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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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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" 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. I have found a way to turn Kundalini Shakti into sound So simply by listening to meditation music you effortlessly awaken to your natural state of unconditional peace, bliss and freedom.
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Chapter 4
The Now Putting away the dishes, drawing up a business strategy, planning a trip-what is more important: the doing or the result that you want to achieve through the doing? This moment or some future moment?
Do you treat this moment as if it were an obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you have a future moment to get to that is more important?
Almost everyone lives like this most of the time. Since the future never arrives, except as the present, it is a dysfunctional way to live. It generates a constant undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It does not honor life, which is Now and never not Now. |
This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
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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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January 31st No center When you believe you are a separate self, every state, emotion, thought and event appears to be happening to you. Everything is interpreted as if you are the center of life. Thought is doing the interpreting. Thought is almost entirely self-centered. It dreams in dualism and individuality. In seeing that the separate self is an illusion, the center falls away. When the center falls away, there is still the sense of the body. There is still the experiencing of states, emotions, thoughts and events. There is still the personality and individual skills and attributes. But it no longer feels as if you are the center of life. When the center goes, the separation, struggle, conflict, and searching go with it. Even if self-centered thoughts still arise, they are seen as empty. There is no longer identification with a totally separate me. There is a seeing that your real identity is something much larger than the individual body and the dream self you mistakenly took yourself to be. There are many words for this something larger including God, Brahman, the Tao, enlightenment, liberation, reality or Oneness. The word is not the thing it describes. It could just as easily be called This. It is not a concept. When the mind makes it into a mere concept, there is a tendency to create separation between those who get it and those who don't. In that case, the center has returned.
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Michael Brown
Excerpts From "Being Our Companion: Exploring Self-Facilitation Through The Presence Process"
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THE EMOTIONAL BODY RADIANCE STATEMENT
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For the purpose of activating emotional body awareness, the Emotional Body Radiance Statement is to be repeated in the precise 11-step order in which it appears, so it moves our attention from our outer experience of living into our inner experience of Life. This graduating statement is made more powerful because, through reading the text of BEING OUR COMPANION, we are already making a conscious distinction between Life and living. It therefore not only serves our purpose in activating emotional body awareness, but also in any inner work we may pursue.
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The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira by Non-Duality Press Paperback
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Time Never Happens
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[Attention is Consciousness with an object. When the object vanishes, attention simply remains what it always is, Consciousness.]
Consciousness is already the shape of every object towards which it turns. It witnesses and manifests itself simultaneously as that object.
It recognises itself.
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Nisargadatta "I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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Chapter 93
Man is not the Doer
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Q: Yet I do not understand why the various Gurus insist on prescribing complicated and difficult sadhanas. Don't they know better?
M: It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters. The people who begin their sadhana are so feverish and restless, that they have to be very busy to keep themselves on the track. An absorbing routine is good for them. After some time they quiet down and turn away from effort. In peace and silence the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one. The real sadhana is effortless.
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 From Above...
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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." ++++++
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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