Never allow anything in this world to ever frighten you. Allow things to unfold as they may. Remember you just watch and observe, hold on to the truth. Happiness will come of its own accord. When you hold on to the truth, when you do not react to life's conditions, person, place or thing, when you leave things alone and you stop fighting life, you're not giving up.
In the Western psychology, we're told that you never give up. We are taught to keep on fighting. But I'm telling you there is nothing to fight, and the only thing you're giving up is your ego. Western psychology has never gone beyond this. Therefore they do not know of life beyond this. Western psychology works in the presumption that you are a body and a mind, so naturally they tell you never give up, fight to the end. Stick up for your rights.
But in the highest teachings of the truth we learn that you have no rights. You're giving up your body, your ego, your mind, and when this happens, you go beyond psychology. Something happens that psychiatry, psychology are not aware of whatsoever. And that is you rise to a higher dimension, where there is happiness, and peace, and compassion, and love, joy, that is naturally yours. You begin to feel these things instead of the things you felt before. Prior to this, when you were fighting life, when you were sticking up for your rights, when you were trying to get even, when you were working as an ego, you were never able to feel happiness or joy or peace. Only sometimes, when you won, when you got your point across, when you won an argument, when you won a fight, when you sued someone and won, you felt happy for a while, but it didn't last long, and you have to go through it again and again. But this is as far as the world goes. It doesn't know anything else but this.
What I'm saying to you, let go of everything. Do not hold on. Stand naked before God, without any crutches, without anything to hold on to. When you can do this, from this moment on you will begin to rise. And you will become aware that you are not the body, or the mind, or the world, or the universe, but you are effortless choice-less pure awareness. You are boundless space, infinite like the sky. You have become everything, and everything has become you. Work on yourself.
Robert Adams
9/21/2023
9/20/2023
silence
SILENCE, WHICH IS DEVOID OF THE ASSERTIVE EGO, ALONE IS LIBERATION.
The pure state
of being attached to grace [Self],
which is devoid of any attachment,
alone is one's own state of SILENCE,
which is devoid of any other thing.
Know that one's ever abiding
as that SILENCE,
having experienced it as it is,
alone is true mental worship [manasika-puja].
Know that the performance
of the unceasing, true and natural worship
in which the mind is submissively established as the one Self,
having installed the Lord
on the Heartthrone,
is SILENCE,
the best of all forms of worship.
Silence, which is devoid of the assertive ego, alone is liberation. .
- The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Be as you are edited by David Godman.
book 1
Sacred Guide eBook:
"We are born alone, we die alone"
Aloneness and silence are two aspects of one experience, two sides of the same coin. If one wants to experience silence one has to go into one’s total aloneness. It is there.
We are born alone, we die alone. Between these two realities we create a thousand and one illusions of being together — all kinds of relationships, friends, and enemies, loves and hates, nations, races, and religions. We create all kinds of hallucinations just to avoid one fact: that we are alone. But whatsoever we do, the truth cannot be changed. It is so, and rather than trying to escape from it the best way is to rejoice in it.
Rejoicing in your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. The meditator is one who dives deep into one’s aloneness, knowing that we are born alone, we will be dying alone, and deep down we are living alone. So why not experience what this aloneness is? It is our very nature, our very being.
Osho,
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Ch 14
An inside journey is a journey towards absolute aloneness; you cannot take anybody there with you. You cannot share your center with anybody, not even with your beloved. It is not in the nature of things; nothing can be done about it. It is easier to go to the moon because you can have company. Even if you don’t have a company you can have a connection with the earth; you can phone the people here. You can get directions from the outside, from the far away earth, but still, you are connected. The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.
That’s why the mystics have called the world illusory, Maya, not that it does not exist but for the meditator, one who goes in, it is almost as if it does not exist. The silence is so profound; no noise penetrates it. The aloneness is so deep that one needs guts. But out of that aloneness explodes bliss. Out of that aloneness, the experience of god. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.
Osho, ❤ЁЯТЮЁЯЩПЁЯЩПЁЯШН❤
Just the Tip of the Iceberg, Ch 18
Never allow anything in this world to ever frighten you. Allow things to unfold as they may. Remember you just watch and observe, hold on to the truth. Happiness will come of its own accord. When you hold on to the truth, when you do not react to life's conditions, person, place or thing, when you leave things alone and you stop fighting life, you're not giving up.
In the Western psychology, we're told that you never give up. We are taught to keep on fighting. But I'm telling you there is nothing to fight, and the only thing you're giving up is your ego. Western psychology has never gone beyond this. Therefore they do not know of life beyond this. Western psychology works in the presumption that you are a body and a mind, so naturally they tell you never give up, fight to the end. Stick up for your rights.
But in the highest teachings of the truth we learn that you have no rights. You're giving up your body, your ego, your mind, and when this happens, you go beyond psychology. Something happens that psychiatry, psychology are not aware of whatsoever. And that is you rise to a higher dimension, where there is happiness, and peace, and compassion, and love, joy, that is naturally yours. You begin to feel these things instead of the things you felt before. Prior to this, when you were fighting life, when you were sticking up for your rights, when you were trying to get even, when you were working as an ego, you were never able to feel happiness or joy or peace. Only sometimes, when you won, when you got your point across, when you won an argument, when you won a fight, when you sued someone and won, you felt happy for a while, but it didn't last long, and you have to go through it again and again. But this is as far as the world goes. It doesn't know anything else but this.
What I'm saying to you, let go of everything. Do not hold on. Stand naked before God, without any crutches, without anything to hold on to. When you can do this, from this moment on you will begin to rise. And you will become aware that you are not the body, or the mind, or the world, or the universe, but you are effortless choice-less pure awareness. You are boundless space, infinite like the sky. You have become everything, and everything has become you. Work on yourself.
Robert Adams
CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI
Q: I am trying to surrender to the Guru. How can I tell if I am succeeding? It is very easy to say ‘I’ surrender' but this is only a verbal statement. It doesn’t mean that real surrender has taken place. I think that I have achieved some success with my practice but how can I be sure?
AS: If you have really surrendered to the Guru you will see the Guru in all forms. Wherever you go you will only see the Guru.
If your mind is not steady it means that your surrender is not complete. Your Guru may take several forms. If your destiny is to go to several different places, your Guru may take the form of different saints. But even if he does there is still only one Guru because the Guru is the formless Self. You must learn to see the Guru in all things; you must learn to see the Guru everywhere.
Kunju Swami once visited Quilon Math. On returning he told Bhagavan that he had not done namaskaram to the Guru of the math. Bhagavan told him, 'Why do you limit Bhagavan to this form? The Guru is one not many.'
Seshadri Swami was once seen doing namaskaram to a donkey. When he was asked why, he replied, ‘This is not a donkey, it is Brahman.’
On another occasion when somebody asked him why he was staring at a buffalo he replied, 'I don't see any buffalo, I only see Brahman.’
- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p 292, 293
- photo: Seshadri Swami
"If in your heart you have chosen Truth, then trust your experience because something guides and protects you. When your search is genuine and your heart is humble, life protects you. But if you keep some arrogance, be sure trouble will come." Mooji
“ Live life in a relaxed way ,
with no hurry , with no worry ,
as if nothing is serious ,
living life joyously , playfully ,
from moment to moment ,
not bothering about the past ,
not bothering about the future
either ,
not bothering at all !
Whatsoever happens is good ,
and whatsoever does not happen
is also good.
Taking things
with such calmness
and equanimity brings
a restful spirit.
Slowly slowly
the whole turmoil settles ,
and suddenly there is bliss
out of nowhere ,
it starts welling up.
You become flooded with light ,
with life , with love.
Those are the three dimensions
of bliss.
It makes you more lightfull ,
makes you more lifefull ,
makes you more lovefull.
And when all these three ‘ L ’s
are learned ,
one has arrived home ! ”
------- Osho
The sage experiences that he is the body, just as the ignorant person does. The difference is that the ignorant one believes that the Self is confined to the body, whereas the sage knows that the body cannot remain apart from the Self. The Self is infinite for him and also includes the body.
A jnani does not feel oppressed by his body. Did those jnanis who lived in bodies and wrote sacred books cease to be jnanis?
The realized ones do not think or plan for the future. They let the future take care of itself. For them the future is in the present.
A jnani crushes the ego at its source. It rises up again and again, for him too as for the ignorant, impelled by nature, i.e. prarabdha. Both in the ignorant and in the jnani, ego sprouts, but with this difference: the former's ego is quite ignorant of its source, and is not aware of its deep sleep in the dream and waking states.
On the other hand, when the jnani's ego rises, he enjoys his transcendental experience with this ego, keeping his focus always on its source. His ego is not dangerous — it is only the ash-skeleton of a burnt rope; although it possesses a form it is ineffective. By constantly keeping our focus on our source, our ego is dissolved.
- CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
"We are born alone, we die alone"
Aloneness and silence are two aspects of one experience, two sides of the same coin. If one wants to experience silence one has to go into one’s total aloneness. It is there.
We are born alone, we die alone. Between these two realities we create a thousand and one illusions of being together — all kinds of relationships, friends, and enemies, loves and hates, nations, races, and religions. We create all kinds of hallucinations just to avoid one fact: that we are alone. But whatsoever we do, the truth cannot be changed. It is so, and rather than trying to escape from it the best way is to rejoice in it.
Rejoicing in your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. The meditator is one who dives deep into one’s aloneness, knowing that we are born alone, we will be dying alone, and deep down we are living alone. So why not experience what this aloneness is? It is our very nature, our very being.
Osho,
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Ch 14
An inside journey is a journey towards absolute aloneness; you cannot take anybody there with you. You cannot share your center with anybody, not even with your beloved. It is not in the nature of things; nothing can be done about it. It is easier to go to the moon because you can have company. Even if you don’t have a company you can have a connection with the earth; you can phone the people here. You can get directions from the outside, from the far away earth, but still, you are connected. The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.
That’s why the mystics have called the world illusory, Maya, not that it does not exist but for the meditator, one who goes in, it is almost as if it does not exist. The silence is so profound; no noise penetrates it. The aloneness is so deep that one needs guts. But out of that aloneness explodes bliss. Out of that aloneness, the experience of god. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.
Osho, ❤ЁЯТЮЁЯЩПЁЯЩПЁЯШН❤
Just the Tip of the Iceberg, Ch 18
Never allow anything in this world to ever frighten you. Allow things to unfold as they may. Remember you just watch and observe, hold on to the truth. Happiness will come of its own accord. When you hold on to the truth, when you do not react to life's conditions, person, place or thing, when you leave things alone and you stop fighting life, you're not giving up.
In the Western psychology, we're told that you never give up. We are taught to keep on fighting. But I'm telling you there is nothing to fight, and the only thing you're giving up is your ego. Western psychology has never gone beyond this. Therefore they do not know of life beyond this. Western psychology works in the presumption that you are a body and a mind, so naturally they tell you never give up, fight to the end. Stick up for your rights.
But in the highest teachings of the truth we learn that you have no rights. You're giving up your body, your ego, your mind, and when this happens, you go beyond psychology. Something happens that psychiatry, psychology are not aware of whatsoever. And that is you rise to a higher dimension, where there is happiness, and peace, and compassion, and love, joy, that is naturally yours. You begin to feel these things instead of the things you felt before. Prior to this, when you were fighting life, when you were sticking up for your rights, when you were trying to get even, when you were working as an ego, you were never able to feel happiness or joy or peace. Only sometimes, when you won, when you got your point across, when you won an argument, when you won a fight, when you sued someone and won, you felt happy for a while, but it didn't last long, and you have to go through it again and again. But this is as far as the world goes. It doesn't know anything else but this.
What I'm saying to you, let go of everything. Do not hold on. Stand naked before God, without any crutches, without anything to hold on to. When you can do this, from this moment on you will begin to rise. And you will become aware that you are not the body, or the mind, or the world, or the universe, but you are effortless choice-less pure awareness. You are boundless space, infinite like the sky. You have become everything, and everything has become you. Work on yourself.
Robert Adams
CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI
Q: I am trying to surrender to the Guru. How can I tell if I am succeeding? It is very easy to say ‘I’ surrender' but this is only a verbal statement. It doesn’t mean that real surrender has taken place. I think that I have achieved some success with my practice but how can I be sure?
AS: If you have really surrendered to the Guru you will see the Guru in all forms. Wherever you go you will only see the Guru.
If your mind is not steady it means that your surrender is not complete. Your Guru may take several forms. If your destiny is to go to several different places, your Guru may take the form of different saints. But even if he does there is still only one Guru because the Guru is the formless Self. You must learn to see the Guru in all things; you must learn to see the Guru everywhere.
Kunju Swami once visited Quilon Math. On returning he told Bhagavan that he had not done namaskaram to the Guru of the math. Bhagavan told him, 'Why do you limit Bhagavan to this form? The Guru is one not many.'
Seshadri Swami was once seen doing namaskaram to a donkey. When he was asked why, he replied, ‘This is not a donkey, it is Brahman.’
On another occasion when somebody asked him why he was staring at a buffalo he replied, 'I don't see any buffalo, I only see Brahman.’
- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p 292, 293
- photo: Seshadri Swami
"If in your heart you have chosen Truth, then trust your experience because something guides and protects you. When your search is genuine and your heart is humble, life protects you. But if you keep some arrogance, be sure trouble will come." Mooji
“ Live life in a relaxed way ,
with no hurry , with no worry ,
as if nothing is serious ,
living life joyously , playfully ,
from moment to moment ,
not bothering about the past ,
not bothering about the future
either ,
not bothering at all !
Whatsoever happens is good ,
and whatsoever does not happen
is also good.
Taking things
with such calmness
and equanimity brings
a restful spirit.
Slowly slowly
the whole turmoil settles ,
and suddenly there is bliss
out of nowhere ,
it starts welling up.
You become flooded with light ,
with life , with love.
Those are the three dimensions
of bliss.
It makes you more lightfull ,
makes you more lifefull ,
makes you more lovefull.
And when all these three ‘ L ’s
are learned ,
one has arrived home ! ”
------- Osho
The sage experiences that he is the body, just as the ignorant person does. The difference is that the ignorant one believes that the Self is confined to the body, whereas the sage knows that the body cannot remain apart from the Self. The Self is infinite for him and also includes the body.
A jnani does not feel oppressed by his body. Did those jnanis who lived in bodies and wrote sacred books cease to be jnanis?
The realized ones do not think or plan for the future. They let the future take care of itself. For them the future is in the present.
A jnani crushes the ego at its source. It rises up again and again, for him too as for the ignorant, impelled by nature, i.e. prarabdha. Both in the ignorant and in the jnani, ego sprouts, but with this difference: the former's ego is quite ignorant of its source, and is not aware of its deep sleep in the dream and waking states.
On the other hand, when the jnani's ego rises, he enjoys his transcendental experience with this ego, keeping his focus always on its source. His ego is not dangerous — it is only the ash-skeleton of a burnt rope; although it possesses a form it is ineffective. By constantly keeping our focus on our source, our ego is dissolved.
- CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
8/18/2023
self papaji
When one abides as the Self,
some divine power takes charge of one´s life.
All actions then take place spontaneously, and
are performed very efficiently, without
any mental effort or activity.
~ Papaji
renunciation
Renunciation is always in the mind, not in going to the forest or solitary places, or giving up one’s duties. The main thing is to see that the mind does not turn outward but inward. It does not really rest with a man whether he goes to this place or that, or whether he gives up his duties or not. All that happens according to destiny.
All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence. It does not rest with you to accept or reject them. The only freedom you have is to turn your mind inward and renounce activities there. Nobody can say why that freedom alone and no other freedom is left to man. That is the Divine scheme.
Giving up activities means giving up attachment to activities or the fruits thereof, giving up the notion ‘I am the doer’. The activities which this body is destined to perform will have to be gone through. There is no question of giving up such activities, whether one likes it or not.
~ Sri Bhagavan
silent Robert Adams
The whole idea is to be silent. Not to add affirmations or words to your garbage pail. It is already filled with garbage. By garbage, I mean preconceived ideas, dogmas, opinions, samskaras from previous lives, you're filled with these things, and you are a reacting machine, you react, that is what you do all day is react, react, react. Therefore, when you try to learn more knowledge and you read more books, all you're doing is adding on to the garbage pail. Of course, most of you realize, the highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty, there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again.
Emptiness is realization.
Emptiness is Brahman.
Emptiness is the Self.
Emptiness is your real nature.
~Robert Adams
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