A lot has been going on in my karmic movie, or my personal life, whichever terms you prefer. A lot of different words and ways of saying things designate the same basic thing in essence. People even have arguments saying the same basic thing in different ways. Thing is, most people would rather win the argument than know the truth.
What takes us out of the Truth of the Present Moment? Words. Thoughts. Automatic reactions. Expressing negative emotions. Living in our own egotistical melodramas.
Let’s begin with words. Words are immensely more powerful than many of us are aware of. A certain word or phrase can make us react in some way that we know is not the Truth of us. After our reaction, we might feel foolish that we reacted to someone’s words. The Sanskrit term for the power of words is matrika Shakti. My Guru said, “Do not let the matrika make you dance.”
A group of words leads to a thought. Rather, the group of words with a coherent meaning is the thought. A thought is nothing more than a certain group of words that we have given meaning to.
On one level, our thoughts are generally insignificant. They are not nearly as interesting as we make them out to be. Also, most of them are, at best, some variation of some aspect of truth, or something relatively true for now. Most thoughts are just mental clutter. The space that exists between any two thoughts, or any two words, is very blissful and freeing. However, it is a great process to gain the simple ability to maintain the gaze between two thoughts.
Most people cannot even conceive of a silent, still space between thoughts, between words. They might even consider such a space as boring. Thoughts lead to activity and stimulation, which many people are unknowingly addicted to. Many people are only comfortable with plenty of activity and stimulation. This leads to egotistical melodramas, and we get lost in them and lose all touch with the Truth of the Present Moment.
Egotistical melodramas is one of the key terms in our Course of Training regarding Living in the Truth of the Present Moment. In short time we begin to recognize egotistical melodramas for what they are; not merely in retrospect, but as we are in the midst of them. We learn to catch them ‘red-handed.’
We must develop the capacity to see what limits us and keeps us in some degree of ignorance, for only after we are able to see what holds us down are we finally able to recognize the very best of ourselves. Truly, most all people are much greater, in essence, than they conceive themselves to be. They limit themselves to constrictive or contracting concepts. This is why we must learn to go beyond all concepts, and open up to the willingness to see something new—the Truth of our own Being, the Truth of the Self.
Briefly, an egotistical melodrama requires words and thoughts (to describe the situation and what is going on—which we take to be ‘reality)’. The egotistical melodrama usually requires other people—often includes conflict, or an expression of negative emotions, and they take place in ‘time.’ In the present moment, they don’t even exist. They exists in thoughts, and thoughts require time.
The present moment is absolutely silent and absolutely still.
The present moment is the space between words or thoughts. If we could rest in that state, we would live in absolute contentment. Truly, contentment is the highest aspiration. Once we are content, we have attained all we can attain while dwelling in this physical body.
Due to a rigid conditioning from the past, we cannot be content simply by deciding to be. We can decide to remain content forevermore, and yet the next time someone says something we don’t like, we are caught up in an emotional reaction. So a comprehensive and coherent ‘training’ is, if not required, at least highly recommended. On our own, our head is spinning its tires to get free from snow, ice, sleet, sand, and mud of the mind. We need something that helps us see what direction
we’re going in and what is the next step.
At least this was my own experience with my own Teachers. Simply through being in subtle relationship with them, my state would expand to a much greater degree, leading to a greater transformation, than anything I could have possibly done on my own, depending entirely on my own feeble efforts.
Anyway, we each do what we can do, right? I sit here and write having no idea of where this sentence will go, much less what will be written in the next sentence. In a sense I am taking dictation, having no idea what I will write next. I am simply the typist. All my writings are much more amazing to me than to you, the reader, for you might think you know where these words come from, while for me it is a great mystery.
Some questions have recently come in. I will respond to them here:
Someone wrote, "I don't feel I value or appreciate the preciousness of each moment.
“Here is my question:
WHY IS THIS LIFE SO PRECIOUS?
“What is it about being in THIS BODY that is so precious? I want to fully appreciate the preciousness of each moment and am open to fuller understanding."
Being in this body is so precious because it carries a precious cargo. It is our dharma to protect the precious cargo at any cost. What if you could actually experience that nothing is inside this body other than God or Consciousness? What if you were truly aware that you are carrying around the Lord everywhere you go?
If you felt alone with God, would you experience the preciousness of the moment? Well, in truth, you are alone with God right now. God is peering through your eyes, hearing through your ears, and so on through all the senses. There is no one in this body but God. There is no middle-man.
When you fully understand this, you live in the consciousness of the preciousness of life. You see that each moment is to be cherished and celebrated, because it is a distinctive part of the life you are living here on the planet Earth. Why not cherish and celebrate each moment of life? Is something ‘else’ going to happen?
This is how you experience the preciousness of the present moment.
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