Awakening to Infinite Presence: The Clarity of Self-Realization

345 Pages·2015·6.867 MB·English

by  Robert Wolfe

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AWAKENING TO INFINITE
PRESENCE

ROBERT WOLFE
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Other books by Robert Wolfe
Living Nonduality
Abiding in Nondual Awareness
Always—Only—One (on the Ashtavakra Gita and other texts of India)
One Essence (on the Hsin Hsin Ming)
The Enlightenment Teachings of Jesus (on the Gospel of Thomas)
Science of the Sages (on science meeting nonduality)
Elementary Cloudwatching (a journal)
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Contents
Preface ............................................................................ 11
Introduction .................................................................... 13
What You Really Want? .................................................. 15
Bedrock ........................................................................... 31
Em-bodi-ment ................................................................. 33
In a Moment ................................................................... 38
Simple Enough? ............................................................... 39
Sudden or Gradual? ........................................................ 41
Yield: “Give in Return” ................................................... 42
Glimpsing It .................................................................... 45
Discovering True Nature ................................................. 46
World Premier ................................................................. 48
Thought for the Day ....................................................... 49
The Field of Actuality ..................................................... 51
Getting to Know Ramana ............................................... 58
The Word is not the Thing ............................................... 61
Un-becoming You ............................................................ 62
“Your” True Nature ........................................................ 68
Are You Motiv-ated? ....................................................... 73
Today’s Entree................................................................. 74
Your True Identity ........................................................... 76
The Meaning of Love ...................................................... 79
Let Go ............................................................................. 81
Wishful Thinking ............................................................ 84
Get Serious ...................................................................... 86
Your Essential Condition ................................................ 87
In All Humility ................................................................ 90
Be, or Not to Be? ............................................................. 91
Reply to Sharon .............................................................. 95
By Any Other Name ........................................................ 96
The Sacred ...................................................................... 97
A Nonprofit Venture ...................................................... 99
The Impermanent I ........................................................ 101
Revelatory Revolution ................................................... 105
Half Way Up ................................................................. 106
Wholly .......................................................................... 108
One Unbroken Movement ............................................. 109
A Primitive Concept ...................................................... 113
Advaita Condensed ...................................................... 114
Great Expectations? ...................................................... 115
How It’s Known ............................................................ 117
self to Self ...................................................................... 122
In the Fire ...................................................................... 123
Parts Unknown ............................................................. 125
Death: The Mystical Advent .......................................... 127
Presence of Being ........................................................... 133
Settling for Less ............................................................. 136
Not Knowing ................................................................ 137
World To-Do List .......................................................... 138
Myth as Religion ........................................................... 143
Always Present .............................................................. 145
“Our Father Who Art…” .............................................. 151
The Middle Way ............................................................ 152
The Sage and Illness ...................................................... 153
About Nothing .............................................................. 155
Short Take ..................................................................... 161
Nothing Person-al ......................................................... 162
In Absence of Self-Pity ................................................... 163
Letting Go ..................................................................... 167
Hope-less ...................................................................... 168
Deconstruct the Constructor ......................................... 170
Words, to the Wise ........................................................ 172
What’s Possible? ............................................................ 173
Wholly-ness ................................................................... 174
Naked Awareness .......................................................... 177
Mixed Up ...................................................................... 179
Grace is…. .................................................................... 180
Cut to the Chase ........................................................... 181
A Glimpse of Merging ................................................... 184
After Enlightenment, What? .......................................... 186
An Open Secret ............................................................. 188
Non-conceptual Seeing .................................................. 194
Wee Little Drops .......................................................... 196
Psychic Phenomena ....................................................... 201
The Rush ....................................................................... 202
Causation ...................................................................... 204
“…Including Me” ......................................................... 205
Disengage Every Concept .............................................. 207
Reality is Present ........................................................... 215
No Real Questions ........................................................ 216
Get Real ........................................................................ 218
The Infinite Supply Co. ................................................. 220
The Absolute as Reality ................................................ 222
Hardware as Image ....................................................... 224
Supreme Be-ing ............................................................. 227
Desire’s Journey ............................................................ 233
Whatever There Is ........................................................ 236
Untethered Mind ........................................................... 238
Nothing Doing .............................................................. 242
Gita Guide .................................................................... 244
That Ultimate Moment ................................................. 253
Call Off the Search ........................................................ 256
Who to Believe? ............................................................ 258
How the ‘Story’ Ends .................................................... 259
Beyond Expectation ...................................................... 261
Harmonious Being ........................................................ 262
Crucial .......................................................................... 264
Going Where “You” Will ............................................... 266
Post Awakening ............................................................. 268
Estrangement in Progress .............................................. 269
Supreme Intelligence ...................................................... 271
Unexplainable ............................................................... 275
No-Fault Assurance ....................................................... 276
No Justice ..................................................................... 278
Intelligence of Change ................................................... 280
“States” and “Degrees” ................................................. 282
Fixation ......................................................................... 284
Cosmic Consciousness ................................................... 285
Upon Your Realization .................................................. 286
Reforming Patterns ....................................................... 288
Self-evident .................................................................... 292
Forgetting the Mind ...................................................... 293
Discovering the Source ................................................. 296
Have No Fear ................................................................ 301
Spirit-uality ................................................................... 302
Gandhi’s Lament ........................................................... 305
Being What Is Sensed .................................................... 307
That Feeling of Unity ................................................... 309
Instantaneous ................................................................ 311
Keep the Change ........................................................... 312
On The Timeless Trail ................................................... 316
Life and Death Matter ................................................... 317
Taking It All In .............................................................. 321
Nowhere Is It Not ......................................................... 324
No Program .................................................................. 335
Realizing this is called awakening ................................. 337
Alphabetical Title Index ................................................ 341
“…inside my little room
there plunged the rays of Love…
out of which the Nameless makes
a Name for one like me…
and I was tumbled up
in formless circumstance…
my room it looked the same—
but there was nothing left between
the Nameless and the Name.”
—Leonard Cohen (in the song Love Itself)
“These forms we call ‘you’ and ‘me’
are only the surface we see.
And though Love came
wearing your name
it’s omnipresent, now, and free…”
“So drown me in your darkest pain,
your softest kiss, your sweet despair.
I’ve seen Your face now, and I know your name,
and I can find you anywhere.”
—Lyrics of singer-songwriter Kirtana