Satsang with Robert Adams

395 Pages·2010·1.82 MB·English

The Web Site as it Was

It Is Not Real
(2007)

Collecting the website about advaita master Robert Adams
as originally published by his student
advaita master Edward Muzika
Preface
It is my pleasure to compile here precious pages from the website “It Is Not Real Dot Com”
which was originally published by a student of the great advaita teacher Robert Adams. Since
the site’s publication that student, Edward Muzika, has become a great advaita teacher himself.
Recent pressures have placed this public record of spiritual transmission in jeopardy, prompting
me to celebrate this website’s existence with this commemorative “book.”
Readers will note that much material here, such as Robert Adams’ satsang transcripts, can be
found in other formats. That is true, but many here are presented with introductory notes by
Edward Muzika, which are of considerable value. I must also confess that I found this website in
2005, the year of its creation, and have followed it through its many changes until the time of this
writing, in 2010. I’m guilty of love for this website. It has changed my life.
Peace to all beings.
Love and thanks to the great teachers in this lineage – Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, Robert
Adams and Edward (Edji) Muzika.
Om, shanti shanti shanti, om.

Matthew Brown, 2010
[email protected]
Contents
The first page of this book features the Site Map from the 2007 incarnation of “It Is Not Real”,
but space considerations have prevented me from including absolutely every page. Perhaps
someone else would like to make further “books” which include them. This table of contents
lists the pages from the original site which have been reproduced in the current document, with a
few hidden surprises from the earliest 2005 version of the site:

1. Enlightenment
2. Robert Adams' Story
3. Ramana Maharshi
4. Robert Adams-1
5. Before I Am
6. Consciousness is Everything
7. You got to have Heart
8. The Four Principles
9. Good for Nothing Man
10. Consciousness
11. Eulogy
12. Dancing With God
13. The Dance Begins
14. The First Awakening
15. The Second Awakening
16. Robert and I
17. Awareness of the Void
18. Exodus
19. Robert Adams-2
20. Ultimate Happiness
21. Confession of the Jnani
22. Dimitri
23. Memories
24. Robert Adams-3
25. Doing Nothing
26. Abide in the Self
27. To Practice or Not
28. Turning from the World
29. Stillness
30. Trapped by the World
31. Robert Adams-4
32. Early Talks
33. Cosmic Joke
34. Photos
35. My Two Gurus
36. Satsang 1994
37. The Other Site is Not Authentic
38. Silence of the Heart
39. Nicole Adams recognizes me
40. Generic Page
Site Map Page 1 of 3

| Enlightenment
| Robert Adams' Story
| Ramana Maharshi
| Robert Adams-1
| Before I Am
| Consciousness is Everything
| You got to have Heart
| The Four Principles
| Good for Nothing Man
| Consciousness
| Eulogy
| Dancing With God
| The Dance Begins
| The First Awakening
| The Second Awakening
| Robert and I
| Awareness of the Void
| Exodus
| Robert Adams-2
| Ultimate Happiness
| Confession of the Jnani
| Dimitri
| Memories
| Robert Adams-3
| Doing Nothing
| Abide in the Self
| To Practice or Not
| Turning from the World
| Stillness
| Trapped by the World
| Robert Adams-4
| Early Talks
| Cosmic Joke
| Zen
| Kapleau's Zen
| Sasaki's Mt. Baldy Zen
| Maezumi Roshi
| Seung Sahn Soen Sa
| Korean Buddhism
| Thich Tien-An
| Heart Sutra
| Los Angeles Zen
| Yoga Journal
| The Mountain Path
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| Nisargadatta
| Self-Knowledge
| Meetings with Maharaj
| Ashtavakra Gita
| Practices
| Introduction to Meditation
| The Bliss of Chanting
| Doubt and the Awakening of Faith
| Muktananda
| What Good Chanting Sounds Like
| Who Am I? Meditation
| Satsang Online
| Animals
| No-Kill Declaration
| Boks' Revolution
| LA Animal Services
| Collected Works
| Self-Realiztion-Four Principles
| Four Principles--II
| The Three Ways
| Practicing the Four Principles
| Silence is God's Name
| The Waking Sleep
| Before I Am
| Enlightenment
| Thinking Past Your Nose
| Mind Your Own Business
| Ramana Maharshi
| Unmoving
| Consciousness
| Are You Happy Yet?
| Third Grade Planet
| Resting in Self
| All that Exists is You
| Between the Words
| I Am Awareness
| The Path of Knowledge
| Because You Are, I Am
| Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go
| Consciousness Is Nothing
| Everything Changes Except Consciousness
| Whatever Will Be, Will Be
| Photos
| My Two Gurus
| Satsang 1994
| The Other Site is Not Authentic
| Silence of the Heart
| Nicole Adams recognizes me
| Darshan-2
| Psychoanalysis
| Object Relations Theory, Buddhism and the Self
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| Transpersonal Synthesis
| Meditation and Self
| Resources
| The Heart Sutra
| Site Map
| Contact Me
| Generic Page
| Collected Works-II
| Two Different Dream Worlds
| Whatever Will Be, Will Be
| Be Yourself!
| Neither Nothing Nor Something
| Be Passionate for Your Self!

|Enlightenment| |Robert's Story| |Robert Adams-1| |Dancing With God|
|Robert Adams-2| |Robert Adams-3| |Robert Adams-4| |Cosmic Joke| |Zen|
|Yoga Journal| |The Mountain Path| |Nisargadatta| |Ashtavakra Gita| |Practices|
|Satsang Online| |Animals| |Collected Works| |Photos| |Psychoanalysis|
|Resources| |Site Map| |Contact Us| |Other| |Collected Works-II|

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Enlightenment Page 1 of 8
The World is Not Real
And Neither are You

Coming
Soon!

As
you
may
notice,
there
has
been
little
activity
on
this
site.
I
just
Autheticity
haven't
had
time.
I
haven't
been
able
to
respond
to
many
people
because
I
did
not
have
access to my email because when I changed from SBC to cable, SBC lost all my emails.
Besides, when I want to add new info, this site would only allow me to add new pages as
subpages, and I wanted new stuff on the front page more prominently.
This entire site will still be visible by clicking on a link to this old site. Everything on this old
site will be still be available, and I will focus more on technique and answering the hundreds
of questions you readers out there submitted..
The new site will emphasize my own teachings.
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Robert Adams

Once again I emailed Nicole and the Infinity Institute offering my cooperation and deleting
parts of the old site so I can better serve the new. There has been no response. Nicole has no
intention of cooperating.
Those who seek enlightenment know something wrong with the world. They do not
believe the world works like the experts or common sense tells them. They feel out of
place, perhaps alone, but with a great desire to know truth. They seek the Real, Truth
with a capital T.

U
nfortunately, they seek the Real in the Unreal, in the world, in philosophy. religion or a
legion of gurus. The self will never be found by looking without, but that which appears to
look without must learn to accurately look within.
There are many degrees of looking within the dream that is the world and mind. The world is
mind, mind is the world. The world is created by thoughts, and the mind is nothing more than
thoughts, it is not an entity with autonomous existence existing at a time or place in a 'real'
world. The real world exists in the mind and you are neither of these.
The mind and thoughts are not you. They are like ghost-clouds that float on top of you. You
are the stateless state, untouched by the waking world, the sleep world or deep sleep darkness.
All these are added onto you. You are beyond all phenomena. This you must see clearly.
In fact, there is no looking within. Within and without only arise with thoughts which are the
world which create the concept of within and without. There is no beyond either, as the
concept implies the opposite of not-beyond, or here. You are neither beyond, nor not-beyond.
You are not real or unreal. You are not mortal or immortal, because immortal implies eternal
presence or existence. You have nothing to do with either. You are beyond all measures,
beyond all dualities and opposites, beyond even the concept of beyond, beyond freedom and
enlightenment. This you must grasp.
This website is for Advaita beginners. It is a site I wish I had access to 40 years ago. If then I
had believed to content of this site, not so many years would have been wasted in directionless
wandering, especially in Zen. I started my searching on exactly the right note, self-inquiry
using the Who Am I questioning and looking for the source or I, but then got diverted by
seeking the console of gurus and spiritual teachers, and got lost.
In this site I will try to walk you through the minefields of the mind that would trap and delay
you from finding the free beyond the free. I will walk with you through my own experiences
and what I learned from the many imaginary saints I met on the way.
I will take you for a walk through pathways provided by six Zen masters, each of with whom I
spent at least three years, a long time spent with Muktananda, his swamis and successors, as
well as teach you about methods of meditation and chanting that have worked for me.
One extremely important teacher who I never met, but who had a profound impact on me is
Nisargadatta Maharaj, one of whose most accomplished disciples was also one of my
teachers. I have included a small booklet written by Nisargadatta in 1963.
There is also a section entitled "Satsang Online" wherein I answer questions from you out
there in the Web world who think I can help you.
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Those who seek enlightenment are following a very steep and narrow path of self abidance
and self-inquiry. You need all the help you can get.
However, the central point of this site is introducing you to my teacher, Robert Adams. From
my perspective, he was a hundred-story giant of spiritual power and understanding.
Before I met Robert, I walked a long and tortuous journey through conceptual minefields. In a
sense, it is the story of Me and going beyond Me.

The Teachers the 'Me' studied with:

Robert Adams, who was my living teacher; Robert Adams

Maezumi

Roshi, one of
the founders
of Zen in the
United States
and with
whom I
studied for 4
years, the
most
intellectual
of all Zen
masters;
Thich Tien-

An, my
ordination
teacher, a
Vietnamese
Zen master
who brought
Vietnamese
Mahayana
Buddhism--
essentially
Zen--to the
states;
Kozan

Roshi, a very
down to
earth Rinzai
master from
Okinawa;
the

unforgettable Sasaki Roshi, whose concentration camp-like Mt. Baldy Zen Center was a
source of great pain and great pleasure and whose antics are legend;
 Seung Sahn Soen Sa, a ball of energy who transformed American Zen;
Philip Kapleau Roshi, one of the originators of Zen in America, my first Zen master,

whom I would later consider a friend;
Song Ryong Hearn, an American Zen master who later became a psychologist in West

Los Angeles;
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