|
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.
|
 | | Carin |
Seeing Through Resistance
posted 6/30/11
Sabbatical
(posted 5/31/11)
|
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.)
|
|
Jordan Shafer, editor of The Daily Now, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and EMDR Therapist in private practice in Plano, Texas
His counseling blends the use of the nondual teachings as presented in The Daily Now, with traditional methods from Western psychology.
Jordan has found that a missing piece for most counseling, Eastern or Western, is their inability ...
|
The Daily Now
Contributors
Jordan Shafer, editor
Katherine Skow, transcriptions
Joy Brehaut, transcriptions
Follow on Twitter
The Daily Now Blog
|
Bliss Music
 | | Kip Mazuy. |
|
|
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:
Unconditional Peace & Bliss is Yours For the Taking
Simply by Meditating to a Unique Spiritual Enlightenment CD.
Visit http://www.bliss-music.com/thecalling.htm
Struggling in Your Meditation?
Ocean Euphoric Makes Meditation Easy. Visit http://www.bliss-music.com/oceaneuphoric.htm
|
Healthy Weight Loss
The use of Isagenix supports mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well being. |
 What is EMDR?
How EMDR Works - Jordan Explains (video)
Psychology Today
Contact Jordan
Local Counseling Therapy
Plano, TX
Dallas - Fort Worth - Metroplex
Counseling & Therapy Local, Worldwide and Online
(972) 342-2448 Appointments
(214) 668-2727 Jordan Shafer
|
|
|
|
 
Breitenbush 01 - The Rains Retreat - The Journey Home by Eckhart Tolle by
No Longer Available From Amazon |
 | | Eckhart Tolle |
Tape 5 (Continuation...)
[It loves a reaction. "Give me a reaction."] So, if it's anger then it will encounter anger because it attracts anger from other pain-bodies. So, there are humans who are almost continuously possessed by that and they encounter many unpleasant experiences. Which then continuously confirms to their mind that their interpretation of the world - which is probably that basically this is not a good place to be, "everybody's out to get me" - and continuously life confirms that interpretation. |
This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
|
 Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment
by Scott Kiloby by BookSurge Publishing
Paperback ~ release Date: 2009-08-10
To Scott Kiloby |
 | | Scott Kiloby |
July 5th Your real identity If you are thinking and someone says, "Look at that tree," thought has to stop so that awareness can take the sight in directly. Thought does not see. Only awareness sees. In that moment of suspending thought long enough to see what is here in the present moment, you are getting a glimpse of your true nature as awareness. You are that which sees, not the object that is seen. If you are thinking and someone says, "Listen to that sound," thought has to stop so that awareness can take the sound in directly. Thought does not hear. Only awareness hears. In that moment of suspending thought long enough to hear what is arising in the present moment, you are getting a glimpse of your true nature as awareness. You are that which hears, not the sound that is heard. Can you see how your true nature gets apparently obscured? You are living life through the filter of the time-bound, thought-based separate self, instead of recognizing that your real identity is the timeless awareness in which everything - every thought, sound, object, state, experience, and situation - appears and disappears. Paradoxically, as awareness is realized to be your real identity, you see that the objects that appear in awareness are not separate from awareness. Without awareness, none of the objects would appear. |
This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
|
|
Consciousness Is All: Now Life Is Completely New
by Peter Francis Dziuban by Blue Dolphin Publishing
Hardcover ~ Release Date: 2006-10-01
List Price: $34.95
Our Price: $21.84
Buy Now
Click here to obtain a copy >>
|
|
 | | Peter Dziuban |
FACT: THERE IS NOTHING GREATER THAN CONSCIOUSNESS
RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE CONSCIOUS.
(Continuation...)
Right now ask yourself, what could exist beyond, or be greater than Consciousness. Really try to come up with something out beyond It. Whatever is mentioned-even the whole universe-the only reason it can be mentioned is because it is some thing you appear to be conscious of. If anything, the universe seems or appears to be within Consciousness; Consciousness never is within it. Thus Consciousness is greater than it, and not bounded by it at all.
|
Michael Brown
Excerpts From "Being Our Companion: Exploring Self-Facilitation Through The Presence Process"
The Presence Portal |
 | | Michael Brown |
(Continuation...)
We are therefore encouraged to facilitate our journey into self-discovery by asking ourselves questions like: - Are we manipulating them into behaving this way?
- Do we then despise them for being weak?
- Who in our life experience is asking nothing of us? (Only those asking nothing of us are able to tell us the truth. Anyone with a vested interest in us overcoming our addiction needs and wants something from us, as much as a dealer who is selling us the drug of our choice. Neither can tell us the truth.)
|
The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
|
 | | Rupert Spira |
Our True Body
(Continuation...)
[However, when the situation vanishes, the response vanishes with it] The response never frames Reality, although it is an expression of it and points towards it. The response arises from this Unknowingness, dances with the question for a while and then merges with it, returning it to its source, Silence. In fact the real response is Silence itself. It is Silence that consumes the question. §
|
This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
|
This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
|
Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
|
|
Chapter 83
The True Guru
(Continuation...)
Q: I still do not understand; can the Guru's word remain unfulfilled or will it invariably prove true?
M: Words of a realized man never miss their purpose.
They wait for the right conditions to arise, which may take some time, and this is natural, for there is a season for sowing and a season for harvesting. But the word of the Guru is a seed that cannot perish. Of course, the Guru must be a real one, who is beyond the body and the mind, beyond consciousness itself, beyond space and time, beyond duality and unity, beyond understanding and description.
The good people, who have read a lot and have a lot to say, may teach you many useful things, but they are not the real Gurus whose words invariably come true. They also may tell you that you are the ultimate reality itself, but what if it?
|
This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
|
 | | Jordan |
From Above...
(Jordan highlights or comments on quotes from the teachings above |
Nisargadatta: The good people, who have read a lot and have a lot to say, may teach you many useful things, but they are not the real Gurus whose words invariably come true.
They also may tell you that you are the ultimate reality itself, but what of it?
Jordan: He gets right to the point. |
This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
|
|
|
|
|
Peter Dziuban - New Contributor