24 June 2012


FREEDOM!

Most of you realize by now that I teach a different sort of path, one of winning a radical freedom from concepts, from social conditioning around politics, family, marriage, sex, ideas of progress, and misconceptions about what spirituality, methods, and gurus are.

For most everyone, life is lived from the head: thinking, judging, measuring, calculating, identifying. We do not even have experiences until we can identify them, categorize them, and award a value of good, bad, or indifferent.  All day long we see, judge, chat, and respond to incoming information and sensations. 

But the mind creates everything.  It creates some sort of stability and order to the incoming, ever-flowing and changing world of inner and outer sensations.

My goal is to get you out of your head and living from the heart without thinking, by directly intuiting.

This means getting rid of all concepts, and living with an empty mind but open heart.  These are two separate goals rarely found together: living from an empty mind, and having an open, intuitive, loving and compassionate heart.

The felt Void, the all containing emptiness of the Jnani, the sage, often snuffs out love, connectedness and compassion. One becomes an Arhat, dead to the world and dead to one’s own desires, an impersonal puppet of the movements of consciousness, witnessed, from afar, by the Absolute and final Witness, Parabrahman. One has died to his or her self, to desires, to a sense of mission or goals.  All are gone to live in peace and a breath of continuous bliss.

This is Nisargadatta in his last years.  All emptiness and a cutting mind who had lost his all desires even for life itself.  This is so much the position of many of the neo-Advaitins, living in their crystal bright, clear awareness, with no felt sense of a separate self.  Ramana was a lot like this as are most Zen classics, and most Buddhist schools.

On the other hand, we find the various paths of the heart: Christian mysticism, much of the Sufi tradition, and the various paths of Bhakti, as espoused by Ramakrishna and others.  This path is far different from the quietism of Zen, Buddhist meditations on emptiness, and self-inquiry as described by Ramana and Robert Adams. This path is full of energy, love, passion, anger, jealousy, sometimes violence, sexuality, attachments, and most especially of ecstasies, bliss and movements of currents inside the body and inside one’s sense of presence.

With the latter path the heart opens from the sheer power of the energies aroused.  There is a full involvement of the entirety of one’s being at every moment, while emotions and energies constantly rip apart all one’s beliefs and former attachments, such as to social gracefulness, etiquette, former attachments, etc., and one just madly pursues their true love, which is one’s own self, but is first found in another.

How to get you to transverse both paths, that is my constant question.  Like Nisargadatta and Robert, I constantly appear to contradict myself because all verbal communication is in words, and words are fixed, while peoples’ minds can be fluid.  What I say one day to Rahul, I will contradict the next day responding to Mark.  After a while you begin to see the correctness of the answer I gave to Rahul that day, and the opposite answer I gave to Mark the next day.  Each was stuck at a different place and each required a separate, unsticking answer.

U.G. Krishnamurti stated that as part of the awakening process he called “The Calamity,” he could no longer think.  Words just did not make sense to him.  His mind could not wrap around any word or sentence. He saw a reality that was wordless and could not related the network of thought to that new world. They were two very different things.

He had been wrapped in the spirituality of the Theosophical Society and Jiddu Krishnamurti for 30 years.  He had personally met all the gur/teachers from Ramana to complete impostures, and had had his mind contaminated by all their contradictory teachings for that entire time.  To see who he really was he had to shed all concepts given to him from outside about who he was.  He had to see himself directly.  In order for that to happen, all the concepts had to be washed out of him.  It was like a great enema.  All the concepts, ideas and idealization and identities of himself as a man, Indian, scholar, etc., washed out of him, leaving him empty and constantly transforming. Unfortunately, U.G. at the end, had very little heart.

A similar process began with me 20 years ago. I could no longer read. The words just did not penetrate.  I lost interest in words as I read them because they seem so far removed from the world I lived in.  I saw all others were living in a network of lies, pure bullshit that people accepted as true.

Even when I read Nisargadatta’s I Am That in order to have something to talk about at Satsang, more than half the time my eyes glaze over and my brain refuses to let the words in, because they too are bullshit. He talks about consciousness in motion, consciousness at rest, awareness without content, pure awareness, and that he came into being when Shakti and Prakritka had sort of a sexual union in his imagination. Rarely does he talk about his inner state, how he experiences his own life or the world.

But people are hungry for direction and certainty, battered by millions of inconsistent concepts about spirituality and the nature of humanity and the world.  What is real? What is not?  Who really knows the “Truth?” Therefore they seek the teachings of those who appear to know.

Ramana is much, much worse.  He never says anything about his own inner condition, the way he experiences anything.  Instead he talks in generalities, repeating something he read in the Ribbhu Gita about God, Consciousness or the Self.

When I read Ramana’s self account of his awakening, I just have to laugh at his naiveté.  He stuck his fingers in his ears, held his breath, and pretended he was dead, yet he still felt the full brightness of his awareness, and, since he declared to himself that his body was dead, still feeling consciousness must mean he was beyond death.  In other words, he pretended he was dead, but still felt alive, and concluded he was therefore always alive.

The Robert Adams I knew, knew that all concepts were rubbish, but he used them to entertain people.  He often said that. He would say, “I tell you all these things because you like to hear them.” His sangha liked to hear and argue about freedom of choice versus predestination, karma, Turiya, Self, Consciousness, the Four Principles, etc. 

People are always trying, either with mere curiosity, or with desperation, to make their lives better.  Very few actually shut up and take a deep look at their lives, the pain, the suffering, the fleeting nature of all states and experiences. They run from one self help book or teacher to another, or shop for gurus.

For Robert, the final answer was just silence. No concepts, no understanding, and to be good for nothing. But no one could hear that, so he talked about karma, God, Consciousness, unadulterated joy, the Four Principles.  Without these words, he would have had few or maybe no one to talk to.
So, what about freedom?

I am trying to get you to a place where you are no longer asking “spiritual” questions about karma, predestination, Consciousness, the absolute, or how Nisargadatta relates to Ramana who relates to Osho, or why what Edji said differs from what Robert said, or what Rajiv or Deeya say.  Are they not from the same tree?  Should they not all say exactly the same thing as ultimate truth?

I want you to stop looking at books, wandering from guru to guru picking up concepts and teachings, and instead just stop. Just stop and look inside and start with what you know without a doubt.

Is there anything you know without a doubt?  That you exist?  This is what the neo advaitins teach.  Without doubt you know that you exist. 

Bullshit!  Even that you do not know.  Any concept or conclusion is a lie of words.  What does it mean to say, “I exist?”  What is this ‘I’ that I say exists?  Is it “beingness” as the neo-advaitins say?  What the hell then is beingness?  Is it consciousness?  What the hell is consciousness and where did it come from?  Is it permanent or temporary, flowing or still? Both?  Nisargadatta and Ramana talk about this kind of stuff all the time.  So did Western philosophers for hundreds of years before they gave up in the 20th Century after finding no agreement. In the 1950s, the final solution of Western Philosophers about existence and consciousness was epitomized in one sentence of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Of that which we cannot know, we must remain silent.

On the other hand, we have J. Krishnamurti who also said all gurus are talking bullshit and not to listen to any of them, and thousands of people followed him as their guru. U.G. Krishnamurti went even further and said not only have all your teachers since kindergarten been feeding you bullshit, but also your parents, and even J. Krishnamurti has been talking bullshit.  He said J.K. had merely tasted what he, U.G., had fully attained. U.G. never lacked immodesty. 

U.G. radically rejected all learning, all teachers, all concepts.  He said his brain would not let them in. His body rejected teachings.

Something like that happened to me.  No teachings can penetrate my mind anymore. Even Robert, even Nisargadatta.  Every word they said, every word written in the scriptures and the bibles of the world is bullshit. Every principle of morality taught through society and the various Christian denominations and Muslim faiths, is pure, regulatory fantasy, made up over the centuries by the religious leaders and enforced by the politics and laws of the secular society built around it.

It is all a prison designed to keep you and everyone else living in a narrow channel of experience, keeping you dull and suppressed.

This is why I emphasize so much examining and challenging the everyday assumptions you make about yourself, your family, society, the way the world is run, the continued violence to animals in the form of killing billions in just the U.S. every year for food, leather, furs, etc.  I want you to question your own and others’ acquiescence to the constant wars and violence occurring not only in our own society, but in Africa and the Middle East.  Question the easy acceptance of the brutality and corruption of Chinese society where you hardly dare eat any food or medication coming out of that country because it has probably been adulterated.  Look at the corruption of our own politicians who are bought by the wealthy in terms of campaign contributions.

So, I tell you, what is it that you know without doubt?  If you look outside at the world, you see corruption, violence, graft, lying politicos, slanted newspaper coverage, death and poverty everywhere, and everyone trying to sell you something, whether clothes or a spiritual path.

Then, if you look inside, what do you see? Really, what do you see, hear, feel and know? Can you know anything with certainty? Who is the knower? Do you know that?  I mean really look inside beneath the layer of thinking and emotional stories.

I assure you, if you try to verbalize any knowing you might discover, it becomes a lie as soon as it leaves your lips.  Words cannot touch the “pure” existence you see, hear, feel and touch.  All understanding is added onto that more basic experience.

If you practice silence, meditation, or you go into psychoanalysis, whole new inner worlds of experience open up, from matchless love, bliss, ecstasy, samadhis, awakening experiences, which are really blows to the dominance of mind, to an endless unfolding of the tapestry of consciousness.

But after a while, even this wonderment loses its excitement and you begin to return to the world of ordinariness, of chopping wood and carrying water, bringing up a family, feeding feral cats, helping wildlife, opening an ashram, promoting vegetarianism.

You see, there is nothing to grasp onto, no knowing that can be expressed.  You are the totality of your experience and more than that, but even that you cannot express for it is only an empty concept that helps no one.  In the end you just plain stop and remain as you, completely content as you, but with a heart the size of a freight train, and a mind that barely functions, because you live from that very large heart.

It literally feels that way.  You do not feel as if you live in your head anymore.  It feels as if your center of beingness, the place you live, is closer to your heart, but is not even part of your body. You feel yourself as your presence, and that presence, at times appears to have a location somewhere near where your heart would be if you could feel it.  Or, you may even lose that center, and the identification then is with the totality of your experience. 

This is where I am trying to take you, away from “spirituality,” away from family, away from society, away from Facebook into your own sense of presence, and there find “truth” that cannot be expressed in words, peace from resting in yourself instead of rushing around outside or inside looking for something, seeking something, because you know deep down that no matter what you do or where you go, it is always only you.

Yet, this will not happen without one more step.  You must learn how to love with all your heart, with all your being, with complete passion, otherwise, just living in emptiness will leave you living as a person dead to the world, or absolutely no use to anyone, not even yourself.  This is a hard step for a Jnani, for someone who has thrown away all concepts and conditioning, because in their process, they usually have thrown their passion and love away too.

So, as a teacher, this is my task: How to help you shed all concepts and at the same time, to love completely, passionately and compassionately.

28 comments:

  1. When one gives up everything, Love Joy and peace and whatever can be interpreted flow by themselves.

    You're not talking about human love, passion, compassion are you?

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  2. What other love and compassion are you talking about? Of course I mean human love and passion. Are you are monkey?

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    1. HaHaHaHa... Still laughing. One day you'll make me wet meself Ed!

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  3. It would certainly seem the topic revolves around "human" love, passion & compassion. Of course, maybe you're a scientist and wish to observe and comment on whether such behavior also is characteristic of other primates?

    Mark

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  4. Dear Edji: Thank-you for these amazing points to ponder re: LOVE being all. It is the heart which is the gift from the divine, not thinking, or being void of thinking (which can help to connect to the true heart living from the intuitive/creative soul. Definitely much to ponder. As always, your vital insights are so very aware of what is important in life, to be consciously aware and enlightened in thiscosmic consciousness way. And the heart makes light the body to all the upper-levels of ascension and of beingness. For this I am most humbled and in awe of your great wisdom~love you, thank-you~!!!

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  5. Amazing talk as usual Edji !
    I don't feel anything is useful in the world anymore, but when I give something to someone (money, goods) I see the light of the heart, shinning strongly and spreading this ecstatic bliss all around in my clear emptiness.
    I suppose that's what you call the JUICY awareness, contrary to the dry usual feeling.
    Man I should really stick more closely to your teaching, this "juice" is so blissful !!!
    DG

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  7. Jesus H Christ...! What a pure blast of ever-loving Reality. The words are just the words. You will inevitably--at some point--deny much of what was in this entry. But you are a living force of uncompromising Fire. I watch you, constantly blowing through everything... NOTHING sticks to you, Edji. I saw the passionate shoots of this very thing in "S" for many years. But...then she moved to the Sierra foothills, living her own kind of Dream...isolated with a few devotees who are living in a constructed La Vida Loca and it is a total fantasy. She is a Jnani who shuns the world but supposedly [wink-wink] does all her Work behind the scenes...and who knows, maybe she does. The Great SHE to Adi Da's HE. Holy fuck...it is a vast deep Dream...not right...not wrong...in some moralistic sense. But she eschews the world and being in it. She deconstructs in private and for a "fee." I watched a few current vids she has on you tube recently. She is fading under the weight of her own Enlightenment...content to baby a few people who will never get off the teat. That was me...I was one of them and yet always rebelling against it at the same time...always rocking the boat. Every "cult" needs a good scapegoat, so I became "The Abomination"...willingly...and watched my own fantasies go down the poop chute.

    Here I am now...still lugging around the residue of all the shit I carried for her [which was only a reflection of my OWN shit] and it is melting away by the heat of your Freedom Fire. I see MySelf as I Am. That is not a lie. But..it is also not enough. It brightens nothing and no one if it cannot be expressed AS LOVE...RIGHT HERE...BECAUSE THERE IS NO "WHERE" ELSE TO GO.

    All my love, Victoria

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    1. Ed,

      I should have ended the above reply at..."Nothing sticks to you, Edji."

      The rest was really shitty, and it was eating at me this whole past week. My former Teacher did not deserve the hateful remarks I made. This is not the way I actually feel about her, nor is it the way I speak of her to my friends. A few days after this post, I wrote another shitty reply about someone else--whom I don't even really know--and a lot of smug, superior shit came out of me that was very unkind then too.

      I have nothing to be superior about. I have failed at the things most important to me in this life [whether I was the one doing it or not.] Let's just say that failure has been a most intimate teacher. In the last few years, I have lived a very ordinary life...no marvelous experiences out of which much could be made. And I have found some real peace in that; even made some new friends who know me as a kind-hearted person. I thought SHE was the only one I was bringing to Satsang with you.

      Silly me...

      It has been rather a shock to see this other Victoria rear her head again, reviving old familiar feelings of frustration and shame. But I know her too. They "both" live here. One is just the self-protected personality, and the other one appeared following a deeper acceptance of the pain and self-hatred I lived with as a child and much of my adulthood.

      I had first felt mySelf [tangibly!] some 13 years ago during a temporary awakening. But I forgot and neglected that vulnerable one when I returned to to the cycle of seeking as the "awakening" faded a year later. I lost sight of her, my "personal" I Am/ mySelf.

      So this is what is really up for me. The deepest wound--the one which created the presumption of separate self in the first place--is obviously one of the last things to go. I feel it must be faced; that presumed loss of the sense of One-ness and the fear of death held by the apparent little "me." I was never able to investigate that [emotionally] all the way through with S, though I was so VERY hungry for it.

      She tried to help me, truly and repeatedly. But she is a jnani and I needed someone who was willing to get down into the "earth" with me where I lived...to see me there, hold me there, love me there. I did not understand the inherent validity of that need for a long time.

      She kept trying to call me out of that "need," and instead to come to her world. There was not a strong enough bridge. She couldn't see the part of me that needed that. Really. It was not an acceptable part of her experience, so she could not stay in it with me. She is a jnani warrior but also very vulnerable. I feel the long-protected warrior [wounded?] persona may also be a reaction TO that vulnerability.



      My heart was still very open to her, still fully trusting her love. And, boom, she completely withdrew from me emotionally! I was in total shock. Just a dead, empty space where the love had been. Jnani warriors can do that I guess.

      Anyway, the one who came to my "rescue" six or seven months later was my own Self, the presence/essence that I had recognized years before. THAT was the "bridge" I was missing...mySelf. I was always trying to find mySelf through the other--especially the Great Other--so the core wound that is the ego was never seen through.

      I was very drawn to you, Ed, because I could see that not only were you very in tune with the body and living your Freedom IN THE WORLD, but that you have a deep psychological understanding and appreciation for your own human-ness.

      It's best for me to stay very simple. Enquire and be very ordinary. No more long diatribes, or opinions about anyone.

      I did NOT like what I saw about 'me' today. There was remorse but no clinch in the gut, no "bad Victoria." My heart does not desire to cause pain to any living being/thing. I need your help.

      Love,
      Victoria

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  8. Dear Edji, I hear... 'the sound of music'!

    You know. I think UG Krishnamurti was a disappointed and frustrated angry bird. He was shouting all till the end of his live. I am afraid I have a lot of this 'angry' energy myself. I do feel fucked up with all gurus and also with this horrible society. I can't read any book any more. I don't like human company and most of them don't like me to much!!! What have I become? I become frustrated watching the endless dirty games of politics all over this planet. You see my own heart is very small also. I am a cynical angry bird watching this crazy selfish world. My lover R. always remind me not become hard. See say: 'you are such a wonderful and sensitive man when you are not that hard to the world'. But 94,3%, of the waking state, I am hard and cynical to this world. I don't believe it's story's and I have a very hard job playing it's game. I love to say 'fuck the world'. But I hate to say 'love the world'. Yes, I love the earth walking a forest path, watching over the fields, the clouds and the birds. But sorry, I don't like people to much and I become angry the moment one of this 'species' pretend ANYTHING. Yes, to love is a hell of a job and advaitism is a wonderful escape that can provide an enjoyable business.

    Love for what it is,
    Dennis

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    1. HahaHa. You gotta love that anger Dennis! that's what get's me up in the morning. Another day of ferreting out bullshit wherever you find it, and you won't have to look too hard. Remember, Nothing is Sacred and everything else is fair game!

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    2. On a more serious note. i feel yr pain Dennis, i too have resented everybody in sight and Advaita provides no escape whatsoever. All it did for me was to put me in touch with the crying baby inside, still demanding love from everyone it sees and incapable of giving anything back. Because baby's can't. They need to be loved and if they don't get it they persist until they do, even into one's 40s or even 50s. What i'm saying is stick to this path like glue and you will discover that you are not "a cynical angry bird", you are a wounded human animal like the rest of us. Embrace that pain, it is the gateway to FREEDOM!

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    3. Thank you David, you'r right! W'll go on, I am a dying horse anyway.

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  9. presence is indeed like different world. literally 'being in, but not of this world' it means, yes.

    easy stuff, just need to ask doctor to electroshock brains with high voltage and uoalaa, you have it - a fluid mind. be water my friend.

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  10. Thanks for this Edji. My reading has slowed down a lot and attention is sinking down, away from the head toward the heart and bringing peace and joy. Sometimes it feels like a dark void on one side and that the appearance has fell through a tiny hole through which I am looking. In a recent discussion with a friend I compared it to a pin hole camera. Void /appearance. Just concepts again. Thanks again for this most amazing site and everything else. This site has been on fire recently ! I love you all.

    Mark U.K.

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  11. HaHaHa! So true (and yet not, just transitory verbiage). Still you did just blow my heart open. Such a validation of all that is carnal and beautiful about being in this snuggle hungry manimal. And knowing it.

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  12. And what's so funny is that for all that to happen, you have to completely give it up.

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  13. What I mean is you even have to stop wanting that which your heart most desires before you can have it! otherwise it just feels fake and doesn't match up to expectations. If enlightenment is what the heart most desires there will be no awakening until you don't want it. it's 'counter intuitive' as 'they' say. Love as it's commonly portrayed is empty sentimentalism, and everybody's dying for it! A nod of approval, a pat on the back, a peck on the cheek. Love is taking a swan dive into the essence of this being and embracing whatever is found here, regardless of how ugly, and who wants that? Ruthless self honesty will engender suicidal thoughts, often mis-diagnosed as 'depression'. But my experience was that even that was ok. I stopped wanting to live. I stopped wanting this precious, dry, gutless 'enlightenment' that I was hanging onto and that had turned me into a complete snob, imprisoned in my ivory tower, doling out smidgens of 'truth' to the worthy. What is 'understanding' worth if it's not LIVED from? Phew! You've got me going now Ed, i may never shut-up! So, on that note I will!

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  14. Ah but,(LOL) You make me laugh out loud Ed. Yr such a bullshitter yrself. If you ever watch Nisargadatta on YouTube, you can see that he is feisty, engaged, animated, joking, taking the piss, scornful, etc... Everything that everybody else is! And reading I Am That, i find he does EXACTLY what you do to reach his audience. His answers are often apparently inconsistent and tailored to the receptivity of the listener. And he repeatedly talks about his inner experience. he's describing what it's like from his P.O.V. But to what avail? It's too fucking obvious that nobody can imagine something that is not an image. Phew... Also I notice that you never, ever mention Bob Adamson, who is in direct lineage from Nisargadatta. Have you just not heard of him, or is there some more sinister reason for your total disregard for one of your contemporary teachers? Anyway, good one Ed. Had me in stitches, HAHAHA!

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    1. And has an eerily similar name to yr own teacher. What's that about? I've sat with Bob on many an occasion and the Shakti in the room is palpable.

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  15. This is the way of the Bhakti for those who do not like self-inquiry. Are you ready for this path:

    I am a mess. I really am.

    I don't think to eat.

    I don't think to drink.

    I have no desire to do anything, even the things that really need to be done and are screaming for my attention and will inevitably bring a shit load of judgment and accusation from others.

    I should really spend more time with these kids, but I just can't make myself. I feel somewhat guilty. But I know they are happy.

    I seldom know what day of the week it is. I say things and moments later I don't what I said.

    I just want to sit in quiet and give my attention fully to this love I feel for you and the myriad of ways it plays in my body.

    My Lord, you are consuming my every thought.

    Will I be consumed in the fires of this passion?

    Will I be swept away by the currents of this Love?

    Every minute apart feels like such a waste of existence.

    Oh, god, the madness of it all...

    I'm a hopeless case,

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  16. More from a Bhakta:

    Maybe something you already said is the key.

    To be playful with this energy while it lasts.

    When I am playful, watching with the wonderment in which I would watch my children, whether it be with the mind or some other movement it seems easier to feel that I stand apart from it.

    But when I try to suppress, or manipulate, or feel like I must transcend, or judge or fix any of it, it seems harder to have the feeling of being apart from it.

    And how can there be one answer for every one?

    I don't know, just contemplating it with you.

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  17. I appreciate a site that celebrates Robert and the feeding of feral cats.

    I being ego can only say self inquiry seems to help at least in the way it’s done by me.

    If there’s a so called way to do it right, then maybe I could benefit from some right instruction.

    My ego is still dense with much that clouds reality, so forgive my desire to think that I can contribute in a good way knowing that it is premature and without any semblance of right knowledge. Forgive one who is late to the table and expects to feast on crumbs.

    I only know Robert from listening to and reading his words.

    To paraphrase Robert without the burden of getting the words exact;

    “All is well everything is unfolding as it should”

    “Do not think”

    “Silence”

    And

    "A QUESTION THAT I'M USUALLY ASKED BY MOST PEOPLE OVER AND OVER AGAIN IS --- WHILE I PRACTICE SELF INQUIRY (SELF ENQUIRY), Atma Vichara, JNANA MARGA (JNANA MARGA, ADVAITA VEDANTA SELF ENQUIRY Atma Vichara)
    HOW SHALL I ACT IN THE WORLD? WHAT SHALL I DO IN THE WORLD AS I KEEP PRACTICING? WHAT SHOULD MY ATTITUDE BE? IF EVERYTHING IS PREORDAINED, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY. SO WHAT SHOULD I DO IN THE WORLD?

    WELL--- IT IS TRUE THAT EVERYTHING IS PREORDAINED BUT YOU SHOULD ACT AS IF IT'S NOT. YOU SHOULD FORGET ABOUT THAT AND NOT THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT I DO --- I CAN BE EVIL OR I CAN BE GOOD, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? IF IT'S PREORDAINED I'M SUPPOSED TO DO IT ANYWAY. ON THE CONTRARY--- ACT AS IF YOU ARE MAKING THE DECISION, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCE OF WHAT YOU DO. THAT'S HOW YOU SHOULD ACT IN THE WORLD.

    YOU SHOULD DEVELOP LOVING KINDNESS TO EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING---NOT ONLY TO HUMAN BEINGS --- TO ANIMALS --- TO VEGETABLES ---TO MINERALS. YOU SHOULD TREAT EVERYTHING WITH LOVING KINDNESS.

    YOU SHOULD ACQUIRE A GOOD DISPOSITION AND STOP GETTING ANGRY. YOU SHOULD DEVELOP JOY WITHIN YOURSELF, HUMILITY.

    YOU SHOULD NOT BE CONCERNED WITH WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING. YOU SHOULD NOT BE CONCERNED WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE HAPPENING TO YOU, BUT EVERY REACTION OF YOURS SHOULD BE BASED ON LOVE --- ON PEACE --- ON LOVING KINDNESS --- COMPASSION. DO NOT TRY TO ANALYZE IT--- JUST BECOME IT. THE WORLD WILL REACT TO YOU ACCORDINGLY. AFTER ALL YOU ARE THE WORLD AND AS YOU PRACTICE ON YOURSELF --- AUTOMATICALLY WHAT YOU GIVE OUT COMES BACK.

    LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE, DO NOT TRY TO CHANGE ANYONE. DO NOT LOOK FOR PROBLEMS. DO NOT ALLOW YOUR MIND TO THINK PAST YOUR NOSE. YESTERDAY IS GONE --- IT CAN NEVER COME BACK. EVERY HUMAN BEING MAKES MISTAKES. DO NOT REGRET THE PAST--- IT'S PART OF YOUR LEARNING EXPERIENCE. YOU ARE NOT A SINNER. YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON--- IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHAT YOU'VE DONE. THE DEED MAY BE EVIL BUT YOU ARE NOT.

    LOOK AT YOURSELF AS TOTAL EXISTENCE AND ACT FROM THERE.

    EXPECT NOTHING AND YOU WILL NEVER BE DISAPPOINTED. GIVE OF YOURSELF. EXPECT NOTHING IN RETURN."

    CD Feb 24 1991 Robert Adams

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