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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 [You are trapped in mind.] 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 14th 'This' Notice the space of now. It is changelessly present. No matter what happens within the space, the space is always here. In this space, thoughts arise. Feelings are felt. Sensations are sensed. Sounds are heard. Experiences are experienced. But the space never changes or leaves. That space resonates with the awareness that is your true nature. It is not separate from awareness. Is spacious awareness separate from the things that arise in it? Don't think about that question, just look in your direct experience. Notice that to even say that there is a solid boundary between space and objects, awareness and thought, silence and sound, or formlessness and form is dualistic. There is nothing wrong with dualistic concepts. They also arise in 'This.' But notice that only thought is interpreting a boundary between these dualistic opposites. Without thought, there is only 'This.' The pointing here is not about reaching a thoughtless state. It is simply pointing to what is so immediately accessible and obvious that it is often missed. It is pointing to the fact that life is simply arising now as One Life and that separation occurs only within a dream of thought. When thought is completely believed, the world appears divided. But when thought is allowed to simply arise and fall without attachment, Oneness is realized. |
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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Our True Body
(Continuation...)
['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] Do they not both appear at an equal distance from Consciousness, which is no distance at all? Are they not both equally one with Consciousness, with 'I,' with that which experiences them? And 'I,' Consciousness, am here. I am always here.
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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...)
Yet, the experiences we go through in the first seven years of our life are not haphazard; they are as deliberate as the ticking of a clock.
Everything we experience in our first seven years, every energetic impulse we register, is staged by the universe.
It diligently serves to tattoo our emotional body with the exact frequency of the energetic baggage we bring with us to resolve in this lifetime.
This is where our blueprint or destiny for the present life experience is stored in a manner that is accessible to us.
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Chakra Purification Meditation IN THIS CHAKRA PURIFICATION MEDITATION, we use the sounds and their seed (bija) syllables as an aid to focus on the pre-existing energy vibration singing at each chakra. Seed sounds are the syllables' corresponding vibratory sound energy.  | | Thought |
Bring your awareness and listening to the seed sound, rather than projecting a sound onto it. The word "seed" indicates that something can grow from it. This meditation leads the spirit that's lost in thought, concepts of reality, and the pursuit of worldly matters back to no-thing-ness - that is, to consciousness, which is the source of infinite health. |
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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: Your people speak of karma and retribution.
M: It is merely a gross approximation: in reality we are all creators and creatures of each other, causing and bearing other's burden.
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From Above...
(Jordan highlights or comments on quotes from the teachings above |
Eckhart Tolle: "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."
Jordan: Does he seem frustrated? ;)
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Scott Kiloby: "...when thought is allowed to simply arise and fall without attachment, Oneness is realized."
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Michael Brown: "Everything we experience in our first seven years, every energetic impulse we register, is staged by the universe.
It diligently serves to tattoo our emotional body with the exact frequency of the energetic baggage we bring with us to resolve in this lifetime."
Jordan: This is the essence of his teaching, or one of them.
It means that there is 'nothing wrong' and that everything is unfolding exactly as it is, and that's okay.
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