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R: Om, shanti, shanti, om. Peace.
Good afternoon. I welcome you with all my heart. It is wonderful to be with you again this Sunday, May the second, in whatever year we’re in.
Most of you have come here today to listen to a message, to hear a talk, to listen to a sermon, to listen to words. It is really not the words that does it for you. It is the silence between the words. When you are quiet, your mind is still, the reality shines through.
You become happy, peaceful, joyous, by sitting in the silence. There is really no message I have to give you. What you are looking for is within yourself. You are That. You are what you’re looking for. There’s nothing else, nothing. See this in yourself. Understand who you are and what you are. Never put yourself down. You are the immortal Self, without beginning and without end. You are Shiva, you are Sat-Chit-Ananda. Always see this in yourself, never see anything else.
Feel the presence within yourself. Feel the happiness and the joy that you really are. Feel it! You can feel it. No matter how many so-called problems you may appear to have, no matter what is going on in your life, good or bad, forget about that. It doesn’t matter. Feel the presence, the presence of consciousness, the presence of pure awareness.
Feel this in yourself. Do not think about it, just feel it. When you begin to think about it, you spoil it. Allow the mind to rave on. Do not pay a bit of attention to the mind whatever thoughts it brings you, whatever it tells you. Pay no attention whatsoever to the mind.
Feel the bliss! You are the bliss. There is absolutely nothing that you need or have to become.
Do not search for enlightenment or liberation. You’ll never find it. There’s no where to look for it. When you look with your senses, where is liberation? Where’s freedom? It doesn’t exist. When you go beyond the senses, when you pay no attention to the senses and go beyond them by observing them, looking at them, and not reacting to them, then you find that you’ve always been in bliss. Bliss happiness is your very nature. You are that.
Everything becomes so peaceful when no words are spoken. When there’s nothing to think about. Never believe that you have something important to think about. All things are not important. No matter what you may think about it, it’s not important. As long as you have to think of something, it’s not important. Yet you’re saying to yourself, “How can I function without thinking?” Think of what you said, “How can ‘I’ function without thinking?” Not you, but I. What you’re really saying is, “How can the I function without thinking?” What I are you referring to? The ego-I has to think to exist, but the I-am consciousness is self-existent. There’s nothing to think about. So whenever you’re thinking about something, realize it’s the I-consciousness, which turns into the I-ego so-to-speak, that does the thinking. If you go beyond the I-ego and go back to the I-consciousness, the thoughts will stop. There’ll be no thoughts.
For again what is reality to think about. Reality is reality, it’s all pervading, omnipresence. There’s no room or space for it to think. It is a power which knows itself. It doesn’t have to ask if it knows itself or find out if it knows itself or think that it knows itself. If it had to do that it wouldn’t be the power that knows itself. The power which knows itself as consciousness, the absolute reality, it can only know itself and nothing else because nothing else exists apart from the Self. There is no duality in the absolute Reality.
Duality only appears to exist at the human level. It’s an appearance. It’s not true. It’s not real. You can say this to yourself.
Therefore, whenever thoughts come to you, ask yourself the question, “Who thinks these thoughts? Where do they come from?” As you keep posing these questions to yourself, you will find that the thoughts disappear, they vanish. They return to the nothingness from whence they came.
It’s so easy to become peaceful. It’s so easy to become loving, blissful, happy. You just have to reject all those thoughts that come to you — all those thoughts, all those feelings, all the emotions. Just reject them. You reject them by not giving them power. You give them power every time you let them feel something inside of you. When your thoughts take on a feeling nature you give them power.
But when you refuse to take on that feeling nature, the thoughts will disappear. In other words, you are the one that gives them power. You are the one that creates your condition, be it good or bad. You are the one who sees the world the way you see it. See only yourself, see only reality. See only emptiness. It’s really very simple to do this. Just sit the way you’re sitting now and observe. Do not analyze, don’t try to change your thoughts, do not fight your thoughts, just observe them, watch them, look at them, and when you’re ready you can ask the question, “To whom do these thoughts come?”
Otherwise, just sit and look at your thoughts. Let your mind do whatever it likes.
Let it become as nasty as it wants! Let the mind tell you all kinds of things — scary things, happy things, wrong things, right things. The mind is only here to make trouble for you, that’s all. But when you do not allow the mind to make trouble for you, it disappears! And, how do you do this? By not reacting to your thoughts, by not allowing them to feel anything.
Where do these thoughts come from? Nowhere, they are called false imagination.
All thoughts are false imagination. False imagination is like the water in the mirage. That’s all your thoughts are. They appear to come to you but they don’t exist. If they were real you’d be able to grab them, hold onto them, save them, put them in a box, store them
away. But you cannot do this, which proves that they have no substance. How can they frighten you?
You see, you live in a universe which is self-existent, self-abiding, self-sufficient.
This means that all of your needs are met from within. All of your needs are met from within. But this will only happen when you accept it this way. If you think that your needs have to come from a person, place or thing, you’ve always got a fight on your hands, because you’re hoping to get a better job or get some money in the bank or someone will come along and help you with some problem, these are all erroneous thoughts.
If you could only learn to rely on the Self, miracles would take place in your life! If you can only learn to rely on the Self. How do you learn to rely on the Self? By trusting life, trusting life just the way it is. I’m not saying to trust certain people or to trust certain conditions, certain situations. I’m saying just to trust life. To trust life you go beyond people, places and things. You trust the substratum of all existence. You trust consciousness.
In other words, you feel and believe in your heart that there is a power that knows the way. You came out of it. So you’re that also, for you are it. You are that power yourself and you feel good about it. This is what I mean when I say, trust the power that knows the way.
There’s nothing to fix in your life. Nothing to change. Nothing to accomplish.
Nothing to do. Except to abide in the power that knows the way. It’s so simple yet it’s so hard for some of us. And it’s hard because we allow the thoughts to come to us and spoil everything. You have to control your thoughts, control your thinking. When you are free from thinking, you will always abide in consciousness, which is the power that knows the way. And soon you’ll find yourself becoming happier and happier every day, peaceful, harmonious.
What can really disturb you and make you sad, make you afraid? Only something that you think may happen to you? But if you’re living in the eternal now, if you exist this moment, and you do, in this moment is there a problem? There’s no problem in this moment, it’s only when you begin to think of tomorrow or the next week or the next week.
But if you learn to stay centered in the moment where nothing is happening, this moment will become the next moment. And the next moment will become the next hour, the next day, the next week, and the next year.
This is how to live, from moment to moment. But what do we do? We stretch out those moments to days. We like to see the future. We think something’s going to happen to us tomorrow or the next day or the next day. But nothing can ever happen to you unless you allow it. You allow it by believing it, by thinking about it. You give it power by fearing it. But I say to you in truth, there’s nothing to fear in this whole universe. There’s no fear.
Fear doesn’t exist. Only the Self exists.
Only the Self exists, catch the meaning of those words. Only the Self exists, and I-am that. That’s a profound statement.I-am Brahman. When I make a statement like that, I’m not speaking about Robert.
I-am encompasses all of you. I-am, is Brahman. Therefore when you admit to yourself that you are Brahman, you are saying that you’re the whole universe. And something has to give. You really don’t know what you’re saying, you don’t understand what you’re saying.
Say this to yourself. See how it feels, “I-am Brahman. I-am Brahman.” You are declaring the highest truth in history, the highest truth in the world. There is nothing that comes after that. There is absolutely nothing to say after that. When you make the declaration, “I-am Brahman.” Those are mighty words. The whole universe is Brahman. Yet what we call Brahman is not a thing, not a place. It is complete emptiness. So when you say, “I am Brahman,” you’re saying you’re emptiness. Feel this in every bone in your body, if you have any bones in your body.
What can possibly happen to you? There is nothing that can happen to you! But when you think about something happening to you, you’re creating your own destiny, aren’t you? For you take certain facts, that are factual to you and you analyze them and you say, “There’s no escape from this.” And then you wonder that people suffer, so-to-speak. But when you realize that you are the creator of your own destiny, and when you allow yourself to think, then you begin to take stock in yourself. Did you ever take stock in yourself? You can buy stock in yourself! It’s on the open market. Call your broker tomorrow and say you want to buy stock in yourself. That’s the best stock you can ever own! For out of it comes everything else.
You are never what appears to be. It goes back to the mind again. The mind will read something in the paper, watch something on television and begin to ponder things seriously, worry about it, get upset over it. Is it any wonder that people go through certain experiences and suffer a lot? You are creating your own destiny. You are power. You can do anything you want with your life. If you want to sit around feeling sorry for yourself, nobody cares.
I will tell you again: You are all Brahman. You are all consciousness. You are all the ultimate reality. This is your true nature and nothing else exists.
Accept this for yourself. Accept it right now. You have never been the body or the mind. This is a false image. For when you believe you are the body or the mind you have to suffer accordingly. No one can get away with that, no one on this earth. Everyone who believes they are the body or the mind has to suffer. Why? Because things change. Things are always changing constantly, continuously. And you have a certain idea of how you’re supposed to live. You have a certain idea of how you’re supposed to feel. You have a certain idea of how you’re supposed to…what you’re supposed to do with your life in this plane of existence. You have a preconceived idea of these things and this is what causes you the trouble.
So I say to you again, “Stop thinking. Live in the moment. Stop worrying about the past or the future. Awaken to yourself. Be happy. Be free. You are not alone. You have divine forces right now taking care of you, guiding you, directing you to your ultimate
good. Trust these divine forces. Have faith in them. All they want is your recognition.
When you recognize there are divine forces taking care of you then you will find they are working for you and you find infinite joy.’
But when it’s taken in reverse and you believe life is against you, there are forces against you, then you create your own hell. So;
Number One: Stop thinking. Take control of your mind.
Number Two: live in the here and now. Forget about yesterday, forget about the future. Live in the moment and be happy in the moment. Do whatever you have to do to be happy in the moment.
Number Three: Do not be judgmental. Do not judge anybody or anything, ever, no matter how it looks, never judge anybody.
Number Four: Leave everything alone. You did not come into this plane of existence to change anybody or anything. You’re not here to fix anything or anybody. You’re here only to become free and liberated by knowing the truth.
Number Five: Always catch yourself and say, “I am Brahman.” When you say, “I am Brahman,” you’re not talking about your physical body, or your ego. You’re talking about the truth about yourself. Reality itself is Brahman. It has nothing to do with your body. Your body doesn’t exist. It never existed, it appears to exist but it doesn’t exist. Your nature is pure consciousness, pure awareness.
Always remember these things, learn these things. You have a lot of tools to work with. If you only can use these tools every moment of your life, you will never be unhappy again. How can you be unhappy if you know the truth? You were not born to suffer or have problems.
You are here to rejoice! To be still and know that I-am God. To remember that I-am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
You are not an ordinary person, or you wouldn’t be here. There is something special about you.
You’re ready to be out of the show, the show of materialism, the show of relativity, materialism and relativity.
You’re ready to break out of that shell. Let it happen.
The mind will create all kinds of situations to stop it from happening. It will show you all kinds of nonsense. But you know now that you have the power to change these things, to turn from the nonsense, to reality!
You can do it. Work with it. Peace.
SV: Robert I should write this down because when I talk about it I lose more than half of it.
I was going through the material that’s the transcript 109, and what came out was that there is no “I”…no “I” that persists. Because when I look back ten years ago, so whatever “I” was back then it isn’t here. I don’t know about it. Whatever “I” was an hour ago or a year ago isn’t here. Whatever “I” that may be a year from now I don’t know about it. It isn’t here anyway. It just doesn’t persist.It’s just no identity to an “I” and it doesn’t persist. And then there came so-to-speak, I am Brahman and changed all the things into a hershey bar which is a sense of humor I guess? But I-am Brahman is really, really real it can never change into anything, it’s not possible. But with the I it changes all the time but when the thought stops there is no I. None at all. And the thoughts are just the beginning and the end and a little in between. And then when this one stops and another starts there is in between there is nothing just a gap. And the I which is something can’t jump into nothing and remain as a something, that’s not possible. It’s like a shadow can’t jump into a brilliant light and remain as a shadow. Now there is nothing there that’s about forty percent of the memories are gone. There is no I.
Now I can hear myself talk right now, you know. If my mother was alive I would swear on her life I was talking but there is no I and no talking. I still see a serpent when there is only rope.
But there is no serpent and there is no rope. But I still see the serpent. And the world is real to me even now and there is no world. There is contradiction all the while.
R: In other words you don’t exist. (SV: I don’t exist and don’t not exist, either…whatever I say is false. There is no words to it I can say. I can’t.) True. (SV: You don’t have to agree with me.) (laughs) I agree with you one-hundred percent. (SV: Yeah, it’s just contradiction. It’s just I’m not sitting in this chair, I’m not sitting in that chair, just in between.) Not even in between. (laughter) You’re all right Fred. (SV: What Fred?) (laughs) Who knows?
(SV: I don’t. I talked a lot and I talked about nothing and there is nobody talking. It’s ridiculous.) SG: Sounds like you’ve woken up?
SV: Thank you Robert. (R: Keep up the good work.) Yeah I’ll do that.
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Absätze ohne Sprecherpräfix gehören dem zuletzt genannten Sprecher — so steht es im Buch, wo der Präfix nur den Anfang einer Rede markiert. Die Zuordnung ist eine Folgerung dieser Ausgabe. Namen in Klammern sind aus dem Text erschlossen: sicher belegt sind SM = Mary, SF = Fred, SJ = Jay, SC = Nate, wahrscheinlich SG = Glen, SR = Jorge. Alle anderen Kürzel bleiben stehen, weil der Beleg nicht trägt.