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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
Ghost
(8/8/11)
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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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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Going Beyond Content
"In meditation
we are simply
noticing
that everything is.
It is not the 'everything'
that is important,
it is the is-ness itself
that is the key.
The mind is always
caught up in the content.
But awareness
only experiences the essence.
Whether there is anger
or a thought
of a chocolate brownie
or a heavy rain outside.
All of these things
are of the same energy.
They exist out of
life itself,
the one energy
that is animating everything.
And even in saying this
the mind is agreeing
or disagreeing.
The mind is relating
to the words as content.
It is trying to comprehend
something that
cannot really be put in words
in the first place.
All the words can really do
is point
and it is up to
you whether you give
your attention
to where the words are
pointing
or you get caught up
in the content
of the words.
And if you give
your attention
to where the words are pointing,
then you move beyond words;
you move beyond content
and rest in that
which cannot really be described.
So there is this shift that
needs to happen,
to move beyond trying
to experience things with the
intellect or emotion
to experiencing what is here
beyond intellect and emotion.
To realizing
the is-ness
of everything.
It is not that thinking
has to stop,
it is that you stop
being transfixed
by the content
of the thinking
and realize
that which is always
animating the content,
that which is
making the content
possible in the first place.
The conscious
ever flowing energy
that is bliss itself.
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...)
[The suchness of this moment is that there's a movement of turbulence, pain in some form.]
And then it quickly passes when there's no longer that identification with mind anymore.
You may experience interesting things like what before was a heavy drama episode in your life when you were identified with pain-body could now be a quick movement through your energy field of pain, let's say it's anger, and you receive a quick flash of 'arrrgh' moving through you and it lasts for a minute, two minutes, five minutes or ten seconds.
It's gone.
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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 |
August 8th Enlightenment for no one With respect to enlightenment, thought says, "I have it" or "I don't have it." Those are dualistic ideas. The mind can get lost not only in the search for enlightenment but also in the false idea that it has attained it. Enlightenment reveals that there is no separate self except as a dream of thought. A self can only consider itself enlightened if it sees others who are not. The idea that I am or am not enlightened is just more separation. Enlightenment is for no one. It is absolute liberation that no time-bound, egoic self could ever know. No story of self reaches enlightenment. That self is just a story of time, which means a story of mind. That story is doing everything it can to avoid this moment (i.e., to avoid enlightenment). Its main goal is to stay in separation - to be someone in relation to, better than, less than, or more spiritual than the others. It accomplishes this by staying locked in thought, in time. When that movement of self is seen to be nothing more than thought, something beyond thought recognizes itself. That which wakes up is what you really are. It knows no separation. In this seeing, there is no longer the belief in a separate self who needs to tell stories about being enlightened or not being enlightened. |
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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...)
Pure Awareness is not a trend, not "spiritually cool," not a hot money-making opportunity. Awareness doesn't see Itself as being in vogue at the start of a millennium, nor think of Itself as a new paradigm. It holds no pre-conceived notions, but simply is aware, present. So read as a "clean slate" of pure Awareness. Read as if never aware before, but now only. Only this is what Consciousness Itself is.
While reading, a particular point may make a strong impact. Perhaps "a light will go on." Meanwhile, the next sentence beckons you to continue right on reading. Don't.
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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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PART V: QUESTIONS ASKED AFTER COMPLETING THE PRESENCE PROCESS2. THE PRESENCE PROCESS states there is no intention to train facilitators in this procedure, why is this? (Continuation...)
Because of The Dark Age of linear time-based living, it is not apparent to us yet that everything we seek is found within us. We also do not realize that everything manufactured by humanity and manifested outwardly into the world comes from within us, or that the world is a mirror reflecting our collective internal condition.
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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Peace And Happiness Are Inherent In Consciousness
(Continuation...)
A thought, a sensation, a perception and a dream are all made out of the same 'stuff' and they all appear in the same space. They are made out of and appear within the same Consciousness, and it is this same Consciousness that is present during the gaps between appearances and during objectless deep sleep.
As the object changes or leaves, either during each state or during the transition between states, the Consciousness that is present behind the object as its witness and within the object as its substance, remains exactly as it always is, ever-present and unchanged. Any changes that are experienced in the body, mind or world are changes that appear to this Consciousness.
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 84
Your Goal Is Your Guru
(Continuation...)
Q: When I meet a European with some education and talk to him about a Guru and his teachings, his reaction is: 'the man must be mad to teach such nonsense.' What am I to tell him?
M: Take him to himself. Show him, how little he knows about himself, how he takes the most absurd statements about himself for holy truth. He is told that he is the body, was born, will die, has parents, duties, learns to like what others like and fears. Totally a creature of hereditary and society, he lives by memory and acts by habits. Ignorant of himself and his true interests, he pursues false aims and is always frustrated. His life and death are meaningless and painful, and there seems to be no way out. Then tell him, there is a way out within his easy reach, not a conversion to another set of ideas, but liberation from all ideas and patterns of living. Don't tell him about Gurus and disciples -this way of thinking is not for him. His is an inner path; he is moved by an inner urge and guided by an inner light. Invite him to rebel and he will respond. Do not try to impress on him that so -and-so is a realized man and can be accepted as a Guru. As long as he does not trust himself, he cannot trust another. And confidence will come with experience.
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From Above...
(Jordan highlights or comments on quotes from the teachings above |
Eckhart Tolle: "You may experience interesting things like what before was a heavy drama episode in your life when you were identified with pain-body could now be a quick movement through your energy field of pain,..."
Jordan: I get this a lot. Don't know if it is from following this teaching or simply getting older.
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Michael Brown: We also do not realize that 'everything' manufactured by humanity and manifested outwardly into the world comes from within us, or that the world is a mirror reflecting our 'collective' internal condition.
Jordan: Two key words are 'everything' and 'collective.'
Everything - means everything.
Collective-internal-condition - I guess that means all of us.
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