Awareness is not contaminated by its content - Bob Adamson

What you're saying? Yes, but except that there's no people carrying it. Okay, yeah. All the people are that dog. John Howard is that. Everything is that. Yeah, sure. And it can change, you know, all this diversity, the patterns, shapes and forms are constantly changing. And that's what dualism is. It's transient. It's constantly moving and changing all the time. And the definition of reality is that which never changes. What's all appearing in it has never changed. You've got that mirror there. Have a look at that mirror. I noticed it when I first walked in. I thought it was really impressive. I see you out. You see all those reflections in the mirror?

Yeah. You can't say they're not there, can you? No. Because you go up and try and grab a reflection out of the mirror. Yeah, that's the first thing you learn when you're a kid or a cat. It's true. You go, oh, wow. But you know, you can't get there. You can't grab those reflections. You can't say they're not there. But have a look at the mirror. Is it contaminated ever by any of the reflections? No. No. They're the same as a manifestation. What you are is that mirror-like, self-shining awareness. It's never been contaminated by any of the things that appears or happens on it or occurs in this world.

And neither is anything. Each pattern is that also. Each reflection in the mirror is only mirror also. It's not that we take the appearance to be real rather than seeing. So just relax and let the reflection be. And let the reflection work themselves out. Are you saying we only feel contaminated if we hold on to the past as a thought? You know, that feeling of like I've got pain from something that happened to me. It is. It's only because I'm going back to the past to replay it. And that's the only... because right now it doesn't... What's wrong with... the title of the book is What's Wrong With Right Now If You Don't Think About It?

And just pause the thought right now. What can you say? Can you say, is anything right? Or anything wrong? Anything good or anything bad without a thought? But you haven't disappeared without a thought. You haven't fallen apart. There's just that naked awareness there. There, toward me, knowingness, whatever the... It's not contaminated by any concept. People say about my conditioning. What conditioning is there if you don't think about it? You'd lose it all just like that. You take it up again and start another story. Is the aim not to get rid of the past? To get rid of thought but just not to be affected by it?

See, the capacity of reasoning in this pattern as a human being is very necessary, very useful. This house was an idea in somebody's mind once. The television was an idea. That camera was an idea in somebody's mind. Very useful at that end. When it vibrates to the other end, oh, I'm not good enough. I can't do this. You know, it's creative at one end. But being a vibration, when it vibrates to the other end, it's self-destructive. It puts all these images and labels on us. Is that the duality? Is that part of the duality? Pardon? Yes, that's the way it vibrates, you see, the duality.

But you realize that there's nothing here to be destructive, you know, to be self-destructive. It's just a fiction that we're referring to constantly. What's going to happen then? So that thought that made the camera, the vibration that made the camera, which, you know, what you can do, you can conceive, whatever you dream, you can conceive, that kind of concept. Like one day, one person woke up and thought, I'm going to find out how to make a light bulb. And they worked. And they made a light bulb, to much to everybody's amazement. That, to me, is a thought made manifest. So I can understand about negative thoughts and people's perception of negative thoughts and sort of, and just allowing them to be.

What about the consciousness of your imagination and being able to bring that into a reality, like an idea into reality, and that as a thought process? Yeah, but there's no entity doing it. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm not... Yeah. So it's, conceptually it works, but the actual ego that's involved with me, I mean the appreciation of the fact that we live in a, you know, that we're, it is a creative universe. And then, then I might, I might carry with me though, the gratitude every day that it's abundant with gifts that allows me to go, okay, well, you know, maybe I've got this idea and... Yeah.

And my idea might come up and the next thing it's out there. It's there. It's a light bulb. Like you've got child prodigies or something, like you say, they don't have to learn or require that. Where does it come from? And that's where it comes out. You know, you can tell it. The Mozart's, the Einstein's and...