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comrades in awareness, I like everything this old guy Fred Davis in South Carolina writes, so I got his brand new book for $ 4 on Kindle cloud reader and read half of it just now with relish -- very fresh open cheerful dialogue that really illuminates awareness fast -- new level of effective uncommon sense sharing, just the way he talks to clients via Skype since 2010... within the fellowship of service, Rich
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#4881 - Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - Editor: Jerry
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The Nonduality Highlights http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights/
 THE BOOK OF UNDOING
Direct Pointing to Nondual Awareness by Fred
Davis
Chapter One
A Look at the Book and the Process This book has arisen from Direct Pointing sessions that I've had with clients around the world. These deceptively simple inquiries and dialogues work. Men and women who have studied Nonduality for decades, both in and out of structured traditions, without experiencing even the first authentic glimpse of themselves have come to recognize their true nature during these talks. Some of them have been glimpses, and others remain ongoing. Still others, who were confounded by oscillation when we began to talk, have moved from there into stable Nondual awareness. And of course there are a few people who've reported no change at all; such is the way of it. I will be using the term "awakening," but we should be
clear that this is simply languaging to speak about a topic that is extremely
difficult--impossible, actually--to communicate. Silence is really the
best medium for this message, but a blank book is unlikely to be very helpful,
so we'll plow on ahead using the best words that we can find. The core of
all Nondual teachings is the experiential discovery of our shared true
nature. We could further say that just beyond the core of Nonduality lies
an incredibly sharp and skillful vocabulary, which grows sharper daily as more
and more teachers emerge, and the teachers we have grow in
experience.
Every teacher represents a unique set of hard and soft
conditioning (nature and nurture), and thus each views the singular landscape in
a slightly or radically different way. So too will their experience,
understandings, and presentations be distinct. While this can cause some
element of confusion, particularly early on, it also births a wonderfully
diverse set of approaches. We need all we can get, because it is the
languaging of the teacher that is most widely and easily communicated, and
therefore most apt to lead us from that place just beyond the heart, and into
the heart itself.
It is the peculiar nature of Nondual teachings that we can
only hear who and what we can hear. We could fill a stadium with awake
beings, yet you or I might only be able to really resonate with a few of
them. This doesn't mean the rest of these folks are wrong or deluded, it
simply means they're someone else's teachers. If we are sincere in our own
approach to the teachings, we may be sure that we will find a teacher or
teaching that we will resonate with perfectly. We can't fail to; that's
just how it works.
This teaching, my teaching, so to speak, starts from a
position that is not new, yet which remains fairly radical. I presume that
clients don't need to wake up, because they are always already awake.
Awakeness is not something you experience, it's what you
are. By the same token, I presume that there's no need for you to come out
of oscillation and into stability, because you are always already still.
Stillness is not something you experience, once again it's what you are.
Having understood the absolute truth of these things, we then embrace the
relative nature of them. In other words, knowing all of this, I then go
about the business of waking people up, or pulling them out of
oscillation! It's just one of many paradoxes we'll encounter. If
you've no stomach for paradox, you won't stay with Nonduality very
long.
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Read the rest of Chapter One here:
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