Drop It!
You're all enlightened. There is absolutely no one who is not enlightened.
When you begin to understand that there is no past and there is no future there is no one to think. Thinking is your downfall. Whether you're thinking about good thoughts or bad thoughts, makes no difference. Good thoughts lead to bad thoughts and bad thoughts lead to good thoughts. It's all thoughts and you're not supposed to think. You were not put on this earth to think. Come to think of it you're not even put on this earth. (laughter)
What are you doing here? You don't exist. You've never existed and you will never exist. Why don't you believe me? If only you could realize how beautiful and wonderful it is not to think. Not to have any thoughts coming into your mind. Oh thoughts will come into your mind but you will learn to drop it!
How many of you can really sit in a chair for an hour, without playing the TV, listening to the radio, reading the newspaper or doing anything else, just sitting in the quiet for an hour? That is all you need is one hour. Most of us cannot stand to be by ourselves where nothing is happening for an hour. We always have to be doing something, don't we?
Think of the thoughts that make you angry, make you upset, make you feel out of sorts, make you feel as if there is something wrong. Understand that there can be absolutely nothing wrong anywhere at any time. It's just that things are not going the way that you want or the way that you think they should go.
Again, drop all those thoughts. As soon as your mind stats telling you something is wrong, drop the thought. Do not really change the thought for another thought, just drop it.
It is true people who have been meditating for a long time, people who have been practicing atma-vichara, self-inquiry, people who have been practicing the witness consciousness and so forth are able to do this faster than the other people. They are able to drop their thoughts and keep the mind still for a while.
Everything about your life is a dream, everything. And you tell me I'm crazy. I'm out of my mind. This is true. Yet one day you have the dream yourself and you become totally fascinated. You have become aware of the dreamworld. And I say to you right now that you are dreaming, this is all a dream, a bubble, that will one day burst and you will be completely totally free. This freedom is bliss.
Whenever you react to a situation or a condition whether you're justified or not justified, for whatever reason all you are doing is accruing karma.
Therefore never think or believe that this kind of a teaching, Advaita Vedanta, will make you not to love your family, will cause you to lose your job, will cause you to have problems, on the contrary. If you understand what I'm talking about and do this in the right way you will continue to do anything and everything you have to do. And because you're no longer perturbed, your body will not feel stress and things will be much better for you.
All is well. All is well. Drop all the pretending. Drop all your hurts. Drop the self pity. Drop everything, let go. Awaken, be free. Freedom is your real nature.
And the last thing I have to share with you. If you believe that this world is real you will also believe that the other worlds are also real. You will believe that when you die you will be free. That is like the born again Christians who can't wait to go to heaven. They say how rotten this world is but when they die they will be in glory, hallelujah. Praise the Lord. But I say to you if you have not found yourself in this life, you will not find yourself in the after life.
Therefore do not think of death as heaven sent. It is only a continuum. You have to awaken now. When you awaken now you will realize there is absolutely no place to go, there is nothing to become. You will just be as you've always been, effortless choice less pure awareness, your true nature. All is well.
Robert Adams
