Power of Now

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of being and that deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are bakers, even if they have great material wealth

I love the Buddha simple definition of enlightenment as the end of suffering

He uses a negative definition so that the mind cannot make it into something to believe in war into a superhuman accomplishment, of goal that is impossible for you to attain.

“You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life…It is already whole, complete, perfect.”

The more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering – and free of the egoic mind.”

“When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.”

“In compassion, the seemingly opposite feelings of sadness and joy merge into one and become transmuted into a deep inner peace.”

“The art of inner-body awareness will develop into a completely new way of living, a state of permanent connectedness with Being, and will add a depth to your life that you have never known before.”

“Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continually attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy.”

“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continual conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking.”

“True salvation is to know yourself as an inseparable part of the timeless and formless One Life from which all that exists derives its being.”

“When you live in complete acceptance of what is – which is the only sane way to live – there is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in your life anymore. There is only a higher good – which includes the ‘bad’.”

“The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.”

The word God has become a close concept. The moment the word is uttered, a mental images created, no longer, perhaps, of an old man with a white beard, but still a mental representation of someone or something outside of you, and, yes, almost inevitably a male something or someone.

The greatest obstacle to experiencing this reality is the identification with your mind. The incest and mental noise prevents you from finding your realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from being.

Enlightenment is a state of wholeness of being at one and therefore at peace.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that block all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself between you and your fellow man and women.

Thinking has become a disease disease happens when things get out of balance.

The mind is a superb instrument if use rightly. You strongly however it becomes very destructive.

The beginning of freedom is a realization that you are not the possessing entity-the thinker. You can now observe this entity. You realize: all the things that truly matter-beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace-arise from beyond . You begin to awaken.

Virtually everyone hears a voice, or several voices in their head all the time: the involuntary thought process that you don’t realize you have the power to stop.

It often imagines things going wrong in negative outcomes; this is called worry.

The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind this is the only true liberation. You can take the first step right now. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. When you listen listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge.

So when you listen to a thought you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself and the witness of the thought a new dimension of consciousness has come in.

A gap of no mind-at first the gaps will be short a few seconds perhaps, but gradually they will become longer. When these gaps occur, you feel a certain stillness and peace inside you.

It is not trancelike state not at all. There is no loss of consciousness here. The opposite is the case. If the price of peace were lowing of your consciousness and the price of stillness a lack of vitality or alertness then they would be no not worth having.

Instead of watching the thinker, you can also create a gap in the MindSpring simply by directing the focus of your attention into the now.

In your everyday life, you can practices by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving in your fullest attention, so becomes an end in itself.

There is one certain criteria by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.

Create no more pain in the present

Past pain : dissolving the pain-body

Ego identification with the pain-body

Origin of Fear

The ego's search for wholeness

Don't seek your self in the mind

End the delusion of time

Nothing exists outside the now

The key to the spiritual dimension

Accessing the power of the now

Letting go of psychological time

The insanity of psychological time

Negativity and suffering have their roots in time

Finding the life underneath your life situation

Ordinary unconsciousness and deep unconsciousness

What are they seeking?

Loss of now : the core delusion

Dissolving ordinary unconsciousness

Freedom from unhappiness

Wherever you are, be there totally

The inner purpose of your life's journey

The past cannot survive in your present

It's not what you think it is

The esoteric meaning of "waiting"

Beauty arises in the stillness of your presence

Realizing pure consciousness

Christ : the reality of your divine presence

Being is your deepest self

Look beyond the words

Finding your invisible and indestructible reality

Connecting with the inner body

Transformation through the body

Sermon on the body

Have deep roots within

Before you enter the body, forgive

Your link with the unmanifested

Slowing down the aging process

Strengthening the immune system

Let the breath take you into the body

Creative use of mind

The art of listening

Going deeply into the body

The source of Chi

Dreamless sleep

Other portals

Silence

Space

The true nature of space and time

Conscious death

Enter the now from wherever you are

Dissolving the collective female pain-body

Love/hate relationships

Addiction and the search for wholeness

From addictive to enlightened relationships

Relationships as spiritual practice

Why women are closer to enlightenment

Give up the relationship with yourself

The higher good beyond good and bad

The end of your life drama

Impermanence and the cycles of life

Using and relinquishing negativity

The nature of compassion

Toward a different order of reality

Acceptance of the now

From mind energy to spiritual energy

Surrender in personal relationships

Transforming illness into enlightenment

When disaster strikes

Transforming suffering into peace

The way of the cross

The power to choose