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When you concern yourself with your body, when you concern yourself with worldly conditions, 

when you try to  improve something, all you're doing is admitting that you are a fool. 

In truth, this is all nonsense. 

Everything is  nonsense. 

Therefore, why not be happy? 

Why think about conditions, situations? 

Just be happy. 

Do not try to  analyze what happiness is. 

Do not even try to be happy. 

Just be happy. 

How do you become happy? 

By not thinking. 

If you have to think about it, it is not happiness. 

True happiness has no name. 

There is no one who can ever be happy, for no one really exists to be happy. Therefore, 

if you try to make yourself happy you'll have to experience the other end of it, which is unhappiness. So stop  believing that you want to be happy. Also do not believe that you want to be unhappy. 

Do not believe anything. 

Especially do not believe what I am saying. 

What am I telling you? 

Everybody wants something. 

They want to become something. 

They want to achieve something. 

They want to remove one quality and attain another quality. 

But since you do not really exist, and you 

have never existed, the whole thing becomes folly, for there is no one to become happy, there is no one who is 

unhappy, for there is no one who exists. 

There are no words being spoken. 

There is no speaker. 

So what are you listening to? 

When you find out what you're listening to you'll know who you are. 

The worst thing you can ever do is to try to change your condition, to be dissatisfied with the way things are. Things  are the way they're supposed to be. 

Do not try to think about it or to analyze it. Things are exactly the way they're 

supposed to be. When you think about this you spoil it. There are no mistakes. 

No one is right, and no one is wrong. 

Take a look at the world in which you appear to live. Look at this world. Look what's happening in this world. It's crazy. 

How can you possibly believe in a world like this? 

Yet, the world has always been like this, in one way or  another. There have been people just like us, five hundred years ago, discussing the same things. It was probably us,  arguing about who's liberated and who's not liberated. This is not new. A thousand years ago, same thing. There were wars, disease, and groups of people sitting around like we're sitting around now, discussing nonsense. It's always been the same. 

You don't even want to wake up, for there's no one to wake up. Sometimes I tell you to awaken. When I say this to  you something may happen sometimes, that you become something that doesn't exist. If someone had to awaken  they would not awaken to reality, for there's no reality to awaken to. Those are just words. 

Be yourself. Yet there is no self and there's no one to be, so how can you be yourself? Why do you listen to me? 

You want to be something. 

You want to be liberated. 

You want to be yourself. 

You want to be a jnani. 

Why don't you want to be a banana? 

A banana is just as good as a jnani. 

Student: It's appealing. 

Robert: So be an un-peeled banana. Everybody wants to be something. You will find when you are satisfied with the way things are, just the way things are, right now, at any given moment, that's it. Just the way things are. Not when things are like this or things are like that. Just the way things are. It makes no difference where you are, what's  going on in your life, with whom you are living at this time, what's going on in this world. 

When you're allowed to  be just the way you are, when you allow everything to be just the way it is, then you are yourself, for you're living in  that split second of eternity. It's like an atom exploding. You are that center that goes nowhere, yet is everywhere. 

And you're always living in that center, in that second. There is no time or space. There's only that second, the  instant of a second. 

You have to find this out for yourself.

You have to find this out for yourself. Don't look at me. For all you know I may have escaped from the funny farm. 

Find out for yourself. And you do this by keeping still. You can never find out for yourself by reading, or by  meditating, or by discussing scripture, or by trying to prove a point, or by thinking you've got it. 

It is only when the  noise in your head stops, only when the chattering stops 

and you go beyond silence.

🕉 ROBERT ADAMS.  

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