Pointers

You are awareness already. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

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Who is it that is doubting that self-knowledge can't be had? If you examine the issue carefully, you will see (and with considerable ease) that the doubt is just an arising thought. Thus, your uncertainty can't be you because you can't be something that comes and goes. So what remains? Ever-present awareness, which has merely being ignored.

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Conditioning isn't a constant. It is a thought, feeling, or action arising in the spaciousness that you presently are. Freedom is your nature, your inherent condition. You're giving emphasis to the thoughts and emotions because you think or imagine that they are the only things that are there. But that simply isn't the case.

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Your mind can never find awareness. Can a shadow reach the sun?

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See how hypothetical you are making everything--how needless questions arise out of your intellectualizing (not to mention mythologizing!) your search for self-knowledge. When this is seen, there is a very natural pause that points to presence itself.

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In order to know that your thoughts and sentiments are temporarily there, there must be a fundamental knower that is always there. This knower isn't your body or your mind or your consciousness. It is pure awareness. And yes, you are the Knower. Allow yourself to see the immense beauty and fullness of this. You will marvel at how you could have missed it for so long.

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Awareness is independent of your thoughts, concepts, and spiritual lineage. It's there whether you believe in it or not. It's all a matter of seeing and understanding presence As-It-Is. Anything less than that is experiential, fleeting, and conceptual. You are what you are at this very second. But you take yourself to be your job, body, personality, gender, nationality, or bank account. And none of that is true.

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The answer to all of your spiritual and philosophical questions is directly within and before you. All that is needed is for you to recognize how clearly your own Clarity is already present. No spiritual or geographical journeys are required for that. Radiance is what you are at this very moment. So go ahead, have a quick and timeless look at your ever-present nature. It is lustrous and unfeigned, and it will never desert you.

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News & Info

Rodney's new book, Fully Present: Daily Reflections on Nonduality, is now available. It is $18.95 for the paperback (excluding postage). You can order it directly from the publisher right HERE.

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And go HERE for the press release for Fully Present.

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Rodney is also the author of A Vastness All Around: Awakening to Your Natural State, a powerful and elegant collection of essays, discussions, interviews, and powerful pointers. It can be ordered directly from the publisher at Lulu Press.

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For the book's Press Release, click Here.

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Vastness is now available for the Amazon Kindle! Order Here.

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Check out Rodney on YouTube talking about "The Fundamental Thing."

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Tami Brady reviewed Vastness on her TCM Reviews page.

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Feel free to read a review of the Kindle Edition of Vastness on Amazon.

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Nonduality Magazine has published a discussion with Rodney about his work and book. The extensive and wide-ranging interview was done by John LeKay, the magazine's editor.

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"Loved [A Vastness All Around], Rodney. Enjoyed it as much as John Wheeler's first book, Awakening to the Natural State. My favourite quote of yours was "you are no more your personal history than you are your toothbrush." I like the fact that you included little tidbits of your life and surrounds. It felt more like reading a book on travel or history than some of the other textbook style books on nonduality. I think for anyone serious about a direct approach, your book and John Wheeler's are the two to have." -- Ian

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I am also scheduling teaching events at this time. If you would like to arrange something in your area, you may email me at: writerguy (at) fastmail (dot) fm

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