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When you start to understand what "I am not the doer" means, you become free of all  problems. 

What does it mean when you say, "I am not the doer?" (and this is what you should do whenever you think you've  got a problem). To begin with, you first realize that everything, and I mean everything, was determined before you  came to this earth. Everything has been planned for you, even the day you're going to give up the body. Everything  is preordained. 

If you accept this and feel this, where is the problem? What's the worst thing that could ever happen  to you? If you really analyze it, it's not that bad. It appears bad but it is not. And remember how the appearance  works. It's like the snake and the rope. A man gets out of his bathtub in the dark and steps on a rope and thinks it's a  snake. And he has a tremendous fear. When he finds out it is only a rope the fear dissipates and he is never afraid  again about that problem. 

So, in the same instance, when you believe, and believe, and think, and think that you have a problem, it's like the  snake and the rope. It's not really a problem, it's just a preconceived idea of what's going to happen if you don't get  what you want. Because you have been brought up, again, to believe that your life has to be a certain way, where in  truth and reality it does not have to be anyway. 

As an example, if I go home this evening and I find out somebody has robbed my house, and they have cleaned  everything out of my house, is that a problem? It has all been preordained. This was determined before I came to this earth in my body. I will not react negatively. I will not react at all. Because I feel that I am the universe and all is  well. There are no mistakes. Therefore I will bless the thief. No problem what so ever. 

If I'm walking across the  street and a car passes through a red light and hits me, it isn't the driver's fault. It has all been preordained. So why  should I get angry? The point is that everything, everything that's happened to you, has been preordained. 

There is  nothing wrong. 

Now how should you handle things? The first concept is to realize that "I am not the doer." When you realize you  are not the doer it means that your body is going through the experience but not you. The next thing you do is you  ask yourself, “Who is having this experience? To whom does it come? It comes to me. I'm feeling depression. I feel 

hurt. I feel out of sort. I feel that I've been robbed or hit by a car. I'm angry. I'm mad.” Who is this I? How can the I  be so many things, angry, mad, depressed, hurt, out of sort. You therefore hold onto the feeling of I. You hold onto  that feeling and you follow it through to its source. The source of I is always consciousness or absolute awareness,  when you follow it to its source. 

But now, the only way you can follow it to its source is to forget about your  problem, for you can't do both at once. So, you have to turn resolutely away from your problem, totally away from  your problem, as if it doesn't exist, and hold on to the me. Hold onto the me who thinks it has a problem. As soon as  you begin to hold onto me or I the problem will begin to dissipate all by itself, and you'll start to laugh. You will. 

For it is virtually impossible for your real self to have a problem. For your real self is omnipresent, absolute. Your  real self is emptiness, nirvana, pure intelligence. Your real self is omnipresent. As if two of you were present at the  same time. When you understand who you are nothing will ever disturb you again. 

New people ask me, "If I develop a sense of I and I follow it to its culmination, does that mean I will never have a  problem again?” And I have to laugh when people ask me that, for as long as you identify with I, it is the I that has  the problem. So when you say, “Will I never have a problem again, you're defeating your own purpose. For I is 

filled with problems, not only from this life but from previous existences. The trick is to follow the I to the source,  and then the I will disappear, totally, completely, absolutely. And when the I disappears, so does your problem. 

In  other words, the world doesn't change but you do. Your reaction changes. Just like the screen and it's images. When  the time comes when you have transcended I you become like the screen and like the images shown on the  screen. Which means the world does not change. Everything in the world will present itself to you like it always  does, but it will be like water off a duck's back. It will not be attached to you anymore. You will now have  identification with the screen, or with the self. 

Am I clear in this? In other words, the screen and the images are the same, but the screen is aware of itself and also 

of it's images, and it's not affected by the kinds of images you show. You can show a bank robbery taking place on  the screen, a murder being committed, people making love, houses burning down, wars ensuing. How does that  affect the screen? 

It does not. The screen is never affected. New images change, one after the other. In the same  way, your self is like the screen. It is never affected by problems of any kind or any sort. The problems come upon  the screen. They come and they go, but you remain the self forever. You never change. 

How do you begin to become this way? Every time you think you have a problem you must ask yourself, "To whom  does the problem come? After all, I am not the doer. I am not the body. I am not the mind. 

So to whom does the  problem come?" 

And of course the answer will be, “To me. I feel this problem. The problem comes to me.” You  hold onto the me. You abide in the me. And you go deeper, and deeper, and deeper within yourself, abiding in the I 

consciousness. 

As you keep doing this everyday, every time a problem appears, the day will finally come soon when  you transcend your sense of I. You totally transcend it. The sense of I disappears and you will become pure 

consciousness. That's it.

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams.  

# There are no problems.