"The Power of Now.” Eckhart Tolle beautifully addresses this subject. The Power of Now…
I want to go into a very interesting aspect of this subject, on the Beauty of Which is revealed here and now. The Beauty of What is revealed here and now, the only Reality present is What is here and now. Whatever is showing up right now is the one Reality.
Notice that we have an internal movement of thoughts that are memories, feelings linked to those memories, and emotions linked to those memories. And what are these memories? Basically, the existence of the “I.” The “I” is this identity forged by thought-feeling. We mistake ourselves, we identify ourselves with this identity. This identity is the one that presents itself here, always at this moment, as being real. And the interesting thing I want to show you about the Reality of Life, at this instant, right now, is that It doesn't carry that identity.
All the problems you have in your life are present because of this illusory identity here and now in this experience. There’s no such thing as “me and this experience.” The whole Life is here and now. There’s no past, no future, and no present in Life; there’s only Life!
Whatever appears, happens, or stops happening... If it stops happening: any memory about that is the past; happening: any idea about that is the present; and expecting to happen or happening soon: it is the future. The idea about that is thought.
So, thought is what carries the past, the present, and the future. You are Consciousness, You are Life. Thus, whatever is taking place here is just the Experiencing, there is no “me” experiencing this. Then, what is the relationship between this Now and Advaita Vedanta? In Advaita, the approach is to Non-Duality. This Non-Duality is exactly Life, what is here, the unfolding of Life as It is, pure Experiencing, it is what is present; there’s no experiencer.
We can use expressions like “Advaita,” which means “Non-Duality,” and we can use expressions like “the Now,” or “Life,” “Presence,” “Consciousness,” “God,” or expressions like “the Experiencing,” “Non-Duality.” And none of those expressions actually make This clear, and This is so clear that we don't even need any of those expressions. The fact is that there’s no “someone” present in this Experiencing.
At this instant, there’s the speaking, not “someone” speaking; there’s the listening, not “someone” listening; there’s the feeling, not “someone” feeling. And it’s very simple for us to see that. I'm going to show you right now the truth of what we're putting out.
When you are angry, at that instant of anger, there’s only anger. The idea of “someone” being angry is a thought that arises about the emotion, this feeling, this Experiencing. The idea creates separateness and the illusion of a duality between the Experiencing… the experiencer arises. So, we have the place of the experience. What was kept became an experience. And at the moment the idea of a present “I” arises within the Experiencing, then the experiencer arises – this is duality, this is the illusion of the ego mind.
There is only the Experiencing. I want to invite you to live in Experiencing. Hence, I’ll now replace the word “Now,” as used by Eckhart Tolle, with the word “Experiencing.”
It takes a high sensitivity, a high intelligence, and a deep renunciation of illusion. Direct contact with the Truth of What is here and now, is the Experiencing. So, I want to invite you to live in the Experiencing. A thought arises… there’s no thinker. It’s always a few seconds later that it appears, when this thought, this “someone”, this “I” arises to like or not like the thought. Then duality arises.
An emotion arises and, a few seconds later, an “I” appears to reject that emotion, because it’s an emotion of pain that doesn’t fulfill this “I.” When it’s an emotion of pleasure, this “I” identifies with that emotion – here is duality. This is how we have lived our lives: within this principle of duality.
I want to invite you to the Experiencing, to the pure Experiencing. A thought arises… don't give identity to that thought. The seduction is that there’ll be, at that moment, it’ll happen, at that moment, there’ll be, at that moment, the arising of an identity to be mistaken for the thought, rejecting that thought or identifying with it.
We’ve lived our lives this way. Then, we carry this sense of an “I” thinking, of an “I” talking… There’s only the speaking! When speaking, don’t put an identity. Try this sometime. It is the illusion of identity present in the speech that creates separateness between the speech and the idea of “someone” in the speech. So, there’s no spontaneity, no naturalness, no Experiencing. As this is not present, there’s no Intelligence in speaking.
Your speech, in general, is born from the thought coming from memory, and with an “I” behind it having the intention, the volition, the will. That’s why we're talking nonsense all the time. We talk about things that the ego itself, the “I,” later, regrets having said – but ego itself said that! – as we are constantly in this impulse of a present identity talking, thinking, feeling, doing.
I want to invite you to the Experiencing, to the pure Experiencing. This Experiencing – only the Experiencing – is possible when the sense of “I” isn’t there. Then, the experiencer, the thinker, the doer, doesn’t arise. There’s an entirely new action: the action of Intelligence, Sensitivity, Consciousness, the action of Love. It’s not something from the past, it’s something flourishing at this instant, at this present moment, in this Experiencing, the pure Experiencing.
So, life carries an extraordinary and indescribable beauty when the “I” is not present, when the ego sense is not present. You must work this through what here on the channel I’ve put as the true vision of Self-Awareness, the result of this Self-Awareness of Truth, the Truth of Self-Awareness; not what psychology calls self-knowledge, philosophy calls self-knowledge… Some speakers use that expression, proponents of self-help… Absolutely not! What the books say, it’s not that. We put this expression differently.
True Self-Awareness brings you closer to True Meditation. This True Meditation is present when there is the breaking of this principle of separateness, of duality. When the “I” is not present, there is no longer the thought that represents the past, present, and future.
The human being, living in ego-identity, in this psychological condition of emotional disorder, of thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions – actions, in turn, egocentric, involved with self-interest, with ambition, with envy, with desire, with fear… All this is present because of this egoic consciousness.
When there is an approach to Meditation, to the True Practical Meditation – we have a playlist here on the channel about this and another playlist about True Self-Awareness – when this is present, there is a break in this sense of separateness, this sense of duality, so there is a breaking of the illusion of psychological time. The psychological time is thought, it is the thought of what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen.
Life is what It is, here and now. Without the psychological time, there is only the Experiencing, the pure Experiencing. In this pure Experiencing, Life reveals itself. Yes, It reveals Itself in speaking, in responding to the challenges of the present moment. It also reveals Itself in external achievements... Nothing stops in this Experiencing. Everything is here and now, in this Experiencing, happening, but without the illusion of an “I” present.
Notice how important this is. Human beings have ideas about how to be happy, to achieve happiness, to find peace, love, the right job, how to have a harmonious, happy external life, in relationships with people, with work, with family, with themselves... And all these ideals, all these projects, are far from the Reality of Experiencing, from this Supreme Intelligence, this Consciousness, which is the Presence of God, because this is all ideological, it’s based on the ego mind and its projects.
You don't need any of these ego mind projects for the Realization of True Happiness, True Love, and True Prosperity. People go crazy when they hear the expression or make use of the expression “the Secret” – “what is the Secret?” “What is ‘The Secret’?” They go crazy about it. They want to discover the formula for what they call happiness, which, in fact, is a mere projection of external achievements, in materiality, in material things.
The human being confuses external achievements with happiness. And they think they need these dreams, projects, imaginations, and photographs glued to the fridge. They have to imagine, to use the power of the mind, all that sort of thing. And here I say: the Experiencing is contact with the Ultimate Reality of your Being, which is God, the Ultimate Source of Bliss, Happiness, and Completeness, and that goes far beyond any external accomplishment, any material achievement.
The Realization of the Truth of God, the Truth of your Being, the Reality of this Experiencing, of Being-Experiencing, reveals everything. Everything that is necessary, extraordinary, wonderful in your life is the Realization of God, the Supreme source, of all Abundance, all Prosperity, all Love, Peace, Freedom, of everything!
So, our job here on this channel is to invite you to live the Experiencing, the Now of Experiencing. Then, that Silence, that Presence, What is nameless, which some people call God, Consciousness, Being, Presence, the Now, is revealed. Here, I also call this moment “the Experiencing”. In India, This is also called Kundalini. We have a playlist here talking about the Awakening of this Experiencing, which is the Kundalini Awakening. We have a playlist here on our channel, you can investigate this.
Therefore, this is the subject we deal with here on the channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like,” and subscribe to the channel... Reminder: we have online meetings and also retreats, and we can work on this together. Ok?
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