Natural Awakening Nondual Training Manual

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Acknowledgements
Guidelines for this Manual

PART ONE: Distinctions and Practices of Nondual Transmission

1 • Introduction: the Radiant Mind model

A contemporary and accessible presentation of timeless wisdom
A contentless transmission
The Radiant Mind approach

2 • Presencing unconditioned awareness

Beginning a session
Discovering your own process
Distinguishing nondual awareness
Is the nondual an experience, state or space?
Entering a different paradigm
The nondual isn’t a subtle affective experience or meditational state
Purity
Foundations, bridges and resting places
Starting at the end: working at the result level
Undoing the path
We are talking about “This”!
Paradox and nonduality
Collapsing the distinction
The progressive presencing of co-emergent wisdom
The reliances

3 • Creating the space: setting the mood, pace and atmosphere

An anti-frantic atmosphere
Going nowhere, doing nothing
Not knowing
Spiritual transformation is different from spiritual knowledge
Demonstrating not knowing
The need to create meaning
Nondual Transmission in one image
In time and on the pleasure-pain continuum
Working in the here and now
Listening to the tensing: past, present and future
Beyond pleasure and discomfort
Positive experiences
Bliss
The healing power of sensate bliss
Letting things be: noninterference
Cultivating a homing instinct
Not conditioning the future
Not conditioning the next moment
Preferring neither speech nor silence: giving equal value to both
Natural contemplation: effortless meditation
Attachment to suffering: not making problems out of problems
Is that a problem?
Re-labeling “this feels uncomfortable” as “this feels different”
Not denying our conditioned existence
Denial and being real
Living without resistance

4 • Nondual relationship: the union of wisdom and intimacy

Intimacy
Nondual wisdom
Pure listening
Energetic resonance
No separation: one consciousness
Relating to people as streams of consciousness
Listening to, and engaging with, non-verbal conversations
Suspension
Allowing silence to emerge in an uncontrived manner
Playing at the edges of silence
Adjusting to silence
Communicating in deep silence
Working creatively with silence
Discerning different qualities of silence: sensing if people are in deep meditation or protecting their beliefs
Reading the depth and stability of interiorized presence in people’s foreheads
Serenity—thinning out our thoughts
Nothing to think about
Being with nothing
Nothing is hidden: you don’t need to go looking
Distinguishing between a report and a request
When to use “I,” “you” and “we”
The nondual use of “I” and “you”
Distinction between being and having an identity

5 • Continuous presence: releasing glitches in the flow

Creating glitches
Working with your own identities
Deconstructing yourself: working with your own conditioned identities that can arise in nondual facilitation
Ability to experience the nondual in reactive situations
Feeling irrelevant to the process at times
Not getting lost in personal experience
Complete in the unconditioned
Ways to achieve completion
Ways to reduce slippage
Correcting the oscillation between polarized beliefs:
gently moving people into “positionlessness” 137
Mind empty: nothing to say
Working in eternity
Handling conversations that are easy to get caught up in
Nondual inquiry as a form of spiritual bypass!
This is intellectual and abstract!
Is there love in unconditioned awareness?
Radical intimacy
Working with the question of love in the here and now
How will this change me—will I be happier?
Does nondual awareness influence the conditioned?
What about choice?
Illusion and reality
I can’t see what’s really there!
The creative function of ambiguity and the conversion of confusion into objectless awareness
This is all unreal!
What can I do when I lose nondual awareness?
I don’t have the time
How can I maintain this state?
Integrating the nondual: How do I apply this in daily life?
The best preparation for the future is always to rest in pure awareness

6 • Mastering ways to stabilize presence: some skillful means

Observing fixations
Spiritual fixations
Fixated about fixations
Lenses through which to observe fixations
Bodily awareness
Fixations do not require “fixing”
There are no obstacles!
Introducing the idea of constructions
Recognizing the soft spot in a construction
Thinking something is true doesn’t make it true
Nondual inquiry: deconstructive conversations
Feeling the difference between constructive and deconstructive conversations
The unfindability of unfindability
Nondual inquiry as a specialized conversation
The impulse for inquiry
Types of deconstructive conversations
Shifting to a meta-position
Natural koans
“Who am I?”
“What is this?”
When and how to pose these questions
Making the unconditioned into something
Removing concepts: tracking and managing
the gradient of the nonconceptual transmission
Experiencing “nothing”
Experientializing the space of nondual awareness
Seeing through—thinking about nothing
Speaking from the unconditioned
Contentless conversations—talking about nothing
Two types of nothing
Declarations
Interrupting
Rejecting an interpretation
Nuanced inductions
Describing and revealing
The four ways of talking about nondual awareness
Coherence and discrepancy in the language used to describe the nondual
Identifying three ways of talking about unconditioned awareness
Checking questions
Dancing in the paradoxes of nonduality
Articulate contradictions
Dance steps—moving out of the mind into nondual awareness

PART TWO: Resources 273

Appendix 1: The lineage of this work
Appendix 2: The Heart of Liberating Wisdom
Appendix 3: Verses on the Realized Mind
Appendix 4: The Natural Freedom of Being
Appendix 5: Chandrakirti’s Deconstruction of the Self

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