and actions, but of our inner world of thoughts and feelings we know very little. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.
Incidentally practice of meditation affects deeply our character. We are slaves to what we do not know; of what we know we are masters. Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover and understand its causes and its workings, we overcome it by the very knowing; the unconscious dissolves when brought into the conscious. The dissolution of the unconscious releases energy; the mind feels adequate and becomes quiet.
Questioner: What is the use of a quiet mind?
Nisargadatta: When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.
âSri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
36 - 2
"People ask me sometimes, "Robert, when will I have this experience? I have been waiting thirty, forty years, and I haven't had any experience at all. I've been practicing sadhana, nothing happens?"
So I tell the person what he has to hear at the time.
I may say, "Trust in God. Surrender everything to God and everything will be okay."
To another person I may say, "Practice self-inquiry, inquire, Who does not have this experience? Who thinks he doesn't have an experience of enlightenment? To whom does this come? Who feels this?"
To an advanced devotee I will say, "Be still and know that I am God." Not referring to Robert, but to I-am. Be still and know that I-am is God, and the devotee will understand this and close their eyes and go deep into the Self.
So we work on many levels of consciousness.
Some people ask me certain questions and want certain answers. I will immediately feel their egos are so big that nothing can save them in this incarnation. And I will keep silent. I have nothing to say. And they have to stay in the silence and they begin to work on themselves immediately.
So everyone is different. Where you go from here is determined by what you are. It's your ball game."
âRobert Adams
43 - 5
âFor most things in life, you need time: to learn a new skill, build a house, become an expert, make a cup of tea...Â
Time is useless, however, for the most essential thing in life, the one thing that really matters: self-realization, which means knowing who you are beyond the surface self â beyond your name, your physical form, your history, your story.
You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.
Spiritual seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.â
âEckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
37 - 3
âMeditative self-inquiry is the art of asking a spiritually powerful question. And a question that is spiritually powerful always points us back to ourselves. Because the most important thing that leads to spiritual awakening is to discover who and what we areâto wake up from this dream state, this trance state of identification with ego. And for this awakening to occur, there needs to be some transformative energy that can flash into consciousness. It needs to be an energy that is actually powerful enough to awaken consciousness out of its trance of separateness into the truth of our being. Inquiry is an active engagement with our own experience that can cultivate this flash of spiritual insight.â
âAdyashanti, True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
24 - 0
"It is erroneous to believe that if you get something you like, then you'll be happy. You know by now how it works. When you wish to attain somethingâsay, you want to buy a new carâyou save your money to buy it. You're striving to save the money, and your mind is always focused on this new car that you want. Then, you finally have enough money to buy the car, and you feel happy. But what is really making you happy? Is it the car? Of course not. It is the mind that achieved its goal. When the mind achieves its goal, it rests in the heart; it goes back into the heart, which is where pure happiness resides. So happiness ensues. Yet you believe that it is the car that made you happy. But it's not the car at all. It's the mind returning to the heart that brings happiness.
Think about this. When the mind returns to the heart center, happiness arises naturally. The person who understands this intellectually realizes that if you can make the mind go back into the heart effortlesslyâwithout any desires or wantsâthe same feeling will come as if you had acquired something you wanted or needed.
In other words, you can fulfill yourself and be happy without acquiring anything at all. By allowing the mind to go back into the heart where it belongs, the Self emerges, and you become truly happy.
But most people think that external objects, people, or situations make them happy. However, if you look back in retrospect, you'll see that this doesn't work that way. After achieving a desire, how long does the happiness last before you become unhappy again and start searching for something new?
Take, for instance, the experience of human love. You meet someone new, fall in love, and feel like you must have that person. It's all you can think about, day and night. The time comes when you get that personâyou live together, get married, and so on. The mind has gone back into the heart, and you've achieved what you wanted. But as time passes, things change. You take the person for granted, and itâs not the same anymore. The mind moves away again, becoming active, searching for something else, wanting something new. And then you become miserable until you find something new.
So, the average person goes through this cycle day after day, week after week, month after monthâalways believing they need something else to be happy. If they have certain things, they think they'll be happy; if they don't, they won't. What a waste of energy, what a waste of life.
Know for sure that happiness is your birthright; you already have it, you possess it, it's yours. Bliss is your birthright; you already have it, you possess it, it's yours. It has nothing to do with any person, place, or thing. Your real nature is Brahman, which is consciousnessâan all-pervading absolute reality. This is your true Self. This is what you are.
Awaken to yourself. Now. Be yourself. Peace."
âRobert Adams
51 - 4
âNow the elegance of karma yoga is, the very act you do to help another person is simultaneously the act youâre doing to work on yourself. Like, I am helping you now, at some level, but this act is my work on myself. Because the clearer I get, the better my help is for you. So Iâm serving as an act to work on myself; I am working on myself as an act to better serve you. Can you see how the circle works? Can you see the elegance of that?âÂ
âRam Dass
25 - 3
"The seeker is he who is in search of himself.
Give up all questions except one: âWho am I?â After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The âI amâ is certain. The âI am thisâ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality.
To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not.
Discover all that you are not -- body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that -- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.
The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being."
âSri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
40 - 1
"The significance is that the Self makes you understand that there is only one. It means oneness; it means that there is only one entity called the Self, which is all-pervading and omnipresent, and you are that! It's a name we give it to make sure we understand where itâs atâthat we're something, that we are an entity of some kind, that we are a Self. But the Self really doesn't exist. It's just another word, like all the rest of the words; everything is a bunch of words. But we speak these words to make us understand there is something higher than where we are, something so beautiful, so grand, we can't even imagine what it is. It is beyond imagination, beyond anything we can grasp or explain. That's what you are; that is you.Â
You are That. When you try to define it, you spoil it. Just be! Do not be this or that, just be!"
âRobert Adams, The True Teacher Is Within, Transcript 196
33 - 1
Welcome to Simply Here Now.
This is a channel for truth, stillness, and the direct recognition of your true nature.
Nothing to become. Nothing to attain. Only the silent return to whatâs always been here.
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â˘The pathless path of non-duality and self-realization
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"The Self can never be known by the ordinary mind...The solution is to have a cup of tea, to relax...The Self will make itself known to you in its own time."
âRobert Adams