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[Rich Murray-2]

you all come, well come, Awakening Clarity blog -- potent essays by
teachers of modern nonduality: Rich Murray 2012.06.28
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/06/you-all-come-well-come-awakening.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/message/110


"After all, ultimately there is just one thing going on.
On that we can all agree."

Awakening Clarity is about Self-realization; discovering and living as
who we really are.
Whether this comes as event or process, sudden or slow, requires
spiritual practices, or transcends them, has been argued for thousands
of years.
Here we are not arguing.
It unfolds as it unfolds.
We initially begin spirituality to answer our questions, but here we
are questioning our answers.
We are certainly for something, but we are against nothing.
Surrender, not resistance, is our movement here

http://awakeningclarity.blogspot.co.uk/p/nondual-community-announcements.html

NONDUALITY AMERICA has sent out another great post, this one about a
movie,  "The Quantum Activist".
Amazon has it, and so does Netflix.
I watched it the other night and it's simply terrific.
Rather than tell you all about it, I'm just going to include a link to
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Do check this out.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012

Recognizing Awareness: Guest Teaching by Bentinho Massaro

WELCOME TO THE TWENTIETH EDITION OF AWAKENING CLARITY'S GUEST TEACHING SERIES.
Our growing database of current Nondual teachers and teachings has
already been discovered by thousands of readers from 89 countries, and
more find us every day.
Five new countries have joined us just since the last post.
This website is a remarkable experiment;
I hope it can help to bring a small sense of underlying community to
the far flung Nondual world.

WE DON'T FAVOR any single "brand" of the teaching over any other.
Old path, new path, no path:
whatever works.
I will repeat what I've said before:
We provide the teachers, and you provide the discrimination.
If something resonates with you, great.
If it doesn't, tip your hat and move on down the line.
Differing views are all welcome and respected here.
We are far more interested in the teaching's commonalities than we are
its differences.

After all, ultimately there is just one thing going on.
On that we can all agree.

That truth reminds me of another:
on July 6 we'll have Stephan Bodian dropping in with something special for us.

BENTINHO MASSARO has "come out of the gate" as fast as any teacher
I've ever seen.
One minute I'd never heard of him, and in the next I was seeing him everywhere.
Obviously he's a handsome young man with a stop-your-heart smile, but
that doesn't entirely explain his swift rise as a teacher.
This guy is on fire; you can feel it.
Bentinho's teaching is simple, but precise.
He is absolutely confident that what he's sharing works, and sees no
reason at all why it shouldn't work for us right now.
That level of confidence is quite endearing.

BENTINHO HAS MORE than a passing knowledge of a number of spiritual
disciplines and practices, but he's not pushing any of those those.
He tells us that his teaching arises from his own experience, and asks
us to follow his lead.
He and I agree that everyone must find this freedom for themselves.
I've heard Bentinho stress that all of us -- teacher and student,
writer and reader, speaker and listener -- are all here to support
each other, and that everyone's role deserves equal attention and
respect.
I agree with that, too.
After all they are all just that -- roles.
We don't want to take any of them, especially our own, too seriously.
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.

I REMEMBER my response the first time I watched Bentinho on a video --
he really moved me in a sweet and gentle way.
Energy flowed through the screen as this thoroughly disarming and
charming young man encouraged us to recognize awareness right here,
right now, just for a few seconds at a time, over and over.
And then he would cut on that smile and you felt he was speaking from
his whole heart with his whole heart.
Surely here was freedom itself encouraging us to also be free.

BENTINHO IS SOMETHING of a world citizen.
He was raised in Holland, but has an Italian name.
He spent quite a bit of time studying in India, but now lives in the
mountains of North Carolina.
He seems to be everywhere at once, and one of those places this autumn
will be at the SAND Conference 2012, where a lot of others from our
Guest Teachings Series will also be appearing.

Here's how he describes the genesis of that on his website, Free Awareness:
"From the very beginning and throughout all this seeking and the
experiences that came with that seeking, a desire arose and developed
to create something efficient for the rest of the world.
Something that would actually make sense and be accessible to
everyone, regardless of background or interest."

IN THE QUEST FOR ENLIGHTENMENT Bentinho tried meditation, yoga, reiki,
NLP, EFT, Personal Development, Self-Hypnosis, Affirmations,
Transformations, and he read "plenty of 'spiritual' books".
Nothing quite clicked.
There came a sense that "if nothing works, why try?"
This kind of frustration is often not only encountered on the path, it
often is the path.
It is a message for us to be still.
Most of us have to really be worn down before we can open to truth.
When we get tired enough, when we get beat up enough, then at some
point we may see we "can't do it".
Enter surrender.
The root of enlightenment is not found in success;
it is found in failure.

FOR BENTINHO, along with that sense of rising frustration there also
arose fresh spiritual discernment.
Perhaps he had been listening too much to what was being said outside,
and not enough to what was being said inside.
He began to trust his own feelings and insights.
From that trust arose what he describes here, in another quote from
Free Awareness:
"This natural presence reveals the unity beyond all ideas and concepts
and there is nothing that ever affects it.
It's completely stable, ever-present and unchanging awareness.
Yet it is not 'out of this world' or 'detached' in any way.
In fact, it allows us to be completely engaged in life, for the first
time really, without fear for our thoughts and emotions or those of
others.
There is a loving freedom present in and as every experience, without exception.
Experiences come and go, but they all come and go within that which is
effortlessly aware of them.
When this awareness becomes obvious to us, then not only is it
discovered to be unaffected by whatever appears within awareness, but
the unity of experiences and awareness is gradually (or suddenly)
revealed."

IT IS A PLEASURE to host this fortnight's post from Bentinho Massaro.
I've only lightly edited a transcript of his introduction for a conference call.
I want to thank not only Bentinho, but also Michael Jeffries and Stan
Hartmann for helping me build this post.
There is a beautiful flow here as Bentinho talks to us.
Let's listen in.

AND NOW . . .

RECOGNIZING AWARENESS
By
Bentinho Massaro
[ more... ]

http://awakeningclarity.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/invisible-man-guest-memoir-by-louis.html?utm_source=BP_recent

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012

[ Introduction: Fred  Davis, blog editor ]

The Invisible Man: Special Guest Memoir by Louis Brawley

Welcome to another offering in our Guest Teaching Series.
This is the fifteenth installment in a groundbreaking string of posts
that's caught the interest and imagination of seekers and teachers
around the world.  On a personal note, let me say that editing this
series continues to be an extraordinary broadening process for me.
It's been my great fortune to become friends with numerous teachers in
Europe, North America, and Australia.
Ours is a generous and loving community;
I've found support and encouragement at every turn.
I look forward to hosting material from more countries and new
continents as we go forward.
Thank you for your interest.

LOUIS BRAWLEY didn't want me to call this week's entry a "teaching".
I think it has something to do with humility.
I suspect his teacher would have approved.
Ever mindful of being the polite host, I agreed to modify the header
if he'd agree to do what he does so well: write.
I'll post a link to my 5-Star Amazon review of his extraordinary
memoir of his days with U.G. Krishnamurti, Goner: The Final Travels of
U. G. Krishnamurti, published a littler earlier this year by our
friends at Non-Duality Press, Julian and Catherine Noyce.
They are tireless servants of this teaching we all share, and they
sent me Louis' book to see if I might be interested in reviewing it.
I was.

GONER is more about U.G. Krishnamurti, whom I have elsewhere termed
"The Hunter S. Thompson of Gurus", than it is about Louis Brawley.
"Goner" was the phrase U.G. used most often about those people who
hung around him, so Louis himself certainly qualifies as a goner.
His book is a travel log and spiritual documentary, at times almost an
homage, but there is not a lick of boo hoo sentimentality in it.
That's smart thinking on Louis' part, because there's little doubt in
my mind that U.G. would come back and kick his butt if he overheard
his American travel-buddy getting sappy.
U.G. was nothing if not feisty, like an angel toting a tire iron.
His friend, Louis Brawley is a big, knockabout sort of New Yorker,
self-deprecating to a fault, yet with a artist's fine sensibility, and
a mystic's intuitive insight.
For five years these two odd humans were fellow adventurers, gonzo
buccaneers careening through the weirdness that is Planet Earth.
U. G. died in the spring of 2007, leaving one of the strangest and
most colorful legacies in the history of Nonduality.

IN THE BOOK, Louis' role is as that of a stand-in for us:
a (somewhat) average person in an altogether amazing situation; a
situation peopled by the mercurial U. G., and a band of the deepest,
sweetest, nuttiest group of seekers you ever had the pleasure to meet
and spend time with.
The whole thing is a grand affair on wheels and sofas.
Louis is so funny:
I nearly cried laughing over his romantic pinings and self-seen shortcomings.
I didn't feel superior to one bit of it;
I felt just like Louis felt, and that's the power of his pen and eye.
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[glen ep ropella]

I tried to watch this awhile back.  It just seemed like New Age
mumbo-jumbo to me.  I didn't watch the whole thing.  Am I wrong?  Was I
too quick to judge?

Rich Murray wrote at 06/28/2012 08:54 AM:
> NONDUALITY AMERICA has sent out another great post, this one about a
> movie,  "The Quantum Activist".
> Amazon has it, and so does Netflix.
> I watched it the other night and it's simply terrific.
> Rather than tell you all about it, I'm just going to include a link to
> NDA's site.
> Do check this out.
> http://bit.ly/LENmeI


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[Douglas Roberts-2]

I'd say no, and no.

It didn't take me long to form an opinion.  This is as far as I got:

"The Quantum Activist tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality, with a force and scope not felt since Einstein. This film bridges the gap between God and Science."

-Doug

Sent from Android.

On Jun 28, 2012 12:16 PM, "glen e. p. ropella" <[hidden email]> wrote:

I tried to watch this awhile back.  It just seemed like New Age
mumbo-jumbo to me.  I didn't watch the whole thing.  Am I wrong?  Was I
too quick to judge?

Rich Murray wrote at 06/28/2012 08:54 AM:
> NONDUALITY AMERICA has sent out another great post, this one about a
> movie,  "The Quantum Activist".
> Amazon has it, and so does Netflix.
> I watched it the other night and it's simply terrific.
> Rather than tell you all about it, I'm just going to include a link to
> NDA's site.
> Do check this out.
> http://bit.ly/LENmeI


--
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[Rich Murray-2]

uh, you could already have a substantial grasp, or are a total newbie...

everything you have experienced ever is always within the awareness
space in which right now these little crooked dark ma r  k   s  appear
and are somehow understood as invisible me a  n   i    n     g      s
.. .  .

so every moment is mysterious, inexplicable, an ever changing aspect
of a single unlimited unity process -- "personal" awareness-being is a
level within something vastly larger -- that is why inner exploration
inevitably uncovers new territories of sheer experience -- the movie
may be an allegory or metaphor, not a logical, perceptual realm
production -- note that astrophysics now mandates 10 dimensions of
space and one of time to fit everything into our initial flash of
vibrating geometries, which has resulted in such moments as this very
......

Rich Murray

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM, glen e. p. ropella
<[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> I tried to watch this awhile back.  It just seemed like New Age
> mumbo-jumbo to me.  I didn't watch the whole thing.  Am I wrong?  Was I
> too quick to judge?
>
> Rich Murray wrote at 06/28/2012 08:54 AM:
>> NONDUALITY AMERICA has sent out another great post, this one about a
>> movie,  "The Quantum Activist".
>> Amazon has it, and so does Netflix.
>> I watched it the other night and it's simply terrific.
>> Rather than tell you all about it, I'm just going to include a link to
>> NDA's site.
>> Do check this out.
>> http://bit.ly/LENmeI
>
>
> --
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>
>
>
>
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[Douglas Roberts-2]

No offense, Rich, but anybody who claims "This film bridges the gap between God and Science." is full of shit.

Need proof?  Define "God".  Now ask somebody else.  Repeat.

--Doug

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Rich Murray <[hidden email]> wrote:

uh, you could already have a substantial grasp, or are a total newbie...

everything you have experienced ever is always within the awareness
space in which right now these little crooked dark ma r  k   s  appear
and are somehow understood as invisible me a  n   i    n     g      s
.. .  .

so every moment is mysterious, inexplicable, an ever changing aspect
of a single unlimited unity process -- "personal" awareness-being is a
level within something vastly larger -- that is why inner exploration
inevitably uncovers new territories of sheer experience -- the movie
may be an allegory or metaphor, not a logical, perceptual realm
production -- note that astrophysics now mandates 10 dimensions of
space and one of time to fit everything into our initial flash of
vibrating geometries, which has resulted in such moments as this very
......

Rich Murray

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM, glen e. p. ropella
<[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I tried to watch this awhile back.  It just seemed like New Age
> mumbo-jumbo to me.  I didn't watch the whole thing.  Am I wrong?  Was I
> too quick to judge?
>
> Rich Murray wrote at 06/28/2012 08:54 AM:
>> NONDUALITY AMERICA has sent out another great post, this one about a
>> movie,  "The Quantum Activist".
>> Amazon has it, and so does Netflix.
>> I watched it the other night and it's simply terrific.
>> Rather than tell you all about it, I'm just going to include a link to
>> NDA's site.
>> Do check this out.
>> http://bit.ly/LENmeI
>
>
> --
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>
>
>
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[Rich Murray-2]

well, since 1660 science has grown exponentially, never failing to
display astonishing jumps in universe size, age, fractal complexity of
structure, constituents, weird processes, and recently ten necessary
dimensions of space, all evolving from a single flash within the as
yet unknown source -- so the empirical evidence since 1660 is that the
eternal expansion of science will always grow exponentially -- so the
greater source reality must therefore be capable of allowing unlimited
qualitative and quantitative growth -- so this is a sort of
metamathematical no-upper-bound proof that hints at possibilites of
evolution and sentience far beyond 2012 -- so, if we reason that all
things that interact are thus aspects of a common unifiying higher
system, thus, a single unique unifying higher system, then a "finger
pointing at the Moon" term like "God", points at this metamathematical
reality -- for instance, even within a toy model system, like the
integers, has an infinite number of possible theorems, i.e., as Georg
Cantor pointed out 130 years ago, the set of all possible subsets of
the integers, which can be mapped by all possible linear arrays of 0
and 1, is the definition of the real line continuum C -- as a
corollary, no matter how many unique theorems of interger arithmetic
are proved for billions of years, they will only be a point of measure
zero compared to the ordinary infinity of the integers, or of the
higher order infinity C -- and the Mandelbrot Set shows how this shows
up as a simple 2D fractal.

As a mystic, I say that the present moment of awareness has and is the
entire creative focus of the entire single fractal hyperinfinity --
this is th i  s   i     s .. .  .    .      .
your awareness-being right now *!?###&=0
and a dollar gets you a cup of java.  Rich

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Douglas Roberts <[hidden email]> wrote:

> No offense, Rich, but anybody who claims "This film bridges the gap between
> God and Science." is full of shit.
>
> Need proof?  Define "God".  Now ask somebody else.  Repeat.
>
> --Doug
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Rich Murray <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> uh, you could already have a substantial grasp, or are a total newbie...
>>
>> everything you have experienced ever is always within the awareness
>> space in which right now these little crooked dark ma r  k   s  appear
>> and are somehow understood as invisible me a  n   i    n     g      s
>> .. .  .
>>
>> so every moment is mysterious, inexplicable, an ever changing aspect
>> of a single unlimited unity process -- "personal" awareness-being is a
>> level within something vastly larger -- that is why inner exploration
>> inevitably uncovers new territories of sheer experience -- the movie
>> may be an allegory or metaphor, not a logical, perceptual realm
>> production -- note that astrophysics now mandates 10 dimensions of
>> space and one of time to fit everything into our initial flash of
>> vibrating geometries, which has resulted in such moments as this very
>> ......
>>
>> Rich Murray
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>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM, glen e. p. ropella

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>> > I tried to watch this awhile back.  It just seemed like New Age
>> > mumbo-jumbo to me.  I didn't watch the whole thing.  Am I wrong?  Was I
>> > too quick to judge?
>> >
>> > Rich Murray wrote at 06/28/2012 08:54 AM:

>> >> NONDUALITY AMERICA has sent out another great post, this one about a
>> >> movie,  "The Quantum Activist".
>> >> Amazon has it, and so does Netflix.
>> >> I watched it the other night and it's simply terrific.
>> >> Rather than tell you all about it, I'm just going to include a link to
>> >> NDA's site.
>> >> Do check this out.
>> >> http://bit.ly/LENmeI
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com
>> >
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