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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.
Realize Your Own Freedom:
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Visit http://www.bliss-music.com/thecalling.htm
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Tape 5 (Continuation...) [You can see, when you...if the predominate energy vibration of their pain-body is anger and that person walks past, you can sense it coming, it's waiting for an excuse to externalize the anger.] And when you look into the eyes of a person possessed by a pain-body, you can see that the pain-body looks through their eyes at you. It's pure raw emotion and it wants some reaction from you. It loves a reaction. "Give me a reaction." |
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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 4th Childlike Wonder Childlike wonder happens in the experiential realization that every thought and emotion and every other aspect of life arises spontaneously out of nothing. The heavy burden of me is seen to be unreal in this seeing. From the point of view of the false, separate self, thought measures back into past to claim, "I did that," and measures forward into future to claim, "I am going to do that." But look more closely. Even those thoughts arise spontaneously out of nothing. Are you bringing those thoughts about? In seeing that you are not the doer, there is a realization that you are being done, that life is being done. It is simply happening whether there is consent or resistance to the way it is happening. What you think you know is what stands in the way of this liberation. What you think you are in control of stands in the way of this liberation. As it is seen that the story you take to be "you" does not know or control anything, liberation is realized. This is childlike wonder. No separate self can achieve childlike wonder. The separate self is too busy dreaming that it has control and that it knows all the answers. Childlike wonder appears obscured by the mental movements of knowing and controlling. But even the thoughts that say "I know" and "I am in control" are happening spontaneously. Therefore, there is no obscuration. |
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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.
(Continuation...)
If there were no Consciousness functioning, it would be impossible to say there is anything. It couldn't be said there was a single flower, tree or mountain. There would be none of the riches on earth-not to mention the earth itself. It couldn't be said there was a moon, stars, or one speck of the entire universe. Without Consciousness first being conscious, simply nothing could be said to exist, not even Life Itself. In fact, one couldn't even be conscious of a nothingness!
Your consciousness of your world is all there is to your world.
The point is, nothing is greater than, or exists beyond Consciousness.
This isn't anything mystical. It's a 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...)
We are therefore encouraged to facilitate our journey into self-discovery by asking ourselves questions like: - we willing to hear this truth being spoken, or do we react to it with the viciousness we know we host and use to inflict pain on others as a means to hide from our predicament?
- Does anyone in our experience go beyond their own fears to address the fear we harbor within our own heart?
- Are those in our midst who profess to be helping us, actually helping us, or are they only succeeding in saving us from helping ourselves?
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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Our True Body
(Continuation...)
Of course, into this openness, formulations arise that are appropriate responses to the current situation. They come from the situation itself and as a result they are hand-in-glove with it. One example of such a response may be a formulation about the nature of Reality. This formulation will be a provisional response to a question or a situation. However, when the situation vanishes, the response vanishes with it.
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 83
The True Guru
Q: And what would happen to the energy, or the power in the Guru's words?
M: It would remain latent, unmanifested. But the entire question is based on misunderstanding. The master, the disciple, the love and trust between them, these are one fact, not so many independent facts. Each is a part of the other. Without love and trust there would have been no Guru nor disciple, and no relationship between them. It is like pressing a switch to light an electric lamp. It is because the lamp, the wiring, the switch, the transformer, the transmission lines and the powerhouse form a single whole, that you get the light. Any one factor missing and there would be no light. You must not separate the inseparable. Words do not create facts; they either describe them or distort. The fact is always non-verbal.
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