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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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Freedom From Suffering
"Once the Shakti is
really awakened in you
and your attention
remains either
immersed in the Shakti,
in witnessing,
or in the feeling
of "I am,"
then everything will
come up for you.
Once you have let go
of all of the ways
and distractions
you have used
to escape this moment
and are fully committed
to being here,
then all of the
insanity will come out.
But if you allow it all to arise
without holding on to it,
without trying to get rid of it
dramatize it,
or identify with it,
then it automatically
burns away in shakti,
it burns away in consciousness.
It simply becomes a flow of energy;
the way the wind blows
through the trees.
The problems come in because
we place importance on what arises.
We grab hold of what arises
and then think we need
to do something about it,
we need to analyze it,
act it out,
heal it.
We grab hold of it
and at the same time
want to get rid of it
and thus the conflict begins.
Then it becomes an issue.
It becomes something real
something that haunts you,
that weighs you down.
So you can see with this
how the mind works.
A thought or emotion arises
and you grab hold of it,
make it important
and the drama begins.
You are suffering
because you carry your suffering
around with you.
But in any moment
you can let go of it
and that will be that.
There is no deep rooted
psychological cleansing
that needs to happen.
Consciousness itself
consumes what is here
and purifies it,
returns it
to its natural state of peace.
It does require you
to be present enough
to observe what is arising
out of this moment
and willing enough to let go of it,
willing enough to remain unattached
to whatever arises.
And in this
everything passes
in a flow of energy
and the clarity of consciousness
underneath it begins to expand
and radiate on its own accord.
Blessings,
Kip"
Please Note:
My main teaching
is for you to immerse yourself
in Kundalini Shakti -
the energy one naturally
radiates in the highest states
of enlightenment.
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to your natural state of unconditional
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 An Interview with Karen Richards
The Projected Self - Nondual perspective on emotional regulation, conscious relationships and making effective change.
Emotional Brain Training - This is something new to me that I think looks pretty good. Seems like this fits in nicely with EMDR and mindfulness (nondual wisdom) and is definitely worth exploring. I invite you to take a look at it. If you have experience with this, I'd be interested. The link to the site is ebt.org , Jordan
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Breitenbush 01 - The Rains Retreat - The Journey Home by Eckhart Tolle by
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Tape 5 (Continuation...)
So, and then you enter the inner energy field of the body. And there's intense aliveness there but not a 'me' anymore. So, the end of...for identifying with the physical body can easily go beyond that by taking attention deeper into the physical, because you only identify with the external appearance of the physical body and you go deeper and there's intense presence and aliveness there.
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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 25th
Reaching a state of no
thought?
You listen to a spiritual teacher talk about having a quiet mind. That sounds wonderful. So as you set out to reach a state of no thought or less thought, the seeking begins . . . .
Only thought would seek a state of no thought. Thought gets busy looking for something other than simple, ordinary, spacious, timeless awareness. Thought is seeking the end of itself. Thought cannot bring the end of thought.
The point of seeking, if there is any, is not to reach some later state of quietness or no thought. It is to expose the seeking energy. See that the very idea that you must reach a state of no thought is a thought arising now. That thought is apparently obscuring the quietness that is already here.
In the spiritual search, if there is a genuine looking, it can be seen that "you" are merely a thought arising now. The notions of future enlightenment, peace, silence or stillness are also just presently arising ideas. The idea of "you" is chasing other ideas. In noticing this seeking energy, it is realized that every thought arises right now from quietness. You are this quietness that is appearing as every thought. In this seeing, there is no longer a desire to be rid of thought. There is only what is, whether it's a moment of pure awareness without thought or a moment of incessant thinking.
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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...)
The Present would have to be made to go away, or be uprooted from being everywhere present, all Presence, to have time in any way. That is just plain impossible. In other words, the Omnipresent Present would have to be shoved aside, so time, what-never-is-present, could be present. It's crazy.
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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...)
Only when we, as an individual thread, are able to do unto ourselves as we would have others do, are we able to change the condition of the fabric of our humanity, and hence the entire tapestry of our experience of this world forever.
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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...)
Once we see clearly that it is only Consciousness that is experienced during the waking and dreaming states, by the same token, it becomes clear that when no objects are present, the same experience of Consciousness experiencing itself simply continues. In fact, nothing else has ever happened, other than this experience of Consciousness knowing itself.
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 85
'I am': The Foundation of all Experience
(Continuation...)
[For the mind craves for content and variety, while reality is, to the mind, contentless and invariable.]
Q: It looks like death to me.
M: It is. It is also all-pervading, all-conquering, intense beyond words. No ordinary brain can stand it without being shattered; hence the absolute need for sadhana. Purity of body and clarity of mind, non-violence and selflessness in life are essential for survival as an intelligent and spiritual entity.
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