THE REAL MEANING OF "BE PRESENT"

To “BE PRESENT” is not the same thing as to pay attention to the present moment in time.

We are identified with our mind, without knowing our real self.

We are not what we can see, and can see our body, mind, feelings, emotions, ego, person, individual self....

 

 

“Do understand it clearly – whatever you may perceive, you are not what you perceive.

You can see both the image and the mirror.

You are neither.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

What is it that sees, that is aware of these? It is our true Self.

 

 

”The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 

 To “BE PRESENT” means to be one with the “Presence”, the absolute reality that gives us the feeling of here and now , our true Self.

 

 

"As it is my presence,which is always here and now, that gives the quality of actual to any event,

I must be beyond time and space,

I was never born,nor will ever die."

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

Being in the present moment helps to get your attention from your mind, back to your Presence.

 

 

“If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert.

If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in,

the mental noise returns, stillness is lost,

you’re back in time.”

Eckhart Tolle

 

 

To “Be present” means to be your true Self, the Awareness:

 

 

“I am that which knows or is aware of all experience, but I am not myself an experience. I am aware of thoughts but am not myself a thought; I am aware of feelings and sensations but am not myself a sensation; I am aware of perceptions but am not myself a perception. Whatever the content of experience, I know or am aware of it. Thus, knowing or being aware is the essential element in all knowledge, the common factor in all experience.”

Rupert Spira, “The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter”

 

 

The only true meditation is that which disidentify us from anything that we are not, and let us remain what we really are.

The meditation is a kind of paying attention to the attention, or being aware of awareness.

Because only Awareness can be aware, we are the Awareness itself.

 

 

“Only that which is always with you can be said to be your self

and if you look closely and simply at experience,

only awareness is always ‘with you’.”

Rupert Spira, “Presence: The Art of Peace and Happiness”

 

 

To “Be present” means to cease being what you are not, and to abide as you  are:

 

 

“That which is alive in you is immortal. In reality there is only the source, dark in itself, making everything shine.

Unperceived, it causes perception. Unfelt, it causes feeling. Unthinkable, it causes thought. Non-being, it gives birth to being.

It is the immovable background of motion.

Once you are there, you are at home everywhere.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

To “Be Present” is not something that we have to achieve, because  our real Self is always with us , hidden under our mind, and we “Are Present” right now, and always.

Knowing that we are not “Present”, when we are in the room of our mind,  is a very good reminder about our true nature: the unbound Presence.