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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
When I Die (7/20/11)
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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Bliss Music
 | | Kip Mazuy. |
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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...)
[And the moment it leaves you, because it then, after awhile it subsides because it has fed enough on your thinking and on other people.]
And then it goes to a dormant state and then you suddenly see what's happened and you, "Oh, that was the pain-body.
The whole afternoon and evening, yesterday, that was my pain-body.
And I was acting out this huge drama with my partner or at work and completely believed every word and I even got others to go into a similar state that I was in."
And so that was a pain-body episode, how interesting.
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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 22nd
Appearance of Separation
Thought reduces this radiant, mysterious One Life into fragments. Nothing is truly separate. Separateness is just an appearance created by thought. Thought can only think about one thing at a time. For example, think of "pancakes." Do you see that thought can only picture pancakes? It can only see and concentrate on one object or idea at a time. Thought is fragmented. Therefore thought will never see Oneness.
Thought makes the separate thing more important than the whole. Thought is a conceptual, dualistic dream. The main fragment that it makes important is the "I" thought. Everything is seen to center around this idea that "I" am a separate person. Instead of seeing One miraculous life, thought focuses on things like, "I want what I want!" and "Why don't they like me?"
When this "I" thought is seen to be just another fragment, when it is seen that there is no person separate from the rest of life, the entire world of separateness is seen to be merely an appearance. It is realized that there is only ėThis.' One Life. When the realization of Oneness has fully surrendered the me story, life is lived without a sense of a separate self.
This is not about denying the practical functioning of thought or the realm of the relative. It is about seeing thought's illusory nature.
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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...)
Fact: There Is Nothing Greater Than Consciousness.
Most likely you have flipped through these pages already, and found some of the language unusual, perhaps startling. That's good! Don't feel lost if some of the capitalized words are new and unlike anything you've seen before. They have to be-because what you are about to read presents a simple but fundamental reversal of human teaching and understanding. It reverses the mistaken identification from body to Consciousness.
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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...) This war is our rite of passage to self-discovery; this is the path we chose to accentuate our awakening. When we sincerely turn to the resources within ourselves, not because we think we have to, but because our heart tells us this is the only way forward, the only action that now makes any sense, and the only act of love that counts, then we overcome. This is our life lesson: To discover there is no force greater in the mind-matrix than the collective, unified, C.A.S.T. within us. |
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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 could say that Consciousness/ Existence takes a prodigal journey, apparently out of its own kingdom, into the realm of mind and matter. It is as though the seamlessness of Consciousness/Existence unfolds itself to become the world and then folds itself back up again, folds the world back into itself.
We experience this every time we make the transition from deep sleep to the dreaming state and from the dream state to the waking state.
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 83
The True Guru
(Continuation...)
Q: Is it right to change Gurus?
M: Why not change? Gurus are like milestones. It is natural to move on from one to another. Each tells you the direction and the distance, while the sadguru, the eternal Guru, is the road itself. Once you've realized that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy it's beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
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From Above...
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