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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