Get Into The Now, Now

Are you interested in being able to handle any event and any circumstance without being shaken from your core?

Do you want to be in a state of imperturbable Peace no matter what is happening around you?

If so, here is another very powerful change I’m going to suggest you implement in your life. If you try and adopt this as a belief or intellectual concept, it will be basically worthless in its effectiveness. It will be food for your spiritual ego and will be a hindrance to your Liberation, not a stepping stone towards it. Thus, if you’re serious about experiential spiritual growth, this is for you.

So let’s get right into the heart of the matter, no pun intended, yet still “coincidentally” awesome.

The mind is 99% empty space.

There’s just the little voice in the head blabbering about and it’s that one voice that gets all the attention. You see, it’s necessary for the majority of the mind to be completely silent in order for that voice to be heard. It’s necessary for a concert hall to be silent in order to fully hear the music. It’s necessary for the forest to be silent in order to hear the soft rustling of the leaves in the wind.

The vast majority of what we experience is pure silence, yet it’s the movement and noise that attracts our attention. It’s like having a huge stadium devoid of people with the exception of one person sitting in the stands cheering for no good reason. Your attention will automatically go to the crazy cheering looney because that’s where the action is.

The self is found in the noise.

The Self is found in the silence.

Great. Cool. So what?

Here’s how we can use this information to further our own growth:

Pay attention to the silence.

Instead of focusing on the CONTENT of life, namely events, actions, circumstances, sounds, and happenings, focus your attention on the CONTEXT, the field of energy surrounding all the action, the energy from which all form arises and ultimately falls back into. That is where you’ll find what you’re looking for.

Photo by Mahesh Thapa

Look at the photo. What do you see?

Perhaps the elk, antlers, grass, mountain, trees, clouds, perhaps even the lighting. You see, the mind looks at all the content, all the “stuff,” while it misses the biggest part of all: EMPTY SPACE!

It’s the empty space that you want to bring your attention to. Only there will you find Peace.

Feel the Unmanifest from which all that is made Manifest arises from and falls into.

When you are being consciously present, instead of paying attention to your breathing, thoughts, body, or surroundings, make the state of Presence even more powerful by abiding in the infinite field that permeates and runs through all things.

Adopt this change from focusing on content to focusing on context and see how your experience of Life changes.