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Presence quotes12/27/2023 ![]() It is rampant in modern life unproductive thinking rules us and controls our lives.It causes a serious leakage of vital energy. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. … slaves to our minds and our constant thinking Essentially, modern life takes the jumpy, distractible “monkey mind” we all started with and feeds it steroids.And when we allow our actions to flow from the ramblings of the monkey mind, we become really blocked. We’re constantly bombarded with input.To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened then someone got him drunk and finally, a scorpion bit him. ![]() They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether.This chattering voice not only distracts you in most situations, but it also uses valuable brainpower. It refers to the little voice in your mind that comments on nearly everything you do or experience. The Buddhist term “monkey mind” is a poetic way of describing the mind’s constant chatter.Identification with the mind gives it more energy observation of the mind withdraws energy from it.If you don’t identify them with self or your story, they cannot harm you. Your thoughts are nothing but temporary electrical impulses.You can only think yourself OUT of the moment. You can’t think your way INTO the moment.He just remains as pure awareness, watching it all happen in this awareness. He does not spend his time and effort in silencing the mind. When a seeker sees the mind and thoughts arising from the mind separate from himself, he knows that he has nothing to do with the mind. One is pure awareness and the mind owes its existence to this awareness.Once we gain some detachment from the ego’s voice, it’s possible to experience the Experiencer, the true self. We still experience it, but we don’t experience it as our voice, and we are no longer compelled to follow it or express it. The ego’s voice becomes impersonal, something in the landscape that has no more personal relevance than a bird’s song or the temperature of the room.True freedom comes from stepping back from the TV screen of our mind to a place where we can take in the rest of the room and what’s going on in the rest of the room.When you become identified you cannot observe. ![]() They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become “I.” Eckhart Tolle Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego.Being present is not identifying with your thoughts Feel the Presence within you as the background to every experience.The Indian sage Nisargadatta Maharaj referred to presence as focusing on the ‘I am’, by which he meant resting in the experience of ‘I am’, that is, simply resting in and as our essential, unconditioned, self-aware being.The peace and happiness for which all people long reside there. Simply notice the experience of being aware. Allow the experience of being aware to come into the foreground of experience, and let thoughts, images, feelings, sensations and perceptions recede into the background.Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. Be aware of the stillness that follows the I Am. Say or think ‘I Am’ and add nothing to it. Here is another way of finding inner space: Become conscious of being conscious.Cease being exclusively fascinated by whatever you are aware of and be interested instead in the experience of being aware itself.… to be in a state of being aware of being aware Awareness, Attention, Live in the present, Being, Mindfulness. ![]() It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.
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