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R: I love every one of you unequivocally, unconditionally, just the way you are. Ask yourself, why did you come here tonight? Why come to Satsang? Ask yourself this question. You come to hear Robert mumble? You come to hear Robert give a lecture?
Or did you come to sit with Robert?
Of course the last is the right answer. You came to sit with me in the silence. In the silence is where all the power is. In the silence is where all the Answers are. Because when we talk, when you use words, words have their place, but what can the words really do?
Think of the billions & billions of words that have been spoken since the beginning of time. Where does it end for us, for humanity, for the world?
Think of how many words you spoke since you got out of bed. Think of all the words you spoke. What have these words done for you? It is worthless. So sitting in the silence is magic. This is when things begin to happen, wonderful things. Peace comes to you. Happiness comes to you all by itself. Joy comes to you. When you sit in the silence you remember who you are. We come to see we are all one Self. What does this mean? It means we are not separate, we are one, One Self. Think of that. We are all the One Self.
The one Self expresses itself through choice-less, effortless, pure awareness. Choiceless, effortless, pure awareness. This is what you are, pure awareness. Think about this.
You are pure awareness, choice-less, effortless, pure awareness. What do we mean by pure awareness?
Pure awareness simply means that you are all pervading consciousness. Your essence is in everything. You are aware that the whole universe is a direct product of your thinking, of your mind. It is only aware. You are aware of the trees, of the mountains, the sky, like boundless space, pure awareness. You are aware of reality, the Truth of yourself.
Yourself is pure awareness and you are that. Ponder this.
The Self is Pure Awareness and you are That.
If you only knew what this meant to you. You are totally free, completely free, effortless, choice-less, freedom. Everything else is an illusion. Everything else is an illusion, the world, universe personal God. Everything else is an illusion.
So where do all these things that look so real come from? Where do all the people come from? Where do all the things come from, that you see all day long? Where does everything come from? From the 1-thought. The 1-thought produces the small self. That’s what makes you think you are a body and a mind, that it’s your condition, that you have problems. You have to work through things. The 1-thought does all these things for you. It ruins your life completely. It hides reality, and produces a world. Therefore, you come back to the self.
You have to somehow transcend the I-thought. And this is done by forgetting all the knowledge that you have up to now. All the knowledge that you know. Everything you’ve been taught since childbirth has to be given up. All your beliefs, all your dogmas, preconceived ideas, they all have to go. When they’re gone, you rest in the Self, and you will be unconditioned, choice-less, awareness. You see the beautiful thing about all of this, you are already enlightened. You are already self-realized.
But you refuse to believe it. How do you refuse to believe it? By completely believing everything else. By feeling the world. By allowing all conditions to annoy you, to bother you, to react to them. This hides your reality as if you were hypnotized. And you believe there’s a world with others. Believing there is a world that you have to overcome; conditions you have to transcend, and you have a battle on your hands.
The truth is you have nothing to transcend, nothing to overcome. Silence is your reality. Stop thinking. Be silent. Be quiet. Allow the mind to become quiescent. Never mind what’s going on. What is going on is always going on, and will keep going on when you’ve gone. Do not concern yourself with this world, or get caught up in it, and it will be like the world will come and go. Sitting back from the world, you remember who you really are, what you really are.
You are absolutely nothing to do with this world. I know it sounds strange when I say this, but you have absolutely nothing to do with this world. Nothing. This world doesn’t belong to you at all. For you are not here at all. There are no mistakes. Where are you? You are nowhere, yet you’re everywhere. Why ponder these things? Why think about these things? Just be yourself. Refuse to acknowledge the world, and worldly things.
Know yourself as pure awareness, effortless, choice-less pure awareness. Know yourself this way.
When you first awaken in the morning and get out of bed, say this to yourself: “1
am choice-less, effortless, pure awareness.’ And keep still. You’ll be surprised how good you feel. “I am effortless, choice-less, pure awareness.’ Yet you think you’re somebody else.
You think you are a male, or female, you have a name, you have a profession, a program and you refer yourself to these things. But I tell you, you are not these things at all. Drop these things. Get rid of your pride, your ego. So you believe you have to make things happen, you have to get ahead of people. What has to happen has already happened.
So you come to sit with me in the silence. Be still. Know that you are effortless, choice-less, pure awareness. Know this deep in your heart. As soon as thoughts come to you ignore them. Let the thoughts come, let the thoughts go. Pay absolutely no attention to the thoughts and they’ll disappear of their own volition. But you try to change them, and the power of them will become so much stronger. Remember don’t try to exchange good thoughts with bad thoughts, or bad thoughts with good thoughts.
Whenever thoughts come to you just ignore them. Sometime in the morning, just scream it out at the top of your voice: “I am effortless, choice-less, pure awareness.’ That’ll send the message home, who you really are. And go through the day like this.
Be still. If you can only be still enough, you will feel this unalloyed happiness within you arising. And you will just become happy, for no reason whatsoever. But it only comes when you’re still, when you’re quiet, when you’re peaceful.
Do not be two different people: one who comes to satsang and is quiet and one who argues in the world all day long with people, and finds everything wrong in the world, gets angry, gets mad, and upset.
Be one person. All-pervading consciousness. Be That.
Never allow yourself to believe that something’s wrong in your life. Catch it before it starts. And say to yourself: “I am effortless, choice-less, pure awareness.’ Whatever comes up, say that. Know the truth about yourself. God has no problems. Neither do you.
For you are That.
Have mercy on yourself, your upset. Forget about body, how can you be the You don’t have to worry. Stop those thoughts that make you angry or make the past. If you are not the mind, not the past? Never mind the body, the individual, about the past. But you don’t. For there was never a beginning, there was never an end. You were never born, you can never die. You do not prevail.
Don’t try to analyze what I’m saying or figure it out. Just be it. When you say to yourself, I am effortless, choice-less, pure awareness, this transcends the past, transcends the future, it transcends everything and awakens you to the Self which you are now.
Awaken to that Self right now: Awaken to it! Awaken to it, right now! To your true Self.
You come to sit with me to realize, that there is no teacher, there’s no truth, there’s no teaching. There is only the One, and you are That. I am not your teacher, there is no teacher. I Am. I Am the universal. I Am That I Am.
Be still silly mind, let the true sun shine forth.
Now let us close our eyes for a few moments. Say to yourself, “I am choice-less, pure awareness. I am effortless, pure awareness. I am choice-less, effortless, pure awareness.’ And keep still and watch. Observe. Watch your body disappear, the mind disappear.
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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.