Living Realisation Sample Kiloby
Living Realisation Sample Kiloby
Living Realisation Sample Kiloby
Realization
A Simple, Plain-English Guide to Non-Duality
Scott Kiloby
Non-Duality Press
living realization
ISBN: 978-1-908664-46-4
www.non-dualitypress.org
CONTENTS
Introduction to Living Realization..................................1
The Main Invitation..................................................4
The Middle Way.......................................................7
Basic Points.............................................................10
Chapter One: Recognizing Awareness..........................12
Chapter Two: Appearances...........................................32
Chapter Three: Thoughts............................................ 46
Chapter Four: Emotions...............................................61
Chapter Five: Sensations.............................................. 69
Chapter Six: States.......................................................81
Chapter Seven: Experiences........................................ 86
Chapter Eight: Oscillation............................................92
Chapter Nine: Inseparability..................................... 100
Chapter Ten: The Unfindable Inquiry........................ 114
Chapter Eleven: The Middle Way...............................133
INTRODUCTION:
Living Realization
YOU KNOW WHEN you are ready for a message like Living
Realization. You feel it to the very core of your being. Youre
pulled towards it by an unmistakable knowing that there is
something deeper, something more to life than what you currently believe or perceive.
You have come to this message because its words resonate
with you on a level deeper than the mind. There is a peace
within you that you know is present, but that seems somehow
buried under the noise of life, with its personal drama and
constant seeking towards the future. Now, you are ready to
move beyond these self-centered patterns. You are ready to
begin looking into your present experience in a deep and specific way. You are ready to see why it is that you suffer, why
you seek, and why human life contains so much conflict.
Perhaps youve suffered from self-loathing, doubt,
depression, anxiety, addiction, over-thinking, or some other
emotional or psychological issue. Maybe you have always felt
uncomfortable in your own skin. Maybe you have experienced
conflict with others, or painful regret and guilt in relationships.
If you are like most humans, youve experienced yourself as
incomplete or deficient in some way.
Basic Points
Here are the basic points of the method mapped out in more
detail. The chapters that follow explain these points more fully.
This is the main invitation in this method:
Recognize awareness
Let all appearances be as they are
See that appearances are inseparable.
Awareness is the basic capacity to be aware. It is that to
which all appearances come and go.
Through resting as awareness, in brief moments, repeatedly throughout the day, awareness is recognized to be
ever present, regardless of what appears and disappears.
An appearance is anything that comes and goes temporarily to awareness, including all thoughts, emotions,
sensations, states, and experiences.
Letting all appearances be as they are means letting
each thought, emotion, sensation, state, and experience come and go freely, without trying to analyze,
neutralize, overcome, get rid of, or do anything else
with it.
To say that appearances are inseparable from awareness is to recognize that they never appear outside
awareness. Thoughts, emotions, states, sensations, and
experiences always appear to awareness; they cannot
appear independently of (separate from) awareness.
This becomes more obvious as we recognize awareness
as ever-present.
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The Middle Way is another name for Living Realization. It is the direct experience that things do not exist
separatelyonly conventionally. To say that a thing
exists conventionally means that it appears only in relation to other things. It cannot exist on its own side,
apart from everything else. The appearance of a thing
is dependent upon thought, emotion, sensation, awareness, and other appearances. The appearances are seen
to be like mirageslike reflections shimmering upon
the surface of water. They appear in their brilliant
uniqueness, but they have no independent nature. This
gives rise to the seeing that all things, being empty of
separate nature, are interdependent in conventional
existence.
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CHAPTER ONE:
Recognizing Awareness