Eastern spirituality, especially Buddhism, Advaita,
and Zen, mostly entirely ignore teachings about how and why to do
relationships. Relationships, love,
bonding are downplayed and dismissed as the most common source of suffering.
Robert and Nisargadatta never taught about relationships staying with the position
that the world is illusory, people are appearances within consciousness, and
Truth is to be found by diving within and exploring the subjective layers of
consciousness and Self.
But most Western people in spirituality really are
seeking a stable love relationship, or are escaping from a bad one, or are
desperately frightened by them from fear of getting their hearts broken. Thus they are lonely and afraid, and come
into spirituality because of loneliness, loss, grief, and fear of repeating a
bad relationship, or a divorce. These are psychological problems, problems with
handling emotions, love and bonding, not a spiritual problem of not knowing
one’s transcendent self.
If your primary motivation is life is seeking human
love, emotional connections with others, or being accepted and understood, your
involvement with Nisargadatta, Zen, or Robert Adams probably is largely a
bypassing of your human wants and needs.
If you feel utterly confused by life and by relationships, the answer is
the same, for seeking spiritual knowledge about consciousness, self, the Subtle
or Causal bodies absolutely does not address that primary need of yours.
Robert and Nisargadatta address totally different issues and needs, which is knowledge of your self as consciousness and as an energy being and the ultimate witness of all. Their teachings are for those who have entirely given up on the world, or who have completed their human “missions” (so to speak) on this earth and who wat to know what is next? What is ultimate truth.
Buddha I the prime example. Because he saw suffering and death was intrinsic in being a living being in relationships in the world, he gave them all up in search for a beyond, the ultimate release from attachments to others and to desires, such as for love and family.
Robert and Nisargadatta address totally different issues and needs, which is knowledge of your self as consciousness and as an energy being and the ultimate witness of all. Their teachings are for those who have entirely given up on the world, or who have completed their human “missions” (so to speak) on this earth and who wat to know what is next? What is ultimate truth.
Buddha I the prime example. Because he saw suffering and death was intrinsic in being a living being in relationships in the world, he gave them all up in search for a beyond, the ultimate release from attachments to others and to desires, such as for love and family.
This Satsang Video explores all these issues.
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