Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

The whole experience lasted a few hours, and I eventually returned to a place where a chair was a chair and potato salad was a f ...

We don't even have an individual mind; the ‘I-idea’ just makes it appear that we have. The ‘I-idea’ entertains those thoughts th ...

psychosomatic apparatus walks through its paces, watched as we would watch an interesting but not too involving movie. I also un ...

disappear into nothing. If you want to call 'Nothingness' or 'consciousness' God, feel free, but what is achieved by giving the ...

you!" The sense of unreality of both ‘I’ and the world persisted and deepened, along with the depression. One day I called Rober ...

instantly. It was just another phenomenon in consciousness, not a state belonging to me as a person. Illusion’s Realm........... ...

sensations projected onto an underlying empty space of still silence. Sometimes too, I would see an object out of the corner of ...

"In the end, fundamentally nothing has ever existed, nothing has ever happened." It became more difficult to motivate myself to ...

insubstantial images, ever changing; there were no things that existed, No-Thing at all! With no things comes the recognition th ...

Finally, and most importantly, the apparently real present does not exist either, because 'reality' is only sensations, percepti ...

of consciousness. If he is to realize enlightenment, he must pass beyond consciousness, beyond discrimination and knowledge, bey ...

complicated knowledge about the waking dream, and that kind of knowing was irrelevant, a joke ― part of a world viewed as a bad ...

Robert Adams and I................................................................ Robert was imperturbable ― nothing bothered h ...

appeared to be an altogether normal, if not meddlesome person, acting the part of a guru while publicly denying he was one, usin ...

preoccupied. He did not talk; he did not look at me. Feeling left out I asked, "What are you thinking about Robert?" He responde ...

of being a guru, so few people expected him to cook people ― they saw him as a spiritual friend, or perhaps as a father-figure o ...

So too, was it the same with everyone else. Robert let them walk into the quicksand, get attached and stuck, and then let them s ...

of 'stirring the pot,' to make egos bump together creating a scenario where grosser aspects of the personality, such as jealousy ...

once the ego showed itself in the situations he created, it was eventually destroyed, and Robert was a master of making the ego ...

comprehensibility. However, because so much was lacking externally, those who stayed were welcomed by silence to go deep within ...