[NDhighlights] #4038 Friday, October 8, 2010 Editor: Jerry Katz: introductions to nonduality awareness by new teachers: Rich Murray 2010.10.10

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[NDhighlights] #4038  Friday, October 8, 2010  Editor: Jerry Katz:
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#4038 - Friday, October 8, 2010 - Editor: Jerry Katz

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Press Release:

Through his blog, Rodney Stevens has attracted readers and spiritual seekers
from across the globe.
Now, in "A Vastness All Around: Awakening to Your Natural State," he gathers
essays, dialogues, interviews, and pointers that speak of our true and
eternal nature.
Their themes are absolute nonduality, a oneness with all existence.

There is an undeniable grace and power behind Rodney's prose, as well as a
clarity the resounds with freshness and inspiration.
His words directly point to our natural and immediate state, a state that
requires no methods, meditation, or concentration to discover.
It is a simple seeing and understanding of who and what we truly are --  
boundless peace and freedom.

From the Preface by John Wheeler:

Rodney's book is a welcome addition to the contemporary expressions of the
non-dual message.
His words are a clear, warm and spontaneous expression of his own direct
understanding and experience.
As is evidenced in the dialogues in the book, he has a gift for connecting
with people and establishing a "rapport" with those who seek his insights.
In this living communication, the pointers naturally arise and are
effortlessly shared.
The result is that the words strike home very directly and consistently in a
manner that allows the engaged reader to follow the pointers to their source
and experience the meaning first hand.
Rodney has an appreciation for the diverse ways that the non-dual message
has been communicated by both traditional and contemporary sources.
To this he adds his own unique voice, which is at once direct, clear,
gentle, confident and heartfelt.

Blog Comments:

"I really enjoy what you share." --Jeff Foster, author of An Extraordinary
Absence

"Your prose is beautiful beyond measure." --Susannah, from McGregor, South
Africa

"I truly like your blog. You write very well." --Narayana Moorty, author of
Being: Essays on UG Krishnamurti and Other Topics."

"Thanks to your powerful pointers, the seeking has stopped and there is just
what IS." --Peter Kern, Lausanne, Switzerland

Rodney lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
His new book, A Vastness All Around: Awakening to Your Natural State, is now
available.
It is $21.95 for the paperback (excluding postage) and $10.00 for the E-book
version.
You can order through through Amazon (starting Oct 5th), through your local
bookstore (of whom we are big supporters), or directly from the publisher,
www.Lulu Press.

The author's blog is at: http://www.radianceofbeing.blogspot.com


http://www.suite101.com/content/an-introduction-to-non-duality-a293319

An Introduction to Non-Duality
Oct 4, 2010
Michael Jenkins

This article introduces the message of non-duality, highlighting the dilemma
for the spiritual seeker in looking for what was never lost.

What is Non-Duality?

The word 'non-dual' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Advaita' which simply
means, 'not two'.
In recent years, there has been much written about non-duality and many
non-dual teachers have appeared to deliver the Advaita message.
But what exactly is the message?

Essentially, what is pointed to in a non-dual message cannot actually be
named.
This is because thought and language are part of the dualisitc world of form
and therefore any description of non-duality is inherently dual.
However, a discussion can take place that may illuminate the dilemma for the
spiritual seeker.

The Message of Non-Duality

The core message states that there is only 'this' or there is only 'being'
and what arises in being or what arises in this, is the belief and
experience that 'I am a separate individual with free will and choice'.
The experience of being a separate individual is accompanied by a sense of
loss or longing and that feeling gives rise to seeking.
In the world of the individual, the individual must seek to do, have or be
in order to 'make my life work'.

The message of non-duality points to another possibility.
The possibility that what is sought after, never went away.
It seems as if something is missing simply because 'you' are out there
looking for it.
This message has been pointed to many times over the years by the great
spiritual teachers and can be found hidden in many of our traditional,
sacred texts.

What Is Sought Is Already Here

In the bible, we have the story of the Prodigal Son who returns home after
years of living as a poor man to find that he is heir to a great fortune.
This is an allegory that delivers the same message that a pure non-dual
message delivers.
That which you seek, you already have.
The son returns home to realise that all that he longed for was at home all
along.
He needn't have gone anywhere to seek it.

The Fuel of The Spiritual Search

Yet, it seems we must first forget in order to remember.
When we are tiny babies, there is no sense of being an individual.
The concept of 'me' has not yet been developed.
As we grow up, we come to learn that 'I am in here and the world is out
there' and so the brain simulates a 'me' and a sense of separation is
experienced.
The feeling of separation increases as we get older until it is accepted as
reality.
The belief is then: 'I am a separate individual in world full of other
separate individuals'.
And from that separation arises pain and suffering.
The individual never feels completely whole.
There is always the sense that something is missing.
That sense of loss fuels all worldly and spiritual seeking.

Non-duality points to the possibility that there is no separation and there
never was.
It points to the possibility that the freedom we seek in our worldly
pursuits or our spiritual seeking is already immediately available.
It is only seen however when the illusion of separation is seen through.

The illusion of separation is seen through most clearly when the sense of
being a separate individual falls away.
When there is no 'me' looking, then wholeness is seen.
It is seen by no one.
You could say that wholeness sees wholeness.
Or 'being' sees 'being'.

The trap of separation is seen clearly when a spiritual seeker hears that
what happens for liberation to take place is the loss of the sense of being
an individual.
So, the seeker then thinks that it needs to get rid of itself in order to be
free.
But who is going to get rid of the individual?
There is a still a 'me' there that hopes to eliminate 'me'.
The individual has cleverly split itself in two and gives one the job of
slaying the other.
The individual of course, still remains.

The Eternal Message

Lao Tzu said that the Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao.
So, non-duality is the eternal message that cannot truly be spoken of.
The moment we think we have captured non-duality, it has become a concept
and therefore has re-entered the world of duality.

Copyright Michael Jenkins.
Contact the author to obtain permission for republication.


John Prendergast, one of the founders of nondual psychotherapy, has a new
website:

http://www.listeningfromsilence.com

All of my offerings as a psychotherapist, writer and teacher, come from a
devotion to Silence and to its creative expression.
Our true nature expresses itself as an open listening that welcomes what is
and invites a natural unfolding of life.
Ultimately we discover that this open listening and that which is listened
to - what we call our inner and outer worlds - are not separate.
The apparent subject and object are undivided or nondual.
Realizing this leaves us open to the mystery of life and in service to the
whole.

John J. Prendergast Ph.D. " Te love of truth, manifesting as the surrender
to Silence and an active investigation into all of our cherished beliefs,
gradually leads us to a greater authenticity.
In time and without any conscious effort or intent we become like stained
glass, more adequate forms for the transmission of light."
~ John Prendergast
http://www.listeningfromsilence.com/about-john-j-prendergast-phd.htm
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