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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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(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.)
Ana Ram Callan Marry Me, He Said (10/12/11) Freeing the Clouds (9/19/11) Porumda
(9/5/11) Devotion
(8/29/11) 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)
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Bliss Music
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The Fundamentals of Meditation
"The reason why you suffer
is because you unconsciously
avoid this moment.
You are unconsciously
but constantly resisting
this moment;
separating yourself from
this moment.
So the path of awareness in meditation
is to get you back to this moment.
And the first part of meditation
is to sit still.
Because the most
physical way you avoid this
moment is by being restless
in the body.
It does not mean
that you cannot be present
while moving.
But for this meditation,
the first part is to sit still
and allow that resistance
to sitting still
be burned away
in awareness.
The second and
main way you avoid
this moment
is through identifying
with your thinking.
You are sitting still
yet you are thinking
about what you have
to do tomorrow.
The thought itself
does not take you out of this moment,
but your identifying with the thought
does.
The thought arises
"I have to go to work tomorrow"
and you are the "I" in that sentence.
And like you are in a dream,
you are lost in the imagination
of tomorrow.
You have successfully
escaped this moment.
This is identification.
Even thinking about
being present
keeps you from being present.
So then the second part
is to learn to either
witness your thinking,
let go of your thinking,
inquire into what is here
beyond thinking,
rest your attention on the bliss
that is here beyond thinking
or to even focus thought
by repeating a mantra.
Any of these methods
are to help keep you present
or at least give you a taste
of the present moment.
But the truth of it is that
you cannot be present.
The "you" who you think you are,
is that which is separate
from the present moment.
It is the very resistance
to the present moment.
So another way to look at it
is that you relinquish the idea of yourself
to realize the present moment,
to realize your are the present moment
and in this
you are free from suffering.
For however long
you can remain
free from thought identification
resting in your natural state
of pure awareness
there is peace.
And every time
you drop into pure awareness
this peace expands
and floods into
all aspects of your life.
Blessings,
Kip"
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Tape 5
(Continuation)
[The need is very great and the potential is very great here. So, it is all connected.]
It was no coincidence either that we had that retreat, of course when it was planned, nobody knew that these events would happen. That retreat was so close with 350, 450 had originally booked but that many couldn't make it. But still, 350 just a few days after made it somehow. We were in New York state, close in space and time to those events. 350 people and many of those expressed what you expressed, felt that very strongly and then a deepening happened. They faced death. And saw.
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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 |
November 4th
The word is not that which it describes
By reading the word "muffin," are you able to taste a muffin? If this reflection uses the word "playground," do you find yourself swinging on a swing set? Words are not that which they describe.
There is a tendency to buy into spiritual concepts - enlightenment, non-duality, presence, Oneness, awareness, God, and even the word "spirituality." But these words are only pointing to awakening to the actuality of life beyond your concepts about life. Suffering and searching happen only because the mind is identified with concepts, mainly the idea of a separate self based in lack. There may be a tendency to even buy into what this reflection is saying as if it's the truth. The mind just wants to land on some conclusion about 'This.'
But to really see and know 'This,' there must be a direct, immediate experiencing of the life within you and before your eyes. To bite down on this thing we call a "muffin" is to really know what a muffin is. To swing on a swing set is to directly and immediately experience that to which the word "playground" is pointing.
Similarly, when it is realized that spiritual concepts are only ever pointing to the direct and immediate experiencing of actual life right now, an unconditional love of what is arises. No concept could ever be that love. Love is actual. It is the essence of life itself.
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Consciousness Is All: Now Life Is Completely New
by Peter Francis Dziuban by Blue Dolphin Publishing
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Chapter 4
Fact: Consciousness is the Infinite Itself
(Continuation...)
Is this invisible I, in terms of Itself alone, part of a physical anatomy? Is I solid or dense? Does I have edges or a border to It, like a material object? Or is I an incredible softness having no density, no edge at all?
Meanwhile, this "voice," this I-ness, is a specific, distinct presence.
Exactly where is I-Presence coming from?
It is "coming from" Consciousness. In fact, I does not come from anywhere. I is permanently present, for I is Life's own present-ness or Presence.
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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: 6. After completing the entire Process, aside from our 15 minutes breathing twice a day, are there other circumstances that we respond to by breathing ourselves? (Continuation...)
We are therefore to take care not to use the breathing as a tool of reaction or a means to force resolution. For example, we may wake up one morning feeling depressed. When we feel severely depressed, it is not necessarily beneficial to attend to a dedicated breathing session, because we may approach it as a means of distraction; as a reaction instead of a response to our feelings of depression. The example set by the world in a time-based paradigm teaches us that whenever we enter an unfamiliar energetic experience, and hence one we perceive as uncomfortable, that something is wrong and therefore a change is required. This collective belief is responsible for the reactive behaviors controlling and sedating much of our life experience. More often than not, the best course of action when we feel uncomfortable is to allow ourselves to feel what it feels like; to embrace the opportunity to look as deeply as possible into the energetic experience we are moving through. It is our feeling of it that moves us through it.
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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The Ease Of Being
(Continuation...)
From the point of view of the mind these moments last for a period of time. They are considered to be caused by the objects that preceded them and to effect those that follow. They are seen to arise fleetingly to punctuate the seemingly continuous appearance of the body, mind and world. However, from the point of view of Consciousness, it is itself the continuous Presence out of which the fleeting appearances of the body, mind and world bubble up from time to time, and is itself their cause. These moments in between the appearance of objects are in fact timeless. They are neither linked together nor separated by time or space.
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 88
Knowledge by the Mind, is not True Knowledge
(Continuation...)
Q:Christ also speaks of ignoring evil and being child-like.
M:Reality is common to all. Only the false is personal.
Q:As I watch the sadhakas and enquire into the theories by which they live, I find they have merely replaced material cravings by 'spiritual' ambitions. From what you tell us it looks as if the words: 'spiritual' and 'ambition' are incompatible. If 'spirituality' implies freedom from ambition, what will urge the seeker on? The Yogis speak of the desire for liberation as essential. Is it not the highest form of ambition?
M:Ambition is personal, liberation is from the personal. In liberation both the subject and the object of ambition are no longer. Earnestness is not a yearning for the fruits of one's endeavors. It is an expression of an inner shift of interest away from the false, unessential, the personal.
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From Above...
(Jordan highlights or comments on quotes from the teachings above.) |
Rupert Spira: "Consciousness also disidentifies itself from the body/mind every time a desire is fulfilled."
Jordan: Aka, orgasm. |
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