The Present Moment

How hard it is to be in the present moment! My mind will do just about anything to avoid that place. Why? It seems to me that the answer is that the present moment makes no demands on you because when you are there you simply cease to exist as a seperate being and merge into the great universal nothingness, in other words, all the superstructure supporting the ego fades and you become concious of your oneness with God. This reality never changes, but we are seldom concious of it. In deep sleep we are one with God, but we are not concious of it. Dwelling in the present moment brings conciousness to this truth in the awake state.

My ego is thus threatened by this present moment which makes no demands. There is nothing to plan for, to avoid, to regret, to hope for. There is simply the invisible edge of the blade. It is a place where only light can exist, no shadows of any kind. One must undergo a kind of death to dwell there, even for a moment, and this is something the ego is not comfortable with.

We can however gently move our conciousness in this direction by learning to recognize the value in being still, in not filling up every moment with some sort of distraction. We can learn to accept ourselves unconditionally as extensions of God energy, which is to say Love. We can learn to reside in the harbour of that embrace which makes no demands and which invites you to furl the puffed up sails of ego. There is nowhere to go, afterall.

Here is an interesting talk by Krishnamurti and Eckhart Tolle called the Instances of Now. Enjoy.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5898375271662409422#