Go and get It – The Present

Yes, there is this Present. This Present is the Presence, and the Presence is always a Present. If you “know” how to live, if you “know” how to be true, if you “know” how to love, and if you “know” how to be really wise, then there is this Present in the Presence, as Presence. The Presence surrounds the past and the future, transcends the past and the future, the Presence is not an infinitesimal point on the line between past and future. The Presence is always and always already, and the only One that is. There is no past and no future, there is only the Presence. You must understand this, and really this is not difficult to understand. When you are really open, truly honest, socially “save” (yes, this is necessary), then you can understand what life is all about, what the deep and true meaning of this existence is, what and why you are living for. Life gives you this existence, your existence as a Present, as this one and only Present, this Presence that you are living in this very moment. What is the meaning of it all? Didn’t you already ask this question? “Why am I living? What am I living for?” Here is the opportunity, here in this very moment, in this very Presence, to open your mind and heart, to let Truth, Love, Reality and Wisdom flow “into” and “onto” that which you think is you. “You” is an imagination, a self-deception, an image. “You” is the past, remembrance, yesterday, sentimentality, suffering and “you” is the future, the hope, the plans, the goals, the imagination. Yes, “you” is not real, since the past is over, is nevermore, is never again, and in the case of the future “you” is not yet, exists only as a “forgotten” realization, as a “reality” in the waiting list, and therefore not a truly real Reality. Only the Presence is real and always already, the Presence is the only “Thing” that is. “You” as a form are the past and “you” are not different from a tree over there in the garden, which is separated from “you” via distance, time and space, therefore past. What you think about yourself (and the world), and that you think, is always associated with a distance, a separation, the past. Therefore thinking can never be associated with this Present that is the Presence. “You” think you are thinking presently, but thinking is associated with time, past, with learning and remembering, and is therefore a forgotten realization, which is not the Present and not the Presence. A present makes you feel good, but the Presence is more than a good feeling, it is associated with all you really Want, with your destiny, that is unknown. You can not know the Presence, you can only know the past, more to say: you can only know your remembrance of the past, which is not really the past, but simply your remembrance of it. Moreover, it is the past that is the Presence and the future that is the past modified by the Presence. Therefore, the Presence must be and is more than the past and the future together. This Presence, this Present is what you really Want, what you really want to understand and live and be – go and be it.