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Can a wave remain a wave? It cannot. At some point, it becomes indistinguishable from the ocean from which it arises.
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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Simply put, there is no you to "access" to presence. Neither is there any one who is needed to dive deeply into some conceptual "inner body." Presence is bottomless, and it has neither a body nor a beginning. And It is all there is.
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Simply put, there is no you to "access" to presence. Neither is there any one who is needed to dive deeply into some conceptual "inner body." Presence is bottomless, and it has neither a body nor a beginning. And It is all there is.
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The mind is nothing but its contents. You are the cognitizing spaciousness that knows that the contents are appearing.
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See for yourself what is unequivocally present. This isn't something that you have to hope to recognize at some later date. And just "who" would be hoping to do this? The "who" would only be a thought or concept. Can a thought know or comprehend awareness? It can't even begin to do that!
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You are awareness. That is your actual identity. It is merely a matter of clueing in on the reality of that fact.
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Nonduality is about understanding what you are, and not about what practices or methods you should use to reach that understanding. And besides, you can't reach what you already are. Remain with the "whatness," and you'll recognized what has always been in perfect, unchanging abundance.
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Right at this moment, what is it that will never be touched by anything that you may experience during the day or evening?
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Seekers want to have a "spiritual practice" because it makes them feel special and mystical. But they are in no way touching their true sacredness when they engage in such practices, because actions are all on the level of the mind and doing. And awareness can't be journeyed-to. It can only be recognized and understood.
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Seekers want to have a "spiritual practice" because it makes them feel special and mystical. But they are in no way touching their true sacredness when they engage in such practices, because actions are all on the level of the mind and doing. And awareness can't be journeyed-to. It can only be recognized and understood.
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When a wave
returns to the sea,
where is the "me"?
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The recognition of the presence of awareness not only clarifies any questions or reservations that you may harbor about it, it transcends them. For even before you can frame your question, awareness is fully present. Further, you are that awareness. You never move from being precisely That--a peace, a hushness, and an evenness that is always immediately before and within you. Truly, there is never a time when it is missing.
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News & Info
Rodney's new book, Fully Present: Daily Reflections on Nonduality, is now out. It is $18.95 for the paperback (excluding postage). You can order it directly from the publisher right HERE.
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Fully Present is now on AMAZON! It can also be purchased at Barnes & Noble, and is available through bookstores nationwide.
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And go HERE for the press release for Fully Present.
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For Tami Brady's review of Fully Present in TCM Reviews, go HERE.
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"Fully Present is an elegant addition to the growing literature on nonduality as it is being uncovered, lived and understood in the modern West."
--Philip Goldberg, author of the best-selling American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation--How Indian Spirituality Changed the West. Philip's Web site can be found at www.philipgoldberg.com.
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"Rodney Stevens opens his daily life and thoughts to us in these immensely natural and pleasant ramblings of one who is fully engaged in life, love, nonduality, and cinnamon muffins."
--Catherine Ann Jones, award-winning screenwriter, spiritual workshop leader, and author of The Way of the Story: The Craft and Soul of Writing. Her Web site is www.wayofstory.com
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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.
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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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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"I like your approach in A Vastness All Around. The stories, thoughts and vignettes of your life seem wonderful ways to make people stop and pay attention to where they actually are right now, rather than in some imagined past or future. They show that you don't have to be some specially qualified person, preferably with a title and a name in Sanskrit, to pursue the spiritual quest. Your message comes across particularly well in such pieces as 'Sheerness of Being.'"
--Valerie J. Roebuck, Ph.D., Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester (England)
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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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