post 9

 Have Dispassion for the World.

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One of the things you have to work on yourself is passion. 

You must give up all passion for this world and the things in it. 

You must develop dispassion. 

Now to some of you this sounds terrible, not to have passion for the things of this 

world. Never to be passionately in love. What I'm referring to is having dispassion for the world of maya, and having 

total passion for the Self. As an example, if you're intimate with a boy friend or a girl friend or a husband or a wife or a 

camel or a yak, whatever turns you on, you no longer think you're with that kind of a being, whatever it may be. 

Rather you start to understand that you're loving your Self. The camel becomes your Self. Your partner, your lover, becomes 

your Self. 

It is your Self that you are in love with. 

Not the self called Robert or Mary or Jane or Joe, but the Self as Consciousness. 

You have total passion for your Self. 

As you love the trees, the sky, the world, you no longer think it's a  world of maya, a world of illusion, but an extension of your Self, the Absolute Reality, the Effortless, Choiceless Pure  Awareness. 

It is your Self you're making love to. 

When you think it's another human being, this spoils it. When you think  it's a person, place or thing, this spoils it. 

It is always the Self.

When you begin to understand this, you begin to move in the right direction. Otherwise, if you're looking at people as a 

person, place or thing, you're making a terrible mistake. That brings sorrow. It brings unhappiness, brings jealousy, fear, rustration. 

The way you know you're with the Self, there is freedom. No restrictions. No laws. No rules. No regulations. 

You're always with the Self. 

You've always been the Self.

~ SILENCE OF THE HEART

1999 edition

Dialogue with Robert Adams

 T. 186 @ Passion And Dispassion - September 27, 1992