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Welcome
The world is unreal
Inner Strength
Be the way you are
Where is Shiva not?
I am not this person
What is real
Talks with Bob Adamson
Clarity talks with Nathan Gill
An ancient story
Certificate of Awakening
The Mysterious Stranger
Extracts from Tony Parsons
Seeds for the Soul
The Drama of it All
Clarity talks with Nathan Gill
The Self-Perfected State
Amazing Grace
The cage of self-centeredness
Original mind
You Are That
All There Is
The existence of consciousness
A myriad bubbles
Beyond the grasp
Selling water by the river
Awake In The Heartland
What is wrong with Right Now?
This First Instant
Peace of Being
Talks with Ramana Maharshi
All That Jazz
About Silence
It is all
The background
Seeing it Simply
The Dream of Space and Time
Discovering
Already Awake
Reincarnation?
IN MEMORIAM
Basic Questions
Integration
Simplicity
One Essence
Thought
The Central Teaching
Unity
Knowledge and Ignorance
Inexpressible Door of Nonduality
The real "I"
Presence/Awareness
Awakening to the Natural State
Looking for God
Life As It Is
There is only Source appearing
Yearning for otherness
Dharmakaya
The ever-present nature
Getting rid of the ego
To Hell with it All!
You Are the Self
The Search is the Trap
The Obvious
Are you awakened?
The Supreme Self
Naturally Timeless Awareness
The Absolute
Seekers of Enlightenment
Presence of Awareness
I am...
This Amazing Realization
I am Life itself
Awareness is the Source
The Golden Eternity
Simple Beingness
The Boundless Void
Self-enquiry
Who pays the bill?
Changeless Reality
The Precious Treasury
Transparent Radiance
You Are the Buddha
Beyond Good and Evil
The real does not die
Memory
Seeking
I Am
The Nature of Thinking
The Great Way
Beyond na?ve affirmation
Ping-ting T'ung-tzu
Free will versus determinism
The End Of Seeking?
A Sharing of Timeless Being
Present and Obvious
Blinded by the Light
Hooked on Enlightenment
It's marvelous
All the world's diversity
There is no oblivion
Direct insight
Remembering and forgetting
Letting go
Beingness
That which appears
Manifestation of the Absolute
Nothing Being Everything
Consciousness
This
Radiance
Benedictory Verse to the Self
* ATTD News Letter number 63
* Sunday, September 18, 2005 *
Table of contents.
Q & A |
The Search is the Trap |
Awakened Poetry |
Quote of the moment! |
Smile of the moment! |
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Q & A.

Instead of that the universe is filled with joy and bliss not separate from me. The Self or Consciousness manifesting as everything, forms, colors. One everlasting symphony of coming and going, like the tides of the ocean. I don't like rejecting anything. That being pure dualism! Ashtavakra speaks about the senses as poison. But once seen that they cannot testify of separateness, also manifesting consciousness, they are wonderful in meeting the Self.
It makes me glad writing this to you. For me this is how it feels now. I'd like to hear your comment.
Answer: Advaita does not really negate this manifestation, but points to THAT what appears AS this manifestation. It sees the world of objects as illusory or non existent in the same way that a snake perceived in a rope is non existent. The snake is but a projection and in the same way separate objects are seen as projections. The 'label generating mind' assigns names, apparently isolating seemingly independent objects. Seeing this for what it is, there can be a recognition of the Oneness That Is.
Without labels -or during a momentary absence of thought- Awareness/Beingness 'knows' itself as a single undivided field. Nothing can be said about this without reverting to the labeling mind. Even to assert that 'nothing can be said about it' is a subtle form of labeling. Within the word game there is no escaping this paradox.
When 'joy', 'bliss' and 'me' appear in the same sentence we are most likely talking about temporal states. They are indeed manifestations of the Single Ground, but the Single Ground is forever beyond the reach of such labels. We may of course point at IT with words like joy and bliss, but dark and empty will do as well. IT is the Unknowable-Knowing-Centre from which all comes forth and to which it all returns.
There is nothing wrong with being amazed ('caught in a maze' as Alan Watts once observed) at this marvelous display we call the universe, or to experience joy and wonder in beholding this manifestation, but what you truly are is the Single Eye to which these experiences appear. This 'Eye' is for ever invisible to itself and remains when all temporal occurrences are 'negated.'
To drop in the unknown and to disappear as an 'experiencing me' may be seen as fear to engage in the play of life, but it can also be seen as the ultimate courageous sacrifice. Both positions appear to the Single-Eye-You-Are and both are part of the fleeting show of existence.
Beyond the duality of existence/non-existence, beyond the duality of duality/non duality, beyond like and dislike, closer then close, is This Beingness as the only 'thing/no-thing' that cannot be negated. As the Hindus say "Tat Tvam Asi; Thou Art That."
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Painting by: Josephine Wall Title: Tree of Wonders.
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The Search is the Trap


Any questions?
Q: the basic consciousness is the separation because as soon as the consciousness starts, the separation has arrived. 'I am' is the separation.
Bob: Yes. That sense of self becomes the sense of separation. The sense of separation brings with it insecurity and vulnerability.
Q: I am using the word 'consciousness' should I say 'basic consciousness' is the separation?
Bob: It doesn't matter what concept you use. There are millions of different concepts for it. With concepts, with the words, we can only point to where to look. But it is something that cannot be grasped with a word, because the word is never the thing.
Have a look. If that sense of presence wasn't there, if you weren't that, could there be consciousness, or could there be mind or awareness, or whatever you would like to divide it into? They say it is unborn. Unborn means not originated. There is no origin to it. It wasn't created. It had no beginning. So, you can't really say it is or it is not. It is self-arising and ceaselessly arising. It is futile to try to clutch onto it, or latch on to it with a concept or a word or an idea or a thought. But basically, you can't get out of it.
From: 'Presence-Awareness: Just This and Nothing Else
Further Talks with 'Sailor' Bob Adamson'.
Available from Non-Duality Press at http://www.non-dualitybooks.com/
Or at Bob's website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~adamson7/index.html
Further Talks with 'Sailor' Bob Adamson'.
Available from Non-Duality Press at http://www.non-dualitybooks.com/
Or at Bob's website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~adamson7/index.html
Awakened Poetry


Endless Ages
Through endless ages, the mind has never changed.
It has not lived or died, come or gone, gained or lost.
It isn?t pure or tainted, good or bad,
past or future, true or false, male or female.
It isn?t reserved for monks or lay people,
elders or youths, masters or idiots,
the enlightened or unenlightened.
It isn?t bound by cause and effect
and doesn?t struggle for liberation.
Like space, it has no form.
You can?t own it and you can?t lose it.
Mountains, rivers or walls can?t impede it.
But this mind is ineffable
and difficult to experience.
It is not the mind of the senses.
So many are looking for this mind,
yet it already animates their bodies.
It is theirs, yet they don?t realize it.
~ Bodhidarma ~
Painting by: Salvador Dali Title: Endless Enigma
Quote of the moment!


The world is a spell, an enchantement, an amazement,
an arabesque of such stunning rhythm and a plot so intriguing
that we are drawn by its web into a state of involvement
where we forget that it is a game.
~Alan Watts~
From the MTOD news letter. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meditationtip/
Painting by: Jennifer A. Kiraly Title: Arabesque in Nature.
Found at: http://artslide.fa.asu.edu/mfaslide/kiraly/index_kir.htm
Smile of the moment!


Tombstones with a Sense of Humor
In Albany NY:
Harry Edsel Smith
Born 1903-Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down.
It was.
In Thurmont MD:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.
In Ribbesford, England:
Anna Wallace
The children of Israel wanted bread,
And the Lord sent them manna.
Old Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.
In Ruidoso NM:
Here lies Johnny Yeast.
Pardon me for not rising.
In Uniontown PA:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
In England:
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
Wimborne, England, on the grave of John Penny:
Reader, if cash thou art
In want of any,
Dig 6 feet deep;
And thou wilt find a Penny.
In Hartscombe, England:
On the 22nd of June,
Jonathan Fiddle
Went out of tune.
In Enosburg Falls VT:
Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
In Nantucket, MA:
Under the sod and under the trees,
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod.
Pease shelled out and went to God.
In an English cemetery:
Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you soon will be.
Prepare yourself and follow me.
(to which someone added:
To follow you I'll not consent
Until I know which way you went.)
In Boot Hill, in Tombstone AZ:
Here lies Lester Moore
One slug from a 44
No les no more
Now, no less no more.
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