Episode of Never Not Here visiting Sailor Bob Adamson in his meeting. “Sailor” Bob Adamson found the peace he was seeking in the presence of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in the 70′s. Bob lives in Australia and has held weekly talks for visitors from all over the world for 30 years. Many come to his home [...]
As a seeker, I may try to find out “who am I?” I may sit in meditation, fidgeting, mind refusing to obey. I might read a thousand books on the subject, each with it’s own opinions, methods and conclusions. As a seeker I am certainly confused. I am told that there is no person, however [...]
The brain and the so called ‘person’ (a concept) are both appearances upon that which is……naked awareness. ‘You’ cannot separate what you are from the life energy that animates all the patterns that appear ‘as what you are’. Each so called separate pattern is encompassed ‘within’ one pattern that we call the appearance (manifestation or [...]
What are you doing in this moment to make any of it happen? Seriously. Is there anything happening in this moment that you actually cause? For instance, the basic impression that something is happening now, the feeling of existing or being. Do you have to work to create that? Or does it simply feel like [...]
You may not be familiar with Bell’s Theorem, but you out to be! A theorem goes beyond a theory, in that it is provable. What has been proven, in this case, is what is known as—deceptively understated—entanglement. Less than fifty years ago, physicist John Bell proposed an experiment which has subsequently been performed, then reconfirmed [...]
Bob: Can anybody negate that knowingness? So again, we say start from the fact that you already are that. So we won’t go to the story or the spiel or all that, that’ll all come up in the questions, doubts or arguments that come up, in the explanations, be pointed out more and more clearly. [...]
What prevents you from knowing yourself as all and beyond all, is the mind based on memory. It has power over you as long as you trust it. Don’t struggle with it; just disregard it. Deprived of attention, it will slow down and reveal the mechanism of its working. Once you know its nature and [...]
This is Part 5 in an ongoing series of writings and commentary by Mark West on the Dzogchen Terma treasure text entitled “Self-Liberation Through Seeing With Naked Awareness”, translated from the Tibetan by John Myrdhin Renolyds. This particular Terma text was composed in the 8th Century of our era by the master from the then [...]
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