Comments on: 9. Pointers Series – Bob Adamson’s many pointers

By: JMac

JMac — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:52:53 +0000

In my experience, the phrase “I am” is the phrase most often repeated throughout every day. In fact, this statement repeats itself endlessly and ceaselessly in thought. It is disguised, camouflaged or buried in the content of streams of thought. It hides in statements like, “I am mad at so and so”, “I am hungry”, “I am not liked by people”, “I am not working as hard as I should be working”, “I am not living up to my potential,”, “I am very wise”, I am smarter than so and so”, “I am regretting that I didn’t win that argument by saying…”. “I am” seems to repeat endlessly and appears to be trying to solidify its existence through constant repetition.

By: Ronna

Ronna — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:16:12 +0000

Just wanted to correct my spelling mistake so should be ignorance not igorance(egorance). . . that’s pretty good.

By: Ronna

Ronna — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:16:45 +0000

Another thought “ignoring who you are” really is impossible! Who is ignoring who?

By: Ronna

Ronna — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:15:22 +0000

Just listened to this again and Bob is so great I loved his reference to what igorance means “ignoring what you really are”.

By: Mark Roske~Pendragon

Mark Roske~Pendragon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:12:44 +0000

Thank you, Sailor Bob~
More and More it makes less and less sense and life happens~

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:37:54 +0000

Apofatic, eh?

Great show. I was wondering if you will have a transcript of it. The sound quality is good but it’s nice to have it in writing also, if it’s not too much trouble.

By: tomvds

tomvds — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:21:57 +0000

OK, thanks for the very clear and exhaustive pointing !!
In the thoughtless there is not only no path nor directions or milestones to advance there are also no hands or feet to make you advance. Nothing but waiting without waiting.

By: gilbert

gilbert — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:37 +0000

WHO is willing to die? All these postulations are religious nonsense and we all know it.

The mind ‘appears’ to divide THAT which can NEVER truly be divided. There is ONLY Life. This is so obvious and yet we ignore it and believe in ideas that are all fabricated. We ignore the living BEING-NESS and imagine all kinds of second hand, dead ‘things’ – things we have been told. Good-bad, positive-negative; are they not simply transitory ‘states’ appearing in this singular Being? (What KNOWS the transitory?) Isn’t ‘Negative’ a postulated label?

Energy is energy. Life is life. You do not know ‘death’ and will never know death.
No one ever sent a postcard from Heaven or Hell.

The ‘light’ of knowing knows no darkness but the mind will dream up all manner of nonsense. Do YOU have a choice? Afraid to USE IT?

By: tomvds

tomvds — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:45:55 +0000

The touchstone for this Understanding is that you would be willing to die this very instant. Beingness, I AM-ness, The Fact that I Am, Aliveness,… strike me as qualities on the ‘positive’ side of the manifestation, the Life-side. Would you be willing to trade them happily for the eternal oblivion of the death-side, never to watch a beautiful flower again?

By: gilbert

gilbert — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:54:54 +0000

Yes indeed. ‘We’ look through a ‘hole in the fence’ (through our labels and words) and ‘think’ we understand – and ‘we’ project our words and personalized meanings onto everything ‘out there’. – Then we get upset because ‘the world’ does not respond according to ‘my projection or my plan’. – A truly wise being and a town tramp are equal in this ACTUALITY. – The ‘image’ that appears in the mind is reality – as an IMAGE. – It has no substance at all.
The BEING (that each and everyone IS) which contains Everything is Singular. – It is nameless – un-manifest – No Thing – The container of Everything. – It is NOT negotiable.
All ‘things’ appear – and disappear – they are vibrations expressed in and from THAT – No Thing. – Tracing one’s own immediate ‘being’ back to THAT is the dissolution of belief in being separate. – Starting from the FACT that I am THAT requires nothing, no action, no time. – Time ceases ‘to be’ because it never was. – THIS silent understanding is so familiar to you – you overlook it – it remains silent and wordless – ‘I’ call it knowing – not knowing anything in particular – just knowing. – That is the natural state – stop ignoring it.
As the ancient text says “Stop talking, stop thinking and there is nothing will will not be able to Know”

By: Randall Friend

Randall Friend — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:43:35 +0000

“Awareness” is only ever another word.

What is it pointing to? Can we really call it anything? What is aware of the word “awareness”? Where does that word happen?

This sense of “I AM” is undeniable – you ARE! What is immediately present which makes it impossible to deny that you ARE?

This is missed because it is always there, always the ground of all “things” experienced.

We try to avoid the “I” because we’re told it’s false, it’s a false reference. We do the Advaita-speak thing and try to form our sentences without using “I”. We’re missing the point.

We say “I” but it’s referred to the body-mind. This “I” isn’t limited to the body-mind – this sense of “I-ness”, this sense of BEINGNESS, is the container in which the entire universe, including that body-mind, appears. Everything comes and goes within this “I-ness”. This is what you are.

No matter what happens – no matter what the story – no matter what word is used to describe – YOU are the ground of all of it.

No matter what appears – HERE and NOW – YOU ARE!

By: tomvds

tomvds — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:06:05 +0000

Sometimes I have this crazy impression: “What’s all this talk about awareness? I’ve never encountered such a thing in my whole life!” Yet sounds are heard and sights are seen.

By: tomvds

tomvds — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:25:25 +0000

I really love this apofatic approach towards the Absolute !

By: Sergio

Sergio — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:48:49 +0000

That Bob is god , i mean, good

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:29:32 +0000

Those who are able to attend Bob’s meetings are fortunate.

Thanks for bringing this to the rest of us.

By: tazzy

tazzy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:37:13 +0000

Nobody does it better!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:30:47 +0000

There is no duality in nonduality–that says it all.