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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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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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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.
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Bliss Music
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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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Breitenbush 01 - The Rains Retreat - The Journey Home by Eckhart Tolle by
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Tape 5 (Continuation...)
[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.] So you have the two levels, it's bad enough to be trapped totally in mental interpretation and conceptualization and then to add to that you get the added energy of emotional pain that goes into it. And that's the reactive 'me' that lives in that. That's the human condition. |
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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 |
 | | Scott Kiloby |
July 16th More on "the source" The mind turns the source into a concept e.g., "God." Thought cannot answer the question, "What is the source of life?" Thought arises from and falls back into that source. Form arises from formlessness. The source is the unknown. Thought is the realm of the known. The spiritual search can continue for years as the seeker keeps trying to know the source (i.e., emptiness, spirit, formlessness, God) through its manifestations (thoughts, questions, religions, beliefs). In this moment, there is an unchanging, unmoving, formless, timeless awareness in which forms arise, giving the appearance of movement and change. These forms include thoughts, time, sounds, and emotions. The question, "What is the source," is ignorance. It arises from looking for the truth through a form that is arising - thought. Words can only point back to the formless source. The source must be directly recognized as the very life that you are. When the me story is seen to be just another manifestation, no different than a cloud or a coke can, the temporary nature of it is realized. Attachment to that story naturally dies when the source (i.e., spirit) from which it comes is realized to be your true nature. That realization is only available now because this moment is all there is. Yesterday and tomorrow are just presently arising thoughts - more manifestations. The spiritual search for future awakening is, therefore, a denial of the spirit that is already awake and alive now. |
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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...)
Read these pages as if It were Consciousness, the One Self, talking to Itself. This is the only "viewpoint" that is valid, true, and actually operating because again, the Self is the only One being conscious and alive here, now, so this can even be read! That may take getting used to-chances are you've never read anything written this way.
Just think what a marvelous book it would be if the Self, the One, wrote a book about Itself! What would the One Self say? It couldn't speak of a human struggle of becoming the Self-It could speak only of already being the Self. It wouldn't have to instruct, or say what It must do to get at-one with Itself, because It already is that! All the Self could speak of is Its own Presence-the immediacy of Itself to Itself. It could state only what It already, presently is-Oneness, Wholeness, Completeness and Perfection. Would that leave you out? Not at all! That Self being conscious here, now, is the only You there is.
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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...)
There is a big pay-off in perceiving ourselves as an addict.
- Do we receive sympathy? Attention?
- Are others required to support us?
- Are others required to clear up after us?
- Are others required to speak for us?
- Are we not expected to stand on our own two feet?
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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What We Are, It Is
(Continuation...)
We started with a model of experience that seemed to support the idea of a subject knowing an object through the medium of mind and senses. When the cloak or veil of mind and senses, of name and form, is removed, we are left with Consciousness and Existence.
When we look at our experience of Consciousness and Existence we find that they are identical.
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 83
The True Guru
(Continuation...)
Q: Perception is primary, the witness-secondary. M: This is the heart of the matter. As long as you believe that only the outer world is real, you remain its slave. To become free, your attention must be drawn to the 'I am,' the witness. Of course, the knower and the known are one not two, but to break the spell of the known, the knower must be brought to the forefront. Neither is primary, both are reflections in memory of the ineffable experience, ever new and ever now, untranslatable, quicker than the mind. |
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From Above...
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