Robert Adams napisał(a):The worst thing you could ever do is to judge yourself. Never judge yourself. Don't even look at yourself too much. Realize your divine nature and do not allow your problems to get to you. Understand that you are not your problems. You are not the body. You're not the thoughts or the mind. And begin by controlling your thoughts. Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness. Your thoughts will take you away from this. It'll make you think all sorts of things.
But if you realize that your mind is a trickster, you will not allow your thoughts to convey any message to you at all. As soon as the thoughts start to come, you ask yourself the question, "To whom comes these thoughts?" and they'll stop. "They come to me, well who is this me? Who is me? I am me. Well, who am I?" And you begin to search for the source of the I. And as you search, everything in your life begins to improve. As you search diligently, things improve because you're no longer reacting the same way to situations. Your reaction has become different, the situations maybe the same.. In other words what you realize is the first principle: "Everything Is A Projection Of Your Mind." Whatever you see is a projection of your mind. Therefore if you see something that's not right with another person, you're seeing yourself, aren't you? If you're seeing another person who is troubled or another person who has problems or if you're seeing anything wrong, doubts, apprehensions, suspicions. You have to remember that you have to have those qualities in order to be able to see them in another person. So as you grow, you start seeing through those things. And whatever anybody else does no longer disturbs you. And if it no longer disturbs you then that negative vibration cannot come near you and you're at peace.

SD: When you say not to judge yourself is that because you would be judging the ego which isn't real?
R: Certainly, exactly, because you're always judging your experience, your outer experience and you can't judge that because that doesn't even exist.
SD: I think in the past you've said something like, "To judge yourself or condemn yourself is blasphemy." (R: Yes.) Because you're talking about, in that case the real Self, right?
R: What you're doing is you're denying the real Self. It's like saying, "That God is no good." So you're saying there's something wrong with you and there is not. It's only temporary, it only appears that way. It's an appearance. (SD: So even though you're judging the little self, as it were, that's blasphemous too?) Yes because you are the real Self. It's all an illusion like the snake and the rope. You think in the dark you're stepping on the snake but it's only a rope. It's a mistake, it's error. Therefore you do not judge yourself, you do not judge anyone else. You leave the world alone, but you're happy and you're blissful and you help others because that's your nature to do so.

Robert Adams Satsangs: The Collected Works Transcript 11- pge170.

Cytat:Janice:
Love is the state of a clear mind. That's what I think. Wise women "apparently" don't fall in love, because their view does not change. Janice experiences falling in love as falling because her normal view is falling apart leaving her with the insight, that what is appearing is as beautiful and precious as her own heart and in fact not anything different. Breathtaking! I know this is all on the experiential level, but it seems to me, that love is a link for knowledge to happen in a clear mind...

Ram: OK. What you say contains a lot of truth and it would be hard to argue with it but th is is only true for someone for whom the quest for the Self is so well established that it takes precedence in the person’s mind over any other consideration, in this case, an ego’s desire for a love relationship. The position you are taking here is what is known as tantra. Tantra is a word for the idea that since the Self is in everything it is hidden in every experience and therefore if one is seeking the Self one will pay very close attention to one’s experience so that one observes the moment when the mind moves o ff the object of experience and fixes its attention on the Self. For example, a person who is completely dedicated to the spiritual path might find his or her self desiring sexual/emotional love from a willing object. And, if he or she does not allow the intellect to switch off during this experience but keeps it alert and quiet in the background when the love making is happening, there will come a moment when the mind contacts the Self and enters into a state of deep absorption.
At this point it is very common for the desire for the object to completely dry up and ‘ruin’ the love making for the object. The subject, however, floats off into a world of transcendental bliss and light and may stay in that stat e for days, assuming that the mind is predominately sattvic. So, yes, ‘in love’ can be a gateway to the Self. This practice is called tantra. But tantra is considered a ‘left handed’ sadhana because it only works for the very few people who have a burning desire for liberation. And it is not a path that one cultivates if one is wise. If one actively pursues experience with the idea of gaining freedom (remember freedom is freedom from experience) one will just build a vasana for experience. Tantra is a ‘have your cake and eat it too’ sadhana. It appeals to an experience hungry ego, one that needs to spiritually justify its cravings.
The downside of this path is always attachment. One wouldn’t aggressively pursue tantra if one was clear about the nature of enlightenment. However, sometimes, even in mature seekers a vasana sneaks up and captures the attention and forces the mind into an experience. In this case the person might wake up to what was happening in the middle of the experience an d notice the mind striving to enter the Self as I mentioned above. It is an odd fact that even though the mind will pursue an object for happiness, it is unconsciously seeking the bliss of the Self. So it is always working on a very deep level to get into the Self.
And when it gets the Self it will ruthlessly throw away the object. If the person is emotionally immature, his or her intellect will remain submerged in the sensations arising from the contact with the object and he or sh e will assume that the joy is coming from the object or from his or her interaction with the object, i.e. the experience itself.
A mature seeker would, however, notice when the mind enters the Self during an in tense experience and use the opportunity to keep the mind fixed on the Self, allowing the experience to drop out of consciousness without attachment. And he or she would not actively seek another experience but would reflect on the nature of experience and its relationship to the Self until Self knowledge arose.

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Robert Adams napisał(a):In reality, you are already awake, but you are dreaming and you don’t know it. It's like when you go to sleep and in your dream there's an earthquake. Everyone is dying all around you, and I come to you and I say, "This is not real. You're having a dream, don't you know?" And you tell me, "You’re crazy, Robert. This is not a dream, this is real. Can’t you see the earthquake. Can’t you see people dying all around you?"

But I say, "No, it's a dream!" You refuse to believe me. Then, all of a sudden you wake up, you find yourself in this world. The only difference between this world and the dream world is that this world is a little longer, but it's a dream. The world is not real by itself.

Ultimate reality, pure intelligence, emptiness, space - that is reality. It is like a gigantic screen that takes up the entire universe. That screen is consciousness, and all the worlds, the planets, the suns, people, are all images on the screen. If the screen weren't there, there could be no images.

Therefore, you cannot say that the images are real. They're only real as long as the screen persists. But if the screen is taken away there’s no place to show the images. In the same way, your true nature is consciousness, pure consciousness.

Your body is superimposed on consciousness. You have made the mistake of identifying yourself with the body and mind. Therefore, the body and mind seems to control your life. But as soon as you switch identities, as soon as you begin to identify with consciousness, everything changes for you. You become happy, peaceful, joyous, blissful. It happens by itself. All you’ve got to do is to switch identities; identify with reality.

How do you do that? Every image that comes into your mind, you negate it. You realize that’s not the truth, and you ask the question, "To whom does this come? To me.”

You hold onto the me. You find the source of me. The source of me is none other than your self. Once you make out the identity and you awaken to your Self, all your problems are over.

Think of the problems you’re thinking about right now. Think. Who has a problem? Your real Self can't have a problem, because that's bliss consciousness. The problem comes to the ego. Only the ego has a problem, nothing else.

Everything else is free, happy, no problems. Find out who you are. Discover yourself. Jump within yourself. Be yourself. Become free. Nothing exists as it appears, nothing.

Everything is consciousness, and everything is an image superimposed in consciousness. All of your thoughts, whatever is going through your mind, has no basis, no cause, no ego. Everything you see is a projection of your own mind. You can put a stop to it by finding the source of your thoughts. Where do your thoughts come from. Find out. Go within. Ask yourself.

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