The Original Dialogues of Robert Adams.
"This has been my experience."
"Ponder the Dialogues deeply. Do this on a regular basis."
If you believe that your body's getting older, that you are a person, that you have problems, you react to life's conditionings, then you're caught up in the dream, just like any dream at night. All kinds of conditions befall you and you believe it is real, and you react to them. As long as you react to them you believe all of it. You feel angry, you feel fear, you believe something is wrong someplace.
Then you can never get out of the dream. In other words, you will go from one dream to the next. This is called reincarnation. It is one dream after the other dream. It never ends. Always believing something is wrong, something is right, something is good, something is bad.
Many spiritual students believe that manifesting compassion is reacting. This is incorrect. Your true Nature naturally harmonizes unnatural circumstances. It is unnatural to harm any living thing. It is a disturbance of the mind and emotions. It creates much suffering. It retards spiritual progress. Putting on a spiritual show and secretly harboring resentful secrets, mean words, jealousy or anger, is the same as doing them. You are missing the point.
If you must identify with something until you awaken, it is better to identify with serving others, with developing deep compassion, than it is to identify with yourself, your human self, your desires, your problems, your self obsessions. The Power that knows the Way is a way of harmony. What you give out returns to you.
If you want more harmony in your life, give it out. This so-called 'attachment' is better than doing nothing at all. It is easier to awaken in a higher birth, a harmonious environment that is spiritually conducive to Awakening. These births are earned. This is all the game of the appearance of birth, death and rebirth, until you realize no one is being born, no one is dying. But you cannot skip the journey and pretend you are at the end.
This does not mean you should be inactive. On the contrary, you will accomplish many beautiful things. But you will not be the doer. You will realize that you are not the doer, you never were the doer. Isn't this wonderful news?
To realize and understand that you are not the doer? Yet you are doing things. I know this sounds like a contradiction, but it's not. Your body will appear to do something, yet you are not the doer. You are doing nothing. Does this mean there are two of you? On the contrary, there is only One. But the world sees you doing something. Yet you know you are not doing a thing.
