Daily Now Blog
This blog is to give people the opportunity to share experiences and observations related to teachings presented in The Daily Now.
The blog is moderated and the guidelines for blogging are:
1. Share from personal experience.
2. Advice giving is withheld.
3. Speak from a place of not-knowing.
4. Cross-talk is generally avoided.
5. There is no one who knows.
The Daily Now Blog - January 2010 |
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The Gift of Hopelessness
"There are so many things
we do in order to feel happy.
Whether you are going to
party all night
or promise to make improvements
you do it in hope to be happy.
But what does this say?
It says you are not happy now.
Or rather, you are not satisfied
with your experience in this moment.
You do not want to experience
what is here and therefore
there must be something
you can do, you can get
in order to avoid this moment.
And then it is the looking forward
to something that gives you the
fantasy of happiness.
So in this new year
I do not wish you a happy new year.
I wish you hopelessness.
I wish that you come to the point
where you realize that no matter
what you may do to get out of experiencing
what is here in this moment,
what is here in this moment
will still remain.
That after all of your distractions
are exhausted,
you are still here,
confronted with that which
you have been resisting all along.
And then
in hopelessness,
you will be willing to give up
resisting this moment.
In complete surrender,
you will allow this moment
to consume you.
And then all that will be left
is this moment.
All that will be left
is consciousness.
A state of unconditional peace, bliss
and complete-ness
that will make the happiness
you had been chasing all along
seem meaningless.
Then this moment
will no longer feel like your enemy.
It will be what you cherish
more than anything..
Blessings,
Kip"
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Q: "Yesterday on the bus tour
of hell",...How can a mother
be a mother without the pain that goes with it?"
(continuation..)
But watch your mind to see
whether it's creating future loss, possible loss.
This is the essence of anxious thought, the essence of
worry, the essence of projections.
In a dangerous situation, see if you can relinquish past and
future.
Sometimes it happens
naturally.
Relinquish past and
future...renounce past and future.
Use the dangerous situation to push you into presence.
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Michael Brown
Being Our Companion
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The Mountain of Life
PART III: QUESTIONS ASKED BEFORE ENTERING THE PRESENCE PROCESS
(continuation...)
The Presence Process takes
all of this into account and is therefore purposely gradual and gentle in its
approach; it is an energetic tapestry woven together with continual
reinforcement.
Hurrying to reach any specific destination is eliminated.
By
departing from destination-consciousness and instead embracing
journey-consciousness, the pressures of accomplishment and of attaining
specific points of arrival are eliminated.
The Presence Process is tailored to
meet us at our present level of awareness, and lead us onward from there.
It
empowers us to initiate a pace of integration that works for us.
It also keeps
us thoroughly informed along each step of the journey, and therefore keeps our
overall intent crystal clear, eliminating unnecessary confusion.
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There is Nothing that is Not Him
This is
fundamentally different from the way in which the word meditation is usually
used. It usually refers to a technique or process whereby we can reach our
ultimate nature. But, you are saying that it is our ultimate nature.
Who is there to reach anything, and how could we possibly
reach what we already are?
Any dynamism keeps us in slavery, in the chains of time,
and postpones the moment of our liberation to some point in the future.
It
makes an object out of what we really are, the eternal subject.
Any effort to
reach our ultimate nature is bound to fail.
It may leave us in a pleasurable
state, a samadhi, but since this experience has a beginning in time, it will
also have an end in time.
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From Above...
Jordan
ET: 'In a dangerous situation, see if you can relinquish past and
future."
JVS: This is another way of saying to learn to manage your emotional conditioning, emotional body, or pain-body.
One way to manage the emotional body is by learning to change an anxious state to a calm one. The way to do that is to allow the feeling that is being triggered by worrying about the future to be felt fully. As you feel the feeling, let go of thinking about it - past/future. Notice there is a calming effect or slight letting go of tension.
Daily Now Blog - January 2010
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I Am That - Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj
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 Insanity is universal.
Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope, because the moment we perceive our
insanity, we are on the way to sanity.
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