'I' is an invalid reference point - Bob Adamson

So we've never ever moved away from it in any way shape or form. And the little child we add to it when he learns words like I or me from his parents, what's the opposite of I or me? He's got the knowledge of thought, which is a vibration, it's always vibrating in the opposites. It is not past which is memory, it's future which is anticipation, imagination. And in that range it's vibrating as good, bad, pleasant, painful, happy, sad, loving, hating, positive, negativity. Watch your mind and see if it functions really in any other way. Somewhere within that range constantly it's always in the interrelated opposites, vibrating back and forth constantly.

So as soon as the little child learns words like I or me, what's the opposite of I or me? Isn't it not I or not me? Now when he's looking out there, and before he's seeing everything just as it is, he hasn't learned any words, he's not dividing it, he's not seeing one homogenous world, he's going to be seeing different things, but he's got no label for them, they're all just part of the function. Subtitles by the Amara.org community Now he's seeing things and realising that's not me or that's not I, what happens? Naturally he feels separate from it. And with separation comes insecurity and vulnerability.

And that's the big thing, that's the big problem. From then on we feel separate. And because we feel separate we're insecure and vulnerable. And that's when our search starts. Seeking to become whole or complete. That's why we invent a guide and think we can't find it. A guide who will do something for us. A guide who will do something for us in the future if we pray to him. Do all sorts of activities and get to it. I'm talking about a future time. And the ancients tell us, you look at the scriptures, they'll say it's omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, total presence, total power, total intelligence. Again, not talking about three things, but three aspects of the one.

So it's always and never will be that total presence, total power, total intelligence. And is that totality, does that exclude you or me or anything else? If it did exclude any of us, it wouldn't be totality. You can't be excluded from it. You are that. And that's the Mahabhag, it's a great word, they tell you. You are that, I am that, this is that. We don't see that, we don't believe that. Along the lines of going and see for yourself. It might come up for you in different words, different ideas. Different concepts. Which you see for yourself, can never really be separate from anything at all.

You're seeing these objects in the mirror, this goes over a lot of people, this, this. They call them objects, but take them out of the scene if you can. So they're actually just the scene. What's appearing in the scene, which we'll later look at. It's the same as you look in the mirror and you see the reflections in the mirror. But what are you actually seeing? Can you separate those reflections from the mirror? They can't say they're not there, they appear to be there. But you go up and try and grab a reflection out of the mirror. You can't say it is there either, can you?

What you'll grasp is mirror, only and only the mirror. Only and only the scene is functioning itself. And though it appears in all its diversity, and it seems to be activities going on in that appearance. All those activities are appearance also. That we attribute them to and to the mirror. And that's the mirror. So mirror is the reference point, or the self-center, which everything is related to. All our problems are problems of relationship. And I mean by that, relative to. You get tangled up in the male-female relationship, and that's the only one. That is relative to my work, relative to my country, relative to my house, relative to this, relative to that.

All relative to some reference point. And the reference point I'm referring to, the relative to, is me, this idea, this conceptual image I've got about myself. I'm a Bible, I'm Australian, I'm a good fellow, I'm not so good at it. Low self-esteem, I've got high self-esteem. All these concepts are added onto that I-thought. And form this mental picture of what I believe in myself to be. And everything is relative to that. It's judgmental, it's good, it's bad, it's pleasant, I like it, I don't like it. You see, we're referring to an invalid reference point. Because that reference point, that image I've got about myself, is based on past events, past experiences, past conditions.

We're constantly relating to a dead image. It's like pulling a bucket of water out of the river. What happens to the river? Doesn't it leave the bucket of water behind? Would we constantly be relating the river to the bucket of water? See the futility of that. In the same way, when you see that there's no entity there, with any substance or any independence, of any nature, what are you going to relate things to? You've got no point in relating things to it. What does that leave? It leaves you with an unfixated awareness, a presence awareness, just as it is. Just as it is meaning unaltered, unmodified, uncorrected.

Nothing to relate it to, nothing to refer it to.