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 teleconference meetings that you can join. If you feel moved after reading the text, come join us in the teleconference meetings and/or join our email group by emailing Livingrealization@hotmail.com. See the Living Realization site HERE.
NEW-Simply Open
When past insights are not being emphasized as beliefs, life has a simple sweetness, love, peace, and compassion.
NEW-Non-Duality in a Nutshell
A simple list. What do you believe?
NEW-The Traps of No Self
Take a look.
NEW-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.
NEW-God
Whatever the word, “God,” is pointing to, it is not the sign that is pointing to it. Therefore, to the extent that one equates non-dual realization with a belief in God, that comparison is way off base. Non-dual realization is an experiential seeing of “not twoness.” It is the realization of the fact that reality is not divided, despite the concepts that make it appear that it is divided into separately existing things. The belief in God specifically divides life into parts. The notion is that “there is a God” and “there is a me.” People spend their entire lives “getting closer to God,” or “finding union with God,” or so they think.
NEW-Cause and Effect
This presence is the key to realization. And it reveals that cause and effect are concepts appearing and disappearing within its view. Therefore, cause and effect are seen not to have the reality you once thought they did. This is release from the time-bound cycle of seeking and suffering. It’s the end of the identity crisis.
NEW-Will I Find Meaning?
This answers the question, “Will there be meaning in non-dual realization?” But it answers it from the direct experience of that, not from some future, imagined idea (which would just be the story talking.” Look around you, in your present experience. What has been described here in terms of love, inseparability, spontaneity, freedom, creativity, and aliveness is the meaning you have been seeking and asking about. The shocking news is that it has always been here, right here and now. But in looking for it in the future, it is missed.
Freedom
As each word here is spoken, notice is slip away. Each sentence slips away, out of your awareness. Nothing in this world is yours. The idea that there is a world is another thought appearing and disappearing. As soon as a thought appears, it is already on its way to disappearing. Every pointer you ever read on any non-dual or spiritual website . . . just notice how fleeting it is. Notice that there is nothing in these words to grasp. They just appear and disappear. And there is an awareness that is noticing, but it isn’t a thing. So the moment you call it something, it is just another idea. And each idea just comes and goes. So there is nothing in the word awareness for you. There is nothing in any of these words. Life is coming and going. It may seem that life, then, is pointless because all points just come and go. But the notion that life is pointless is just another point, coming and going. This is perfect freedom. And that thought comes and goes also.
NEW-Imaginary Gap
The imaginary gap between nothing and everything.
NEW-Afflictive States
What you really are, which is like space, has no agenda to be rid of afflictive states. Only a "person" has such an agenda.