What is it that presents itself at this very moment?
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Doubts arise largely because you are identifying with your body/mind, and not because this understanding is difficult to come by.
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When you love your partner as your Self, it is a love without jealousy, remorse, or competition. In a word, it is a love without bounds.
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In actuality, you can't realize Self because it is already realized.
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This understanding occurs only when you are liberated from the idea of liberation itself. And it isn't something that happens incrementally. It is a sudden and full-sweeping away of your imagined and acrimonious self.
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All states of consciousness appear and disappear within you. You are infinitely larger and grander than the most mesmerizing spiritual experience or the most awesome galactic phenomenon. Continue to give credence to this perspective of yourself, until you see it with unquestionable clarity.
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Doubts arise largely because you are identifying with your body/mind, and not because this understanding is difficult to come by.
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When you love your partner as your Self, it is a love without jealousy, remorse, or competition. In a word, it is a love without bounds.
*****
In actuality, you can't realize Self because it is already realized.
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This understanding occurs only when you are liberated from the idea of liberation itself. And it isn't something that happens incrementally. It is a sudden and full-sweeping away of your imagined and acrimonious self.
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All states of consciousness appear and disappear within you. You are infinitely larger and grander than the most mesmerizing spiritual experience or the most awesome galactic phenomenon. Continue to give credence to this perspective of yourself, until you see it with unquestionable clarity.
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Note that your thoughts and feelings are perceived. It is never the other way around--with your thoughts and emotions perceiving you. See the direction from which this recognition is happening, and you will recognize your own ever-present Reality.
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Beauty is an aspect of awareness that profoundly pauses you. It can be a painting, a phrase, a setting, a person, a gesture, or a kiss. Allow yourself to be fully halted by any of these occurrences throughout your waking hours.
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Don't get caught up with names and labels. The actuality of awareness is totally beyond any debates as to whether it should be called God, Presence, Brahman, the Absolute, or Supreme Intelligence.
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In deep sleep, there are no objects for which awareness to recognize--no thoughts, dreams, or body-sense. Thus, we only know it as having been deep, restful, and marvelously peaceful. Consciousness emanates from awareness the next morning, and the body and the so-called mind are recognized. But awareness is forever there. It Does Not Move.
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A perception, when accorded a name and multiple memory recalls, is given "weight" and significance. Then it becomes an idea. We may then form opinions about this idea, and it soon becomes a form of thinking, a philosophy, a belief structure. But no matter how beautifully systematized the idea becomes, it is still just a piling on of thoughts in and about your fundamental reality.
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In deep sleep, there are no objects for which awareness to recognize--no thoughts, dreams, or body-sense. Thus, we only know it as having been deep, restful, and marvelously peaceful. Consciousness emanates from awareness the next morning, and the body and the so-called mind are recognized. But awareness is forever there. It Does Not Move.
*****
A perception, when accorded a name and multiple memory recalls, is given "weight" and significance. Then it becomes an idea. We may then form opinions about this idea, and it soon becomes a form of thinking, a philosophy, a belief structure. But no matter how beautifully systematized the idea becomes, it is still just a piling on of thoughts in and about your fundamental reality.
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News & Info
A Vastness All Around: Awakening to Your Natural State is now available. Rodney's first collection of essays, discussions, and pointers can be ordered through Amazon (starting Nov 1st), your local bookstore (of whom we are big supporters), or directly from the publisher, Lulu Press.
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A Vastness All Around: Awakening to Your Natural State is now available. Rodney's first collection of essays, discussions, and pointers can be ordered through Amazon (starting Nov 1st), your local bookstore (of whom we are big supporters), or directly from the publisher, Lulu Press.
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