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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.
Jordan has found that a missing piece for most counseling, Eastern or Western, is their inability ...
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Bliss Music
 | | Kip Mazuy. |
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Coming Undone
"One of the reasons
we sit to meditate
is to strip away
all of the things
that distract us
from this moment.
All of the things
that make us
feel secure
and in control.
That makes us
feel were are getting
somewhere,
we know something
and we are moving in
the right direction.
Because when
we take away
all the things and
all the ways
that empower
this "me"
that we have created
ourselves to be,
then what we are left with
is something that is not secure,
that is not in control.
Something that is not 'together,'
but broken and scattered
and afraid.
Even if you go beyond
the emotional, mental
and psychological,
there is still a sense
of separateness.
But if you can remain
present in all of it.
If you can surrender
to the point
where there is only
surrender left,
then all of this insanity
begins to burn away.
Or you could say
the sanity
and the insanity
are both burned away,
and then what is left
is stillness.
Not a stillness
that is opposite
of movement.
But the stillness
that exists
underneath
all movement,
that is realized
because the movement
is fully allowed
and witnessed.
You don't become
a better person
or a different person,
you simply become
your ordinary self
and at the same time
you have awakened to
the fathomless depth
of stillness
that goes with it.
The two cannot
be separated.
Blessings,
Kip"
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The Projected Self - Nondual perspective on emotional regulation, conscious relationships and making effective change.
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Satsang with Peter Dziuban
August 19, 20, 21, 2011, Plano, Teas
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Breitenbush 01 - The Rains Retreat - The Journey Home by Eckhart Tolle by
No Longer Available From Amazon |
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Tape 5 (Continuation...)
So, there are many levels to being here.
Sometimes you have to face that.
Other times there is the simple and profound simplicity of the Now.
And there's clarity and there's non-labeling if only for maybe a short duration, for awhile.
It doesn't matter.
There's non-interpretation, non-labeling. Just pure, clear, aware presence.
And the rain is still there. Permanent, semi-permanent.
The same attention that you give to the rain is the attention that you give to the pain-body.
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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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August 16th
Death
The dream self is the movement of mental and emotional energy in avoidance of death. Awareness identifies with thought and emotion in some attempt to create and maintain a self out of past and future. This self seeks permanency. But there is no permanency in time. Time is finite. Time is mind. It is thought. Thought, by its very nature, arises and falls.
Enlightenment is the falling away of the story of me living in past and future. In that falling away, what is left is timelessness - the infinite, the eternal. In that falling away, liberation and unconditional love arise. Jesus said, "If you want to find your life, you must lose it." He was not referring to physical death or encouraging martyrdom. He was pointing to the fact that this dream self (which he called sin) is an obstacle to enlightenment or Oneness (which he called God).
When the dream self is seen to be nothing but an illusion, physical death is no longer feared. The fear of death arises only because the dream self believes it is a real entity totally separate from the rest of life - an entity that can die. But your real identity is beyond the cycle of physical birth and death. When the fear of death dies, the fear of living goes with it. That is non-dual freedom.
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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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Chapter 12
FACT: CONSCIOUSNESS
IS WHAT THE PRESENT IS
(Continuation...)
Suppose you tried to say Consciousness was conscious in the past-say five minutes ago. It really wasn't. Why? Look closely at the real nature of what you are calling "five minutes ago." Consciousness isn't back there-It's present here, now. It is thinking that has gone back to five minutes ago-for all there would be to that "five minutes ago" is some kind of mental image being projected in thought. And it is always now when one projects or thinks it.
Suppose you tried to say Consciousness, Awareness, can be aware in a future, and that you will be aware "then." Are you sure? Is It Awareness that's ahead in a future, or is Awareness always here, now- and thinking is projecting thoughts of a future? All there ever would be to any "future" is the mere projected thought of a future. And again, it is always now when it's being projected. The "future" never is an actual state; it's always just a bunch of projected mental images, nothing more than a lot of speculative imagining, being imagined now. Awareness can't leave Now, the Present.
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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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From PART V: 2. (Continuation...)
The Presence Process does not buy into this mentality. It is therefore not a medium destined to being exploited by those of us who know how to gobble up book information and then spit it out as though we know what we are talking about, as if we have real knowledge. The Presence Process side-steps this. When we take the time and energy to facilitate ourselves through the prescribed experience offered by the experiential procedure in the book, it enables us to awaken from this delusionary plight and realize, through experience, that we can competently carry ourselves. Over a period of 13 weeks, The Presence Process gives us the opportunity to accumulate real life experience. This activates the knowing that we contain within us all we seek and much more than is possible for us to imagine at this point in our evolution.
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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...)
It does not make sense to talk about the presence of Consciousness 'at all times,' because Consciousness does not exist in time. Time exists as an idea in Consciousness. However, we have to accept these limitations of language if we are to speak of Presence.
If Peace is independent of all conditions of the body, mind and world, it implies that Peace is not a state, that it does not come and go. It is present behind and within all appearances of the body, mind and world.
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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: I find myself suffering, but not enough. Life is unpleasant, but bearable. My little pleasures compensate me for my small pains and on the whole I am better off than most of the people I know. I know that my condition is precarious, that a calamity can overtake me at any moment. Must I wait for a crisis to put me on my way to truth?
M: The moment you have seen how fragile is your condition you are already alert. Now, keep alert, give attention, enquire, investigate, discover your mistakes of mind and body and abandon them.
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From Above...
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Nisargadatta: "The moment you have seen how fragile is your condition you are already alert."
Jordan: It interests me that I have spent most of my life not seeing how 'fragile' is thing called life really is.
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