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The Ordinary Mind Is The Buddha Mind: By Harsh K. Luthar, Ph.D.

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Photo art found on John Wassenberg’s FB page.

 

As long as you are looking for and relying on saviours, buddhas, bodhisattvas, gods, gurus, and supermen, you will find it hard to stay with your ordinary everyday consciousness. It appears so fragile, unstable, conflicted, wretched, and filled with self-serving needs. It is no wonder that people get on the spiritual path and seek salvation and wish to run away from where they are and who they are.

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Being Stillness: By James Traverse

Oneduality
Space Silence
Stillness

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Space is Infinite.
Silence is Eternal.

Stillness is Absolute.

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Space is Beauty that shapes everything.
Silence is Love that sustains everything.

Stillness is oneduality, Space-Silence.

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Nondual Meditiation: Negation and Self-Inquiry, as Taught by Ramana Maharshi: By Richard Clarke

My name is Richard. I am a seeker, practicing Self-inquiry. I am taught by two Sages, Nome and Russ. They have been teaching Self-inquiry in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 25 years, at SAT (The Society of Abidance in Truth) in Santa Cruz. The focus of their teaching is very much on Self-inquiry as taught by Ramana Maharshi. They both came to Self-Realization through Self-inquiry.

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Natural Yoga is Living Yoga: By James Traverse

OneDual Intelligence – Intuition and Intellect

http:www.beingyoga.com

Natural Yoga is when identification with the movement of the mind is absent.

It is the unity of Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga that honours the original intention

of the ancient sages. Yoga is supremely beneficial physically, and, it is a means

to uplift one’s consciousness and attune spiritually.

Natural Yoga is composed of classical yoga poses, guided relaxation,

meditation, and the exploration of living answers to living questions.

Practitioners of all levels benefit from the group setting, the diversity of

the postures, and Nisarga’s particular emphasis on the Art of Listening.

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Another Kind of Self-Inquiry: Chandrakirti’s Sevenfold Reasoning on Selflessness: By Greg Goode, Ph.D.

A chariot is not asserted to be other than its parts,
Nor non-other. It also does not possess them.
It is not in the parts, nor are the parts in it.
It is not the mere collection [of its parts], nor is it their shape.
[The self and the aggregates are] similar.
Chandrakirti, Supplement to (Nagarjuna’s)
“Treatise on the Middle Way”

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