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

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

Book Description

Release 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.'

Product Details

• Paperback: 418 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (August 10, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439244596
• ISBN-13: 978-1439244593
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #571,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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: 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #571,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Scott Kiloby is a noted author/teacher, international speaker. He is the author of two [printed] books: Love's Quiet Revolution: The End of the Spiritual Search and Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment. Both of which are available here on Amazon.

He is also the author of 3 essential e-books:

Doorway to Total Liberation: Conversations With What Is
Living Realization: Your Present Experience...As It Is
Living Relationship: Finding Harmony With Others

His latest book and addiction recovery method: The Natural Rest Method: A Revolutionary, Simple Way to Overcome Any Addiction is scheduled for release in 2013.

In addition to details of his workshops and intensives, there are many essays, quotations and videos which can be viewed on his web sites. Scott holds frequent live meetings and offers interactive online workshops using the latest in video teleconferencing.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful

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

By Gregory Goode

Format: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.

22 of 22 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

By V. Fergusson

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful

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

By Susan Kahn

Format:Paperback

"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.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" for those serious about ending the search April 1, 2010

By M. Jeffreys VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

This is Scott's second book on non-duality, and it contains 365--one for each day of the year--pointers toward enlightenment. Each page lists a day of the month, a title, and a few paragraphs explaining and fleshing out the title in more detail.

Scott's writing is hardcore, pure, and potent. Whereas his first book, Love's Quiet Revolution, contained personal stories about a person named "Scott," this book is all business. Each page is loaded with landmines that have the potential to completely eviscerate the "I" that most of us take ourselves to be.

Of course, as the book's title suggests, these are merely "reflections" of "the ONE Life." The true essence of what Scott is pointing to can never be captured in words; just like the sweet scent of a rose can never truly be captured in words. However, Scott does an amazing job in painting a picture of what he is pointing to. To give you a taste, I picked a date at random:

January 18

More on the question of choice

Do take this question of choice seriously for one
moment. Simply look. What thought is going to
arise next? Can awareness know what thought is
going to appear before it appears? No, it cannot.
Therefore, there is no choice or control. Thinking
merely happens. The end of thought cannot be
found through thought. The end of seeking cannot
be found through seeking. In the story of you, you
believe you are going somewhere, to some future
moment of awakening. But you are not going
anywhere. More precisely, there is no "you" to go
anywhere. There is only thought happening. That
thought paints a picture of past that you call, "Who
you are...." It paints a picture of future that you call,
"Who you are going to become." But you are not
thought. You are not the past or the future. Because
you are not thought, you cannot find yourself
through seeking, which is a dream of thought.

In seeing that the spiritual search is happening
all on its own, there is the possibility that awareness
will start to see it for what it really is--a dream of
thought. When awareness sees the dream of thought
known as "you and your spiritual search" and sees
that it is happening spontaneously and involuntarily,
all of the mental and emotional effort drops out of
the search. There is a natural resting into what is.

Not only are the above two paragraphs chocked full of powerful pointers, but you may find, as I have, that each time you read a passage a new insight may arise or a previously understood one may deepen. And this is just one day's worth of text... there are 364 more! Other topics covered include: The searching mind, Emotional traps, Anger, Achievement, Seeing versus Doing, Peace, Humility, to name a few.

In just a few short years, Scott Kiloby has emerged as one of the clearest non-duality teachers on the planet. This is no doubt due to his deep understanding of how the mind works, his clear seeing of reality, and his unique ability to give lucid explanations of "that which cannot be spoken of." Like a fine wine, this is one non-dual book that is to be savored slowly... and before you know it, you just might discover that the "I" you thought you were is slowly disappearing right before your eyes. And then, in a flash, you may just realize that it never existed in the first place!

Namaste,

Michael
(p.s. you can read more spiritual book reviews on my website) Read more ›

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Bright Star, Clear Light December 12, 2010

By Fred Davis VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

If you have not yet been introduced to Scott Kiloby, then I envy you. I say that because you are about to have the exquisite pleasure of meeting one of the brightest stars and clearest lights in the ever-expanding universe of non-dual teachings.

I remember almost a decade ago when I read the first few pages of Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now. I immediately sent out an email to everyone I knew, declaring that there was a new Buddha on the planet. I've not had to apologize for that.

A few of the many milestones since that time have been my initial reading of Nisargadatta's I Am That, the first time I heard Adyashanti in satsang, the first time I did Byron Katie's The Work and every time I listen to her virtually sing the text of A Thousand Names for Joy on audio.

Scott Kiloby is one of these rare few, a Teacher among teachers, a Buddha among buddhas. Like Adyashanti, and unlike so many other good, kind and helpful teachers, Scott's view of Truth is not only piercing, it is broad, incredibly thoughtful and generously inclusive. He is also a very well read, smart-as-a-whip guy who is a good writer drawing from a wealth of spiritual context, all of which helps nail his message down like a comfortable hammer in a fine carpenter's hand.

I discovered Scott quite by "accident"--his second book was an Amazon-suggested buy for me. I took their advice and haven't looked back. I opened the Amazon box, pulled out the book, sat down, and the very first page I read of Reflections of the One Life, Daily Pointers to Enlightenment sat me against the back of my chair. I put the book down in paused reverence.... That happens pretty much every time I read it, which is every morning, since it's a gentle, page-a-day spoon-feeding of Pure Reality, or about as close as words are likely to get. It's five stars, it's ten stars, it's as many stars as you can get on a page.

I liked One Life so much that I immediately went in search of his first book, Love's Quiet Revolution: The End of the Spiritual Search. It was temporarily out of print and being hawked around the Internet for $50 and $75. I damn near paid that for it, but frugal wisdom just wouldn't quite let me pull the trigger. A week later it was available new from Amazon for $17.99 and I scrambled to get it into my shopping cart. It is head and shoulders above and well beyond most of what's available. I say that as someone who has read a heck of lot of spirituality during the past thirty years. If it's not the end of your spiritual search, it's sure to mark the beginning of the end.

I say welcome to a new Buddha. Hats off to Reality for this one. And do check out his website, kiloby dot com.

Fred Davis
Awakening Clarity Read more ›