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The quotes are from seven teachers of non-duality. The passages on the right are updated daily and the one on the left by Kip changes weekly. Jordan makes comments in the bottom panel and you are invited to join in on The Daily Now blog.
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Sabbatical
(posted 5/31/11)
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Love Poems
Flawless
(5/28/11)
By Ana Ram Callan
(I'd like to offer a series of love poems for my Beloved Ramana. Please note that I refer to Him variously as Ram, Rama. and Ramana, as He is an embodiment of Divine Consciousness, ultimately without a name at all.)
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Bliss Music
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Seeing Through the Mind
"If you observe
the process of identifying
with thoughts,
you will find that
there is a pleasure
in identifying with that thought.
And what I mean
by identifying
is you grab hold of that thought,
you make that thought you,
it becomes your identity.
So say a memory arises about
your mother
and immediately
you make that thought about you.
Instead of noticing
a thought just arouse
and letting it go,
you become involved with it,
you become involved
with the emotions,
memories and judgments
around it.
You become the person
in that story.
This is me, that's my Mom,
this is the story about my Mom
and me, how happy or sad
it makes me to remember this.
On and on it goes
all from a thought arising.
And in getting involved in that story,
a small amount of endorphins
are released.
You feel pleasure.
Every time you get involved
with a thought and turn it
into a story and make it about
you and your life,
there is a pleasure there.
And part of that pleasure
is that you are a someone
and someone special.
The sense of being an
individual self
is intoxicating to a certain
degree.
Otherwise,
why would you do it?
So what I want to point out
is in meditation
I am saying be aware
of thinking
instead of identifying,
yet there is a pleasure
there that you are giving up
in doing so.
If you are not identifying
with thinking,
then that sense of
being an individual person
is not there.
What is there,
what you are
is not definable,
it is not a solid something
with boundaries.
And so the pull is to
go back to that sense
of being an individual
with a story and a definition
and all the drama that goes
with it.
Because you do
get something out of it,
you do get a pleasure out of it.
It's like a security blanket.
Even in your most dramatic
emotions of sadness and loss
you get a hit off of it.
And I am not telling you
to stop it,
or give it up.
Just by being aware of this process,
being aware of how this whole
individual mind/self works
it begins to fall apart on
its own.
Simply through observation,
the whole self importance
of being an ego
begins to fall apart.
You stop romanticizing
this idea of 'me'
because the truth
of what is here
seems much more appealing
than the play
you have been caught up in.
Blessings,
Kip"
Blessings,
Kip"
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Breitenbush 01 - The Rains Retreat - The Journey Home by Eckhart Tolle by
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Tape 5 [But to do that to yourself and to others by labeling them [is violence].]
You do it to nature, by labeling. The first act of violence to nature is to have a label like 'bad weather' and believe in it. (chuckles)
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 Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment
by Scott Kiloby by BookSurge Publishing
Paperback ~ release Date: 2009-08-10
To Scott Kiloby |
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June 12th Relationship is a mirror Relationship is a mirror. Objects, situations, and people are acting as mirrors in which your story of self is being reflected back to you. When you enter a situation and make a judgment that it should not be happening, that situation is showing you your story of self. In that moment, the story is, "I cannot be happy or at peace until this situation changes." In resisting the situation, you are keeping alive the illusion that you are separate from that situation. In the moment you make a judgment of someone, you are defining who you are in relation to the other. For example, if you judge someone as attractive, the story of self is that you are also attractive or that you are ugly in comparison to that person. Hidden within thought's judgment of others is comparison between you and the others. The self is trying to be someone in relation to someone else. It is seeking to be separate from the rest of life. In truly seeing that relationship is a mirror, the movement to define a self in relation to objects, situations, and people quiets. This is sometimes called Oneness because when the sense of a separate self is seen through, it is realized that there is only This and you are not separate from 'This.' It is realized that the apparently separate objects, situations, and people are all reflections of 'This.' |
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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Our True Body
(Continuation...)
Is it true that our thoughts are on the inside of this Consciousness and that sounds are on the outside? What is our actual experience of the boundary between what is 'inside' myself and what is 'outside' myself? There is no experience of such a boundary! If we think that we do experience such a boundary, is not that boundary itself a perception, an object that is free-floating in Consciousness, along with whatever else is being experienced in the moment?
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Michael Brown
Excerpts From "Being Our Companion: Exploring Self-Facilitation Through The Presence Process"
The Presence Portal |
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(Continuation...)
Everything that requires resolution so that we can bring peace to our present experience is brought with us and energetically imprinted into our emotional body in the first seven years of our current life experience. No one and nothing went away, or ever does. Because it is energetically attached to our presence, our energetic baggage is automatically carried with us from our previous experiences and accompanies us into this life so we may interact with it here and now. It is stored in our emotional body. Our task now is to deliver it beyond positive or negative by neutralizing our relationship with it, by accessing the wisdom from it, by responding instead of reacting to it.
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Ending Our Relationship with Disease (Continuation...) To be patient means we trust unconditionally. Such trust is essential for healing, which happens not as the result of effort, but effortlessly. It comes from inactivity, even passivity, flowing from consciousness. We can be health only on the pillars of our consciousness, by patiently transforming our unconsciousness into consciousness. As long as we're expecting something, we  | | Thought |
can't trust unconditionally - can't receive life just as it is. In contrast, when we accept everything, there are no expectations. When we love the whole of life without any ulterior motive, so that our love flows freely without expectations and without regard to the future, it becomes our ultimate healing energy. |
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 82
Absolute Perfection is Here and Now.
(Continuation...)
Q: My question remains unanswered. You are merely describing what I know-life and its sorrows. But who is responsible, you do not say. When I press you, you throw blame at God, or Karma, or on my own greed and fear-which merely invites further questions. Give me your final answer.
M: The final answer is this: nothing is. All is momentary appearance in the field of the universal consciousness; continuity as name and form is a mental formation only, easy to dispel.
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From Above...
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Michael Brown: "Everything that requires resolution so that we can bring peace to our present experience is brought with us and energetically imprinted into our emotional body in the first seven years of our current life experience."
Jordan: And it shows up in the form of emotional upset or discomfort - what we don't want.
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