Writings

Welcome to the Writings page. This page contains various writings by Scott. It is updated regularly. Below the title for each writing is an excerpt. In order to read the entire writing, click on the title itself.  

If you are looking for pointers, Scott invites you to not start with the writings on this page.  Instead, SEE LIVING REALIZATION TEXT HERE, a text written by Scott. Living Realization is an organization based around this text.  We have regular meetings online and through teleconferencing that you can join. If you feel moved after reading the text, come join us in the meetings.  It's best to sign up for the mailing list to receive announcements about meetings.  Email Scottkiloby@aol.com.  See the Living Realization site HERE.

Presence is Available Always

When you recognize this presence on a repeated basis, you see that it is what you are. It becomes so easy to just be as you are and let all of life unfold effortlessly in the space of the present moment.

Seamlessness Everywhere

You are the sun, setting on yourself. You are also the beach, the water, the sky, the trees and sand and everyone on the beach. Take away those thoughts like "beach, water, and sky" and the seamlessness of your experience becomes apparent. Rest there as the seamless looking . . . simple being without thoughts.

A Simple, But Effective Practice

Simply rest. Rest whenever it is convenient. Rest whenever possible. This was the doorway to freedom for me. So I’m sharing it with you.

Pain, Pleasure, and Everything in Between

This is a freedom that does not look for life to appear a certain way. It doesn’t look for the absence of appearances. It isn’t about escaping. It isn't about no longer feeling or thinking. This is absolute freedom precisely because the need to control the natural flow of thoughts, emotions, states, and experiences is totally gone. That controller is the self. Seeing through the self means seeing through the belief that your experience needs to be manipulated. In the absence of that movement to control and manipulate the appearances or change them or tell stories about how they aren’t supposed to be appearing, there is perfect love and acceptance of life just the way it is happening—right now.

NEW-Non-Duality in a Nutshell

A simple list. What do you believe?

Non-Separation

This leaves us with the notion that awareness may be located inside “my body and mind” or even that there is a separate self. But look again. No matter where you locate awareness, whether you say it is in China or in your body and mind, location cannot be known without thought. You must have the thought, “China” to locate something there. Without the thoughts, “body” and “mind,” there is no way to locate awareness in such things. And that is because they are not separate things. They are not “things” at all. Body and mind are ideas appearing inseparably within awareness.

The Way It Really Is

Let's take a look . . .

Brahman is the World, Part 1

In seeing Brahman is the world, everything is real, both the formlessness and form, both the nameless and the names, timelessness and time, being and becoming, non-doing and doing. What a missed opportunity to not take nonduality all the way. When you take nonduality all the way, you are free of nonduality. You are free to be in the world of duality again, to transform it completely.

Brahman is the World, Part 2

More on "Brahman is the world."

The Key to Acceptance

The key to acceptance is not accepting a situation the way it really is. Thought never provides "the way it really is." Thought is not mirroring reality. It is creating it. More precisely, thought provides only an interpretation relevant to an individual perspective ("me"). The key to acceptance is letting all thoughts and emotions be as they are, which means to notice any resistance to a thought or emotion that comes through. In noticing that resistance, it is released. The emotion and thought are allowed to come through completely without trying to change them, get rid of them, or do anything else with them.