Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

Many people do this into their 50s and 60s before they recognize that the mind is not the way to freedom. The mind only engages ...

activate all kinds of emotional states which can be both enthralling, but also frightening and destructive, leading to all kinds ...

Those whose behaviors fall outside of the norm are often shunned, as those who are still caught in conventionality find them emb ...

As Robert said, "Your mind is not your friend." Yet most people accept spirituality as a progressive exploration of spiritual co ...

lawyer, Indian chief, executive, editor, or teacher. There, we swallow our tongue so to speak, and accept this as the bed we mad ...

life situations where our feelings would be hurt and our concepts about living would be challenged. Many people left him and the ...

recent avadhut was Rajneesh. In a sense, Nisargadatta was also an avadhut who challenged all of the students to shed all of thei ...

freedom. This kind of freedom is far more important for the future of mankind, than for the isolated individual to gain complete ...

Personally, I think all these tools of humor, sarcasm, spiritual "cooking," as well as meditation and self inquiry need to be ap ...

Robert Adams............................................................................... I get so many comments from folks te ...

will prevent you, therefore, from seeing who you are, because the one discrimination begets the other. Robert always denied he g ...

clearly. So frightened are many that they need a savior to take away their human mortality and vulnerability. Thus you find all ...

Truly, he or she is your mirror of how you see yourself, as well as of your Invisible. Then one day your Self, drawn by your lov ...

I see so many gurus in the current marketplace who appear so arrogant, self-centered and intellectual. I can see why prospective ...

A New Way of Teaching................................................................ Again, I have been quiet for a while. Now ...

easy to make the mind rest when it hears these deep truths. Like Einstein’s General Theory, it is so beautiful, eloquent, and co ...

humility. They are teachers and everyone should listen to their truth, and believe their impersonal love is deep and true. It is ...

penetrates through and permeates all other states of consciousness: like the waking, dream and sleep states, as well as the mind ...

most felt the Void and beyond, which can become very, very dry. I truly believe that one is OFTEN best served by having a guru o ...

This is the model of Muktananda and currently, Amma, the hugging guru. I saw Amma several times before I met Robert and felt not ...