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Jeff Foster has an
upcoming 5-day retreat in
Jeff spoke to me for 90 minutes in a
Relax
by Colin Drake
The easiest way to become wide awake,
Is to totally relax, for heaven’s sake!
Into pure Awareness, your innermost essence,
Beneath body and mind with all its nonsense.
This simple mischievous thought,
Is liable to make the mind distraught.
Wondering how to achieve, or find, this
state
And acquire the relaxation which I relate.
Don’t worry, just apply this elegant
test:
Am I aware of the thoughts with which I am
blessed?
Or the sensations which in my body appear?
If ‘yes’ then Awareness is already
here!
These thoughts and sensations are objects
that come and go,
In Awareness, the subject, by which the mind
can know.
So body and mind exist only at the surface
level,
At the deepest, Awareness, which they cannot
bedevil.
In this there can be no fear,
For Awareness is ever here.
This need not be achieved, found, or got,
For absent, lost, or missing It is not.
This is ever silent and still
Witnessing ‘things’ that seem to
fill …
As This, we are always totally at peace,
Identification with body/mind completely
cease.
So relax into That which we truly are,
Eternally carefree, never below par.
The cosmic audience of One,
Viewing its manifestation just for fun!
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One of Colin's readers recently wrote to
him:
Dear Colin,
Thanks so very much for your writings
Of late l have been bombarded with
experiences that keep drawing me out of awareness. Your email and
its links have bought me back to awareness and restoration of
hope and stillness. That is priceless!!!! I was at my wits end
and desperate yet as always l had forgottern and awareness was
and always is still and there. My life was saved because your
musings reminded me that awareness is always there. Thankyou
Yours in Truth
Pru Pearson
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I'm pleased to publish Colin Drake's
e-books and hard copy books. He's a great guy to work with and
totally dedicated to the teaching of awareness.. And he is very
responsive to comments and questions from his readers. Order one
or more of Colin's books at
http://nonduality.com/colindrake.htm
-Jerry Katz