The power of now
THE POWER OF NOW
● To sum of the essence of Eckhart's teaching in one phrase, it would be " PRESENT MOMENT AWARENESS" This is the core of the power of now.
● Focus on the present, instead of living in the past or worrying about the future.
● "NOTHING EVER HAPPENED IN THE PAST; IT HAPPENED IN THE Now. NOTHING WILL EVER HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE; IT WILL HAPPEN IN THE NOW"
● "Remember, you are not going anywhere. All things come and go. But you are not what happens. You are the silent space in which all things happen.".
● THE GREATEST GURU OF ALL: LIFE
● Can you give it to me(enlightenment)? You already have it. YOU JUST CAN'T FEEL IT BECAUSE YOUR MIND IS MAKING TOO MUCH NOISE.
● Buddha's simple defination of enlightenment as "THE END OF SUFFERING"
● Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within & without, but also the end of dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking.
● Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being "at one" & therefore at peace.
● Identification with your your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, judgements, & definitions that blocks all the relationship. It comes between you & yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, you and nature, you and god. IT IS THIS SCREEN OF THOUGHT THAT CREATES THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATENESS. The illusion that there is you and a totally Seperate OTHER. UNDERNEATH THE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ARPEARANCES AND SEPARATE FORMS, YOU ARE ONE WITH ALL THAT IS.
● Can you be free your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the off button?
NO.
Then the mind is using you. You are unconsciously identified with it, So you don't even know that you are it's slave.
● The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity -- The thinker. knowing this enables you to observe the entity. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thoughts, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace -- arise from beyond the mind.
● You can free yourself from your mind. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought pattern. This is what I mean by "WATCHING THE THINKER". While listening to that Voice do not judge.
● If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality & alertness. Then they would not be worth having. In the state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind - identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that gives life to the physical body.
● You can create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention in to the now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. In this way you draw consciousness away from mind activity & create a gap of no mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of MEDITATION.
● Most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is : LEARN TO DISIDENTIFY FROM YOUR MIND. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.
● To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important
● THE PRESENT MOMENT HOLDS THE KEY TO LIBERATION. BUT YOU CANNOT FIND THE PRESENT MOMENT AS LONG AS YOU ARE YOUR MIND.
● Thinking & consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small part of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought. ENLIGHTENMENT MEANS RISING ABOUE THOUGHTS.
● Between mind & no-mand. NO-MIND IS CONSCIOUSNESS WITHOUT THOUGHT.
● Simple reason why the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to STOP thinking!
● Emotion arises at the place where mind & body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind or a reflection of your mind in the body.
● The thought that you are being threatened. Physically or psychologically, causes you to contract and this is physical side of what we call FEAR.
● Ofcourse, you are not usually conscious of all your thoughts patterns, and it is often only through watching your emotions that you can bring them into awareness.
● You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as "thoughts", but it will always be reflected in the body as an "emotion", and of this you can become aware.
● OBSERVING OUR EMOTIONS IS AS IMPORTANT AS OBSERVING OUR THOUGHTS.
● Make a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment.
● Pleasure is always derived from Something OUTSIDE you, whereas joy arises from WITHIN.
● Real love doesn't make you suffer. It doesn't suddenly turn into hate, nor does real joy turn into pain..
● Buddha Says that PAIN OR SUFFERING ARISES TRROUGH DESIRS OR CRAVING AND THAT TO BE FREE OF PAIN WE NEED TO CUT THE BONDS OF DESIRE. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversion and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility.
● DON'T SEEK TO BECOME FREE OF DESIRE OR ACHIEVE ENLIGHTENMENT. BECOME PRESENT. BE THERE AS THE OBSERVER OF THE MIND.
● Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.
● The more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer, or the more you are able to honor & accept the now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering and free of the egoic mind.
● We tend to ignore or deny the precious present moment by getting into future moment, which only exists in the mind, never in actuality/reality.
● If you no longer want to create pain for yourself and others then REALIZE DEEPLY THAT THE PRESENT MOMENT IS ALL YOU EVER HAVE. MAKE THE NOW THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF YOUR LIFE.
Surrender to what is, say "YES" to life and see how life suddently starts working for you rather than against you.
● Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had choosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend & ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your wholly life.
● (Q) Some spiritual teachings state that all pain is ultimately an illusion & that is true. The question is: Is it true for you? A mere belief doesn't make it true. How you can realise this truth?
---> So the pain-body doesn't want you to observe it directly & See it for what it is. The moment you observe it, feel its energy field within you, & take your attention into it, the identification is broken. At higher dimension of consciousness has come in. I call it PRESENCE. You are now the witness or the watcher of the pain-body. This means that it cannot use you anymore by pretending to be you, and it can no longer replenish itself through you. You have found your own innermost strength. You have accessed the Power of Now.
● (Q) What happens to the pain body when we become conscious enough to break our identification with it?
---> St. Paul expressed this universal Principle beautifully. "Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, & Whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light" Just as you cannot fight the darkness, you cannot fight the pain body. Trying to do so would Create inner conflict and thus futher pain. Watching it is enough. Watching it implies accepting it as part of what is at that moment.
● WHERE THERE IS ANGER, THERE IS ALWAYS PAIN UNDERNEATH.
● To Summarise, focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it. Don't let the feelings turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyse. Stay Present & continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one, who observes", the silent watcher. This is the Power of now, the Power of your own Conscious Presence. Then see what happens.
● If you are able to stay alert & present at that time & watch whatever you feel within, rather than be taken over by it, it affords an opportunity for the most powerful spiritual practice, and a rapid transmutation of all past pain becomes possible.
● Once you have understood the basic principle of being Present, as the watcher of what happens inside you -- and you understand by experiencing it - You have at your disposal the most Potent transformational tool.
● The Psychological condition of fear Comes in many forms: worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, Phobia & so on. This kind of Psychological fear is always of Something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. You are in the here & now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. And if you are identified with your mind and have lost touch with the power & Simplicity of now, that anxiety gap will be your constant companion. You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind Projection--- YOUR FUTURE.
● You as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, & countless relationships have broken down. Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the deeply unconscious (to be identified with some mental or emotional pattern. It implies a complete absense of watcher) need to be right.
● So anyone who is identified with their mind & therefore disconnected from their true power, their deeper self rooted in being, will have fear as their constant companion.
● As long as the egoic mind is running your life, you cannot be truly at ease: you cannot be at peace or fulfilled except for brief intervals when you obtained what you wanted. Since the ego is a derived sense of self, it needs to identify with external things. The most common ego identifications have to do with possession, the work you do, social status & recognition, knowledge, education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious and other collective identifications. NONE OF THIS IS YOU.
● THE SECRET OF LIFE IS TO "DIE BEFORE YOU DIE" --- AND FIND THAT THERE IS NO DEATH.
● (Q) It seems almost impossible to disidentify from the mind. We all immersed in it. How do you teach a fish to fly?
---> Here is the key. End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops --- unless you choose to use it.
● (Q) But without a sense of time, how would we function in this world? There would be no goals to strive toward anymore. I wouldn't even know who I am, because my past makes me who I am today. I think time is something very precious, and we need to learn to use it wisely rather than waste it.
---> Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time --- past and future --- the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Why is it the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing. It's all there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. Secondly, the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.
(Q) Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our future goals determine which actions we take in the present.
---> You haven't yet grasped the essence of what I am saying because you are trying to understand it mentally. The mind cannot understand this. Only you can. Please just listen.
Have you ever experienced, done, thought, or felt anything out side the now? Do you think you ever will? Is it possible for anything to happen or be outside the Now? The answer is obvious, is it not.
Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined now. When you think about the future, you do it now. When the future comes, it comes as the now. PAST AND FUTURE OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO REALITY OF THEIR OWN.
The essence of what I am saying here cannot be understood by the mind. The moment you grasp it, there is a shift in consciousness from mind to being, from time to presence. Suddenly, everything feels alive, radiates energy, emanates being.
● The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now -- that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality. Slipping away from the present moment even for a second may mean death.
● The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now --- to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the now.
● Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: "PAST AND FUTURE VEIL GOD FROM OUR SIGHT; BURN UP BOTH OF THEM WITH FIRE."
● Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.
● Clock time is not just making an appointment or planning a trip. It includes learning from the past so that we don't repeat the same mistakes over and over.
● (Q) The belief that the future will be better than the present is not always an illusion. The present can be dreadful, and things can get better in the future, and often they do.
---> The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future -- which, Ofcourse, can be experienced as the Now.
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? YOUR DEGREE OF PRESENCE. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.
● Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry -- all forms of fear are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not all enough presence.
● (Q) I feel clear but my problems are still there waiting for me, aren't they? They haven't been solved. Am I not just temporarily evading them?
---> ULTIMATELY, THIS IS NOT ABOUT SOLVING YOUR PROBLEMS. IT'S ABOUT REALISING THAT THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS. ONLY SITUATIONS TO BE DEALT WITH NOW, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the "isness" of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with. Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot survive in the actuality of the Now.
● If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. "How" is always more important than "what." See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.
● As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act of present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love -- even the most simple action.
● Do not be concerned with the fruit of your action -- just give attention to the action itself. Non-attachment to the fruit of your action is called KARMA YOGA.
● The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction you don't look to it for salvation. Therefore, you are not attached to the results. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation.
● When you live in now you don't demand that situations, conditions, places, or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don't live up to your expectations.
● Most humans alternate not between consciousness and unconsciousness but only between different levels of unconsciousness.
(Q) Can you give some more examples of ordinary unconsciousness?
---> See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always non acceptance of what is.
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear.
● Deep unconsciousness often means that the pain-body has been triggered and that you have become identified with it. Physical violence would be impossible without deep unconsciousness. The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious and a conscious person more intensely conscious.
● If you cannot be present even in normal circumstances, such as when you are sitting alone in a room, walking in the woods, or listening to someone, then you certainly won't be able to stay conscious when something "goes wrong" or you are faced with difficult people or situations, So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power.
● Why are you always anxious? Jesus asked his disciples. "Can anxious thought add a single day to your life?" And the Buddha taught that the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.
● Make it a habit to monitor your mental-emotional state through self-observation. "Am I at ease at this moment?" is a good question to ask yourself frequently. Or you can ask: "What's going on inside me at this moment?" Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within, secondary reality without. But don't answer these questions immediately. Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing?
● Anything that is done with negative energy will become contaminated by it and in time give rise to more pain, more unhappiness.
● Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
● Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there", or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.
● Many people are waiting for prosperity. It cannot come in the future. When you honor, acknowledge, and fully accept your present reality -- where you are, who you are, what you are doing right now -- when you fully accept what you have got, you are grateful for what you have got, grateful for what is, grateful for being. Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life, now is true prosperity.
● Give up waiting as a state of mind. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself -- in joy in my self."
● Give attention to the present; give attention to your behavior, to your reactions, moods, thoughts, emotions, fears, and desires as they occur in the present. You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.
● It's not what you think it is! You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.
Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself: "I wonder what my next thought is going to be." Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. Be like a cat watching a mouse hole. What thought is going to come out of the mouse hole? Try it now.
Well?
You have to wait for quite a long time before a thought came in.
As long as you are in a state of intense presence, you are free of thought. You are still, yet highly alert. The instant your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in. The mental noise returns; the stillness is lost. You are back in time.
THE ESOTERIC MEANING OF "WAITING"
This is not the usual bored or restless kind of waiting that is a denial of the present. It is not a waiting in which your attention is focused on some point in the future and the present is perceived as an undesirable obstacle that prevents you from having what you want. There is a qualitatively different kind of waiting, one that requires your total alertness. Something could happen at any moment, and if you are not absolutely awake, absolutely still, you will miss it. In that state, all your attention is in the Now. There is none left for daydreaming, thinking, remembering, anticipating. There is no tension in it, no fear, just alert presence.
● The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is to say the more conscious you are.
● Silence is an even more potent carrier of presence, so when you read this, be aware of the silence between and underneath the words. Be aware of the gaps. To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you. Only the stillness in you can perceive the silence outside. And what is stillness other than presence, consciousness freed from thought forms?
● Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity. To become conscious of being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential task on your spiritual journey. A very effective way of doing this is simply to take the focus of your attention away from thinking and direct it into the body, where being can be felt in the first instance as the invisible energy field that gives life to what you perceive as the physical body.
● The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body --- to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes, If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires, may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.
● Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing.
● ATTENTION IS THE KEY TO TRANSFORMATION.
● The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind. Nonforgiveness is the very nature of the mind. The mind cannot forgive only YOU can.
● Make it into the meditation. 10 to 15 minutes of clock time should be sufficient. Make sure first that there are no external distractions such as telephones or people who are likely to interrupt you. Sit on a chair, but don't lean back. Keep the spine erect. Doing so will help you to stay alert. Alternatively, choose your own favorite position for meditation.
Make sure the body is relaxed. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths. Feel yourself breathing into the lower abdomen, as it were. Observe how it expands and contracts slightly with each in and out breath. Then become aware of the entire inner energy field of the body. Don't think about it --- feel it. By doing this, you reclaim consciousness from the mind.
Now let your spiritual practice be this: As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and to your mind. Keep some within. Feel the inner body even when engaged in everyday activities, especially when engaged in relationships or when you are relating with nature. Feel the stillness deep inside it. Keep the portal open. It is quite possible to be conscious of the Unmanifested throughout your life. You feel it as a deep sense of peace somewhere in the background, a stillness that never leaves you, no matter what happens out here. You become a bridge between the Unmanifested and the manifested, between God and the world. This is the state of connectedness with the Source that we call enlightenment.
● Continuous mind activity keeps you imprisoned in the world of form and becomes an opaque screen that prevents you from becoming conscious of the Unmanifested.
● Get in touch with the energy field of the inner body, be intensely present, disidentify from the mind, surrender to what is; these are all portals you can use -- but you only need to use one.
● Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: THE MIND BECOMES STILL.
● Inside every atom there is mostly empty space. What is left is more like a vibrational frequency than particles of solid matter, more like a musical note. Buddhists have known that for over 2,500 years. "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form," states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. THE ESSENCE OF All THINGS IS EMPTINESS.
● True salvation is a state of freedom from fear, from suffering, from a perceived state of lack and insufficiency and therefore from all wanting, needing, grasping, and clinging. It is freedom from compulsive thinking, from negativity, and above all from past and future.
● First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way.
RELATIONSHIPS AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
As humans have become increasingly identified with their mind, most relationships are not rooted in Being and so turn into a source of pain and become dominated by problems and conflict.
If there is anger, know that there is anger. If there is jealousy, defensiveness, the urge to argue, the need to be right, an inner child demanding love and attention, or emotional pain of any kind-whatever it is, know the reality of that moment and hold the knowing. The relationship then becomes your sadhana, your spiritual practice. If you observe unconscious behavior in your partner, hold it in the loving embrace of your knowing so that you won't react.
● Learn to give expression to what you feel without blaming. Give your partner space for expression himself or herself.
● Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at that time.
Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are. And when you live in complete acceptance of what is --- which is the only sane way to live --- there is no "good" or "bad" in your life anymore.
● Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.
● When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.(so called bad things which are self created or ego created.)
● You cannot have an argument with a fully conscious person. An argument implies identification with your mind and a mental position, as well as resistance and reaction to the other person's position.
● "NO ONE WHO IS AT ONE WITH HIMSELF CAN EVEN CONCEIVE OF CONFLICT."
● The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realisation. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless.
● The Buddha taught that even your happiness is dukkha --- a Pali word meaning "suffering" or "unsatisfactoriness." This means that your happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. Only the illusion of time separates them.
● Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you joy. Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being.
● A Buddhist monk once told me: "All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: ALL THAT ARISES PASSES AWAY. " What he meant was this: I have learned to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus have I found peace.
● Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity --- which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
● Whenever you notice that some form of negativity has arisen within you, look on it not as a failure, but as a helpful signal that is telling you: "Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present."
● Anything can be transform into spiritual practice. Practice with little things first. The car alarm, the dog barking, the children screaming, the traffic jam. Instead of having a wall of resistance inside you that gets constantly and painfully hit by things that "SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING." let everything pass through you,
Somebody says something to you that is rude or designed to hurt. Instead of going into unconscious reaction and negativity, such as attack, defense, or withdrawal, you let it pass right through you. Offer no resistance. It is as if there is nobody there to get hurt anymore. THAT IS FORGIVENESS.
● Anything you accept fully, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.
● When you accept what is, every moment is the best. That is enlightenment.
● Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness.
● Carry no resistance within, no hatred, negativity. "Love your enemies", said Jesus, which Ofcourse means, "have no enemies".
● Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with being. Resistance is the mind.
● It is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that is the main determinant of what kind of future you will experience.
● Focus not on the 100 things that you will do at some future time but on the one thing that you can do now.
● You cannot be conscious and unhappy, conscious and in negativity, negativity, unhappiness, or suffering in whatever form means that there is resistance, and resistance is always unconscious.
● When you become involved in an argument or some conflict situation, perhaps with a partner or someone close to you, start by observing how defensive you become as your own position is attacked, or feel the force of your own aggression as you attack the other person's position. Observe the attachment to your views and opinions. Feel the mental-emotional energy behind your need to be right and make the other person wrong. That's the energy of the egoic mind. You make it conscious by acknowledging it, by feeling it as fully as possible. let go entire mental-emotional energy field inside you that was fighting for power.
● So whenever any kind of disaster strikes, or something goes seriously "wrong" illness, disability, loss of home or fortune or of a socially defined identity, break-up of a close relationship, death or suffering of a loved one, or your own impending death --- know that there is another side to it, that you are just one step away from something incredible: a complete alchemical transmutation of the base metal of pain and suffering into gold. That one step is called surrender.
● Your first chance is to surrender each moment to the reality of that moment. Knowing that what is cannot be undone -- because it already is -- you say yes to what is or accept what isn't.
● You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.
● When there is no way out from sufferings, there is still always a way through. So don't turn away from the pain. Face it. Feel it fully. Feel it - don't think about it! Give all your attention to the feeling, not to the person, event, or situation that seems to have caused it. Feeling sorry for yourself and telling others your story will keep you stuck in suffering.
● The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies.
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