The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence

By A. H. Almaas

The keys to self-knowledge and deep contentment  are here prior to us during this very moment—if we will easily discover ways to dwell with open understanding. In The Unfolding Now, A. H. Almaas offers a marvelously potent perform for constructing the transformative caliber of presence. via a specific approach to self-observation and contemplative exploration that he calls inquiry, we learn how to dwell within the cozy situation  of easily "being ourselves," with no interference from emotions of inadequacy, drivenness towards targets, suffering to determine issues out, and rejecting reports we do not wish. Almaas explores the various stumbling blocks  that retain us from being present—including defensiveness, lack of knowledge, wish, aggression, and self-hatred—and indicates us easy methods to welcome with interest and compassion no matter what we're experiencing.

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We think that we don't have to carry directly to figuring out with the intention to be ourselves, for realizing is a part of our inherent power, a side of our being. Then it turns into attainable to chill to the purpose the place the understanding ability itself dissolves. it's not in basic terms the labeling that turns into pointless; the popularity itself at some point soon may not be necessary—at least no longer consistently. After sitting and meditating for your time, after we are quiet, in presence and in readability, there is not any have to label and no use to understand something particularly. we will be able to be in a spot the place we don’t realize something specifically, yet nonetheless we've readability, we've got vibrant, transparent, obvious information. it's very crisp, very sharp and fresh, with no our targeting whatever particularly or defining, “This is that this” or “This is that. ” We return to our unique, primordial situation prior to the cognitive skill constructed and took over. however it isn't a going again in time, it's a “going again” ontologically, within the second, within the experience that we've got allow cross of 1 layer and now are perceiving from the underlying layer of perceptual know-how. And that layer has been and constantly is there; differently shall we no longer understand. natural wisdom we will finally turn into quiet sufficient or safe sufficient in our knowingness that we now not have to carry directly to our understanding. or even via our inquiring, we've got come to acknowledge what knowingness can and can't do—we have obvious its capability thoroughly, and so we don’t have to reify the figuring out as whatever to carry directly to. both means, whatever falls off. the necessity to carry directly to that understanding falls away, and there's simply the luminosity of Being, by itself. And our actual Nature remains to be our real Nature—because it's undying, everlasting. It was once there sooner than we began to understand and it remains to be there. via our adventure of dwelling, we've got constructed the potential for real Nature to grasp, yet precise Nature is itself past that; it truly is pre-knowing, extra primordial than realizing. it's only the “simply being there”—the knowledge of being there with out the attention of being there that means something. The adventure is: “I am conscious of being right here, yet there's not anything within the brain that claims i'm conscious of being right here. there's no reputation of being right here; i'm simply being the following. ” occasionally you notice this in infants who're taking a look at you in a definite method. they're very current, yet you could inform that they're no longer reflecting on themselves; they aren't pondering that they're being there or that they're you. even if they've got a truly current, targeted cognizance, there is not any considering themselves or spotting anything—only naked understanding. whilst that occurs, there's no responding, no reacting on their half; they're simply there perceiving. And that occurs often once they are in a country of rest or delight. an analogous is correct with animals. once they are happy or comfy, and no risk is current, there's simply the naked knowledge of and sensitivity to, what's.

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