Practicing the power of now

 

Being and Enlightenment

 

There is an eternal, ever-present one life beyond the myriad  kinds of  life that are subject to birth and death. many  folks  use the word god to describe it. I often call me being. The word being explains nothing, but not does God. Being however has the advantage that it's an open concept. It doesn't reduce the infinite invisible to a finite entity. it's impossible  to make  a mental image of it. Nobody can claim exclusive possession of being. it's our very presence and  it's  immediately accessible to you as the feeling of our own presence. So it's only  alittle  step from the word being to the experience of being.

 

Being isn't only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence.  this means  that it is accessible to you now as our own deepest self, your true nature .but doesn’t seek  to know  it with your mind. Don’t  try and  understand it. you'll  realize it  only when the mind is still. When your are present, when our attention is foully and intensely within the now being  are often  felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

 

To regain awareness of being and to abide therein state of feeling realization is enlightenment.

 

The word enlightenment conjures up the thought of some superhuman accomplishment,  and thus  the ego likes to keep it that way, but it's simply your  wild  of felt oneness with being.  it is a  state of connectedness with something that almost paradoxically,  is really  you and yet is much greater than you it is finding your true nature beyond name and form.

 

The inability to feel this connectedness gives rise to the illusion of separation from yourself and from the world around you . You then perceive yourself, consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated fragment. Fear arises, and conflicts within and isolated fragment, Fear arises and conflicts within and without become the norm.

 

The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification which your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. to not be  ready to  stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that's inseparable from being. It also creates a false mind –made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.

 

Identification  along with  your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts , lables, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship , It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman , between you and nature, between you and god. it's this screen of thought the creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion  that there is  you and a totally separate “ other “. Your then forget the essential  undeniable fact  that , underneath the extent of physical appearances and separate forms, you're one with all  that's .

 

The mind  could also be  a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however , It becomes very destructive.  to put  is more accurately,  it isn't  so much that you use your mind wrongly you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you  this is often  often the disease.  you think that  that you are your mind.  this is often  often the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

 

It’s almost as if you were possessed without knowing it, then  you're taking  the possessing entity to be yourself.

 

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity – the thinker. Knowing  this allows  you to observe the entity.  the moment  you start watching the thinker a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.

 

You then begin  to know  htat there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought  is simply  a tiny aspect of that intelligence. you furthermore may realized  that each one  the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind.

 

You begin to awaken.

 

Feeling yourself from your mind

 

The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind.  this is often  often the only true liberation. you'll take  the primary  step right now.

 

Start  listening  of the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought patterns, those old audiotapes that are playing in your head perhaps  for several  years.

 

This is what I mean by “watching the thinker,” which is differently  of claiming  .listen to the voice in your head, be there because the witnessing presence.

 

When you listen to that voice, hear it impartially. that's  to mention , don't judge, Don’t judge or condemn what you hear, for doing so would mean that the identical voice has  are available  again through the back door.  you will soon  realize there is the voice, and here i'm listening toit, watching it. This i'm realization, this sense of your own presence, isn't  an idea . It arises from beyond the mind.

 

So when ou hear  an idea , you're aware no only of the thought but also of yourself  because the  witness of the thought. a replacement dimension of consciousness has  are available .

 

As you hear the thought,  you're  feeling a conscious presence your deeper self behind or underneath the thought, because it were . the thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you're  not  energizing the mind through identification with it.  this is often  often the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

 

When  a thought  subsides, you experience a discontinuity within the mental stream  a niche  of “ no-mind.

 at first, the gaps will be short, a few seconds perhaps, but gradually they will become longer. When these gaps occur, you feel a certain stillness and peace inside you. This is the beginning of your natural state of felt oneness with being which is usually obscured by the mind.

With practice, the sense of stillness and peace will deepen, In fact, there is no end to its depth. You will also feel a subtle emanation of joy arising from deep within the joy of being.