Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment [Paperback]

Scott Kiloby (Author), Kevin Prince (Editor), Bobbie Mac (Cover Design)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 10, 2009

This is Scott Kiloby's second book on non-duality or enlightenment. It is a book of daily expressions or pointers to spiritual awakening--one pointer for each day of the year. The clarity is astounding. This demystifies spiritual awakening, strips it of all fundamentalism, and presents it in a clear and easy-to-read way. This is about the timeless presence that you already are. Each pointer peels away beliefs, positions, and ideas about spirituality, including the idea that you exist as a separate self, only to reveal--in the end--that nothing is excluded. Its central message is that there is only One Life appearing in a myriad of forms. You are that One Life. This is when the distinctions between absolute and relative, form and formlessness, timelessness and time, no self and self, One and many, and all other boundaries collapse into a great and loving mystery that Scott calls 'This.'

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About the Author

Scott Kiloby began writing about and pointing to enlightenment after awakening into the realization of Oneness.  In this realization, it was seen that the story of Scott as a separate self is a fiction and that this story was the cause of unnecessary suffering and seeking.  Scott's central message is that enlightenment is not a goal to reach in time or an idea learned from the past. It is the timeless presence that you already are. That presence is like a non-conceptual opening through which the continuous flow of everything arises, including every concept, emotion, state, and experience. Although we use concepts to communicate for conventional purposes, the separation they seem to point to can be seen through completely.  That is what this book is about.  Inseparability or "nonduality."  All that is left in that collapse is an unconditional love of what is. Scott is the author of three books, "Love's Quiet Revolution: The End of the Spiritual Search", "Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment" and his latest e-book is entitled "Living Realization".

Product Details

• Paperback: 418 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (August 10, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439244596
• ISBN-13: 978-1439244593
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #694,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Scott Kiloby is a noted author/international speaker. He is the author of "Love's Quiet Revolution: The End of the Spiritual Search" and "Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment." He is also the author/creator of LIVING REALIZATION and also an addiction recovery method called Natural Rest. His latest book, "The Natural Rest Method: A Revolutionary, Simple Way to Overcome Any Addiction" is scheduled for release in 2011.

In addition to details of his meetings and retreats, there are many essays, quotations and videos which can be viewed on his web site. He also holds frequent meetings all over the world (in person) and online via audio and video teleconferencing.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 365 insightful reminders, December 13, 2009

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Gregory Goode "Dr. Goode" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment (Paperback)

With Scott Kiloby's characteristically light and effortless touch, this book offers one mini-essay for each day of the year. The overall message is that enlightenment is your birthright, as well as your nature at this very moment.

Scott's primary image in these reflections is space - the space between objects, the space of objects, and the space from which objects take shape. Using this image, Scott points in many different ways.

Some pointers offer encouragement and practical tips, such as how to understand the common experience of "getting it" then "losing it." Or how to understand the ego usurping the spiritual search. Other reflections focus on dealing with everyday ups and downs, such as family issues, rejection, social pressure, criticism, worry, resentment, anger, anxiety, illness, and taking things personally.

Other pointers offer relief from conceptual confusion. Scott provides clear and loving antidotes to false ideas about enlightenment, including the goal of being in a thought-free state, or attaining spaciousness in the future, sneaking up on "this," experiencing only pleasure and not pain, trying to stay present, maintaining an enlightened story, and other occluding notions.

And other pointers are simple celebratory songs about topics such as spaciousness, being, openness, un-caused joy, peace, simplicity, direct tasting, compassion, love, liberation, thisness, seeing truth in all things, and freedom from the path itself.

The book would be perfect to place on your nightstand and use for daily reminders. Each one of its 365 reflections is a gentle, light-hearted, person-to-person gift.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scott Kiloby's daily reminders of the simplicity of enlightenment, October 11, 2009

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This review is from: Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment (Paperback)

In this wonderfully clear book Scott Kiloby gives us a daily reflection which reminds us that enlightenment is not difficult or far away in the future or something to be attained after long years of struggle and effort. He is so skillful in pointing out that it is our concepts and insistence that there is something to get in the future that stand in the way of 'This' - simple awareness of what is, here and now. He de-bunks every fundamentalism and trap that the mind can latch onto even when it thinks it has got hold of the one and only interpretation of non-duality or enlightenment. I have been listening to Scott's refreshing communication of this subtle subject for some time, and this book will repay reading and re-reading if you finally want to be rid of the seeking game.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Spiritual Masterpiece For Everyday Life, August 18, 2009

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Susan Kahn "emptinessteachings" (USA) - See all my reviews
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"Reflections of the One Life" is the book to read every day and to keep beside you, helping you to see through the fog of distorted appearances. At the same time, this work takes on all of the issues of everyday life that appear as obstacles to such clarity and to joyful living. A most deep and clear challenge to conceptual, mental constructs as a true reality, Scott Kiloby's book will point you beyond a reified version of phenomena. "Reflections of the One Life" is an inspired and brilliant spiritual work that guides the reader toward penetrating realization and peace.