Starting on January 1st, StillnessSpeaks welcomes Scott Kiloby to it's Open Awareness Study Group.(Click here to join StillnessSpeaks Open Awareness study Group) on non duality and advaita..

Scott's accessible, sweet style of interaction with teachers,writers and friends has become a trademark. Among those friends, Greg Goode and Jeff Foster both highly recommend Scott and his approach, high praise in our humble opinion.

Click here while we share Scott Kiloby's book, Living Realization, an audio dialogue and two videos in which he explores the recognition of our true nature, the tendency he discovered top "hide in the void" and the realization that collapsed the last duality for him.

"By reducing objects into consciousness or happiness, you come only to the brink of experience. Reduce them further into the "I" principle; then,'it', the object, and 'you', the subject, both merge into experience itself.Thus, when you find that what you see is only yourself, the 'seeing' and 'objects' become mere empty words."

Shri Atmananda Menon

It is with great enthusiasm that Non-Duality Press and StillnessSpeaks announce the publishing of Nitya Tripta's "Notes on Spiritual Discources of Shri Atmananda". Copies are available here.

Click to join us as we explore the question " What is my Real Goal?" with Atmananda Krishna Menon.

By now, everyone is aware of the tremendously successful 2009 Science and Non Duality Conference in San Rafael, California led by Maurizio Benazzo, the owner of Neti Neti Films and a large group of well known sponsors including StillnessSpeaks. The event brought together a diverse group of people: quantum physicists, publishers, film producers, teachers, artists and Truth Lovers.. And it worked! The event became a celebration of serious science, spiritual inquiry and "being" itself including evrything from dance, to film and music.

Don't hesitate about attending this upcoming year. Hotel rooms became scarce last year, so it would be wise to make plans now.  Click here to read about next years event, our experience at the 2009 'celebration' and for information on "early bird" registration oppurtunties for the expanded event for next year, 2010.

All of human behavior is motivated by the desire for happiness. We are hardwired for it and it's absence is the driver of all action.

But, do we ever take a look at this basic motivation to all of our human actions?

The search for happiness can not occur without unhappiness, or suffering. It is this desire to complete ourselves, to make ourselves whole and complete, this notion that we are incomplete as we are, that motivates everything we "do." We call this basic motivation: "lack."- the chronic belief that we do not have what we think we need in order to be complete.

The true nature of all of our seeking, be it for money, fame, vanity, possessions,relationship, sex, vanity, drugs, alcohol or, more subtly, enlightenment is this sense of lack..

When this desire becomes fixated and extreme, we call it addiction.

Click here and discover the refreshing discussion on the true nature of addiction and spiritual awakening.

What is the difference between "efforting" and welcoming" so frequently discussed in meditation?

Is thought the enemy or is it simply our attachment to the single thought/belief that we are a separate, limited and bound?

If there is only awareness itself, what is this phenomenon of "working our way out of mind" to begin with?

What exactly is this "mind" that we refer to?

Click here to read Peter Dzuiban, author of " Consciousness is All", in this dialogue, "Working my way out of MInd"?; Awareness being Awareness itself.

For Truth to be Truth, it must not change, it must be Absolute. If Truth could change, how could it be True?

This being the case, it should stand to reason that the end result of any spiritual path of inquiry should be the same, irrespective of the spiritual tradition followed, whether it be Chan Buddhism, Zen, Sufism, Gnostic Christian, Western Philosophy or, even, Quantum Science.

This is the ultimate test of Truth and, in fact, it is exactly what we discover.

When verifying the conclusions of any tradition, It is important take note of differences in word definitions, as assuming that various words in different traditions have the same meaning will lead to an incorrect understanding of the Truth being pointed to.

Consider this Chan Buddhist quote from The Platform Sutra of Hui Neng, noting that "mind" here might be defined mentations: sensations, thoughts, and perceptions "arising" as awareness:

"It happened that one day, when a pennant was blown about by the wind, two Bhikkhus entered into a dispute as to what it was that was in motion, the wind or the pennant. As they could not settle their difference I submitted to them that it was neither, and that what actually moved was their own mind." Hui Neng

Read the famous "Platform Sutra" by Hui Neng by clicking here.