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The Timeless Unknown

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:14:30 +0000

It is sometimes said in non-duality meetings or books that there is nothing you can do to bring about enlightenment (i.e., Oneness) or that there is no one there to do anything.

The words non-duality, Oneness, and enlightenment are just empty images pointing to the fact that life is already happening. It’s already happening now. There is no path to what already is. The person who would set out to do something is a dream of thought, a dream of time, arising in the unknown, the timeless.

Within that dream, the notions of choice, control, and cause and effect arise. But when the dream is seen through, what is realized is what already is. No choice and no control. How can one control or bring about what is already happening? What is realized cannot be grasped or explained by the intellect because the intellect is merely an expression of it. Clear concepts and unclear concepts are both ‘This.’ There is nothing that ‘This’ is not. ‘

This’ is the timeless unknown from which time and knowing arise and fall. It cannot be realized through thought and time because thought and time are just temporary images arising and falling. They are part of the dream. Yet ‘This’ is so immediately here. It is absolutely real. It is all there is. You are not a person who is separate from it and who can then somehow find it. You are it. Now.

~ From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com

Jeff Foster and Scott Kiloby

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:23:54 +0000

A teleconference call recorded August 22, 2010 with Scott Kiloby and Jeff Foster.

You may listen with “streaming audio” by clicking the blue arrow icon; or you may download the MP3 file to your hard drive. Each recording is an hour long so it may take a few minutes to download.

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Scott Kiloby

The Doer is a Story of Lack

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:19:13 +0000

The dream self is a doer that is doing things now to achieve other things later. You believe that you must meditate to evoke relaxation or reach enlightenment. You believe you must pray each morning so that God will give you or your loved ones a longer life, better relationships, more money, or a better living situation. You go to spiritual teachers who will tell you how to become more present, surrendered, open, aware, loving, or awakened.

All of this doing assumes that you have control of your life. The idea of personal choice/will creates the story of self in time. The story goes, “I lack something now but if I do this particular thing, I will find wholeness later.” The story perpetuates the sense of lack. It traps you into seeking future.

Instead of blindly doing things in order to bring about some later awakening, notice what is already being done. Notice all the ways the doer is busy looking for a later moment. This is not a suggestion to stop doing things. It is an invitation to notice that all doing feeds into the story of self, which is a story that you lack something now but that the future will bring fulfillment.

Enlightenment is simply the realization that there is already enlightenment now under the story of the doer doing things to reach enlightenment.

~ From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com

Jeff Foster and Scott Kiloby

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:01:36 +0000

A teleconference call recorded July 11, 2010 with Scott Kiloby and Jeff Foster.

You may listen with “streaming audio” by clicking the blue arrow icon; or you may download the MP3 file to your hard drive. Each recording is over an hour long so it may take a few minutes to download.

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Scott Kiloby

Living Realization

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:53:41 +0000

This is an audio recording of a Living Realization meeting held June 19th, 2010.

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Living Realization Text – Chapter Five. . . .

Living Realization
Scott Kiloby

Living Realization

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:12:07 +0000

This is an audio recording of a Living Realization meeting held May 8th, 2010.

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Living Realization Text – Chapter Three. . . .

Living Realization
Scott Kiloby

Living Realization

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 22:44:53 +0000

This is an audio recording of a Living Realization meeting held May 1st, 2010.

You may listen with “streaming audio” by clicking the blue arrow icon; or you may download the MP3 file to your hard drive. The recording is an hour and a half long so it may take a few minutes to download.

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Living Realization Text – Chapter Two. . . .

Living Realization
Scott Kiloby

To be Like a Leaf

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:47:20 +0000

Enlightenment is just a fancy word for being totally surrendered. It’s like being a leaf. The wind blows you every which way and you are just glad to go in whatever direction it takes you. And you know that wherever you are, that is exactly where you are supposed to be because that is where you are.

You aren’t trying to figure out how to be a better or more spiritual leaf. But if those thoughts arise, that is fine too. You are not arguing with other leaves or trying to be heard or seen above all other leaves. But if that arguing or trying happens, that is fine too. You are not fighting the wind. And yet if fighting happens, that is fine too. You are just content moving in whatever way the wind (life) moves you.

Even when you are moving, you are naturally at rest because you are not separate from the wind. There is no you and the wind. There is only One Life, appearing as two. You are the One pretending to be a separate leaf, dancing with your friend “wind.”

You are happy being exactly where you are, whether anyone is paying attention to you or not, and whether anyone thinks you are an enlightened leaf or just a plain old leaf because you know that there is no real boundary between those two.

From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com

Living Realization

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:46:00 +0000

This is an audio recording of a Living Realization meeting held April 17th, 2010.

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Living Realization Text – From the beginning. . . .

Living Realization
Scott Kiloby

Suffering and Seeking

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:40:27 +0000

Suffering and seeking are intrinsically tied together.

Suffering is the past. Suffering happens through identification with thought and emotion. Identification means that you believe that you are the thought-based story of your past and the emotions that arise in conjunction with that story. That story feels necessarily incomplete because it is not reality.

It is a story that exists in time. Time is thought. This story is just a set of mental images. Images are, by their nature, incomplete. They have meaning only in relation to other images. The past story of you is looking for meaning — for completion in other images. Those other images are the future.

Seeking is the future. When the past story is believed to be who you are, the mind believes that it must do something to make the story complete in the future. Therefore, it engages in self-help therapy, career movements, relationships, buying material items, seeking enlightenment and a host of other things in order to find that completion.

This story is not really interested in completion. It is interested in continuing to keep the story alive. It does this through seeking. Suffering leads to seeking. Seeking leads to more suffering because future completion is never reached. “Future” is just a thought. It cannot be reached.

Your true nature is the timeless awareness from which the thought-based, time-bound story of you appears and disappears. This seeing ends the cycle of suffering and seeking.

~ From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com