Self-realization is effortless. For you are seeking that what you already are.
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There is no best way to come to this understanding. Some benefit from phone consultations, while others gain more from their own readings and reflections. And then there are those who must have the personal, one-on-one conversation.
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Essentially, consciousness is reflected awareness. When awareness is reflected in these mind/body forms, a sense-of-self arises. The "awakened" person knows that the "self" is awareness or Self, if you will. The ordinary person believes it is "me," my thoughts, my body, my religion, my nationality, you name it.
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Self-knowledge is knowledge of the Self. How could it not be measureless, serene, and inherently liberating?
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The three signs of genius: The person's work pauses you; the work transcends the field, while wholly utilizing it; and neither you nor the world can imagine being without it.
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You say that your meditation is "all about embracing the present." But how can you "embrace" the present when you are the present. Further, the present doesn't move. So any action you take (meditative or mindful) going to be a movement in this all-encompassing Self. And any movement cannot be something connected with or fundamental to your natural state, which is pure awareness.
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Who is thinking? Have you ever allowed yourself to truly sit with that question, to see it to its end? If you did, you couldn't help but come to the conclusion that there is no "who" involved in the thinking. All there is are thoughts, suppositions, and ideas, one following the other. It's a natural and much needed process in our lives. But the fact remains that all that is going on is the thinking. There is no thinker! This is the beauty of nonduality and of what you are, which is pure awareness. The thinking is arising in That.
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There is no such thing as "the mind of enlightenment." Sorry, there just isn't. The mind—which is basically a thought, memory, or feeling—is in no way related to Self-knowing. How is a thought going to comprehend or grasp presence? Do you see the impossibility of that? Isn't that suddenly clear to you? And if it is not clear, there is at least an intuitive rightness about it.
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It is only when you realize that objects, people, and feelings have a temporary existence that you can have a detachment from them. This can't be done conceptually or by faith or brute determination. I don't care how much time and years you give it. True detachment only comes with understanding. You cannot free yourself from these things. There can only be an easy and unwavering freedom from them.
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A propos creativity in later years: Picasso was at his most prolific during the last two decades of his life, when he was in his eighties and nineties, when his work was transcending both realism and abstraction; it wasn't until Ramesh Belsakar had retired, at 60, from being a banker that he met his teacher, Nisargadatta Maharaj; the great Ranjit Maharaj did not begin accepting students until he was 70, and he lived and taught until he was 87; and naturalist Edward O. Wilson, 85, was drawn to write his latest book, The Meaning of Human Existence because he was innately filled with such questions as, "What are we? Where did we come from? And where are we going"
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Precisely That: Reflections Upon Enlightenment is available on Amazon. Go to the above link.
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Rodney's previous book, The Only True Life: Living from the Natural State, can be purchased from Amazon by clicking on the above link.
Or you can buy the book directly from the publisher, Lulu Press
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"Rodney is on the way to becoming a nondual megastar. His books and pointers are amazingly direct, original, and beautiful—immersing you in your own Beingness. In little time at all, he has taken nonduality and made it his own." — Lori W., U.K.
Susan Ferguson is a talented artist, writer, and book reviewer, who lives in the gorgeous, green hills of North Canterbury, New Zealand.
You may read her review of The Only True Life at her beautiful Web site: Metaphysical Musing:
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Feel free to check out Jimmy Dabrowski's beautiful and downloadable MixTape. Jimmy's a great guy, and I am honored to be one of the nondual authors in his collection.
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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 America 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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"In Fully Present, Rodney 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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"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 now doing phone consultations via Skype! Each conversation will take about an hour, and a $45 donation will be greatly appreciated.
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