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EMDR & Nondual WisdomJuly 2011

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 Channing
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Hating My Age.  Ahhh Yes.

(7/13/11) 

 

Calm Within the Storm:  The first ever Stay Open singing response

(7/13/11)

 

  Seeing Through Resistance

(posted 6/30/11)

 

Sabbatical

(posted 5/31/11)




Love Poems

Their Gratitude, Only They
Could Know

(7/13/11)


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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His counseling blends the use of the nondual teachings as presented in The Daily Now, with traditional methods from Western psychology.

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Kip Mazuy.

Power of Now    

 
"It's very easy
to carry the past
around with you.

To think about what happened
yesterday
or a year ago
or 20 years ago.
 
To think
you could have done
something different
that would have
made things better.
 
Or link all of the memories
together into a story
and calling it 'me.'

But it's all nonsense.
 
What happened
even 20 seconds ago
has nothing to do
with what you are now.
 
From the perspective
of the mind
you are this person
that stretches back in time.
You are the sum
of all of your memories.

But this is only mental chatter.
It has nothing to do with
what you truly are.

Truly, meaning
not what you think yourself to be
but what is here beyond
all the thinking nonsense.
 
No matter
what you may think about it,
you are alive in this moment.

Yesterday is not alive;
yesterday is nonexistent.
 
Right now,
there is the undeniable
sense of life
beyond all the useless
definitions and descriptions.

Right now life is happening
and it is your choice
whether you are alive
in this moment
or you choose
to distract yourself
about endless
commentaries
of what happened before,
what might happen later
and what to call this moment
so the mind can understand it.

If you choose in this moment
to experience yourself alive
then you are radiance.

It is no easy task,
it requires your complete
attention
to remain here
on what is really
going on in this moment.

Not your ideas about
what is going on,
not your knowledge
of what it felt like 10 seconds ago
to be alive in this moment.

But right here;
living is happening,
life is happening.

Not for your body
or your mind
or any of that nonsense.
 
You allow all that to be
but you look past it.

Something much bigger,
life itself
in its totality
radiating
even exploding
in this moment
with such force
that it belittles
the mind,
belittles
the idea of this
self important 'you'
with all its problems
and desires.

Its not really about
getting a certain pleasure
or attainment
but being alive,
being willing enough
to truly feel life
happening in this moment
and remaining
alive,
remaining
attentive
to the direct experience
that life is happening
forever and ever
in this moment.
 
To remain immersed
in the source of life
that is lighting up
the whole show.
 
And if you even
think about it
you miss it.

If you know it
you miss it.

It is too simple
for understanding.

Too close to you
to even be seen.
 
You can only be
and recognize being,
which are really the
same thing.
 
You fully recognize
being in this moment
and there is no
room for anything else.

Consciousness
takes up the whole view.
 
Blessings,
 
 
Kip"
 
 
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Tape 5 

 

(Continuation...)

 


   

[Although it was still fairly harmless in the beginning.  And then it becomes - 'bad weather.]  

 

So you can see that you may even have detected in yourself the interpretation of the mind - the label - and the interpretation by the emotion which becomes the reaction. 



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Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment
by Scott Kiloby by BookSurge Publishing
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Scott Kiloby
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July 15th

 

The Source

 

All your life, you have been focused on forms including thoughts, emotions, states, situations, and experiences.  Have you noticed the formlessness that is prior to these forms?

People, objects, thoughts, feelings, situations, and experiences arise from and fall back into this formless source.  This source is prior to everything that arises including thoughts, emotions, objects, people, and experiences.  This source does not leave while the forms are appearing and it remains once the forms disappear.  This source contains the abundance you've been looking for all your life.  It is already within you.  It is what you are prior to what or who you think you are.

 

The question may arise, "How do I find the source?"  The time-bound, thought-based story of you will never find that source.  That story is a form arising out of and falling back into the source.  This reflection is not inviting you to inhabit this source as if you are a person who is separate from the source and who must find it.  This source is what you already are.  This reflection is pointing to the present, direct recognition of what you already are.  No thought will reveal it.  Look to presence only.

 

Enlightenment is missed not because it is difficult to attain.  It is your true nature.  It is the simple and obvious presence that is here now before that presence focuses on or identifies with the forms that arise and fall in it.  

 



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FACT: THERE IS NOTHING GREATER THAN CONSCIOUSNESS

 

 

RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE CONSCIOUS.

 

(Continuation...) 

 

 

Fact: There Is Nothing Greater Than Consciousness. 

 

The human way of life appears to be one of starting with imperfection and trying to progress out of it. Looking out from pure Consciousness doesn't start with human experience and try to take it to a higher level. It starts with the perfection of the Divine Self and stays Here.

 

Instantly, It's a completely new Life.




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TPP
Michael Brown

Excerpts From "Being Our Companion:  Exploring Self-Facilitation Through The Presence Process"

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Michael Brown
Michael Brown

   

31. I am a heroine user attempting to resolve the cause of my addiction. Since starting the Process I have repeated nightmares about similar past life experiences. I am struggling with the fear these nightmares generate. THE PRESENCE PROCESS focuses on healing the child within us, but what about working with our past life traumas? What if the cause of addiction is not in this life?

 

(Continuation...)

 

 

It is necessary to let go of all the drug-related paraphernalia that entered our life from the moment we experienced our first dose. It is all part of the trip.

 

  • Are we prepared to die to all of this?  
  • Are we prepared to walk away from this addictive experience with nothing but our own heart in our hands, battered as it may be?
  • Are we prepared to stand naked in the world so we may learn how to clothe our own soul?  
  • Or, are we still secretly hoping for The White Knight to ride in at the last moment and save us? (It is not coming.  

 



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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press

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Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira
  

 

What We Are, It Is  

 

(Continuation...)

 

Therefore, if Consciousness and Existence are both present in every experience and yet neither of them have any qualities, they cannot be separate.

 

Consciousness and Existence are one and the same. That is our moment by moment experience.

 



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Nisargadatta  
 Nisargadatta 

"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
    

Nisargadatta

 

 

Chapter 83

 

The True Guru

 

(Continuation...) 


 

[M:  Emptiness remains, awareness remains, pure light of the conscious being remains.  It is like asking what remains of a room when all the furniture is removed?  A most serviceable room remains.  And when even the walls are pulled down, space remains.  Beyond space and time is the here and now of reality.]

 

Q:  Does the witness remain?

 

M:  As long as there is consciousness, its witness is also there.  The two appear and disappear together. 

 

Q:  If the witness too is transient, why is it given so much importance?

 

M:  Just to break the spell of the known, the illusion that only the perceivable is real. 

 

 



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Jordan Shafer , CompassionWorks
Jordan

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From Above...

  

(Jordan highlights or comments on quotes from the teachings above

  
Nisargadatta:  "Just to break the spell of the known, the illusion that only the perceivable is real."

  

 


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