A new program is being prepared and will appear in due course. In the mean time check out any programs that you have not listened to. The Programs of Nisargadatta called ‘Beyond Space and Time’ are exceptionally good. I was surprised that few seemed to ‘value’ them.

What is recognition?

It is non-conceptual.

It appears that we use concepts to point at ‘something’ that you innately KNOW.

The limitations of words and pointers fall short.

A resonance sings in being, like a solo bird in the stillness of night.

Taste it as often as you can. ‘Listen’ to your own true nature.

The mind will naturally become still and quiet.

It is not meditation – there is no meditate-er – no mediator – un-mediated, undivided awareness.

Indescribable because it has no label at all……..yet we can call it ‘simple, ordinary, everyday awareness’.

No seeking is required – you are THAT.

(Lifted from a recent Note on my website……seeing-knowing.com)

There is no such thing as a teacher when it comes to nonduality. Notice how Gilbert calls them speakers beause he knows there has never been & never will be a teacher on UGC. What is there to teach & what is there to learn? Nothing… There is CLEAR, PRECISE, POINTING here. If you want to be taught something you better move on & if you think you are a teacher you surely do not want to stick around because that label will fall off quickly here.

The meaning of this sentence above may not be so obvious straight off.

It’s simple, but not for the ‘mind’…….

Mission Complete.

You know.

There is KNOWING.

Forget about trying to MAKE others ‘know’.

ONE without a second.

The apparent lives of ‘others’ are transformed only in the ‘appearance’ – their apparent separateness dissolves back into the uninterrupted knowing that you are - I AM.

There is no higher or lower ‘knowledge’.

The essence of all knowledge is ‘knowing’ – this immediate activity of knowing.

I am THAT – you are THAT. No separation.

(Already too many words)

That was so well written, so clear and very appreciated.

Many thanks

I AM THAT – the realization.
The Realization is Eternally un-manifest yet it appears as every particle of this Appearance.

Where are you seeing from?

Every seeming cause and seeming effect appears IN the seeing.
It is undifferentiated SEEING – it is All Seeing.

It is only the mind that separates and divides what is truly One.

In Sight may appear as a glimpse of ‘truth’ – in Essence it is naked seeing – uninterrupted seeing.
You are THAT.

Good to see you are looking at how shaky this “my body” idea really is. Have a good look for where exactly this Jacob character is, there is actually no room for this separate entity, there are visual perceptions, thoughts, sensations, sounds etc., but no “me” centre to be found anywhere. You are just present, blatantly present.

You don’t have to play this game the mind is perpetuating Jacob. Everytime the mind implies that there is something to get, or that you are not there yet, just notice that there is something present to know these concepts. Mental grasping may arise, who cares? The mind may generate a feeling of unease, that something is not right, that you need to do something, you don’t. Just look at these appearances without any need to correct them. They always pass, you don’t.

Just relax. If there is frustration arising just see that that is the mind trying to grasp something that is not an object that could or needs to be grasped. This can take a bit of courage because even tho thought produces all our suffering, we still indulge in it because we are afraid to dis-adentify with it. There is a kind of false security in thought, even suffering thoughts. There is nothing to be afraid of thou, because this presence that you are can never be lost or taken away or added to. It’s always right here as your very own self.

Nisargadatta: “Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to action it.”
“If doubt sets in, don’t fight it. Cling to what is doubtless and leave the doubtful alone”

All concepts are subject to doubt, your beingness or “I am here-ness”, is not.
Love, Ric

No one is here to be insulted, no one is here to be stirred up,
Is there a separate independent self to get stirred up????

There is no independent Person.

“One Essence Appearing as Everything”
What does that leave out??? It doesn’t say everything except You.

It isn’t the universe plus you, there is no separation, Someone appears to be insulting someone who appears to be getting stirred up, but it would seem according to Bobs quote that There is only one essence.

enjoy yourself

If you think you are a seeker, you are also just deluding yourself. If you’re looking for a prescription for oneness or something you can do to “loose the ego” then it’s all just ideas that are being played with. There is no ego to be lost. No separate self was ever born. The moment that is being experienced now is the only moment there will ever be. The characteristics, including what are labeled “flaws” by thought will continue to arise according to the particular appearance. Nothing is wrong. Everything is perfect (sorry for stealing your saying Suzanne).

Which is, of course, just perfect.

Needless to say there is no claiming going on here, except any that may produce a laugh!

You seem to be having a lively “break”.

Lotsa love, or whatever term is acceptable!

hehehe a puzzle

hi scarfox

There is nothing in the appearance – it is empty.

You can easily see that fact. Where is the seeing taking place? Isn’t it clear and empty?

You can invest the appearance with all kinds of beliefs but the account is bankrupt. The currency is fraudulent.

You can only exchange the counterfeit currency with other deluded seekers.

(Taken from the most recent note on my website seeing-knowing dot com)

Waiting for a ‘sign’ before we return with new programs. it may or may not happen. NO ONE knows the future.

“One Essence, expressing and appearing AS Everything”.This one sentence sums up the message brilliantly, nothing is left out!

If that’s true, then why did Bob bother to write a whole book behind that title?

God, the reality being this single and only AWARENESS I AM, is the authority that blooms the bud, scatters the seed and flashes its Cosmic Light around the universe. This authority has never been vested in a human organization, be it a body with organs, a scientific institution, a financial institution, a marriage institution or a smother church. Furthermore, none of us has ever been unfaithful to this Divine Authority being Identity, nor “lapsed from the faith.” How, in God’s allness, can Identity lapse from Itself?

i understand that these concepts refer to the sense of my own existence. but what about the times in deep sleep or under anesthetics, in which even the sense of my own existence disappears? what remain in these states? how would you call it?

it seems that my sense of existence disappears in these states. if it is real, then how could it disappear? is it another appearance of that which i am \ is real?

much love- lanir

It melts me cold cold heart and warms me weary soul.

Ya robbed me of my trusty words, no find, no splutter, n then.

I’m lost and found… and lost again within this vast-less-ness, whole.

How did I miss it, obvious n clear, this light of life… so close, so near.

You must think me such a fool.. n tis true enough, I know, we know.

It’s the thinking that is so fearful-fearsome, that makes this life so tough, but Oh……

The light by which I see, I know, ‘coz without it…… nothing, zero, cold…. n bleak.

The truth for sure, tis none can hear.. a word of it at all….

Coz believe or not tis true.. ya know… that none can speak.

Don’t search for me where none is found – you are ‘this light’ and not the ‘seek’.

Love is light. Let it shine.

Does the apple tree try to bear only sweet apples? Does the mirror prefer the image of a flower to the image of a pile of crap? Does the sky prefer white clouds to gray?

As the effortless, wordless simplicity of just existing, just naturally and spontaneously “alerting” (which you cannot NOT do, because it is what you are) there is no division. The sense (I) AM is the same here as it is there, IT “awares,” contains, plays all parts and appears as everything. This “sense” of existing, of being, this wakefulness behind the actions, THAT which has always been the same and does not change is YOU! There is no way to get away from being YOU! There is nothing hidden, nothing mysterious, it is this simple! You naturally ARE and that is enough!

As they say in ZEN, “no need to push the river…” struggling to get rid of the I, attempting to “understand it,” trying to stay in the now, or any movement towards anything other than WHAT ALREADY IS, is pushing the river! It is precisely this futile attempt that apparently obscures what you are, that apparently maintains the belief in the inexistent “pusher!” It is as futile as trying to catch your own shadow! What you are requires no effort, no doing, IT is a done deal, YOU ARE! Relax as what YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN and enjoy the scenery!

regarding your question:

“I would like to get, if I may, some clarification about the concepts that Bob Adamson uses: “I thought”, “I am”, “beingness”.
what is the differences, if any, between those three?”

The “I thought” and the “I am” are simply conceptual `descriptions for the non-conceptual awareness that you are, which is knowing these words. Just like the thought “water” is the conceptual description for the actual non-conceptual experience of water(what is feels like and looks like etc.) As Bob says: “the thought is never the thing”. You can’t drink the thought “water”.

“beingness” is just another conceptual description for non-conceptual awareness, which doesn’t sound as personal as the thought “I am”, so it is a good pointer.

The “I am” thought seems to create some confusion when formed into sentences like “I am Aware”, as if the thought “I am” could be aware! So if this thought is believed it can give the false sense that what you are is a separate entity of some sort(which cant be found on investigation) that is aware. It is probably more accurate to say “awareness is aware”.

These three concepts are all just pointing to that sense of you being here right now, your very own sense of existence, that ordinary, always known “I am here-ness”. That which is simply present and aware to know these concepts. There are no separate entities or egos knowing these words right now, awareness is the only one present.

Don’t worry to much about all these different concepts. Presence-Awareness, I, beingness, Knowing, I am, are all just conceptual pointers, pointing to the only thing that is here right now, Non-conceptual awareness. What you are is not a object so in the end all concepts fail, because thought can only describe objects. So what you are cannot be found like an object, it’s what you are. And don’t think that this is difficult or hard to recognize. It is already known, all this non-dual stuff is just talking about “you”, it’s talking about what is present at all times. What else could you be other than what you are right now?
Love, Ric

If we think Gilbert just called us an idiot then we still see ourselves as a “me”!!!!

The mind will take you on an endless journey, looking, looking, looking.

You are LOOKING OUT of what you are LOOKING for.
How can you EVER find it?

‘You’ IDIOT.

The Pointer invites ‘one’ to examine ‘something’.

In the clarity of seeing ‘one’ is revealed to be beyond time and space.

No Thing.

What you truly are is not tainted by any thing.

You take your self to be a thing which is touched by every other thing.

What you seek….you are already looking out of it……and it is not an it and you are not an object.
There is NO answer in the mind. The mind is time.
The mind will unfold as endless answers and endless questions.

STOP.

SEE.

KNOW.

Enough.

So nothing in the past touches this moment!
I’m looking at ‘this moment’ just the same as Gilbert, Randall and all of the other ‘pointer people’ yet it is completely tainted by thoughts appearing.
…and right now the mind is trying to imagine what it would be like seeing that “this moment is not conditioned by the past”- Yet it must be seen right now, but thoughts label so quickly.

What are the implications of that? It means that the entire paradigm of “me seeking enlightenment” falls away as false from the very beginning, simply because reality was never divided as this idea seems to indicate. It means that the very idea of the individual who seeks and later finds something in spirituality was itself the issue or obscuration of that nondual reality which IS.
There is never a moment when you are not in full knowledge and realization of your Self. And that Self IS the nondual reality.» (Randall Friend)

‘Beeingness’ is this Non Conceptual, Non Dual Reality.
Everything else is conceptual.

thank you all very much for a wonderfull and illuminating site.

lanir

NOTE: To all comment makers. We have a whole bunch of new visitors to this site in recent days.
Let’s keep things civilized. We don’t want to scare off too many newcomers or else they will miss an opportunity to ‘hear’ what is on offer.
Of course the programs themselves are clean enough. I know that some think that I am the main offender when it comes to ‘inappropriate comments’ and I will make every effort to stay on track. We have lost some comment makers because they couldn’t stop from taking things personally and so retaliate vehemently in colorful language addressed to me. My mother said I was naughty and maybe she was right. Yet I get a lot of emails telling me not to stop because they love it and they get such a good laugh out of it all. And we need a certain amount of entertainment – or else it can get very dry and just like so many other Non Duality sites.

The individual is false – the world is false.
Awareness is false – experience is false.
Subject is false – object is false.
What remains?

You. Just YOU. See for yourself.

Bob is a humble man he knows that this is about attraction not promotion, you can tell who the phony’s are because they put so much effort in getting there names and faces out there, for them its about being a personality, Not just Sharing A message with those who are interested in hearing it.

There is only the certainty of Being No-ThingNess.

Every role is played perfectly. No one fuddles their lines or speaks out of turn. Only when a separate self is believed in, can we seemingly judge “someone” or thier actions “good” or “bad”. Such labeling is also only an arising of source, like every other appearance.

Thought based ideas of right and wrong are truly without any merit. If one looks at history, the “ones” who have done the most damage usually totally believe in their rightness.

Peace and love.

The ME does not exist.

The ones who make the most fuss about my unusual ‘style’ are a prime example of the blockage to seeing and knowing what is being pointed out. Unwittingly they demonstrate most clearly some ‘things’ that would otherwise stay under the carpet. Unfortunately for them, they don’t see their own foolishness because they get caught up in the net that I toss their way.
Jesus said; “Be a fisher of men”. He did not specify what kind of net.

“My cup (Basket) runneth over”.
I will be quiet now – since you poor little seekers and pretending finders are getting all over heated over nothing.

Stop thinking about Gilbert(the man)and really listen to what he says. Try picturing these same words coming from Buddha, Jesus, Ramana Marhashi, a little child, your dead grandfather, Santa Claus,
the easter bunny, Oprah…..for God’s sake just hear what is being said not who is saying it or how he is saying it.

Can that “me” stand for one second without a supporting belief?

What is reality without any parallel beliefs?

The situation, right this moment, is what? Me – seeing – world? That little sentence structure, which is your foundation of reality, is entirely belief.

The SEEING isn’t a belief. It isn’t conceptual. You don’t need a belief at all to recognize that seeing is happening. Yet it requires a belief to “contain” that seeing to a body, to a person. It requires a belief to say there is an objective “world” seen.

Belief and imagination are the same.

Notice that anything “seen” is appearance – objective – experience. And notice that the “seeing” is awareness – subjective – experienc-ING.

Then notice that awareness and experience are really two words for the same reality. The same singular reality. The same “happening” – the same IS-ness. Just this.

The instant there is an attempt to capture it in words, concepts, beliefs – it’s already false. And there is no need to do so. You already ARE that nondual reality. Seeking it assumes otherwise. The first step in seeking it is one step too far.

I am not a magician or a nasty creature or a fallen angel.
Lovely clean messages from squeaky clean ‘teachers’ about Non Duality are quite common.
Sacred Texts are to be found easily and some of them are exceptionally beautiful. There are some who make a career out of shooting down the reputations of gurus (Guruphiliac for instance) and heaven knows some of them sure look like they need to be taken down a peg or two.
I am sure that there are a great number of readers, reading these notes and the comments are a keen feature of this site. It does attract a lot of attention simply because No One Else is kicking ass like ‘we’ do. Even though many readers may get upset and decide that I am a total bastard, I am not concerned one iota. it is not all about me anyway – I am just a bonus feature – free of charge.
The Bullshit about Spirituality has been around with its strong hold long enough. That is what I say – and I say it loudly.
Since this site started there have been umpteen visitors who have experienced a ‘break though’, some after 30-40 years of seeking.
They have been under the influence of that Bullshit and the relief that is experienced when it is all revealed to be nonsense is a wondrous release. Like a burden falling off your back. One feels light and full of light.
Even the energy of the body feels fluid and illuminating – shining out of this flesh and lighting the world.
It pours out of your eyes like the rays of a joyous dawn. And everything is seen to be WITHIN your own true nature – wonder of wonders.

One recognizes that THIS MOMENT has NEVER happened before. It will never happen again AND it is NOT conditioned by the past.

To remain in the judgmental attitude of the egoic mind, when it is completely unnecessary, is not what you are here for.
Realize your true nature. What else is worth your efforts?
All efforts to save the world fail because it is already perfect just as it is. And there is no entity that can DO anything about the world or nature.
Animals do not resist nature – they are nature and they express it naturally. It is INTELLIGENCE in ACTION.
‘Man’ has the ability to create a ‘self-image’ and that IMAGE resists nature – and ‘he’ even tries to dominate nature and turn a profit from nature. All profits for the ME. The IMAGE can be seemingly positive or seemingly negative or a mixture of both – but it is ONLY an Image – It is an Appearance Only.

Whatever your opinion, you the reader, of this site – there is something going on here and it is not the seduction of seekers into more and more BELIEFS.
BELIEF is NOT the ACTUAL.

Millions of dollars are donated to disasters – we hear stories of corruption and waste of supplies, looting and robbery.
Getting this clear message out there receives a dribble of donations from those who actually appreciate what is being offered.
It could not be any other way.
SEEKERS want the truth but they don’t want to give up the main cause of their seeking. The BELIEF in a ME – a me that does NOT exist.

Rest in Peace.

This is IT. WHATEVER it is.

On a practical note: If dear Richard is actually in Haiti, then my point is, what the hell is he doing making comments on this site?
If he is there to help, then bloody well help. Don’t waste time lecturing the readers here about the uselessness of soothing concepts and theories AS IF he now knows better, simply because the rawness of life and death is in his face.
There are thousands upon thousands appearing in this world, appearing to be in situations far from what you or I would call comfortable.
How much of it actually touches you? Really and truly touches you? Or is it all just a transient ‘shock’ feeding your negative emotions and contradicting how you think Life should be?
LIFE is ALL INCLUSIVE. Maybe two hundred people died in the city you live in last night. Were you upset about any of that?
You see some Newscast with graphic images and you probably sit in horror.
What about the millions of babies that were born today – where is the joy of that while you focus on a particular disaster?
The real terror of your situation is that you believe in being a separate entity and that scares you far more frequently than the ‘events’ in some apparent distant place. I am sure you have no quarrel with my right of reply – however right now you may be wishing you had not opened this can of worms. Relax, it is only words. And no one ever died from words or thoughts.
Whatever stirs you up, whatever pisses you off is actually revealing that ‘me’ and every moment is an opportunity to SEE that it is not real. IT IS NOT REAL. It is an appearance only.
Now there may be some disturbed feelings appearing, maybe a knot in the stomach – investigate it. It is all psychological suffering and as it is pointed out many times – it is unnecessary. IT IS UNNECESSARY.
You can attack me as much as you like but I will match every attack.
It is all in your mind and nowhere else.
Whatever expresses itself in the moment is perfect and it could not be any other way. The point is that there is NO ENTITY anywhere.
When you truly see that, the drama slides away – life goes on in exactly the same ‘way’ – it is all appearance.
One ESSENCE is indestructible and it expresses itself – ever fresh in each unique moment of existence.

The Ultimate Truth is: NO HARM DONE.
It is ONLY a me that can suffer….AND……the me does not exist.

P.S. You are sick of me and I am sick of those who go on about unconditional love…….and then add that Gilbert is outside of that love.
I say you can stick your ‘unconditional love’ where the monkey sticks his nuts.

And if you don’t like what you find here, then don’t come here – simple.

Gilbert I am tired of your aggression and self righteousness to go after people in the name of some believe you incorporated into your mind of clear pointing. Maybe you heard it long enough to believe it in your mind true, but I can not see in your behavior the qualities of enlightened being. I see lack of love and lack of self love.
There is a deep compassion arising for when love sees one of ‘evrything’ steering from self love it knows that for that one the path to self realization is longer. Love your self Gilbert and do not try to be someone else.

Randal. Reality is appearance too . Based on the Truth that ONe essence expresses as everything. Denying Everything is nihilism. Listen to what Jeff Foster said about it in the program.

Ronna for God’s sake Stop and see!
Than your own intelligence will arise.

Susan. Thank you for bringing your point. ‘Appearance in the mind’ is one thing and what happened in Haiti is real solid fact.
It is better not to make judgments ‘in the mind’ if it is good or bad what happened there for it is ‘only judgment in the mind’.

When the mind is seen through the intelligence arises in the moment as how to respond. There is no good or bad response. Some may respond by donation, some may not even notice, some may fly to help, there is no so called one answer. Whatever arises for the peron is ok.
For me personally what arose was Silence. Just Silence. Holding Haiti in Silence.
Love and Compassion are natural. When you see a bird with a broken wing your heart will naturally pure love and the action to help will arise. Enlightened people have the capacity to be limitless compassion. Isn’t it wonderful. Limitless compassion and love no matter what is happening.

Now for Richard this is his test of love and companion he was talking about just before he left. He landed in the place where only strong and brave and loving heart can do something to help for that heart is fearless. I hope he is meeting his test with a brave heart. I wish him all the best in this heart breaking situation. Not to be overwhelmed by pain and chaos and act with a clear mind. Probably non of us will see such a tragedy with our own eyes. Feel it, smell it, touch it for that reason we will never understand Richard what you went through and yet only a deep humility will surrender the judgment of it all to the outworking of the ONE ESSENCE appearing as EVERYTHING.
Thank you
Ewa

I AM.

Here is Ozzi land (Australia) we have a brilliant cartoonist by the name of Michael Leunig.
Here is one of his gems – a poem.

“Birds”
Birds get high on feathers
and it is said quite rightly..so
To break their earthly tethers
They must take themselves quite lightly..so
let us now give thanks for birds
and Bless their angel wings
And praise the way they drop their turds
On commoners and Kings.

The intelligence that you already are just needs a little nudge (it seems) – “Hey, Stop believing – find out what you are”.