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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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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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Tape 5
(Continuation...)
[The seeing is freeing.]
'Seeing,' I use it metaphorically. You don't necessarily see it with your eyes, you only see the external behavior with your eyes. But you see it with the sense of 'know' - you suddenly know all that unconsciousness is recognized. In that recognition, it is depersonalized. There is no longer a 'me' in it.
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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 20th How can I realize enlightenment? The question arises along the spiritual search, "If I am not the doer of any action, how can 'I' realize enlightenment?" The separate self that you take yourself to be is not your true identity. It is nothing more than a set of images tied together. This set of images consists of thoughts of past (who you believe you are), thoughts of future (who you believe you are going to become) and thoughts that resist what is happening right now. That set of images creates the appearance of a doer. This is sometimes called the personal will or ego. That personal will believes it took action in the past and that it can take action now and in the future to bring about desired outcomes. Enlightenment remains elusive when this personal will is trying to bully itself into some future state of freedom. Enlightenment is available when the personal will (i.e., the separate self) is seen to be nothing more than a contraction within the body and mind built around the story of me that lives in time. That thought-based, time-bound self will never realize enlightenment. Instead of trying to do things to reach enlightenment, effortlessly notice what is already being done. Notice the personal will as it arises in each moment. Notice the awareness within the body and mind in which the personal will arises and falls. That which notices is already free.
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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...)
Wouldn't you appear to be conscious of the entire experience? You'd have to be aware of this so-called god to be certain you had finally met. For this so-called god to even appear there, would depend on your being conscious of it. If there were no Consciousness, this god wouldn't be-so this god depends entirely on Consciousness for its existence. It is merely a mental concept-not true God or a power at all! A concept never is conscious or alive; it doesn't even know it is there. Only Consciousness Itself is conscious to know anything.
Real Power resides not with any human conceptual god-but with Consciousness which is forever greater than all concepts.
Why start with a vague god, or some concept, and try to kid yourself into believing this mental concoction is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient?
Turn the whole thing completely around.
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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 contain within us an ensemble of magnificence; an array of skilled and powerful aspects, attributes, and expressions, waiting to come to our rescue and lift us up to the higher place within ourselves from which there is no fall or toxic withdrawal. However, our inner resources cannot accomplish anything for us when we have no faith in them. When we instead choose to entertain parasitic behavior, inauthenticity, a quick fix, the lying we do to ourselves and hence everyone else, the stealing, cheating, and continual betrayal of those we love, this is the energetic nature of the unseen guests who make themselves at home within us. This is then the resonance of the congregation within our Inner Temple. To whom do they pray and what prayers, we may ask, are they praying on our behalf? Because they are praying on our behalf. |
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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...)
It is the creativity of Consciousness, through the faculties of mind and senses, which refracts Oneness into a dance of apparent multiplicity. Time is the first language of the mind. Space is the first language of the senses. Remove time and space from experience - that is, remove name and form - and we are left with the Oneness of Consciousness/ Existence. We are left with timeless, spaceless Presence, with Being. Being shines in the self as Consciousness and in the world as Existence. §
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 83
The True Guru
(Continuation...)
Q: Many Gurus have the habit of giving tokens of their grace-their head cloth, or their sticks, or begging bowl, or robe, thus transmitting or confirming the self-realization of their disciples. I can see no value in such practices. It is not self-realization that is transmitted but self-importance. Of what earthly use is being told something very flattering, but not true? On one hand you are warning me against the many self-styled Gurus, on the other you want me to trust you. Why do you claim to be an exception?
M: I do not ask you to trust me. Trust my words and remember them, I want your happiness, not mine. Distrust those who put a distance between you and you true being, and offer themselves as a go-between. I do nothing of the kind. I do not even make any promises. I merely say: if you trust my words and put them to test, you will discover how absolutely true they are. If you ask for a proof before you venture, I can only say: I am the proof. I did trust my teacher's words and kept them in my mind and I did find that he was right, that I was, am and shall be the infinite reality, embracing all, transcending all.
As you say, you have neither the time nor the energy for lengthy practices. I offer you an alternative. Accept my words on trust and live anew, or live and die in sorrow.
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