Bob Adamson, is a speaker and author on the subject of Nonduality, who lives in Melbourne Australia. He is the author of What's Wrong with Right Now, Unless You Think About It? and Presence-Awareness: Just This and Nothing Else.

Adamson teaches that this is the direct and immediate introduction to the natural state, forgoing the need for meditation or extended spiritual practices.

His spiritual search ended one day in 1976 when he was in the presence of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a much revered Jnani who functioned always from the 'natural state'. Nisargadatta told Bob that "the greatest help that can be given to anyone is to take them beyond the need for further help" and by pointing out to Bob that one's existence, one's sense of being is beyond doubt.

Adamson's teachings revolve around the fact that our sense of presence, existence is always there:

"Self shining presence-awareness is not the result of effort. There is no need to try to do something with the expectation that suddenly awareness will be there. Presence-awareness is always here and now whether it is recognized or seemingly lost. It is not something that can be created or destroyed. Conceptual thinking is like the cloud that seemingly blocks the sun. Being at ease in non-conceptual naturalness is presence awareness already here and now. Re-cognize again, and again, and again, and the knowing it is always so, is constant, in spite of what appears and disappears."
Presence Awareness Chapter 13 by Bob Adamson

Quotes

Bob refers to his ideas as "pointers", ideas that are meant to direct the mind towards a different reality, in this case- one's own true nature- presence awareness

"What's wrong with Right Now - unless you think about it?"

"Let the thought go - drop it - if only for an instant - you see that, that silence - that stillness - that clarity - that shining beingness is there, as it ever was and will be"

"What you are seeking, you already are. So it is foolish to carry on the search. The only place the search started from, is in the mind"

"It is right here - right now as What Is - In knowing that, how can there be any conflict? -- Relax and be what you are"

"It is only in the mind that this conflict goes on!"

Source: Rob Ek's www.chakraplein.nl

External links

Home page of 'Sailor' Bob Adamson

'The Advaita Show'- a podcast show with Bob Adamson

See also

Nonduality

Vedanta