Comments for Simply Now http://www.simplynow.org Nonduality, Enlightenment, Awakening, Oneness, Now, Advaita, Awareness Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:05:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on videos by Jim Mooney http://www.simplynow.org/videos/#comment-49 Jim Mooney Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:05:07 +0000 http://www.simplynow.org/?page_id=591#comment-49 I sometimes go through the "enlightenment" videos on youtube and the vast majority seem hokey, full of themselves, or too Hinduized. You seem for real - which is rare - but these sure are awful videos ;') Besides background noise, I don't grasp why the camera is below you, pointing up, and it looks like you're in a hallway, ready to leave. I sometimes go through the “enlightenment” videos on youtube and the vast majority seem hokey, full of themselves, or too Hinduized. You seem for real – which is rare – but these sure are awful videos ;’) Besides background noise, I don’t grasp why the camera is below you, pointing up, and it looks like you’re in a hallway, ready to leave.

]]> Comment on individuality & nonduality by Jim Mooney http://www.simplynow.org/2011/10/16/individuality-nonduality/#comment-48 Jim Mooney Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:36:01 +0000 http://www.simplynow.org/?p=525#comment-48 Just a technical point. I find it hard to read light gray on white, but for some odd reason it's an increasing default in blogs. I'd suggest going to a darker gray or black. Just a thought. If you look in the file style.css for #container { color: #999999; } And change that to: #container { color: black; } the site will be much more readable. Just a technical point. I find it hard to read light gray on white, but for some odd reason it’s an increasing default in blogs. I’d suggest going to a darker gray or black. Just a thought. If you look in the file style.css for

#container {
color: #999999;
}

And change that to:

#container {
color: black;
}

the site will be much more readable.

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]]> Comment on what is thought? by Hot jobs http://www.simplynow.org/2011/12/06/what-is-thought/#comment-43 Hot jobs Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:09:39 +0000 http://www.simplynow.org/?p=573#comment-43 It was a excitement locating your site yesterday. I came here right hoping to learn something new. And I was not dissatisfied. Your well thought out ideas for new events like this. Thank you for this idea and sharing your knowledge. It was a excitement locating your site yesterday. I came here right hoping to learn something new. And I was not dissatisfied. Your well thought out ideas for new events like this. Thank you for this idea and sharing your knowledge.

]]> Comment on spiritual reference points by financial management http://www.simplynow.org/2011/11/28/spiritual-reference-points/#comment-39 financial management Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:55:59 +0000 http://www.simplynow.org/?p=566#comment-39 I've read some good stuff here. Definitely worth bookmarking for revisiting. I’ve read some good stuff here. Definitely worth bookmarking for revisiting.

]]> Comment on spiritual reference points by Brian Moseley http://www.simplynow.org/2011/11/28/spiritual-reference-points/#comment-37 Brian Moseley Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:59:03 +0000 http://www.simplynow.org/?p=566#comment-37 Just wish to say your article is as surprising. The clearness in your post is just great and i can assume you are an expert on this subject. Well with your permission let me to grab your feed to keep updated with forthcoming post. Thanks a million and please carry on the rewarding work. Just wish to say your article is as surprising. The clearness in your post is just great and i can assume you are an expert on this subject. Well with your permission let me to grab your feed to keep updated with forthcoming post. Thanks a million and please carry on the rewarding work.

]]> Comment on spiritual reference points by Abdul http://www.simplynow.org/2011/11/28/spiritual-reference-points/#comment-34 Abdul Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:18:37 +0000 http://www.simplynow.org/?p=566#comment-34 Thank you for finding the time to explain the terminlogy for the noobs! Thank you for finding the time to explain the terminlogy for the noobs!

]]> Comment on the appearance of separation by Tammy http://www.simplynow.org/2011/09/13/the-appearance-of-separation/#comment-4 Tammy Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:06:32 +0000 http://www.simplynow.org/?p=141#comment-4 Thank you for the comment! You sound so open and honest, it really is beautiful. The idea of separation was the biggest struggle for me too. “I find myself putting up walls between me and the world, nature, personal relationships, business relationships.” Sometimes I go into the story with people and explore around like finding out what the walls are. Walls are always supported by a belief about who you are in relation to the world. But, my friend you have been on this path for a while and you have had enough of this path now. So I’m not drawn to go into your story, rather to pop the whole thing. The thing is, you are not putting up walls. The walls and the things on either side of the walls are simply appearances; beliefs made of nothing. You are not doing anything, separating or connecting. You are actually already the awareness of the whole thing, already hands off with no opinion about walls or separation. “an ever present understanding of connectedness with the world” This is beautiful! One slight adjustment, you are never, have never, will never be connected with the world. It’s funny because you already see this and it’s almost like a record that’s still spinning but the music has stopped. These beliefs are really not strong at all. There is never a connectedness with the world. You and the world are already the same, no connection is possible. It's like the appearance in the mirror saying I can sense a connectedness with the mirror. Separation, connection, and walls are truly only thoughts. Stop caring about all thoughts. Thoughts about walls and separation/connection could just as easily be thoughts about the weather. You are that that is aware of all thoughts. “more practice to me results in more freedom” Then practice all the time, every second. Make practice constant and let the world come and go. It’s time to get off the cushion. In other words, don’t ever leave the cushion. Do life and work and play but keep the cushion on your butt. Allow practice to happen always and you will see that there is no practice, no world, no you. “catching myself constructing it has been happening more now than ever” Who is constructing? Who is catching yourself constructing? Perhaps something is appearing more often but it’s not you constructing it. Perhaps discomfort is happening more often or more intensely to push you back home. I'd say it’s time ☺ “the ego separating itself and at war with the outside, aggressive, emotional war” The ego = thoughts passing through. Separating = belief in separation = thoughts passing through. War with the outside = belief in outside/inside (where is this inside place?). Mmm, aggressive emotional war = feelings passing through. Feelings are just like the weather passing by and never affected by who we are. Funny, my dogs are playing an aggressive emotional war game beside me right now. “this environment is me, I’m essentially staring at myself” YES! Not essentially, literally. And take away the “I’m”. There is simply looking at the self, always. “A gentleness that first starts inwards but then starts to push itself outwards” SO lovely. It only seems to start inward and push outwards. There is no in/out but it does seem that way. Where is this inward place? “What really lies beneath all of this construction is actually compassion”. Yes. Yes. Yes. That’s it. What seems to lie beneath is who we really are. Call it compassion, love, peace, wholeness. It’s always there. Beneath every moment no matter what is happening. That is who we are. Does this compassion have an opinion about the appearance of separation? It is exactly the same whether you are apparently on the cushion or apparently constructing walls. What a pleasure. This would be easier to point to in person. But, what a pleasure nonetheless. Thank you my good old friend. Thank you for the comment! You sound so open and honest, it really is beautiful. The idea of separation was the biggest struggle for me too.

“I find myself putting up walls between me and the world, nature, personal relationships, business relationships.”

Sometimes I go into the story with people and explore around like finding out what the walls are. Walls are always supported by a belief about who you are in relation to the world. But, my friend you have been on this path for a while and you have had enough of this path now. So I’m not drawn to go into your story, rather to pop the whole thing. The thing is, you are not putting up walls. The walls and the things on either side of the walls are simply appearances; beliefs made of nothing. You are not doing anything, separating or connecting. You are actually already the awareness of the whole thing, already hands off with no opinion about walls or separation.

“an ever present understanding of connectedness with the world”

This is beautiful! One slight adjustment, you are never, have never, will never be connected with the world. It’s funny because you already see this and it’s almost like a record that’s still spinning but the music has stopped. These beliefs are really not strong at all. There is never a connectedness with the world. You and the world are already the same, no connection is possible. It’s like the appearance in the mirror saying I can sense a connectedness with the mirror. Separation, connection, and walls are truly only thoughts. Stop caring about all thoughts. Thoughts about walls and separation/connection could just as easily be thoughts about the weather. You are that that is aware of all thoughts.

“more practice to me results in more freedom”

Then practice all the time, every second. Make practice constant and let the world come and go. It’s time to get off the cushion. In other words, don’t ever leave the cushion. Do life and work and play but keep the cushion on your butt. Allow practice to happen always and you will see that there is no practice, no world, no you.

“catching myself constructing it has been happening more now than ever”

Who is constructing? Who is catching yourself constructing? Perhaps something is appearing more often but it’s not you constructing it. Perhaps discomfort is happening more often or more intensely to push you back home. I’d say it’s time ☺

“the ego separating itself and at war with the outside, aggressive, emotional war”

The ego = thoughts passing through. Separating = belief in separation = thoughts passing through. War with the outside = belief in outside/inside (where is this inside place?). Mmm, aggressive emotional war = feelings passing through. Feelings are just like the weather passing by and never affected by who we are. Funny, my dogs are playing an aggressive emotional war game beside me right now.

“this environment is me, I’m essentially staring at myself”

YES! Not essentially, literally. And take away the “I’m”. There is simply looking at the self, always.

“A gentleness that first starts inwards but then starts to push itself outwards”

SO lovely. It only seems to start inward and push outwards. There is no in/out but it does seem that way. Where is this inward place?

“What really lies beneath all of this construction is actually compassion”.

Yes. Yes. Yes. That’s it. What seems to lie beneath is who we really are. Call it compassion, love, peace, wholeness. It’s always there. Beneath every moment no matter what is happening. That is who we are. Does this compassion have an opinion about the appearance of separation? It is exactly the same whether you are apparently on the cushion or apparently constructing walls. What a pleasure. This would be easier to point to in person. But, what a pleasure nonetheless. Thank you my good old friend.

]]> Comment on the appearance of separation by Duane http://www.simplynow.org/2011/09/13/the-appearance-of-separation/#comment-2 Duane Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:25:31 +0000 http://www.simplynow.org/?p=141#comment-2 This one is interesting for me, this idea of separation, simply because it is perhaps the biggest struggle that i face time and time again. With the fluctuations of my personal practice, i find myself putting up walls between me and the world, nature, personal relationships, business relationships. In my case more sitting time = an ever present understanding of connectedness with the world, less time = more separation, and even that statement demonstrates a separateness in and of itself.:) It's actually very comical when i sit and think about how i approach the world when considering separateness. There is a bit of truth to my prior statement that the more vigilant i am in practice is the more i am connected, more practice to me results in more freedom, an ease with which i can let things go without the consequence of beating myself up, and all of us know the routine well --- oneness, together, good, doing well, yes it makes sense, but that over there is not like this, oofff but it is, there i go again separating, why did i do that, oh i suck --- repeat cycle. I have recently started working at a new place and this routine of separation and catching myself constructing it has been happening more now than ever. I am always comparing, always wondering why this world is not like the one i had envisioned, why these people are such defensive and impatient people, why can't they just see that i am the new guy and that i need time to figure it out, but here it is the routine, the ego separating itself and at war with the outside, aggressive, emotional war. There are moments where i remember what it is about, when i snap into the reality of all it is where i realize that these people, this environment is me, i'm essentially staring at myself. It is at these moments where i feel a sense of calm but patience with myself and yielding to the situation that is, a gentleness that first starts inwards but then starts to push itself outwards, though sometimes i don't want it to, it still happens effortlessly, and then a connectedness with these people, with my circumstance and realizing that what really lies beneath all of this construcation is actually compassion. This one is interesting for me, this idea of separation, simply because it is perhaps the biggest struggle that i face time and time again. With the fluctuations of my personal practice, i find myself putting up walls between me and the world, nature, personal relationships, business relationships. In my case more sitting time = an ever present understanding of connectedness with the world, less time = more separation, and even that statement demonstrates a separateness in and of itself.:) It’s actually very comical when i sit and think about how i approach the world when considering separateness. There is a bit of truth to my prior statement that the more vigilant i am in practice is the more i am connected, more practice to me results in more freedom, an ease with which i can let things go without the consequence of beating myself up, and all of us know the routine well — oneness, together, good, doing well, yes it makes sense, but that over there is not like this, oofff but it is, there i go again separating, why did i do that, oh i suck — repeat cycle.
I have recently started working at a new place and this routine of separation and catching myself constructing it has been happening more now than ever. I am always comparing, always wondering why this world is not like the one i had envisioned, why these people are such defensive and impatient people, why can’t they just see that i am the new guy and that i need time to figure it out, but here it is the routine, the ego separating itself and at war with the outside, aggressive, emotional war.
There are moments where i remember what it is about, when i snap into the reality of all it is where i realize that these people, this environment is me, i’m essentially staring at myself. It is at these moments where i feel a sense of calm but patience with myself and yielding to the situation that is, a gentleness that first starts inwards but then starts to push itself outwards, though sometimes i don’t want it to, it still happens effortlessly, and then a connectedness with these people, with my circumstance and realizing that what really lies beneath all of this construcation is actually compassion.

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