Only That: The Life and Teaching of Sailor Bob Adamson by Lawry Kalyani

Author:Lawry, Kalyani [Lawry, Kalyani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Non-Duality Press
Published: 2010-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Thinking, Feeling and Emotion

Bob: Thought, feeling and emotion are one and the same thing, just as steam, water and ice are basically one and the same. You can’t burst into tears right now. First a sad thought might arise and if you keep it there long enough, then a sad feeling will well up in you. Keep that sad feeling there long enough and the tears will come. Now we’ve done this so many times, we’ve sort of hypnotised ourselves. We see something and before we realise it, the thoughts and the emotions can be there almost instantly. Then we divide them up and we try working on our emotions, our feelings and all the rest of it. In that division it keeps on going forever.

At the time when you label the emotion as fear, it’s just a sensation. It’s not called fear until you label it. You then relate it to past events that you’ve labelled as fear. As soon as you do that you’ve added all the other fears to it and those feelings and sensations come up. You are not going to be feeling-less or emotion-less , but when they come up, they are seen as they are in the moment. They are not related to past events and experiences, and they’re not a problem.

Watch what happens in nature. The lion will take off after a herd of antelope. Some of the antelope might have been lying down, but they get up and run off straight away. After the lion has caught one antelope, the rest will then get on with living again and eating. If the lion chased us, we’d be looking over our shoulder for the rest of the day saying “Shit, where is he now? Is he still coming?” We’d carry the fear around and beat ourselves up with it, even though the danger had long since past.

Q: So how do you get rid of all the emotions that we’ve labelled?

Bob: Well, again, have a look at it. What conditioning is there right now if you don’t think about it? All it is is an expression of that pure intelligence energy. Take the label and the meaning out of it and it’s just another movement of energy. The feelings and sensations are movements of energy.

Q: The experiencing of the body feels so predominant. It feels like there is an entity.

Bob : Yeah, it makes it feel like it, but have a look and see if you can find anything. It’s just a feeling or a sensation which you say feels like an entity. But you see, what you’re trying to do is to take it back to the no-thing conceptually. You are trying to grasp it with a concept – maybe it’s this, or maybe it’s that. That’s what we’ve been doing all our lives. If you have not found the answer there, do you think you’re going to find it now? Do you think one day maybe you will find a conceptual answer to say, “This is what I am” – when a concept is only a mental construct.

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