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A subtle distinction needs to be made between your true identity and the sense of self you have in any moment. Your true identity has and always will be the infinite spaciousness of Being, including all forms, both physical and subtle, and all of the formless emptiness of pure space. But your sense of self is a flexible means for this limitless Being to experience itself from ma
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space Beings stayed “home” as infinite space to hold the endless universes
in place, then all of the rest were free to contract into all kinds of shapes and
sizes. In fact, all a Being of infinite potential has to do to contract into a
different shape or size is think about it, and voila it happens! That is the
power of infinite potential!
Now not only could all of these infinite Beings hang out as one very
big space (which of course really meant hanging out as one Being, since two
spaces in the same space are really still just one space), they could also play
at contracting into all kinds of lesser expressions of their infinite potential.
Now why would they want to do that? Why would something infinite
want to experience being less than its infinite self? Well remember these
Beings are not only infinite but also eternal, and eternity is a very long time!
That means they all had a lot of time to kill. What does it matter if you spend
a little time experiencing yourself as less than your complete potential,
especially if you can do an entire eon standing on your head and still have
all the time in the world?
And so Being, as many Beings, was now free to talk, dance, create,
and play in all kinds of crazy wonderful ways because now there was
someone “else” to talk, dance, create, and play with. Party time!!!
Ever since, it has been discovering all of the different things it can
identify with and thereby temporarily become, and all of the truly strange
and amazing things it can do once it has become less than itself. Infinite
space can’t really play soccer or be a super nova or fall in love or have its
heart broken or create a new universe or fly a kite when it is expanded into
its original nature as infinite space, but if it contracts into a form or
expression of itself, then it can do all of that and more!
So that is what it has been up to ever since, and it is really just getting
started since it still has so much time on its hands; the rest of eternity is still
a very long time. That is also why it is so amazing to relate to others:
because it is never some lesser incomplete being across the table from you.
It is always an infinite Being with infinite potential that you are talking to or
playing with. No wonder they are so convincing in their role as an apparent
separate individual. It is really God playing that role. There are only Gods
upon Gods upon Gods being everybody and everything and doing everything
that is done! That is what we all are.
Pretty clever solution if you want to have some fun, don’t you think?
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CONTACT INFORMATION
For information about Nirmala’s satsang* schedule and to
download free copies of his other books and publications, visit:
www.endless-satsang.com
You can contact Nirmala at [email protected].
For information about Nirmala’s teacher, Neelam, visit: www.neelam.org.
For information about Nirmala’s teacher, Adyashanti, visit: www.adyashanti.org.
For information about Nirmala’s wife’s books, visit www.radicalhappiness.com.
Nirmala has also been profoundly inspired by the teachings of A.H Almaas and his work, The Diamond
Approach: www.ahalmaas.com.
* Satsang is a Sanskrit word that means coming together to speak about and share Truth.
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ABOUT NIRMALA
After a lifetime of spiritual seeking, Nirmala met his teacher, Neelam, a devotee of H.W.L.
Poonja (Papaji). She convinced Nirmala that seeking wasn’t necessary; and after experiencing a
profound spiritual awakening in India, he began offering satsang and Nondual Spiritual
Mentoring with Neelam’s blessing. This tradition of spiritual wisdom has been most profoundly
disseminated by Ramana Maharshi, a revered Indian saint, who was Papaji’s teacher. Nirmala’s
perspective was also profoundly expanded by his friend and teacher, Adyashanti.
Nirmala offers a unique vision and a gentle, compassionate approach, which adds to this rich
tradition of inquiry into the truth of Being. He is also the author of several books including
Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self. He has been offering satsang
throughout the United States and Canada since 1998. Nirmala lives in Sedona, Arizona with his
wife, Gina Lake.
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ABOUT NONDUAL SPIRITUAL MENTORING
Nondual Spiritual Mentoring with Nirmala is available to support you in giving attention and
awareness to the more subtle and yet more satisfying inner dimensions of your being. Whether it
is for a single spiritual mentoring session or for ongoing one-to-one spiritual guidance, this is an
opportunity for you to more completely orient your life towards the true source of peace, joy, and
happiness, especially if there is not ongoing satsang or other support available in your location.
As a spiritual teacher and spiritual mentor, Nirmala has worked with thousands of individuals and
groups around the world to bring people into a direct experience of the spiritual truth of oneness
beyond the illusion of separation. He especially enjoys working with individuals in one-to-one
sessions because of the greater depth and intimacy possible.
Mentoring sessions with Nirmala are an opportunity for open-ended inquiry. In your session, you
can ask any questions, raise any concerns that are meaningful to you, or simply explore your
present moment experience, which is a powerful doorway into a deeper reality. Regular weekly,
biweekly, or monthly mentoring sessions can be especially transformative.
These mentoring sessions are offered either in person or over the phone and typically last an hour.
You can email Nirmala at [email protected] to arrange a time for a spiritual mentoring
session. Please include your phone number and location in your email. At the arranged time,
Nirmala will call you if you live in the United States or Canada. If you live in another country,
you must initiate the call.
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FREE EBOOKS BY NIRMALA
The following PDF e-books are available for free from www.endless-satsang.com:
Part Two of Living From the Heart (The entire book is also available as a paperback for $11.95)
A collection of teachings about the Heart, including:
Part one: From the Heart: Dropping out of Your Mind and Into Your Being
Offers simple ways to shift into a more open and accepting perspective and to experience your true nature
as aware space.
Points the reader back to the Heart, the truest source of wisdom.
Part three: Love Is for Giving, Not for Getting
Points to the true source of love in your own heart. It is by giving love that we are filled with love.
Here are some excerpts:
“The Heart is wise and accurate and can show you how true it is to stay or go, how true it is to buy a
house, how true it is to take a new job, even how true it is to eat another cookie. But it also can show you
much more of the possibilities inherent in this life and much more of the truth of your ultimate Being. In
relation to these bigger truths, the practical questions of your life turn out to be relatively small matters. Using
your Heart only to know things like what to do or where to live is like using a global positioning satellite
system to find the way from your bedroom to your bathroom; it utilizes only a small part of your Heart’s
capacity.
However, following your Heart day in and day out can put you in touch with the richness of the
functioning of this dimension of your Being. Along the way, you may also find your Heart opening in response
to the deeper movements of Being that touch every life.”
“In the midst of a very profound and large experience of truth, the sense of your self can become so
large and inclusive that it no longer has much of a sense of being your Being. When you awaken to the
oneness of all things, the sense of a me can thin out quite dramatically. If you are the couch you are sitting
on and the clouds in the sky and everything else, then it simply doesn’t make sense to call it all me. If it’s so
much more than what you usually take yourself to be, then the term me is just too small.
In a profound experience of truth, the sense of me softens and expands to such a degree that there’s
only a slight sense of me as a separate self remaining, perhaps just as the observer of the vastness of truth.
Beyond these profound experiences of the truth, is the truth itself. When you’re in touch with the ultimate
truth and the most complete sense of Being, there’s nothing separate remaining to sense itself there’s no
experience and no experiencer, no Heart, and no sense of self. There is only Being.”
“You may think it matters what happens. But what if the only thing that matters is where you are
experiencing from, where you are looking from? What if you could experience all of life from a spacious,
open perspective where anything can happen and there is room for all of it, where there is no need to pick
and choose, to put up barriers or resist any of it, where nothing is a problem and everything just adds to the
richness of life? What if this open, spacious perspective was the most natural and easy thing to do?
It may sound too good to be true, but we all have a natural capacity to experience life in this way. The
only requirement is to look from the Heart instead of from the eyes and the head—and not just to look, but to
listen and feel and sense from the Heart.
In some spiritual traditions you are encouraged to look in your Heart, and yet what does that mean
exactly? Often we are so used to looking and sensing through the head and the mind that when we are
asked to look in the Heart, we look through the head into the Heart to see what is there. Usually we end up
just thinking about the Heart. But what if you could drop into the Heart and look from there? How would your
life look right now? Is it possible that there is another world right in front of you that you can only see with the
Heart and not with the mind?
This book invites you to explore this radically different perspective and to find out what is true and real
when the world and your life are viewed from the Heart of Being. It may both delight and shock you to find
that so much richness and wonder and beauty lie so close and are so immediately available to you.”
Free Ebooks continued:
Beyond No Self
Nirmala’s newest e-book explores the fullness of Being found in the absence of a separate self. It ends with
a simple fairy tale that offers a sense of how one Being can appear as so many. Here is an excerpt:
“How can that be—empty space that is full of everything that matters? The mind cannot grasp it fully, as
presence exists beyond concepts and even beyond its own forms; and yet, that is what you are. You can
experience it with more subtle senses than the physical senses and the mind. Ultimately, you “sense” it by
being it. You just are this full empty presence.
It is this second movement of realization of essence, presence, and fullness of Being that counteracts
the belief
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