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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
 | | Kip Mazuy. |
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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 And so the depth and aliveness and sacredness is covered up. All you have now is the label that you relate to. And you can't go beyond, it's right there in front of your eyes with it, enormous depth and so you cut yourself off from the depth that is there, but that is equivalent from your own depth, that is beyond the mind. You are trapped in mind. |
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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 13th Misinterpreting the message Does recognizing timeless awareness mean that you follow whatever impulse arises in awareness, including the impulse to cheat on your spouse or hurt others? To the mind, awareness may look like a state of ignorance, apathy, depression, or nihilism. This view results from trying to grasp the pointers conceptually rather than looking to where the words are actually pointing. The actual awareness to which these words are pointing is naturally free, loving, peaceful, and open. It is not a particular state, attitude or impulse. It is the ground or essence of all states, ideas, impulses and attitudes. It is a fundamental Oneness and therefore an unconditional love of life. If there truly is no separation and if your true nature is unconditional love, is there a me who would desire to harm "myself" or "others?" |
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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Our True Body
(Continuation...)
[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] Does this apparent border really separate the thought 'inside' myself from the sound 'outside'? Is it true that the sensation that we call our hand, for instance, is closer to us - that is, closer to this witnessing Consciousness - than the sound we are hearing in the distance? 'In the distance' is a concept. The sound appears here, in me, in Consciousness, in exactly the same place as the sensation we call our hand.
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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...)
This is why working with our child self is necessary in restoring peace to our life experience.
While we are in this world, our child self, our emotional component, is the keeper of the causal point of the unresolved experiences we bring with us from other lifetimes.
In this respect, nothing happening during our childhood is new.
This is challenging for us to grasp when we view our childhood from a time-based perspective. |
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Ending Our Relationship with Disease (Continuation...) If we are able to accept everything we are - everything we  | | Thought |
label good or bad, as well as everything we categorize as beautiful or ugly - and we simply love the whole of life unconditionally, we become a manifestation of the health of our One Self. We are healed. |
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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: I am asking about the immediate, the transitory, the appearance. Here is a child killed by soldiers. It is a fact-staring at you. You cannot deny it. Now, who is responsible for the death of the child?
M: Nobody and everybody. The world is what it contains and each thing affects all others. We all kill the child and we all die with it. Every event has innumerable causes and produces numberless effects. It is useless to keep accounts, nothing is traceable.
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From Above...
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Scott Kiloby: "To the mind, awareness may look like a state of ignorance, apathy, depression, or nihilism.
Jordan: I see this.
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