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.
