Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

and edit Robert’s books, who was to tape record, who was to coordinate bringing food and deserts for Satsang and our bi-monthly ...

People would tell Robert that I was doing this or that, which was ruining Satsang and the Sangha; or that there was a new person ...

Strangely, I saw much less of this attitude in any Zen center or monastery. With the Zen masters in the 70s and 80s, we knew who ...

focused on what they did not get from Robert or the Sangha. Few went within themselves and asked what it was about Robert that p ...

what the guru is, or should be, are shattered, and then the really hard work begins. This is the crux of the self-inquiry proces ...

for Robert to direct me. When Robert left Los Angeles, I stopped doing altogether and just rested in myself. It is with some of ...

with students so that less was known generally about my relationship with each student. However, the students themselves were al ...

myself, the blind teacher, is ignoring their very urgent intuition; while I appear to side with the person hiding hatred or ill- ...

communications for that matter are not taking place. If a loved one is feeling sad, despairing, or radiantly happy, we can feel ...

The more personal the teacher is, the closer to his or her heart that he allows his students to come, the more intense will be t ...

this? Why do I believe X but not the teacher, or why do I believe the teacher and not X?” The source of the need to run away is ...

The chaos and cooking people experienced at Robert’s Sangha had little to do with Robert. He was just the apparent figurehead. O ...

Continual Seeking......................................................................... This is what Robert Adams said on the ...

someone who knows about it, it does not exist. It's only when you put an end to knowing that you become the Self. The Self has n ...

There is just no one left, and this is what gives you freedom. And the only way you can get to that place is to keep quiet; to b ...

a thing, a living subtle vibrating energy. It didn't feel like me. It was subtle, spacey and objective. I was in wonder looking ...

Another left for Thailand from his home after being a student devoted to self-inquiry, “In order to experience life and grow.” H ...

the result of a breakup of a romantic relationship with all the loving energy of the ‘I Am,’ now no longer having an external ob ...

exhausting the teachings of each level of the Void and of the ‘I Am’. Being in the presence of someone who knows the Self is the ...

Freedom!...................................................................................... Most of you realize by now that I ...