May 26, 2014

I heard Adyashanti talking about how awakening is about fully grasping the present moment – that it can only happen NOW –  and I had a deeper understanding of this than before. I realized that in meditation I have been somewhat distant from NOW – wow.  But of course that’s so, because I’m asleep! So we are either awake or asleep and I don’t mean awake in this moment or asleep in this moment – forget this moment. NOW isn’t actually this moment. I say that because we normally think of NOW as a moment in time. But NOW is beyond time altogether, and “awake” is eternal. But in the realm of thinking and doing we say “be awake NOW, be fully present NOW”. Then we shed the skin of “time”. Time functions as a confusion factor, obfuscating the truth until it’s seen through. I’ve heard it said many times that spiritual practice is not so you can wake up at some other time. It’s where you have your face pressed against the window of reality to see what’s there NOW. You’re not waiting for a future event. THIS moment is the moment of liberation. There isn’t any other. Everything serves to hide NOW from us, like a movie hides the movie screen. When you can ignore the movie and see the screen, that’s NOW.