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“WHAT MATTERS IS BEING IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. -Part 1”

You are not a persona or character, nor are you any thought or emotion, nor are your physical body.

Furthermore, you are certainly not a seeker, a thinker, or any other “doer” manifesting ideals into reality.

Consequently, even your life story can never define who you truly are.

Moreover, anything you might consider “yours (mine)”—such as a partner, family, name, job title, experiences (personal growth, or improvement), achievements, nationality, race, or religion—may serve as a temporary substitute, but they will never fundamentally erase or resolve your anxiety, loneliness, or the various other problems of life.

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Stop trying to attain enlightenment.

For enlightenment is never something the mind you think who you are, that is misidentification, acquires through effort.

On the contrary, it is always what remains after the mind as the “I” has completely vanished; it is ever-present, right here and now.

That, true you is so vast that it’s impossible to fully grasp or put into words, that has no center anywhere.

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Rather than rushing to attain enlightenment—such as by trying to see through every fact or struggling to escape suffering quickly—what matters most is simply being in the present moment.

This is because all insights and realizations always arise alongside the inner stillness (awareness) of the “now,” and—without exception—we are always exactly where we need to be, interacting with the very people we need to be with, for the sake of deeper insight and realization.

In life—through a phenomenon called “attraction”—whatever currently occupies your mind the most (whether positive or negative) captures your attention. When this is perceived by the separete mind as the ups and downs of life, it is the very opportunity for the awareness by using them to realize itself as The Self: by seeing through the assumptions and beliefs that creates them, they are dissolved and dismantled, remaining only pure awareness. This process always spontaneously leads the awareness toward profound, fundamental insights that far transcend the personal level.

Conversely, if you strive harder driven by the mind’s desire—such as wanting to “attain enlightenment quickly and be free from suffering”—you still remain the same identification with the mind (the ego). And because of its identification, it triggers a natural “survival mode” in your nervous system by small things—a self-defensive reaction that shuts down your natural functioning. This creates a block, making it natural to be unable to delve any deeper towards The Self.

Although the very notion of a “me” who strives is a fundamental misidentification in the first place, the nervous system operates via a pathway entirely distinct from thinking, intellectual knowledge, or the clarity of innermost stillness as the awareness. Therefore, if you ignore this “survival mode” self or try to force a solution—even if you feel you have gained something—it remains merely a superficial, temporary change; the awareness can never touch the fundamental core of The Self.

Furthermore, if you seek such changes on others as if they should, the embodiment of an ideal person, regardless of the form it takes (even if it claims love or peace), it is actually a denial and rejection of reality as they are, and in fact, a form of abuse disguised as goodness.

There is absolutely no realization for the awareness by such kind of “doing” or “doership” that ignores or denies the reality of the present moment, that is merely phenomena as they are, as people’s reactions arising from identifying with the thought of “me.”

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What is required in the present moment is not to ponder or judge “what is right” or “who is right”—here is the fundamental question of how the mind can possibly judge the unknown in the first place. Instead, it is to observe the self—without any judgment—from the clarity of the innermost stillness. Then, if a profound, fundamental question arises spontaneously, the awareness can follow that question and descend into the depths of the self.

However, this self-inquiry: simply tracing methods or imitating something described by sages, which is actually interpreted and imagined dualistically by a “seeker” (“doer”) of the mind will not lead the awareness to the truth.

This is because the mind—which is nothing more than thought—cannot know the truth. Consequently, any truth envisioned by the mind cannot be non-dual; it is inevitably a dualistic interpretation or a product of imagination based on the known.

And most importantly, in fact, it is not the “I” that attains enlightenment.

Furthermore, engaging in such “doing” only reinforces self-deception and the misidentification with the mind more unconsciously.

On the other hand, the clarity of the innermost stillness always reveals precisely what is needed and what can be done in the moment. Thus, instead of thinking, contemplating these challenges with it one by one, carefully, naturally leads the awareness deeper towards The Self—toward the Source.

࿓࿓࿓࿓࿓ (To be continued…🙏)