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COME TO YOUR SENSES

To be free of the endless commenting, reviewing, anticipating, and frequent chaos in the mind, a remarkably effective strategy is to shift the focus of awareness from thoughts and emotions into the immediate sensory experience of what is seen, heard and felt in the immediate here-and-now. Bring attention to your body and the physical world around you. Include in this special attention to the sensations of breathing. Do this for fifteen to thirty seconds and see if you don’t experience a…

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Added by Bill Walz on April 8, 2016 at 11:42am — No Comments

Wake up

Question your beliefs, perspectives, ideas, feelings and inquire with a open heart into what manifests them.  Allow them to un-manifest. What remains is stillness, presence and love. The is the natural state of who you are. Every moment provides you with the opportunity to wake up.  You don't have to be on a mountain top to find what you need.  All is already here and showing up in your regular life.  The invitation is always here, always arising and pointing you within, pointing you…

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Added by Alaya Dickinson on March 16, 2016 at 4:23pm — No Comments

New Posts on AwakeningClarityNow.com

Happy February! I've just put up a new video post, "When the One Thing Going On Tells Itself the Truth," and there is a also recently written post, "No Practice, No Problem," as well as Letters from the Field and whatever else arose. It's also time to register for February's Sunday Satsangs. Come join us at AwakeningClarityNow.com. Peace...

Added by Fred Davis on February 1, 2016 at 6:25pm — No Comments

Where is This Thing Going?

Like most people, I find myself caught in repetitive thinking from time to time. It’s usually about something that I need to do in the future, and can be rather bothersome. For example, when I’m laying in bed thinking about something I think I need to do in the future. Obviously there are times when you may need to think ahead or plan, but we tend to get stuck in overthinking things that are really of no importance in the grand scheme of things. It may be helpful to ask yourself, “Can…

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Added by Trey Carland on January 17, 2016 at 8:09pm — No Comments

New 2-Hour Satsang Recording

Hello, everybody. Just a note to say I've put up several new videos in the past week or so, including this 2-hour online satsang. 

Fred Davis & Friends 2-Hour Satsang

I also put up my 101st podcast this week, including the audio of the satsang mentioned above. The link for that is:

Awakening Clarity Now Podcasting

The website, of…

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Added by Fred Davis on December 8, 2015 at 12:00am — No Comments

News from Awakening Clarity Now

Hello, everybody! I've been really busy this week, putting up new posts and cutting new videos. Here are some highlights.

I've just posted a major new piece on my website, AwakeningClarityNow.com. My editor thinks it's one of my best, so come see what you think. :-)

There are some new podcasts available on Podbean and iTunes.

I've…

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Added by Fred Davis on November 8, 2015 at 11:19am — No Comments

Spiritual Progress or Spiritual Regress?

Hello, everybody. I've just put up a new post on Awakening Clarity Now that you may find of interest.

We think we're making a lot of progress. It feels like it. It looks like it. But how much progress does a hamster make when it's breathlessly running on its wheel? Is it even sure which…

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Added by Fred Davis on October 8, 2015 at 10:14pm — No Comments

What brings you here

I like the little block that shows up on my page that says "What brings you here?" I am not a person that spends much time on the computer and I tend to not be drawn to use it as a form of communicating my thoughts except for what is logistically showing up to be tended to or if it is the way someone desires to communicate with me. But checking on my Asheville Sangha page I see this question and I feel a smile inside flowing out and it is showing up to participate in this way...so lovely and…

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Added by Alaya Dickinson on September 11, 2015 at 5:37pm — 1 Comment

New Articles and Podcasts

Hello, everybody. AwakeningClarityNow.com has a new, two-part post, "The Truth, the Dream and the Teaching," which addresses our experience of reality as well as Reality itself.

There are some new podcasts up, too, and you can now find those on iTunes, …

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Added by Fred Davis on September 4, 2015 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Honoring our Innermost Nature

Honoring our Innermost Nature

Throughout our lives so much will come to us: happiness, success, falling in love, everything wonderfully going our way—as well as the opposite, illness, painful emotional dramas, difficulty, pain, heartache, and the death of loved ones.  Sometimes our lives beautifully come together and other times, our lives completely fall apart.

Yet all the while…

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Added by craig holliday on August 7, 2015 at 7:15pm — No Comments

Major Article & Video

I've just completed part two of a major new article and video, You Are Not Born and You Do Not Die. The article is divided into two parts and the video is complete unto itself. I've placed all three pieces in line to make them easy to discover.

People have loved Part 1 and the video version and now I'm posting the final portion, Part 2 of the text version. Do come join us at AwakeningClarityNow.com.

Added by Fred Davis on August 5, 2015 at 12:53am — No Comments

Awakening Clarity Now Podcasting

Audio tracks from my YouTube videos are now available to listen to online, to download to your phone, tablet, PC/Mac, or through the Podbean app available through both Apple and Android. There are presently 83 tracks--hours and hours of free audio. Here is the website address:

http://AwakeningClarityNow.podbean.com/

Added by Fred Davis on August 3, 2015 at 11:54pm — No Comments

New Post, New Video

Hello, everyone! Just a note to invite you over to Awakening Clarity Now where I've put up a new Prime Post, You Are Not Born and You Do Not Die.

The same message said another way is available in the video of the same name.

Added by Fred Davis on August 3, 2015 at 11:51pm — No Comments

Change Your Outlook and Change the World

I wrote this letter to a loved one who recently came to me in a lot of pain. He was very frustrated at me and coming at me with a great deal of negativity. I just held space and listened, though some of the words struck me as a bit harsh. I let those feelings come and let them go. There was a time a few years ago that this discussion I had would have left me very devastated, but I could only feel compassion for the pain he was in. One of the gifts that came from this confrontation was…

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Added by Trey Carland on July 23, 2015 at 11:38pm — No Comments

I'll Be Here For You

It has taken a while for me to fully realize the impact of reassurance when a friend or loved one is struggling, stressed or pained in some way. In my world, I see the goodness in the world, and know that personal suffering is avoidable with the proper "tools" (for lack of a better word). But this is viewed as a phony belief by many, and not readily accepted by most. So, it's not very reassuring to approach someone who is upset with things like, "It's going to be okay," much less to say…

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Added by Trey Carland on July 23, 2015 at 11:37pm — No Comments

Workshops

Due to an oversight, I've not previously announced my online workshops to the sangha. The first four have been sold out. Clarity Workshop #3 is coming up July 28. There are open seat. Awakening Workshop #3 will be held on August 9. There are still 3 open seats for that one. Click here for details on both.

Added by Fred Davis on July 15, 2015 at 1:56pm — No Comments

THAT Which Is Prior to Manifestation

Hello, everybody. I invite you to watch this new, free 47 minute video that I put up this week. It's a bit different. It will make some of you itch a bit, but it will help others to rest. All love, Fred

THAT Which Is Prior to Manifestation

Added by Fred Davis on July 15, 2015 at 1:49pm — No Comments

Removing Obstructions

I recently traveled to Boulder to visit my sister, and to attend a seminar there with my first Zen teacher from the San Francisco Zen Center, Richard Baker Roshi. He is the dharma heir of Suzuki Roshi, the most famous Japanese Zen master to live and teach in America, and the author of Zen Mind Beginners Mind. I hadn't seen him since 1981, and I was really looking forward to seeing how we had both changed in relation to each other over the years. The first thing he mentioned…

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Added by Roger Hawkins on June 29, 2015 at 9:53am — No Comments

What is duality, what is non-duality, and how is it lived in daily life?

According to Vedanta, the first stage of true enlightenment (or “awakening”) is not non-duality but DUALITY: experiencing the true Self, ATMA (pure unbounded awareness, transcendental consciousness) as separate and apart from relative, changing existence. This is a lovely and cherished state of duality. The Self is experienced and spontaneously lived as unbounded, eternally silent and awake within itself, completely separate from the boundaries of relativity. This is "Self-Realization,"…
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Added by Thomas E.M. Ball on June 8, 2015 at 10:11pm — No Comments

New Video Post

Hello, everybody. I invite you to join me on  AwakeningClarityNow.com for a new 35 minute video,
"The Way of Truth" which I just published.

Added by Fred Davis on June 3, 2015 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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