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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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Seeing Through Resistance
posted 6/30/11
Sabbatical
(posted 5/31/11)
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Love Poems
August 29
(6/30/11)
Golden Hands
(6/30/11)
The Advent of Venkataraman
(6/17/11)
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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The Path of Shakti
"If you really want to live in bliss,
then half of the journey is awakening
the shakti:
the subtle energy current
that runs through your body
and beyond the body.
You sit with
a fully enlightened teacher
or you listen to
The Infinite Sky CDs
or The Calling CDs
and Shakti is awakened
in you.
The other half is attention.
You begin to feel this shakti
as bliss, peace or love
and you give your attention to it.
You become aware of it's
movement and through awareness
you allow it to move freely
through your body
and awaken every particle
of your being.
It's a very simple process,
but it comes down
to what you value.
If you value bliss,
if you value unconditional love
then you give your full attention to it,
and you nurture it.
But if you value other things,
if you place importance
on your opinions,
the content of your thinking
or outward fear and pleasure
then this bliss cannot
touch you as much.
It still touches you,
but not as deeply.
Still, slowly, it makes itself known
more and more
calling for your attention.
And little by little
you give up your distractions,
your worries, your self importance
and self destructive tendencies
for the peace
that permeates everything.
Because it makes you feel alive
in a way nothing else can.
You begin to adjust your life
around nurturing this bliss,
from the food you eat,
the activities you do,
to the company you keep.
And then this bliss begins
to appear in all aspects of life.
You walk in bliss,
you talk in bliss,
you work in bliss.
Bliss no longer becomes
something you have,
rather bliss simply is,
radiating without cause or reason.
You become so transparent
that there is only light.
Blessings,
Kip"
"In meditation
you are not moving
in a linear line
going from one
place to another.
Rather you are moving
deeper into this moment.
So the most important part
of meditation,
if you are practicing the path
of awareness
is to allow yourself
to rest in this moment.
To allow everything
to be exactly as it is
and relax into it
and sink right through it.
This sounds quite easy,
but when you are constantly
looking forward,
trying to attain something
trying to get somewhere,
then when you actually
try and rest in this moment,
you are confronted with something
that you want to escape.
It's like the closer you are
to no separation
you really feel
that sense of separation
the strongest.
When you are busy
looking forward in time
or backwards in time
then you have successfully
escaped fully feeling separation.
But the moment you give
up this linear movement
you are confronted
with what is here.
And then there is the need
for complete surrender,
to fully allow yourself
to sink into feeling
what is here.
To fully immerse yourself
into what is here
beyond the thoughts,
the emotions,
and the physical sensations.
There cannot be
any looking for it to be
a certain way.
You cannot look for there
to be a payout.
But the moment you give up
this constant urge to move
forward towards something,
and sink into this moment,
you are immersed in peace.
And then the practice
is to relax more and more
into the depth of consciousness
which exists outside of time.
To sink deeper and deeper
into the eternal stillness
of this moment
that lies beneath
all movement.
Blessings,
Kip"
Please Note:
Please Note:
My main teaching
is for you to immerse yourself
in Kundalini Shakti -
the energy one naturally
radiates in the highest states
of enlightenment.
I have found a way to turn
Kundalini Shakti into sound
So simply by listening to meditation music
you effortlessly awaken
to your natural state of unconditional
peace, bliss and freedom.
Please visit:
http://www.bliss-music.com/meditation_music.htm
and listen to the music samples
from the Infinite Sky Enlightened Meditation CDs.
If you are serious about meditation
then these CDs are a must.
Listen to free samples
and experience the bliss for yourself.
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Visit http://www.bliss-music.com/thecalling.htm
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Tape 5 [They'll recognize...it's very unconscious of course...but they will recognize you and be drawn to you because they can feed on you and you can feed on them (chuckles).] And this is why some people are very unconscious - totally unconscious in their xxxx <unintelligible>. Still, there are many humans beings on this planet who are totally unconscious of this process. There are humans for whom the pain-body is not just a phenomenon that arises just once a week for an hour or two. There are people for whom the pain body is there ninety percent of the time and even a hundred for some people live...their whole identity is a painful sense of self - the me. |
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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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July 2nd Criticism of others In criticizing another, no true understanding of the relationship can happen. You are imposing your interpretation of reality on the other. Awareness is looking through the filter of the false self. Hidden within your criticisms of others are unexamined ideas such as, "I am not happy with you. I cannot be fully at peace until you change. If you will simply do what I want you to do, I will love and accept you." This makes love conditional. Do you see the self-centeredness buried in that criticism? This self-centeredness is missed when the mind is busy pointing outward to the other. You do not see what is happening within. What is happening is a story of separation: me v. you. Non-duality is not about mentally concluding that there is no "self" and no "other." Those are just conclusions. Non-duality is a seeing. This includes seeing the whole relationship including the unconscious, personalized thoughts arising as you criticize the other. In presence, you are not looking through the filter of me v. you. You are not judging the person based on their past actions. You are not engaging in some thought of what you would like the person to be in the future. Unconditional love is only possible in this moment through awareness of the entire relationship including your thoughts and emotions about the other. It is then that the division between self and other is seen to be unreal. |
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Consciousness Is All: Now Life Is Completely New
by Peter Francis Dziuban by Blue Dolphin Publishing
Hardcover ~ Release Date: 2006-10-01
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FACT: THERE IS NOTHING GREATER THAN CONSCIOUSNESS
RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE CONSCIOUS.
What exactly is this Consciousness that you now are?
Did you ever ask yourself what pure Consciousness is-entirely distinct from every thing you are conscious of?
What is true of pure Consciousness, all by Itself alone?
That is the theme of this book, and the best way to start is by first agreeing there is Consciousness. That's easy enough-and more importantly, it's undeniable. You never can say, "There is no Consciousness," because you must already be conscious in order to say it.
"Of course I'm conscious," the thought may come. "Why belabor such an obvious fact?"
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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...)
It does not serve us at to resort to sympathy and to allow ourselves to wallow in our misconceptions about the real nature of our predicament. When it comes to an experience like heroine addiction, we are in the midst of a battle for our soul.
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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Our True Body
(Continuation...)
However, this identity of our Self with the Reality of all things is not an objective knowing. In this unknowing, simply the fact that there is something, that there is Being, that there is Consciousness, is the most extraordinary thing. In the light of this, walking on water or teleporting through space is no more remarkable than a speck of dust or the fly that has just landed on this table.
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This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
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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: What does the real gain through its expression? M: What can it gain? Nothing whatsoever. But it is in the nature of love to express itself, to affirm itself, to overcome difficulties. Once you have understood that the world is love in action, you will look at it quite differently. But first your attitude to suffering must change. Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of consciousness and being. Whatever prevents becomes a cause of pain and love does not shrink from pain. Sattva, the energy that works for righteousness and orderly development, must not be thwarted. When obstructed it turns against itself and becomes destructive. Whenever love is withheld and suffering allowed to spread, war becomes inevitable. Our indifference to our neighbor's sorrow brings suffering to our door. |
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From Above...
(Jordan highlights or comments on quotes from the teachings above |
| Nisargadatta: "Once you have understood that the world is love in action, you will look at it quite differently." |
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