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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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The Boy Who Would be Sage: Poems on the Life of Ramana Maharshi
by Ana Ram Callan by Ana Ram Callan
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is delighted to share with you the publication of her new book of poems, The Boy Who Would Be Sage. It is a chronicle of Indian mystic, Ramana Maharshi's life. Beginning with his birth in Tirichuzi in 1879, it covers his boyhood years; his awakening as a teen and subsequent journey to Arunachula; the ashram that formed around him; his relationships with devotees and animals; through his death of sarcoma in 1950.
Both the cover and the archival photographs throughout were provided by Ramana Ashram. Many of the poems included have appeared in The Mountain Path, the international journal dedicated to Ramana, and also on The Daily Now.
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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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Realizing Peace
"The mind is always scheming.
Looking for ways to make you happy;
ways to make you feel good.
How you can avoid feeling
the things you don't want to feel
and how you can feel more
what you would like to feel.
There is nothing wrong with this,
it is the nature of the mind.
But it is also how stress is created.
Because there is what is here
in this moment
and there is how you would like
'here' to be.
If you really look
this manipulation
is happening most of the time.
Even when you sit to meditate
the mind is scheming.
The last thing the mind wants to do
is to let go of its control
and experience this moment.
But what happens
if you let go of all the scheming
and simply feel what is here.
Not just in meditation
but in daily life.
If you find yourself
in a situation
where you are confronted
with something you do not wish to feel.
Whether there is a feeling
of loneliness, jealousy,
fear, awkwardness,
whatever feeling is there
instead of letting the survival instinct
kick in and control it, mask it,
distract yourself from it,
what if you simply allowed yourself
to feel that feeling.
If you allowed yourself
to be completely vulnerable
to that feeling.
I am not talking about
analyzing it or dramatizing it
but simply to feel the sensation of that feeling.
To just allow it.
If you allow yourself
to feel what you have been
avoiding feeling
suddenly you are immersed
in this moment
in a way you might never
have been before.
You are so immersed
in this moment,
so open to what is here,
that there is nothing to hold on to,
nothing to know.
And although
it may leave you feeling
completely vulnerable to what is here,
it also leaves you completely
in peace.
If you are completely
surrendered to your experience
of this moment
then you are at one with this moment.
You begin to recognize
the underlying experience of
deep fathomless peace
that is here all the time.
And in this peace you can learn
through practice to remain in it;
to remain aligned with it.
All of the things that you
used to avoid
now become opportunities
to move deeper into peace.
It is the practice
of moving beyond the mind,
beyond knowing
into your natural state.
Blessings,
Kip"
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Chapter 4
The Now
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognizing what is primary. Then you can deal with what is secondary with great ease. It is not saying, "I'm not dealing with things anymore because there is only the Now." No. Find what is primary first, and make the Now into your friend, not your enemy. Acknowledge it, honor it. When the Now is the foundation and primary focus of your life, then your life unfolds with ease. |
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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 |
January 29th Detachment Detachment is sometimes confused with apathy. Detachment is not a state of not caring. It refers to seeing that no experience, thought, state, or other manifestation ultimately affects or changes your true nature as emptiness or formless awareness. Formless awareness is naturally detached from the forms that arise and fall in (and as) it, including states of caring or not caring. It is non-dual. Awareness sees that positive and negative states are dualistic and temporary. Apathy is a negative, dualistic, and temporary state. States are manifestation. Detachment is not a state. It is an attribute of awareness, which is the unmanifest. Perhaps a better word than detachment is nonattachment. Detachment assumes that there is a separate you that must detach from something that is arising. But awareness is not a doing. Awareness is naturally nonattached from whatever it sees. To be nonattached simply means to see that who you are is not limited to any particular temporary thing arising in awareness. You are that which is looking. Stated another way, awareness sees that it is appearing as everything that is arising. The unmanifest appears as the manifest but grasps onto nothing that is arising including a temporary state of apathy. January 30th Liberation from suffering, not from pain Liberation, as that word is used in these reflections, means freedom from suffering, not from pain itself. Suffering is the psychological accumulation of mental and emotional energy over time in the form of a story of me. Pain is a natural, dualistic occurrence in life that can arise in the present moment. For example, you are suffering from chronic physical pain in the leg. Liberation will not free you from physical pain. Liberation is freedom from attachment to the psychological story of suffering surrounding the pain. If made completely conscious, the story might appear as My life is so hard because of this pain. Identification with the mental story, and the emotions that accompany it, creates an overlay placed over the actual physical pain experienced in this moment. The mind is adding time to the pain. The result is psychological and emotional suffering in the form of the story of me - the one who is suffering. Likewise, liberation may not completely free you of anger, sadness, and other emotions and states. These emotions can be natural responses to particular life situations. Liberation frees you from attachment to these emotions and states. In liberation, anger, sadness, elation, frustration, and other emotions and states arise and fall spontaneously in awareness (but with no attachment). Feelings are directly seen and felt and then they naturally die. Stated another way, these states and emotions arise to no one. |
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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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THE EMOTIONAL BODY RADIANCE STATEMENT
(Continuation...)
A great teacher once said, "To be attached to nothing, we love everything". Practicing this 11-step Emotional Body Radiance Statement starts us on the journey to realizing what this means.
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The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
by Non-Duality Press
Paperback
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Time Never Happens
(Continuation...)
The mind dissolves when it tries to see or touch that objectless place. The search collapses. It is undermined rather than fulfilled.
In fact it is not so much that the mind dissolves but rather that Consciousness, which had assumed the form of a separate limited entity through identifying itself with a body and a mind, relieves itself of this identification. As a result, it recognises itself, realises itself, remembers itself, experiences itself, not in the disguise of mind, but directly and knowingly.
Consciousness realises that it does not receive attention, it gives attention. And subsequently it realises that it does not give attention. It is attention.
Attention is Consciousness with an object. When the object vanishes, attention simply remains what it always is, Consciousness.
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Nisargadatta
"I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 93
Man is not the Doer
(Continuation...)
Q: We are selfish, we know only self-love.
M: Good enough for a start. By all means wish yourself well. Think over, feel out deeply what is really good for you and strive for it earnestly. Very soon you will find that the real is your only good.
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From Above...
(Jordan highlights or comments on quotes from the teachings above.) |
From Nisargadatta (1/4/12): "Use every incident of the day to remind you that without you as the witness there would be neither animal nor God."
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From Michael Brown (1/2/12): "Our overall energy levels are a direct reflection of the condition of our emotional body."
Jordan: This is interesting and good to know.
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