Our life is a succession of infinite present moments. It is never made out of anything else. We have to reflect on that deeply. Life is never made from anything else!

The mind creates narratives, historians create history, journalists create stories. It is all a secondary and irrelevant process. Narratives, history, and stories are something abstract. The present moment is real. If we ever find ourselves wanting something other than the present moment, we are in desire for a fantasy. We are removed from reality. We are trapped in feeding a ghost.

Since we started this post, so many moments have passed. Were you paying attention to them? Were you here, or were you always 0.5 seconds ahead? Was your mind already anticipating the next word, the next sentence, the next paragraph?

Very often we live in an illusion of the present moment. The mind tells us we are in the present moment, but into it we pour the impurities of the past and impurities of the future. We pour in desires, narratives, fears, aversions. If every moment of our life was a little aquarium of existence, like a little bowl of reality, instead of swimming in pure water, we would be swimming among the chaotic sediment of mental and emotional garbage, constantly overflowing from all of the other aquariums. Never pure water.

We think we are in the present moment, but we assume so much. We are scared to surrender to the infinite uniqueness of these moments. We think we’re in the present, but really we’re in a subtle fantasy overlaid onto the experience. The mind says: “I am in a room, I am in front of a screen, I am reading.” But ask the consciousness. Let the experience be what it is without the mind making a story about it. Allow for absolute and total inner silence to be the canvas for this experience.

The present moment is not what the mind thinks the present moment is.

Do we realise that our entire life is incessantly narrated by a little voice in our head? Sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, sometimes almost imperceptible, but always there. Do we allow ourselves the courage to live without it? To take away its power from dictating to us what reality should and should not be? This is surrender. We are utterly and totally capable of it. Consciousness does not need narration. We must not lie to ourselves otherwise. But we also must not lie to ourselves when we are asleep, when we are in fantasy. When we are present, totally, we know it—but the mind may want to trick us into thinking we are awake when we are not. Just like when we have dreams in which we think we are awake, but really we are deep asleep. So we have to honestly BE.

All one has to do is to BE. If we want to BE, we cannot KNOW (with the mind) all the time. We have to relax into nothingness.

This is the Radical Zero that Master Samael Aun Weor writes about. We must live each moment as if it were the absolute first moment of our life. This is also forgiveness. We forgive ourselves for everything that is behind us. We pour energy only into the present moment. From it, infinite potential arises. This is also freedom. One is not bound by one’s past. This is not to say that responsibility and karma will not come. They will, and yet the present moment will free us from the suffering (not pain, but the aversion to it).

Stillness is necessary to observe movement. And in life, we are interested in observing the movement of our inner psychology. Our egos, our patterns, our imbalances are all movement. If we are in constant motion, we cannot observe movement. Stillness is in the centre. Stillness is total silence, total tranquility. We are all capable of attaining it. We are all just telling ourselves we can’t. But we can. In the very core of our existence, there is only one law – TO BE.

AHAM ALAM
(Mantra: I AM (is) ENOUGH)