Robert Adams

[Tara5]

Just as a screen is intimately one with all images
and, at the same time, free of them,
so our true nature of luminous, empty Knowing is
one with all experiences
and yet, at the same time,
inherently free of them.

Rupert Spira

[Unseeking Seeker]

Originally Posted by Tara5

Just as a screen is intimately one with all images
and, at the same time, free of them,
so our true nature of luminous, empty Knowing is
one with all experiences
and yet, at the same time,
inherently free of them.

Rupert Spira

Wow! Thanks for posting this.
I AM ... enjoy! https://youtu.be/I3BBAJtZ4WY

[Tara5]

Thanks for the link.... Rupert is one of my favourite teachers in Advaita Vedanta

[Tara5]

Remember that story about the fellow who wanted to become a Zen Buddhist monk. So he flew to Japan and he had an interview with the head Roshi. And the Roshi gave him instructions and accepted him and he said, "By the way, there is one thing I forgot to tell you. We have a vow of silence here. You can only speak three words every ten years." So he said, "Okay" and he went to his quarters.

Ten years passed. And he had an interview with the Roshi. And the Roshi said, "Do you have anything to say?" And he said, "The food sucks!" And he went back to his quarters.

Ten more years passed. He had an interview with the Roshi. The Roshi said, "Do you have anything to say?" And he said, "The bed's hard!" And he went back to his quarters.

Ten more years passed. He had an interview with the Roshi and the Roshi said, "Have you got anything to say?" He said, "Yes I quit!" And the Roshi said, "I can't blame you, you've been *****ing ever since you got here."

Robert Adams

[Tara5]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Ah, wow...screen, so much on it...yet free of it all.
This is quite the image and explanation!!!!


Btw, the youtube of Rupert's, I Am - a poem?
I found a transcript of it easily and copied it to a file so I can always see it.
Wow. And thank you!~!!~!

[Tara5]

[Tara5]

One birth is given by your parents, another birth you have to manage by yourself. The second birth is the birth which matters. The first birth is going to end in death. The second birth is the beginning of eternity: no death, no end, no beginning.

Osho

[Joe Mc]

Originally Posted by Tara5

One birth is given by your parents, another birth you have to manage by yourself. The second birth is the birth which matters. The first birth is going to end in death. The second birth is the beginning of eternity: no death, no end, no beginning.

Osho

Profound ! :) Also made me think about the first birth and how it can show us glimpses at least of the that second birth that Osho speaks about when we consider universal compassion and the turning towards the other and towards the 'enemy'. This morning listening to the Dalai Lama speak about mother's milk and how it is a great symbol of compassion, the bond between the child and the mother.

[Unseeking Seeker]

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“So you ask yourself the question, "What is this I? Where did it come from? Who am I?" If you are sincere you will follow the I to its source, which is the Self. The I, or the personality, will therefore dissolve into the Self. This is called awakening. People give names to this, it's called moksha, liberation, self-realization, reality. People attach all kinds of names to it. All you’ve really done is to become yourself, that's all. There is nothing mysterious about it. You do not have to repeat sacred mantras or go to certain schools of ancient philosophy. Everything you're looking for is within yourself.”

Robert Adams

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[Miss Hepburn]

Lemme say, I got the book 'Silence of the Heart' ...
I may be on Robert's 2nd or 3rd Sat sang...I am blown away...
just 'how' he says things. Thank you Tara, cuz I had never heard of him.
SO funny how these amazing people can be right here in America
with small groups and no big hoopla. Quiet and humble.
What a lucky guy to have spent so much time in India with these saints, yogis. Wow.
But his story at 14 yrs old..wow...just goes to show me that we carry over karmic blessings
from past lives of study, worship, meditation, sitting at the feet of Masters.
(Thank God!!!!) Cuz, I have so many blessings that far surpass the work I've done in THIS life, LOL!!!!

Last year, I just looked at a photo of Ramana and suddenly was sent into an altered state of a big realization....
even my German Shep acted differently around me for 2 hours (more respect, ha! )...my aura had SO changed.
I was not the same me my doggy knew...hahaha...I was in what I call,
''the stunned stage''.