Awakening to the Dream
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Welcome
The world is unreal
Inner Strength
Be the way you are
Where is Shiva not?
I am not this person
What is real
Talks with Bob Adamson
Clarity talks with Nathan Gill
An ancient story
Certificate of Awakening
The Mysterious Stranger
Extracts from Tony Parsons
Seeds for the Soul
The Drama of it All
Clarity talks with Nathan Gill
The Self-Perfected State
Amazing Grace
The cage of self-centeredness
Original mind
You Are That
All There Is
The existence of consciousness
A myriad bubbles
Beyond the grasp
Selling water by the river
Awake In The Heartland
What is wrong with Right Now?
This First Instant
Peace of Being
Talks with Ramana Maharshi
All That Jazz
About Silence
It is all
The background
Seeing it Simply
The Dream of Space and Time
Discovering
Already Awake
Reincarnation?
IN MEMORIAM
Basic Questions
Integration
Simplicity
One Essence
Thought
The Central Teaching
Unity
Knowledge and Ignorance
Inexpressible Door of Nonduality
The real "I"
Presence/Awareness
Awakening to the Natural State
Looking for God
Life As It Is
There is only Source appearing
Yearning for otherness
Dharmakaya
The ever-present nature
Getting rid of the ego
To Hell with it All!
You Are the Self
The Search is the Trap
The Obvious
Are you awakened?
The Supreme Self
Naturally Timeless Awareness
The Absolute
Seekers of Enlightenment
Presence of Awareness
I am...
This Amazing Realization
I am Life itself
Awareness is the Source
The Golden Eternity
Simple Beingness
The Boundless Void
Self-enquiry
Who pays the bill?
Changeless Reality
The Precious Treasury
Transparent Radiance
You Are the Buddha
Beyond Good and Evil
The real does not die
Memory
Seeking
I Am
The Nature of Thinking
The Great Way
Beyond na?ve affirmation
Ping-ting T'ung-tzu
Free will versus determinism
The End Of Seeking?
A Sharing of Timeless Being
Present and Obvious
Blinded by the Light
Hooked on Enlightenment
It's marvelous
All the world's diversity
There is no oblivion
Direct insight
Remembering and forgetting
Letting go
Beingness
That which appears
Manifestation of the Absolute
Nothing Being Everything
Consciousness
This
Radiance
Benedictory Verse to the Self
ATTD News Letter number 20
Saturday, December 06, 2003
Table of contents.
Q & A | From the book 'Awakening to the Dream.' | Non-Duality Books | Original mind | Awakened Poetry | Quote of the moment! | Smile of the moment! | Links
Q & A | From the book 'Awakening to the Dream.' | Non-Duality Books | Original mind | Awakened Poetry | Quote of the moment! | Smile of the moment! | Links
Q & A

Answer: The most simple answer is 'why not.' As this might not be very helpful, here is a bit more;
The question may sound reasonable but is in fact not very meaningful. You are asking for the meaning of life while everything that has meaning is a relative position within life.
It is like asking 'Where is space located?' while everything that has a location occupies a relative position within space. We could say that the location of space is space and that the meaning of life is life.
I would suggest that you first inquire 'who' you really are, before attempting to answer 'why' you are.
As soon as the 'who question' is answered, the 'why question' will dissolve.
If or when you have a question you'd like to see answered in this newsletter mail to:
author@awakeningtothedream.com
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From the book 'Awakening to the Dream.'

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream
Or the following:
Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of Everywhere into here.
Chuck Hillig points at it in a wonderfully simple book Enlightenment for Beginners, and Wei Wu Wei dazzles the reader with his intellectual acrobatics, while pointing at the very same essence. Like clear water, it slips through the net of our concepts. It is smaller than the smallest and greater than the greatest; it is unborn, eternal, and forever free. It is simply One, expressing and manifesting itself as the complex illusion of the multitude that is the dance of creation.
The paperback is available at: http://www.awakeningtothedream.com/purchasebook.html
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Photo: Dawn from Gilbert's backdoor
Visit him at: http://www.users.bigpond.com/tigereyez/Nisargax.html
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Non-Duality Books

Non-duality Books provides books and audio resources
on Advaita and non-duality with a focus on
contemporary teachers & authors.
The Western expression of the non-dual perspective.
Visit Julian's website at: http://www.non-dualitybooks.com/
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Original mind

You think it is a long way of and yet it is right here. You try to grab it and off it slips. And so you waste your whole lives, trying to fill up a bottomless bucket.
If you opened your eyes, you would see original mind just as you see sunlight. You don't need to interfere to make it happen.
When you've seen one grain of sea-sand, you've seen the sand of every beach and riverbank from the bottom of every ocean in the whole world.
If you've seen the original mind, you've seen the entire original mind and you are Buddha.
Now listen to me with your utmost attention.
I'm going to tell you the great secret of the original mind.
Here it is -the most important thing that has ever been said anywhere at any time?
Listen, there is no secret of the original mind.
From '"The Sayings of Old Ch'eng" On the nature of original mind.
Cool Grove Press ISBN 1-887276-22-X
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Awakened Poetry

WATERS OF MARCH
A. C. Jobin
A stick, a stone, it's the end of the road,
It's the rest of a stump, it's a little alone,
It's a sliver of glass, it is life, it's the sun,
It is night, it is death, it's a trap, it's a gun.
The oak when it blooms, a fox in the brush,
The nod of the wood, the song of a thrush,
The wood of the wing, a cliff, a fall,
A scratch, a lump, it is nothing at all.
It's the wind blowing free, it's the end of a slope,
It's a bean, it's a void, it's a hunch, it's a hope.
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March,
It's the end of the strain, it's the joy in your heart.
The foot, the ground, the flesh and the bone,
The beat of the road, a sling-shot stone,
A truckload of bricks in the soft morning light,
The shot of a gun in the dead of the night.
A mile, a must, a thrust, a bump,
It's a girl, it's a rhyme, it's a cold, it's the mumps.
The plan of the house, the body in bed,
And the car that got stuck, it's the mud, it's the mud.
Afloat, adrift, a flight, a wing,
A cock, a quail, the promise of spring.
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March,
It's the promise of life, it's the joy in your heart.
A point, a grain, a bee, a bite,
A blink, a buzzard, a sudden stroke of night,
A pin, a needle, a sting, a pain,
A snail, a riddle, a wasp, a stain.
A snake, a stick, it is John, it is Joe,
A fish, a flash, a silvery glow.
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March,
It's the promise of life in your heart, in your heart.
A stick, a stone, the end of the load,
The rest of a stump, a lonesome road.
A sliver of glass, a life, the sun,
A night, a death, the end of the run.
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March,
It's the end of all strain, it's the joy in your heart.
Art Garfunkel's BREAKAWAY Album (1975)
A. C. Jobin
A stick, a stone, it's the end of the road,
It's the rest of a stump, it's a little alone,
It's a sliver of glass, it is life, it's the sun,
It is night, it is death, it's a trap, it's a gun.
The oak when it blooms, a fox in the brush,
The nod of the wood, the song of a thrush,
The wood of the wing, a cliff, a fall,
A scratch, a lump, it is nothing at all.
It's the wind blowing free, it's the end of a slope,
It's a bean, it's a void, it's a hunch, it's a hope.
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March,
It's the end of the strain, it's the joy in your heart.
The foot, the ground, the flesh and the bone,
The beat of the road, a sling-shot stone,
A truckload of bricks in the soft morning light,
The shot of a gun in the dead of the night.
A mile, a must, a thrust, a bump,
It's a girl, it's a rhyme, it's a cold, it's the mumps.
The plan of the house, the body in bed,
And the car that got stuck, it's the mud, it's the mud.
Afloat, adrift, a flight, a wing,
A cock, a quail, the promise of spring.
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March,
It's the promise of life, it's the joy in your heart.
A point, a grain, a bee, a bite,
A blink, a buzzard, a sudden stroke of night,
A pin, a needle, a sting, a pain,
A snail, a riddle, a wasp, a stain.
A snake, a stick, it is John, it is Joe,
A fish, a flash, a silvery glow.
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March,
It's the promise of life in your heart, in your heart.
A stick, a stone, the end of the load,
The rest of a stump, a lonesome road.
A sliver of glass, a life, the sun,
A night, a death, the end of the run.
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March,
It's the end of all strain, it's the joy in your heart.
Art Garfunkel's BREAKAWAY Album (1975)
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Quote of the moment!
Give up all questions except one: "Who am I?"
After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are.
The "I am" is certain.
The "I am this" is not.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Give up all questions except one: "Who am I?"
After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are.
The "I am" is certain.
The "I am this" is not.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Smile of the moment!

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