Here and Now

 “Blessed, supremely blessed, are they who are installed in the eternal now, 
transcending time and place and form and matter, 
unmoved by weal or woe or wealth or want, 
for in so far as things are motionless they are like eternity.” Meister Eckhart, Sermon 16 

Listen, my friend, trapped in mind-smoke, you have lost touch with divine Reality;

Will you let your whole life drift by in this fog?

Break out of your prison, wake up from your lotus-eater dream! 

Past and future are illusions, only the now is real  - in which time are you living?

Like ancient cobwebs in an abandoned ruin, thinking spins endless stories around you.

Shake yourself free, like a dog coming out of the water shakes himself dry.

Throw away the garbage, stop singing that same old song.

Vigorously cast off the illusion that has held you in thrall for so long.

Direct perception is the key.

Switch off the ticker tape mind and, for the first time, you will truly see.

Alert, aware, thought-free, 

here and now,

is the most alive you will ever be.

“When the tricky senses are controlled, when mental conceptions are removed, and when one is unshakably established as Self in the Heart, then the Knowledge which shines in that State of firm Self-Abidance is the Real God . Such a True Seeing, which is devoid of illusion and deception, is the State in which one shines as the Ocean of Bliss. Only in the Supreme Silence which is thus achieved in Self-Abidance, will the soul never again have a downfall.” Sri Ramana Maharishi, Guru Vachaka Kovai