Richard Rohr’s Bottom-Up Spirituality
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.
Stillness Speaks is pleased to introduce Richard Rohr … enjoy this sampling of his radical and refreshing Christian perspective … with more to come in the future.
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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Prior to Consciousness
I, by Myself, Awareness, descend into this consciousness, and in this consciousness I express Myself in manifold ways, in innumerable forms. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Stillness Speaks is pleased to offer a sampling of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s perspective on Awareness & Consciousness as part of our ongoing exploration of this topic. We offer a downloadable book (PDF), Prior to Consciousness, a compilation of question & answer sessions with Nisargadatta in 1980-81.
This post, a first in a series, provides a brief taste of Sri Maharaj’s work … with many more to follow …
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Emptiness & The Depth of Being: Almaas & Thurman
“I don’t exist but at the same time, I am responsible.” ~ A.H. Almaas
In this illuminating conversation, from the 2016 SAND Conference, Hameed Ali Almaas and Robert Thurman discuss the subject of being and nonbeing, emptiness and presence and how this is a foray into the unknown depths of being. Learn whether there are differences between the Buddhist perspective and The Diamond Approach. This post overviews the hour and a half video conversation.
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Consciousness & Awareness: Almaas & Spira
Awareness can be experienced in two ways, awareness of being-ness (pure self) and awareness of nonbeing-ness (selfless awareness). Both are awareness, but it seems that awareness has two faces. ~ Hameed Ali
We are pleased to offer this fascinating and challenging conversation, recorded at the 2013 Science and Non-Duality (SAND) Conference, between Hameed Ali (A.H. Almaas) and Rupert Spira focusing on the nature of awareness and perception. Enjoy this overview and watch the video.
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Dogen: Impermanence
Henry Shukman: The Moment that Still IS
I was given this greatest opportunity of all opportunities – to be a human being. ~ Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman shares his direct experience … of nothing but pure awareness … where there is no seer … of dying without dying … the moment that still IS … which opened him to the amazing gift of truly being a human being.
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Robert Rabbin: Techniques
We must become servants of meditation, so meditation will become our Master.” ~ Robert Rabbin
Contemporary mystic Robert Rabbin speaks with intimate authority about the fundamental nature of being, reality, essence. Techniques is a poem from Robert’s book, The Explosive Silence of Meditation, a collection of sutras reflecting deep reality: the place of Being itself.
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Joan Tollifson: Consciousness, Awareness & Attention, Part 2 of 2
Everyone sees a completely unique movie of waking life. When we try to meet each other on the level of forms and appearances, the results are often unsatisfying. But as awareness, we are one whole undivided being. ~ Joan Tollifson
Are consciousness, awareness and attention the same thing? Joan Tollifson continues her examination of these familiar yet enigmatic “concepts.”
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Joan Tollifson: Consciousness, Awareness & Attention, Part 1 of 2
…consciousness is the common factor in every experience—the undeniable knowingness of being here now, the bare sense of presence. ~ Joan Tollifson
Are consciousness, awareness and attention the same thing? Joan Tollifson answers this question by examining these familiar yet enigmatic “concepts.”
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The Ten Thousand Things: Freedom to Be
The deepest wellsprings of thought and action exist beyond our ken and beyond conscious control. ~ Robert Saltzman
In Freedom to Be, an excerpt from TheTen Thousand Things, Robert Saltzman explores free-will within the context of no intrinsic self. He explores who or what makes choices and examines what choices really are. Robert turns many of our basic assumptions about choice and freedom up-side down.
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One Bright Pearl: A Conversation About Zen & Awakening
“… I and all beings and the whole great earth together simultaneously have attained the Way …” ~ Buddha’s words after his awakening …
In this exclusive VIDEO, available only to our subscribers, Henry Shukman and Chris Hebard converse about a wide range of topics about Zen and awakening …
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Benediction, by Pir Elias Amidon
I don’t know where your light comes from
or where I end and you begin. ~ Pir Elias Amidon
Benediction is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari.
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Overview of Emptiness, a series in 10 parts, by Greg Goode
Experiencing self, other and world as empty is to joyfully experience one’s place in a light, free, open-ended, interpenetrating webwork of relations and dependencies. ~ Greg Goode
Stillness Speaks is pleased to offer this comprehensive ten-part series that explores the nature of Emptiness, written by Greg Goode. This post briefly overviews the series.
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Here and Now, Robert Saltzman
This is about actually hearing something for the first time, something you have never heard before. ~ Robert Saltzman
Robert Saltzman has shared this short poetic video with Stillness Speaks which offers a moving photo-montage and lyrical insights about the simplicity of living here and now. Enjoy this brief overview.
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Dogen: Deep Grass
In the midst of illusion I awaken to the true path. ~ Dogen
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Richard Sylvester: Non-Duality Questions & Answers
Nothing will get the person out of their prison because the person is the prison. When the person drops away, it is seen that there never was a prison in the first place. ~ Richard Sylvester
Stillness Speaks is pleased to offer an excerpt (downloadable PDF) from Richard Sylvester’s latest book, Non-Duality Questions, Non-Duality Answers. Richard is a humanistic psychologist, therapist and lecturer .. and is a speaker at SAND Italy 2017.
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Henry Shukman: Zen and the Art… Part 4 of 4
..the secret truth is that art is useless… Its “purpose” is to delight with its purposelessness, to demonstrate that in our lives of “getting and spending” there must be one thing without utilitarian value. ~ Henry Shukman
Rumi on Thankfulness: The Soul of Beneficence
Thankfulness is the soul of beneficence …
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Enjoy Rumi’s wisdom … includes downloadable content.
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Eckhart Tolle: Deeply Accepting This Moment …
When you deeply accept this moment as it is …
no matter what form it takes …
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Enjoy Eckhart Tolle’s wisdom … includes downloadable content.
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- Atmabodha
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- Emptiness Dancing
- Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy
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- Essential Tibetan Buddhism
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- Face To Face With Sri Ramana Maharshi
- Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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- Sri Ramana Reminiscences – Kindle Edition
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- The Awakening West: Conversations with Today’s New Western Spiritual Leaders
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- The Garland of Guru’s Sayings
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- The Gnostic Gospels
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- The Heart Sutra: A Comprehensive Guide to the Classic of Mahayana Buddhism
- The Hero’s Journey
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- The Human Encounter with Death
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- The I Ching or Book of Changes: A Guide to Life’s Turning Points
- The Impersonal Life
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- The Love of Uncertainty
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- Absent – Wolter Keers
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- After Awareness – The End of the Path Book Summary
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- Bliss
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- Chapter 1: Non-Dualism, by Philip Renard
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- Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Research on Mindfulness and Meditation
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- Dr. Jean Klein by Andrew Rawlinson
- Eating for Peace
- Evan Thompson’s ‘Waking, Dreaming, Being’
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- Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi
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- Free Medicine: Meditations on Nondual Awakening – 3 Chapters
- Fundamentals of Dogen’s Thoughts
- Guided Meditations
- Guru Vachaka Kovai
- Happiness and The Art of Being
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- Hudson Valley Healing Buddha
- I Am Unborn – Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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- Indifference Not Acting – Wolter Keers
- Infinity is a synonym for being
- Introduction to Non-Dualism by Philip Renard
- Inventory to the Stanislav Grof Papers, circa 1955-2008
- Listening In With… Robert Thurman
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- Love of Uncertainty – Excerpt
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- Notes on Spiritual Discourses
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- Prior to Consciousness
- Realizing the unreal: Dharmakı ̄rti’s theory of yogic perception, by John D Dunne
- Reasons for Retranslating the Heart Sutra
- Reflections on Receiving Jukai
- Richard Sylvester: Non-Duality Questions, Non-Duality Answers
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- Some Teachings from Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon)
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- The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success
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- The Complete I AM Quotes of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- The Complete Red Book by Carl Jung
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- The discipline of disappearance
- The Four Keys to Well-Being
- The Fourth Precept: Deep Listening and Loving Speech
- The heart of the world – Wolter Keers
- The Impersonal Life
- The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
- The Keys to Ultimate Freedom
- The Nisargadatta Gita
- The Old Woman’s Rice Cakes
- The Rabbit In The Hat – Wolter Keers
- The Six Emotional Styles
- The Ten Thousand Things: Awakening and Behavior
- The Ten Thousand Things: Awakening Never Ends
- The Ten Thousand Things: Freedom to Be
- The Transparency of Things – Excerpt
- Thoughtless Buddha, Passionate Buddha, by John D Dunne
- Utterly One
- Waking Up
- What is Mindfulness?
- Yoga means connection – Jean Klein
- You are YOU
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