Connect with the Presence

 There is no practice or discipline to be followed. Merely listen to me and accept that which I will tell you with firm conviction. The only thing which everyone has is the conviction that one exists—the conscious Presence. Meditation is only on that sense of Presence, nothing else. This sense of Presence is not as an individual sitting here but that sense of Presence without words. Meditate on that which knows you are sitting here. Your feeling that your body is here is identification with the body, but that which knows that this body is sitting here is the expression of the Absolute.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

Truth of the matter is that that Presence shone through on the first day of Awakening, some time in early 2008. It was just that I wouldn’t have been able to put it into words like Nisargadatta Maharaj has, and I also still experienced a return of the “me” energy which seemed arbitrary. No method connects with that Presence, but connecting with this Presence is as easy as flipping an Ipad upside down. The observer is the body-mind complex, yet, That which watches creation manifesting is present before the observer is. I am not a fan of belaboring the “I Am”. When we break through this Presence, it is as natural as breathing in and out, while when we strive for it, it seems as distant as the Andromeda galaxy. What we can do is be mindful of the thought and feeling highways that are swirling around (health, finances, job, romance, politics, etc.) They have been in the making for eons by parents, society and prior generations, but no one can force us to jump on them. Let them swirl. We connect with the Presence.

 

 

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