#robert adams

[pierppasolini]

Forbidden Letters (1976) // dir. Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.

#Robert Adams #Richard Locke #Forbidden Letters #Arthur J. Bressan Jr. #my caps #my edits #*arthurjbressanjr

[joeinct]

Summer Nights, Photo by Robert Adams, 1985

#robert adams

[4dkellysworld]

Let go of everything

Every position that you find yourself in, every situation that you find yourself in, with whomever you find yourself, the positions that you have or don’t have, whatever you may be in this world, is your right place at this moment. Bless this, love it. I know it sounds hard when you think of a horrible condition and you say, “I must love it?” Let me explain again. The reason you love it, is because God is all there is. Try to remember this. There is nothing but God. Therefore if you hate something, you’re hating God which is your Self. It’s all coming out of you. You are That. You must learn to trust and love your Self, your precious Self. When you become despondent, depressed, hateful, feeling sorry for yourself, this is what blasphemy really means, for you’re feeling this way about your Self. Can’t you see? There’s only your Self. If you think something is horrible, you’re speaking about your Self. You look at a situation, you watch it, you observe it, you never react, you leave it alone. And then you’ll be given the power that you need to handle it, to go through it, without thinking, without thoughts, without any commotion, without any noise. These are the things you must work on. Be that Self. Never be frightened again by anything. If I can make this perfectly clear to you, 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. I’m telling you there is nothing to fight. And the only thing you’re giving up is your ego. You’re giving up your body, your ego, your mind. You rise to a higher dimension where there is happiness, peace, compassion, love and 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. 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, choiceless, Pure Awareness. You are boundless space, infinite like the sky. You have become everything, and everything has become you. There comes a time in everyone’s life when they have to stand naked before God. By standing naked I mean no scripture, no fancy words, no preconceived ideas, no spiritual intellectual knowledge. But to be totally naked, in humility and humbleness. Therefore when you can forget about your scripture, forget about everything you’ve learned, and become totally empty, you will then become full.

from Silence of the Heart - Robert Adams

#silence of the heart #robert adams #practical #surrender #witnessing #attitude

[vesora]

#ND #nondualism #nonduality #robert adams

[mountain-sage]

There is no God to pray to. Brahman is yourself. Shiva is your consciousness. You are that.

What else is there to know? You do not have to be a scholar of the Upanishads. You do not have to memorize various passages. You have to become like a little child and stay centered in the present. No one exists but you. You are the only existence. There is no other existence. If you took this room and everything in it, the tape recorders, the bodies, the flowers, the carpet, and began to melt it down to it's most minutest particles, you would get pure energy from everything. Everything will come from the same source. That source is absolute reality. It is the substratum of all existence. And that source is you. You are that. You are nothing else.

Everything else is a lie. You're searching, and you're striving, and you're looking for this, and you're looking for that. Give it up. Stay put. Do not allow your mind to think past your nose.

Catch your mind. Observe it thinking, and laugh.

ROBERT ADAMS

#spirituality #robert adams #consciousness #non duality #nonduality

[casadabiqueira]

Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Robert Adams

#b&w #robert adams

[ndbookstudy]

robert adams, silence of the heart, ch. spiritual practise, pg. 104

some questions for you:

do you have to think?

have you ever wondered where the voice in your head comes from? how it formed? why it's there?

the thoughts just come up, who says you have to identify with them? do you have to claim any thought as 'yours'?

#non dualism #nondualism #robert adams

[the-night-picture-collector]

Robert Adams, Summer Nights, Walking: On the Colorado Front, 1976 - 1982

#robert adams #summer nights

[lotusmi]

''The world is like a reflection in the mirror. Where did the reflection come from? From nowhere because it doesn't really exist. You cannot try to grab the image in the mirror, for you grab the mirror. When you awaken, you understand that you are the mirror. And the reflection of the world is like the water in the mirage, like the snake in the rope, like the sky is blue.

Why does this happen? It doesn't. It appears to happen. Why does it appears to happen? It doesn't. The appearance appears to happen. Why does the appearance appears to happen? It doesn't. It appears to appear to appear to happen. And we can go on like this all night. It is difficult for the human mind to grasp that you are not what you appear to be. This is exactly what we have to do.' Robert Adams

#robert adams #non dual #non duality #non dualism #nonduality

[beesfairlyland]

"Turn within.... Awaken to the Truth"

Consciousness is not a thing. You cannot describe it. It is not the opposite of the world and it's not an object, and there is no seer to see it. Consciousness is another word for being. Being what? Being no thing. Now we go beyond the realm of creation, where it becomes ineffable and indescribable. That's why we can only explain to you what Consciousness is not. Consciousness is not the world. Consciousness is self-contained, ABSOLUTE REALITY.

It is yourself, when you do not identify with the world. And that only happens to the average person just as they are falling asleep and just as they wake up. At that time you are consciousness. But the feeling leaves you immediately. You begin to identify with the world. You forget about the Reality.

The method to remember is to catch yourself all during the day. "Who believes this? To whom does this come? Who feels this?" over and over again. When you say "Who am I?" for some people it's better to say, "Who is I?" The same thing. What you are really doing is, you're finding the source of the "I". You're looking for the source of "I", the personal "I". "Who am I?" You're always talking about the personal "I". "Who is this I? Where did it come from? Who gave it birth?."

Never answer those questions. Pose those questions, but never answer them. Keep it up. Don't give up.

-Silence of the heart (Robert Adams)

#non dualism #non duality #nondualism #nonduality #conciousness #robert adams #self realization #realisation #self realisation #advaita vedanta #advaita #self

[pierppasolini]

Forbidden Letters (1976) // dir. Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.

#Robert Adams #Richard Locke #Forbidden Letters #Arthur J. Bressan Jr. #my caps #my edits #*arthurjbressanjr

[joeinct]

Looking Toward Los Angeles Across San Timoteo Canyon, Photo by Robert Adams, 1978

#robert adams

[4dkellysworld]

Leave the world alone

The world appears very strong. People appear very real. Some of us always seem to get involved in all kinds of situations. Yet take a look at your life and see why you get involved. Honestly look at yourself. Do not be afraid to see yourself. See the things you do, the words you say, the thoughts you think. And you’ll see why you’re not making too much progress. Now, if you really want to make progress, you will drop everything mentally. Remember when I speak of dropping everything, I’m not referring to your quitting your job, moving to India, stopping reading books, or watching TV. I’m not referring to this really, if that’s what you want to do. I’m referring to mentally letting go of your reactions to whatever is going on in your body and the world. Leave the world alone. Leave people alone. Do not try to change people. Or to make them see your point of view. There is no point of view. Every point of view is wrong. We want to get rid of points of view. You have to sincerely want to awaken. And I kid you not, to awaken is simple. You just have to give up everything mentally. That’s all. And consider the fact that everything is Consciousness. Everything. No thing is as it appears. This includes yourself.

from Silence of the Heart - Robert Adams

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[vesora]

#nd #nonduality #nondualism #robert adams

[infiniteko]

#robert adams #advaita vedanta #awareness #nondualism #nonduality #brahman #atman #consciousness #nothingness

[hildeeveraert]

Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado Springs, from the series 'Summer Nights', 1968

#Robert Adams #1968