How To Master Living in the Present Moment
How To Master Living in the Present Moment
Eliminate This Wrong Way to Live in the Present Moment
Why do some people attain Enlightenment and some spiritual awakening
After my spiritual Awakening in 2008, I have mastered living in the present moment for 16 years, and I will share ONE most important lesson that will help you live in the present moment permanently.
It consists of ONE Myth and Revelation of ONE Truth. But before going into that, let me answer one question!
Why can some people attain Enlightenment and live permanently in the present moment while others are stuck in Suffering even after a spiritual awakening, oscillating between anxiety about the future and regrets of the past?
People realize spiritual awakening in two ways. The first is a rare event when the person is fully enlightened, which we can call Enlightenment. The second is a gradual process that most of us need to go through, accompanied by the dark night of the soul, which we can call spiritual Awakening.
In spiritual awakening, the mind's conditioning is not completely dissolved; it frequently pulls us into an unconscious state, and that's why the journey from spiritual Awakening to Enlightenment takes time.
One Myth and One Truth about Living in the Present Moment
During my initial years of spiritual awakening, my mind tricked me into one myth that made a living in the present moment a Curse.
What was that Myth?
The myth is: "Living in the Present Moment is keeping attention outside of yourself while attending to outer people and circumstances in a focused way. And Relishing all mind's pleasure by being fully focused on it."
The Truth is Engrossing your mind in a focused way with outer affairs of life is not living in the present moment. Being in the Present isn't confined to the activities you are currently engaged in.
How to Master Living in The Present Moment?
To successfully establish yourself in the present moment, you must surrender inward to Being, fixated on the God within. When you are fully surrendered to that inner truth, the thoughts of the past and future will not torture you. When you, the owner of the house, is not present, the thief-that is, thoughts of the past and future can break in and rob you out of the peace. True or Not?
Three Things your mind wants that keeps you from living in the Present
This Myth exists as the mind always bends the spiritual truth for its benefit. The mind's continuous desire to hijack your attention outward keeps you from realizing Being- that is, God- which is ever-present and eternal. Our mind's nature is to feel lack all the time. And to fill that lack, the mind wants pleasure and excitement, and it finds them in these three things:
Money
Relationships
Recognition
Our Ego -unobserved mind- will never be satisfied with these three things as it always wants more and more of them.
So when Buddha and other enlightened beings taught us that the present moment is all we have, the mind got terrified as it thrives on psychological time – past and future. The mind's only preoccupation is thinking about the past and future!
The "Wrong" Way to live in the Present
The unconscious mind -Ego- bends this spiritual truth of living in the present moment so it will perpetuate its existence. The mind preoccupies itself in a highly focused way with outside people and circumstances for its benefits, constructing profitable egoic transactions, achieving and accumulating this and that to compete and show to the world.
And Yes, the mind is doing all this in the present moment by focusing only on the outer aspects of life. It starts relishing all the pleasures of money, profitable relationships, and fame by fully engaging in them.
And the world calls this act of the mind, diligently focusing only on external affairs and relishing in worldly pleasures, "Living In The Present Moment."
People suffer a lot because of this mind's tendency to continuously focus outside. When your outer life situations are full of problems, surrender inward to being and realize a life free of any problems.
The primary sickness of humanity and how to overcome it
You don't believe that the state of consciousness, which is totally free of life struggles, is possible. The primary sickness of humanity is that people are so busy reacting to their life situations that they have forgotten the God that is available in the form of their inner Being. They are so consumed by the regret of the past and anxiety of the future that they forget their Presence that is shining as Being internally which established them in the present moment externally. Being, the present moment, and God are all the same.
When I give 1-to-1 Spiritual counseling session, all the participants have the same struggle and challenge. Their minds can't live in the present moment and constantly swing between unconscious and peaceful states. But they all describe this struggle in a very different way depending on their life situation.
The Truth of Living In The Present Moment & What is God!
Living in the present moment is first realizing divinity within and then engaging with the world from that divinity. Authentic living in the present moment is the awareness and feeling-realization of the inner Being. When you become aware of Being, the Being becomes aware of itself. When Being becomes conscious of itself – that's Presence, and only then you will be able to establish yourself in the present moment without swinging in the past and the future.
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Inner Being is the divine life itself, which has been called "God" by the world. Once you are aware of being within, you will accept and allow all situations and people outside. You will not create a destructive karmic cycle by involving yourself in dysfunctional life situations and fights. As soon as you forget the feeling-realization of being within, then what is left is the mental concept of the present moment, which only deals with life's external affairs in a focused way.
Living in The Present Moment is NOT Engrossing Your Mind In A Focused Way With Outer Affairs of Life.
When your mind is always focused on the outside, even without getting lost in the past or future, its dysfunction of constantly feeling "lack and unworthy" always remains.
What is our Primary Purpose on this Earth
Our primary purpose in life on this earth is to awaken, which means losing thousands of years of collective mind conditioning and karmic tendencies from past births. These tendencies are impurities of our minds in the form of unconscious desires, dysfunctional thinking patterns, cultural conditioning, and toxic habits.
The Greatest Question You Ask Yourself: Do your mind's endless desires, thought patterns, and thousands of years of conditioning get dissolved when your mind is constantly outside your inner Being in the name of living in the present moment?
No. Not at all. Your mind becomes dysfunctional, and you go through mental Suffering
How You Can Attain Spiritual Awakening?
The mind consists of all five senses and the brain's ability to think and feel emotions. So the mind is the five senses, thoughts, and feelings. When you rest your mind in Being, you surrender inward all your senses and your ability to think and feel. Hence your mind is purified from past birth tendencies and thousands of years of collective and cultural conditioning.
Once your mind loses this conditioning and tendencies, it loves to rest and abide in Being, and you attain spiritual awakening.
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After my non-enduring Awakening in August 2008, I wasted years in search of books, gurus and different kinds of meditations so they could give me a glimpse of my inner reality. But all my attempts failed gloriously.
Maybe I was destined by my karma to suffer and realize this truth of resting and abiding in being the hard way. My suffering is your awakening now. My outer purpose is to guide you on this lonely path of the early stages of spiritual Awakening.
If you are in a spiritual emergency and want to transform your most significant challenge, you can also take a 1-to-1 private counseling session with me.
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