There are many lessons to learn, but for whom?
For you?
Who are you?
As long as you believe you are a human
being and you are part of the earth, then you do have many lessons to learn. But as soon as you give up the idea of your humanhood and start investigating the truth, that you are never born and you never die, until that time you will appear to suffer. You will appear to go through predicaments, through situations, through rebirth, through different experiences.
But I say to you tonight that you do not have to do this. You merely have to recognize that your personal I is the culprit. It is not you. It is your idea of I. It is the I-thought that causes every problem in your life. It is the I-thought that causes you misery, unhappiness, misunderstanding and whatever. You merely have to destroy, annihilate, the I-thought. This is the reason you came back to this planet, so it appears, to find the I and destroy it. This is what you
should have been concentrating on all the time. This is your purpose. There is no other purpose.
Everything else doesn't matter. It appears to matter. In reality it does not matter. That's a heavy thing for me to say, for some of you appear to have serious problems in your lives, are saying to yourselves “How can he say it doesn't matter? This is about to happen, that's about to happen. How can it not matter?" If it does matter you will spend the remainder of your life rectifying things that matter. When you're finished with this, something else will come along.
When you finish with that, something else will come along. And it will always matter to you. In other words, you will think it's very important that you change the condition.
There is really no condition to change. When that happens to you, you should immediately remember that everything is predetermined, everything. There are no mistakes. The worst thing you can do is to feel sorry for yourself. "Why does this happen to me? Why do I have to go through this experience?" It is the experience that
makes you turn around and investigate who you are. If everything was going well in your life, 100%, you wouldn't care about this teaching. You wouldn't realize that things are going to change sooner or later. Nothing can ever remain the same. It's only when you have a so-called problem that you begin to think “Where did this problem come
from? Who gave it to me? God? The universe? My fellow man? Who has the problem? I do? What is this I?" and
you go right back to the I again.
When you realize the I is only a thought, then you also realize that your problem, so called, whatever it may be, how serious they may look to you, must also be a thought. Can you see that? Because I has the problem. And I is only an idea, a thought. It doesn't exist for real. If I is only a thought, an idea, and I have the problem, there's no problem.
This kind of thinking in itself releases you from the clutches of your mind. Things begin to ease up. Even if your situation does not necessarily change right away, you're no longer trying to change the situation. You still have become grateful for your predicament. Again this sounds strange. You're grateful for your predicament because, again, it is your predicament that has caused you to search for the ultimate truth. As you begin to see this you start
caring less and less about your predicament.
Now let me make this perfectly clear. It doesn't mean you're going to give up anything. It doesn't mean you're going to give up your family, or you're going to give up your job, or you are going to not give a damn for whatever happens in your life. That's not the attitude I'm talking about. The attitude I'm talking about is simply this. You are beginning to realize that the I that you've been calling myself, is not real.
All these years since you were born you said “I feel this and I feel that. I need this and I need that. I am this and I am that." You're now beginning to see that I is not real.
So naturally again the I is not real. All of these years of need, of want, of desire, of belief, have been false.
It has been like an optical illusion.
None of these things are real because my I is not real.
~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams.
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