Pointers

Right at this moment, what is the presence that your mind and thoughts aren't creating? What is the presence that is already there?

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You are what you are: Unequivocal awareness! And your inherent nature Does Not Change. Thus, there is no where to go and nothing to get.

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Your own direct experience of what you are is what frees you from the notion that something needs to be done to grasp or garner liberation. Your very nature is 100% liberated! Even individualistic thoughts about yourself can't suppress Self in any form, shape, or manner.

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Any action towards awareness is just idiotic.

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The only thing that you can truly say about yourself at this moment is, "I am." It stops right there. And even that's an overstatement because all there is is "Amness." But that term might be too theoretical to seekers, too far-flung. So go back to the original pointer, if you resonate with that. Discover the undeniable fact of this "I am."

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So long as you feel that you have to "get enlightened," you are anticipating--you are mentally projecting what has already taken place. You are pure awareness at this very second. So what is there to be done? And who wants to do what? And why? You are operating solely on procedural and conceptual levels when there is a "who" that wants to do and this.

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Nonduality points you to timeless, life-changing insights.

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The thought "I am bounded" is silly; and the thought, "I am Freedom" is redundant, even though it is pointing to the truth. The thing to see here is that you are not your thoughts at all! 

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This understanding isn't some higher-level of consciousness or anything like that. Consciousness remains pretty much the same, and awareness is totally beyond it, as I've said any number of times here. So any activity or practice that promises "advanced" levels of alertness and knowingness are still on the level of the mind, not matter how many psychic or expansive experiences you may have.

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News & Info

Fully Present is now available at the excellent Powell's Bookstore, in Portland, Oregon. 

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Fiona Robertson interviews Rodney on Nic Higham's NONDUALITY NETWORK!

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Click HERE to buy Rodney's Fully Present: Daily Reflections on Nonduality from Amazon.

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And click HERE to purchase Fully Present at Barnes & Noble.

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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.

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For the book's Press Release, click Here.

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

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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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"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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