ENTER THE SILENCE "

Transcript # 114

Introduction:

Robert : Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om

Peace Peace. Good evening.

It is an honor to be with you once again, to see you, talk to you, say my piece and go home.

Beautiful evening. Nice breeze blowing.

ALL IS WELL. Everything is in its right place. There are no mistakes. And you are all

Divine spiritual beings, whether you like it or not (laughter).

It has come to my attention that many of you are trying to stop your thoughts, control your

thoughts. You cannot really do this. Trying to stop your thoughts, as Ramana Maharshi says,

is like a thief becoming a policeman to catch the thief. In other words, the thief that becomes

the policeman will not catch the thief, because he is the thief himself.. And so it is with our

minds.

When we use the mind to stop the thoughts, the mind will not stop the thoughts at all, because

the mind wants to go on living. Stopping the thoughts is annihilating the mind, and the mind

does not wish to be annihilated. The mind wants to live on to fill you full of nonsense,

superstitions. Therefore we do not try to stop, the thoughts.

What do we really do? We do absolutely nothing. There is really nothing you have to do to

make the thoughts cease. Always remember when you do things according to the Sadhanas

you've learned, the spiritual exercise you've practice, the meditations, the yoga. This will

make you free for a couple of moments, and then the thoughts will come back to you with

full force, knocking you over. You cannot stop the mind or control the mind with spiritual

practice.

Again you cause the thoughts to cease by doing absolutely nothing. By being your SELF.

And all the scriptures we read, unless the mind stops spinning there will be no realization, no

liberation. Only when the mind stops, the thoughts cease to be, is there liberation.

Yet we use the words "to stop the mind, to stop, the thoughts". This is sort of a misnomer.

For again you have to use the mind to stop the thoughts, and. the mind does not want to do

this. It does not wish to cease thinking. Yet by ceasing to think, you do acquire unalloyed

happiness, infinite peace, Divine Bliss. When the thoughts do stop, these verities come

forward, and you become free.

You do not have to watch the thoughts, analyze the thoughts, be the witness to the thoughts,

or observe the thoughts in any way whatsoever. All of these symptoms simply make the mind

stronger really.

Most of you have tried to stop your thoughts with various practices like these for many years.

And if you look back in retrospect you will see, it made the mind stronger. It causes the mind

to have more power. Thoughts hit you from all directions. This means we do not wish to use

any method whatsoever to stop thoughts. Yet the thoughts have to be stopped.

They have to cease. By doing absolutely nothing, the mind will begin to slow down.

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When you think you have to watch your thoughts, observe your thoughts, you're saying to

yourself "I'm going to observe my thoughts, I'm going to watch my thoughts", you're using

mind' energy to do this, aren't you? You're using energy to the thoughts and you'll never do it

this way. But again if you do absolutely nothing, you just sit there doing nothing, the

thoughts will get weak.

Now really, no Sage on this earth or anywhere else really stops the thoughts. As long as you

see a body, and you call that body the Sage, there will always be some sort of thinking in that

body, some sort of thought. For instance I can be sitting here and I'll say to myself "when I go

home I'm going to eat a dish of ice-cream". This is a thought. But what happens when I say it

and what happens when you say it? When I say it, when I think it, it is similar to a burned

rope. A burned rope may appear to be strong, but when you pick it up, it turns to ashes. It's

burned. There's nothing there. When you say it, it is like a real rope, not burned. You give it

energy, you give it power.

Again when the Sage thinks of something, it is like a fan that has been pulled out of the

socket. It's still turning, but there's no power. The power is dead. The power has been cut off.

In other words, the source of a Saint is dead. The source of the Sage has no power, no power

whatsoever. This is why it is said, a Sage does not think. A Sage has no thoughts.

What it really means is that the Sage's thoughts are dead. When the thoughts are dead, you

live in ABSOLUTE REALITY. You live in PURE AWARENESS. When the thoughts are

dead you live in SAT-CHIT-ANANDA, in NIRVANA.

So what do you have to do to also cease thinking, so the thoughts can become dead? You

simply do not attach yourself to the thoughts. By not attaching yourself to the thoughts, by

not reacting to the thoughts, by not responding to the thoughts, they lose their power and

begin to fade away. Yet do not give them any energy. Do not give them any power. Do not

say to yourself, I have to stop my thoughts. Do nothing like this. Just slow down, slow down.

Let the thoughts do what they may. Allow the thoughts to go their own way. Do nothing with

your thoughts. Do not think about them. Do not fight them. And above all, do not try to stop

them.

You may think this is so difficult, but it's not. It's like when you first wake up, before the

thoughts come. You're still drowsy from sleep. And when the first thoughts come to you, you

hardly pay any attention to them. That's the attitude to have.

Do not pay any attention to your thoughts whatsoever. But when you say "I am not paying

attention to my thoughts", you spoil it. You're not to utter this. You're not to say this. You're

just to become this. As you begin to let your thoughts alone, not to pay any attention to them,

not to be attached to them, you'll notice something very interesting happening to you. You

begin to notice that you're becoming very peaceful, very calm. You become happy for no

reason whatsoever. All of these dastardly things that are still going on in this world, man's

inhumanity to man, you have your own so called problems. Yet you become happy, you

become peaceful, you become blissful. This comes all by itself, because your thoughts have

slowed down.

And you have absolutely nothing to do with it. You have not slowed your thoughts down.

This is an important point to remember. You have not slowed your thoughts down, not you

whatsoever. For you are the mind, and you've not used your mind to slow down your

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thoughts. You have done absolutely nothing, except to ignore your thoughts. Ignore the

thoughts completely, totally, absolutely. Again, do not fight your thoughts. Ignoring your

thoughts is not fighting your thoughts. Do not try to change your thoughts. Above all do not

try to stop your thoughts.

Just enough to detach them, and ignore them. The example here is, what happens to your

friends whom you ignore. If you have a friend and the friend is talking to you, telling you

things, and you ignore your friend, what happens? The friend • will walk away. The friend

will go away and that will be the end of the friend. And he or she will no longer be your

friend. For you have ignored them totally, completely. You've not scolded them. You have

not lectured your friend. You have not been evil to your friend. You have just ignored your

friend. Your friend will back away and go away, because your friend gets no response from

you whatsoever. This is how you want to treat your thoughts, same way.

It makes no difference if the thoughts are good or bad, they're both impostors. In reality there

are no good thoughts, there are no bad thoughts. We're not trying to replace bad thoughts for

good thoughts. We're trying to LEAVE THE THOUGHTS ALONE. Not to do a thing about

them. I want to make this perfectly clear. This is the highest way to handle your thoughts.

There are so many practices. We have Vipassana meditation, we have pranayama. You have

so many different methods to stop your thoughts. All of these methods are good to an extent.

They make you sort of one pointed, but they will not stop your thoughts. This is why people

who have been practicing pranayama, breathing exercises, vipassana meditation, even Zen

meditation, and other forms of yoga meditation, having practiced for years and years and

years and years. Perhaps they have achieved a semblance of peace, but they have not become

liberated. Due to the fact that they are using methods. Whether it is a koan, or it's watching

your breath or your feelings, or whether it's changing your thoughts to something positive.

Whatever you've been doing, you're using your mind to do it. And your mind will always fool

you. It will make you believe you're getting somewhere. You're becoming something great.

But it's really the ego. It is the ego that is controlling the mind, and you are the ego. The ego

trying to control the mind!

So again, what do you do to stop the thoughts? Absolutely nothing. Now why is the word

nothing so important? You do absolutely nothing because in truth, everything is nothing. This

is the reason you do nothing to stop your thoughts.

In reality there are no thoughts. There is no one trying to stop them. There is no liberation,

there is no bondage. There is nothing. You're using the same nothing to stop your thoughts.

Do nothing. Because you are nothing. Nothing plus nothing makes nothing. Can you see why

I tell you to do nothing now? Because you're using your real nature when you do nothing.

YOU are your SELF YOU are the ABSOLUTE REALITY when you are NOTHING.

Consequently when you are doing something to stop your thoughts, you're fooling yourself.

Nothing will ever happen. Like I say, you will acquire a little peace, that's it. But by slowing

yourself down, saying nothing, hearing nothing, doing nothing, being nothing, your thoughts

will stop completely, totally absolutely. And as I mentioned before, you will feel beautiful

happiness, peace of mind, bliss, you'll be free.

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Practice this right now. Allow the thoughts to come whatever they are. Do absolutely

nothing. It makes no difference what the thoughts are. Let them come, no matter how much

they seem to frighten you, no matter how powerful they appear to be. Let them come.

Where do the thoughts come from to begin with? They come from nowhere. They do not

come from CONSCIOUSNESS. They do not come from TRUE AWARENESS. They do not

come from the SELF. Where do the thoughts come from? From nowhere.

They're an optical illusion. They do not exist. They are like the appearance of the sky on top

of the mountain. The sky appears to be resting on top of the mountain. But it's an optical

illusion. Thoughts do not exist whatsoever. Therefore you ask yourself, who is thinking? And

you will find out, the ego is thinking.

So here is another point. When the thoughts slow down, so does the ego. The thoughts and

the ego are synonymous. As the thoughts slow down, the ego slows down, and begins to also

disappear with the thought. When there are no thoughts, there is no ego. When there is no

ego, there is nobody left to think.

And then the question you will ask is, how do I function without thinking? As I mentioned in

the beginning, the Sage's thought is like a burned rope. They appear to be real, but they are

not. In other words, your thoughts are not real. They are false. How do you function without

thoughts? Very well, thank you.

Many of you still believe you have to have thoughts to function. You think you'll become a

vegetable. But you will be spontaneous without thoughts. You'll be motivated by the SELF.

You will know what to do, where to go, whom to speak to, whom not to speak to, much

better than you do now. Much much better.

Things will happen to you spontaneously. Everything we always talk about is very

paradoxical. And the paradox is, even though you have no thoughts, you will still think about

certain things. It has to be done. But there is absolutely no thinker alive. There is no thinker.

There is no one left to think. You just as well appear to be thinking about certain things, so

you can function.

It's similar to what we were discussing on Sunday. People always ask me: "what do you see?

Do you see the world?" Of course I see the world. If I didn't see the world, I wouldn't be able

to function. But I see the world as the SELF. In other words I see the world as images on

reality.

Like in the movies, the images are on the Screen. I am able to see the Screen and the images

at the same time. I see the reality and I see the images. So it is with the thoughts. Same thing

with the thoughts. You appear to be thinking, but you're not thinking. This is a very important

point to remember. You will think whatever you have to think about, but the thoughts will be

dead, like a burned rope. Like the fan with the plug pulled out, but the blades are still

spinning, until they stop.

Why do you want to do all this? For life passes. Pretty soon you become old. And you appear

to die. Do you want to believe this lie that you die, that you get old, that there are problems in

this world. This is all a lie. It's the mortal dream. Do not identify with the mortal dream.

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Know who you are once and for all. YOU are that which was never born, which will not

prevail, and can never die. YOU are That which is beyond all concepts, all reasoning, all

thoughts. YOU are That which has always existed as PURE AWARENESS. YOU are

That which is not female or male, which is neither good nor bad, which is neither right or

wrong, which just IS,BEAUTY, JOY, LOVE, HARMONY, PEACE, BLISS.

THIS IS YOUR REAL NATURE.

THIS IS WHO YOU ARE.

Why not accept this and become free right now?

It all begins by removing your thoughts. You now have an idea how to remove your thoughts.

Get rid of your thinking process. You have to do it. You now know you have absolutely

nothing to fight in this world, nothing to fear.

It makes no difference what's happening to the economy. It makes no difference if there are

earthquakes, cataclysms, hurricanes. What have YOU to do with these things? What have

these things to do with YOU? YOU are the SOURCE of all creation.

In this gap that I give you between sentences, at that time you are in Samadhi. Every time I

stop talking, you are in Samadhi. Feel your Divinity. Feel your Bliss. Feel your Love. Feel

the Truth, in Reality. Clean yourself out. Feel all the karmas, the samskaras, all the things

you've carried around with you for so many centuries flowing away from you, completely

and totally.

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY FREE RIGHT NOW

'ABSOLUTELY FREE

ABSOLUTELY FREE

(Transcribed by Fred and Mary ) For enquiries: Robert Adams,

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