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14 Mo

In Memories of Now: On Non-duality and the Permanence of the Present, Han van den Boogaard weaves an insightful and sometimes poignant exploration of consciousness, childhood and nature—the depths and the shallows of experience and “the transparent world of unequivocal simplicity that I seemed to have lost somewhere in my youth. What seemed divisible became indivisible again, and at the same time I knew that it had never been lost.”

“This book is not about me, not about my travels, memories or spiritual experiences. Together these only make a two-dimensional picture that might contain a three-dimensional truth if you’re able to look at it with an open mind and a loving heart. The picture itself doesn’t really matter. The important thing is the switch from flat to deep. Unknowingly, you make this switch many times a day, during those moments in which you suddenly forget yourself. But when you’re really aware of it, the true depth of life will be recognised as the unchanging Now, and you will know that this is the only truth.”
—from Memories of Now

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Publié par

New Harbinger Publications

Date de parution

01 janvier 0001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781626256552

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

14 Mo

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

HANVANDEN BOOGAARDa Dutch psychologist, is writer and translator. He regularly publishes texts on non-duality, and is chief editor ofInZicht, the only Dutch-language magazine on non-duality. He has written several books, including a biography of Ramana Maharshi, an anthology of Wei Wu Wei and a collection of ﬁfteen interviews with non-duality teachers from the USA, the UK and the Netherlands. Han is married and has two daughters. He is currently working as a clinical psychologist at a centre for deafblind people in the Netherlands.

Memories of Now

On nonduality and the permanence of the present

Han van den Boogaard

NonDuality Press

MEMORIES OF NOW First edition published May 2013 byNONDUALITYPRESS

Cover photograph by Lucy Auch

Han van den Boogaard has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identiﬁed as author of this work.

NONDUALITYPRESS| PO Box 2228 | Salisbury | SP2 2GZ United Kingdom

ISBN: 9781908664310 www.nondualitypress.org

For my wife Lucy, and for all the wonderful teachers I’ve met along the way

Contents

Preface•1 The stoneness of stones•4 God’s eye•9 Liberation is recognition•15 Silence and attention•25 Form and emptiness•35

Inner landscape•42 Time•48 Oneness•55

The sea of not-knowing•61 Memories•68 The Self of all things•77 Thisherenow (things beyond words)•84

Bibliography•87

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Even when Consciousness has veiled itself in a cloak of beliefs, doubts, fears and feelings, the taste of its own unlimited, free and fearless nature is embedded within every experience, and this taste is often experienced as a sort of nostalgia or longing.

This longing is often wrongly associated with an event or a time in our lives, often in childhood, when things seemed to be better, when life seemed to be happier. However, this longing is not for a state that existed in the past—it is for the peace and freedom of Consciousness that lies behind and is buried within every current experience.

What was present ‘then’ as ‘Happiness’ was simply the unveiled presence of this very Consciousness that is seeing and understanding these words. Rupert Spira—The Transparency of Things

PREFACE

was driving along a mountain ridge in the south of I France. There were forests growing on its steep slopes, and above these the sky was perfectly clear and blue. Imperceptibly my thoughts went back to a holiday I had spent at the seaside as a child. Back then, the dunes had seemed to obstruct my view of the endless sea. Looking at all this sand, my image of the sea in my childish mind evoked a longing for this mysterious stretch of water—a longing that could never be fulﬁlled by seeing it or swimming in it. When I grew older I longed for summer during every winter, even when I knew this longing would never be fulﬁlled when summer would actually be there and the sun would show the world in its most beautiful guise. Back home from France I realised that it had always been the same longing all along. It just hadn’t been a pure longing, for it had been mixed with nostalgia for

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