Cultivate the habit of dropping into the present moment

[Eva Libre]

Cultivate the habit of dropping into the present moment. Do this repeatedly every day. When we are in the present moment, both the past and the future are quiet. It is when the mind engages the past or future that thoughts occur. This includes feelings and emotions, usually anxiety, fear, and worry. But in the present moment these are absent. The mind is silent. This is not an escape. Rather it is a retreat from artificial mistaken intelligence. Artificial meaning deluded intelligence. It is a retreat from the mistaken understanding that mere thoughts are solid real things. This mistake gets us into all the trouble. More and more these days we see “Us vs. Them” thinking, taken as real. Yet the term “Us vs. Them” is only words and a concept. Nothing more than that! Still, some people act on these thoughts as real things and become aggressive, even violent. Cultivating the experience of the present moment allows us to breathe easily. It is more in tune with the deeper reality of who we are and what the world is, not getting hood-winked into thinking words and concepts are solid and real! Emaho!

Barry Kerzin