Thursday, August 31: Present Moment, Beautiful Moment

PRESENT MOMENT, BEAUTIFUL MOMENT
We can come into the present to be good. Or we can come into the present because we are wising up and realizing that to be out of the present is to suffer and/ or to go numb. Or we can come into the present because we love an ongoing challenge. We can even come into the present to improve our golf game or our heart condition. We can come into the present to relax, to de-stress. We can come into the present to impress.

Whatever the reason, once we are there, it’s beautiful. Since the present leaves us free of all that nonsense where we have to compare it to something else, we are left with nothing except now.

If we start rating the now (“This is better/ worse than yesterday at this time of day.”) we have lost the present. If we start to imagine what we are going to tell others about how great it is to be Here and Now, we have lost the present.

Wow, check this out: if we start to describe this present to ourselves, we are pulling up words, which aren’t in the present, so we’ve lost it again.

No wonder it’s so beautiful in there: no ratings, no comparisons, no words, no rehearsing on how to impress others. We’re just there.

The experience, the experience of being alive in this very moment is at the core of who we are, and later we can call it beautiful or peaceful or bliss or happiness or being in love with reality. But while we are there, we just are.

Enough words about going to a sweet place of no words. Let’s go…..