LIVING THIS MOMENT SUTRAS

1. This moment is free.

2. The only thing that is important and real about my journey is the step I’m taking this moment (Eckhart Tolle).  That’s all there ever is – this step in this moment.

3. Execute this step, this moment with awareness.  This is finesse.

4. Execute this step, this moment with lightness and with ease.

5. Make this step, this moment an act of beauty and perfection.

6. My entire past (karma) manifests this moment as my thoughts, sensations (emotions) and sensory experiences.  To be free of the past, I have to be present to all these experiences (thoughts, emotions and sensations) NOW.

7. My thoughts, moods reactions and behaviors represent my past.  By witnessing them in the present, I liberate myself of the past NOW.

8. My past is my conditioning.  By observing my conditioning, I am free of it because I am not my conditioning, I am the observer of it.

9. Close your eyes and say to yourself, “I wonder what my next thought is going to be?”  Then become alert and wait for the next thought (Eckhart Tolle).  You will find yourself in the presence of presence.

10. You cannot be in this moment by thinking about it.  You can only Be it.

11. To inhabit your body fully – to have total body awareness, is to be present.

12. The observer observing itself is presence.

13. Listen to the silence between words.

14. Observe the spaces between thought, words, movement, objects, breath.  There is stillness, presence, in those spaces.

15. Feel the body.  Be alive in the body.  Inhabit the body fully, totally.  You will feel the presence of Spirit, of Presence.

16. Feel the body from within as a single energy field – alive, vibrant, blissful.

17. Have a feeling of presence in your body at all times.  This is life centered, present moment awareness.

18. Have inner-body awareness at all times.  Make it permanent.  Stay anchored in it.

19. Listen with the whole body.  While listening, feel the body.

20. While looking, feel the body.

21. In any other interaction with another person, feel the body.

22. The only way to know a person or anything else, in the so-called external world, is through feeling your body.  The whole cosmos is experienced as sensations in the body.

23. Being or God is the One Life at the root or ground of all lives.

24. Love is feeling, knowing and being with the One Life at the root or ground of all lives.

25. To have complete acceptance of what is, is to let go of all drama.

26. All suffering is mental, is ego created and from resistance to what is.

27. To surrender is to join the flow of life.

28. Total, unconditional, unreserved acceptance of this moment – of what is – is liberation.

29. Surrender to this moment as is – this is the presence of God or Spirit.  To act from this level is to act from the level of soul.  To act from the soul level is to act without anger, self-righteousness, resentment, grievance.  To act moment by moment from this level, recognizing that the only action that is real is the one I’m taking right now, is to have spontaneous right action – with finesse and timing.  This action is effective and does not entail suffering.

30. The situation that surrounds this moment may be intolerable but this moment is still perfect.  Be in this moment, be one with the presence of Spirit, act in this moment, intend in this moment, have detachment in this moment.  Act without anticipation and without being compulsively driven by a memory of resentment or being wronged – and you act like a true spiritual warrior.  The situation will change moment by moment if that is God’s will and if your will is aligned with God’s will.  Even as the situation resolves into something different, something better moment by moment, the moment itself remains perfect moment by moment.

31. Unconscious resistance patterns to situations perceived as intolerable, perpetuate those intolerable situations.

32. Even if the situation is unpleasant, separate the situation from this instant this moment and surrender to the moment.  Then act without resentments, grievances and expectations but certainly with an intended outcome.  An intended outcome without anticipation or expectations, orchestrates its own fulfillment.

33. When there is resistance, observe the resistance and you will automatically surrender to what IS.

34. Whenever something goes seriously wrong – surrender.  Surrender separates the moment from the situation surrounding the moment.

35. Surrender to the moment and then do whatever the situation demands.

36. No situation creates suffering.  Resistance  to what is creates the suffering.

37. If you find yourself unable to surrender to an external situation, then surrender to your reaction of pain and suffering.  Witness the pain and suffering.

38. Don’t think about the pain, feel the pain.

39. Die to every moment.

40. Remain as the ever-present witnessing awareness, the presence behind the thoughts and emotions.

41. The conditioned mind is a slave.  The witnessing mind is free.

42. What in this moment is lacking? (Zen)

43. If not NOW, when? (Zen)

44. What is wrong with this moment?

45. Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with the fire of Presence. (Rumi)

46. There never was a time when your life was not this moment.

47. There never will be a time when your life is not this moment.

48. God’s presence is this moment.  Time is the only obstacle to God.

49. Break the habit of present moment denial and replace it with life centered present moment awareness.

50. Observe without labels and witness the witness in all you see.

51. Witness the witness in all you hear, touch, see, taste and smell.

52. Be not the reaction but the observer of the reaction.

53. To be in God’s presence, free all identification with past and future.

54. No situation, circumstance, relationship or thing can make you happy or unhappy.  Happiness is NOW.

55. Now is independent of hope and despair.

56. Watch your thoughts, feeling, emotions and reactions.  Then watch the watcher.

57. The mind is the prisoner of past and future.  The Spirit is NOW and free of both.

58. To be aware that I am not present is to be present.

59. Resistance against what is – is time.

60. Acceptance of what is – is NOW – timeless presence.

61. Craving, grasping, clinging is resistance against what is.

62. Repulsion, fear, flight is resistance to what is.

63. A crisis can suddenly throw you into the NOW.

64. Danger demands the presence of NOW.

65. Finesse demands the presence of NOW.

66. Fulfillment is NOW – never in the future.

67. Practically, deal with the future NOW.

68. Practically deal with the past NOW.

69. Established in Being, perform action.

70. I am where I am.

71. You can only Be where you are.

72. I am that I am. (God to Moses)

73. Before Abraham was, I am (Jesus Christ)

74. Be Here Now. (Ram Das)

75. All I have to deal with is this moment as it is happening. (Kriya Shakti)

76. I can’t deal with what does not exist this moment.  The future and past do not exist this moment.

77. The future and past are only in imagination.  Reality is this moment.

78. Suffering is in imagination.  Freedom is this moment.

79. This moment propagates itself.

80. This moment is eternal, timeless and ageless.

81. This moment is fresh.

82. You are that freshness and I am with you NOW.  Nowhere again – inside the majesty. (Rumi)

83. Whatever is happening this moment, I can deal with.

84. The ego is time-bound.  The Spirit is timeless.

85. The time-bound comes and goes.  The timeless always is.

86. The time-bound is the known.  The timeless is the fresh unknown.

87. That which was born must decay and die.  That which was never born is Eternal.

88. The best way to prepare for the future is to be free this moment.

89. Happiness and suffering are limited.  Bliss is timeless.

90. No resistance, no grasping, no resentments – only NOW.

91. God is not difficult to find.  God is impossible to avoid.

92. There is nowhere where God is NOT.

93. This moment is omnipresent.

94. This moment is omnipotent.

95 This moment is omniscient.

96. The real reality is behind the curtain (of time).  In truth, we are not in time. (Rumi)

97. We dwell in the timeless.  Time is our shadow.

98. In love with life, let your soul live the subtlest of passions.  Live like a gypsy, each day a different house, each night under the stars. (Rumi)

99. This journey has no distance.

100. In a non-local universe there is nowhere to go.

101. What you are looking for is the One who is looking.

102. We are tasting the taste, this minute, of Eternity. (Rumi)

103. This moment is Infinite Possibilities (Pure Potentiality).

104 This moment is immeasurable.  This moment is all that was, all that is and all that will be.

105. This moment is the generation, organization and delivery of all these universes     (G-O-D).

106. If you are HERE NOW, you are ALIVE.

107. Look at these universes spinning out of nothingness – NOW.  This is within your power – NOW.

108. There is only LOVE and it is NOW.

109. Behind all this noise is silence – NOW.

110. Beyond all this activity is stillness – NOW.

111. The disturbed state of consciousness is all these universes – NOW.

112. The undisturbed state of consciousness is bliss – NOW.

113. I exist as I am, that is enough. (Walt Whitman)

114. Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through its resistance.

115. Every moment is a door to Eternity.

116. Living in the moment is living from the soul.

117. Spirit never leaves us, it is only over-looked, when we camouflage the present with our imagination of past or present.

118. Spirit is always with us.  It wants to lift our pain.  It does this, not by abolishing painful memories, but by putting us totally in the present, where the past doesn’t exist.

119. Awareness is aware of itself before it gains knowledge of anything else.  Awareness aware of itself is presence, profound wisdom and peace.  Awareness of anything else is mere knowledge.

120. There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

121. Communion is shared awareness in the moment.

122. Communion or shared awareness in the moment is the territory of lovers.

123. Questions answer themselves if you stay in the moment.

124. Problems solve themselves if you stay in the moment.

125. Every time you are tempted to react in the ‘same old way’, ask yourself if you want to remain a prisoner of the past.  Simply observe your internal reaction.  You will jump into the freedom of the moment and open the world of infinite possibilities.

126. The happiness of this moment is not based on expectations.

127. This moment is safe.

128. I am this moment.  You are this moment.  All this is this moment.

129. This moment transforms the ego’s world into God’s world.

130. The world of the mind, of imagination is:
ego desired
fragmented
personal
temporary
unshareable
hanging on the thread of memory.

The world of Spirit – this moment free of past or future, free of memories or anticipation is:

open
common to all
accessible to all

It is the world of:
community
insight
love

It is the world that is:
real
uncaused
independent
undivided
unshakeable
unquestionable
unreachable by effort
blissful
the source of all    creativity
understanding
peace
harmony
laughter
all possibilities.

Stay in this world and observe the passing picture show.

131.    There is no experience other than the present experience.
132.    What you are actually aware of is just what is happening at this moment and no more.
133.    You know the past in the present and as part of the present.
134.    This moment is always here since we know no other moment than the present moment.

135.    There are no feelings but the present feelings.  I am what is happening this moment.  I am a pattern or flux of the universe this moment.  I am the universe experiencing certain localized sensations this moment.  I’m a localized momentary itch [sensation] this moment.

136.    The universe is experiencing itself from an infinity of perspectives this moment.  One of these perspectives is me this moment.

137.    To hold on to anything is like holding your breath.  If you persist you’ll suffocate and die.

138.    The only way to deal with change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.
139.    Trying to “fix the flux” is the cause of all misery.  Life is movement, fluidity and flux this moment.

140.    To pursue happiness, fulfillment in the future is to pursue a constantly retreating phantom.  The faster you chase it, the faster it runs ahead.

141.    Our present insecurity comes from trying to be secure in the future.
142.    Having formed the habit of looking ahead or behind, but never here, we never live in the real world.

THE WIZARD’S SUTRAS

1. A wizard Exists in all of us.  This wizard sees and knows everything.

2. The wizard is beyond opposites of light and dark, good and evil, pleasure and pain.

3. Everything the wizard sees has its roots in the unseen world.

4. Nature reflects the mood of the wizard.

5. The body and the mind may sleep but the wizard is always awake.

6. The wizard possesses the secret of immortality.

7. The return of the magical can only happen with the return of innocence.

8. The essence of the wizard is transformation.

9. The wizard watches the world come and go but his soul dwells in realms of light.

10. The scenery changes, the seer remains the same.

11. Your body is just the place your memories call home.

12. “Who am I?” is the only question worth asking, and the only one never answered.

13. It is your destiny to play an infinity of roles but these roles are not yourself.

14. The Spirit is non-local, but it leaves a fingerprint behind, which we call the body.

15. A wizard does not believe himself to be a local event dreaming of a larger world.

16. A wizard is a world dreaming of local events.

17. Wizards don’t believe in death.  In the light of awareness, everything is alive.

18. There are no beginnings or endings.  To the wizard, these are only mental constructs.

19. To be most fully alive, you have to be dead to the past.

20. Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

21. The wizard’s consciousness is a field that exists everywhere.

22. The streams of knowledge contained in the field are eternal and flow forever.

23. Centuries of knowledge are compressed in revelatory moments.

24. We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.

25. When the ego is set aside, you have access to the totality of memory.

26. When the doors of perception are cleansed, you will begin to see the unseen world – the wizard’s world.

27. There is a wellspring of life within you, where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

28. Purification consists of getting rid of the toxins in your life – toxic emotions, toxic thoughts, toxic relationships.

29. All living bodies, physical and subtle, are bundles of energy that can be perceived directly.

30. Power is a double-edged sword.  Ego seeks to control and dominate.  The wizard’s power is the power of love.

31. The seat of power is the inner self.

32. The ego follows us like a dark shadow.  Its power is intoxicating and addicting but ultimately destructive.

33. The eternal clash of power ends in unity.

34. The wizard lives in a state of knowingness.  This knowingness orchestrates its own fulfillment.

35. The field of awareness organizes itself around our intentions.

36. Knowledge and intention are forces.  What you intend changes the field in your favor.

37. Intentions compressed inwards enfold magical power.

38. The wizard does not try to solve the mystery of life.  He is here to live it.

39. We each have a shadow self that is part of our total reality.

40. The shadow is not here to hurt you but to point out where you are incomplete.  When the shadow is embraced, it can be healed.  When it is healed, it turns into love.

41. When you can live with all your opposite qualities, you will be living your total self as the wizard.

42. The wizard is the teacher of alchemy.  Alchemy is transformation.

43. Through alchemy you begin the quest for perfection.

44. You are the world.  When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

45. The goals of the quest- heroism, hope, grace and love – are the inheritance of the timeless.

46. To summon a wizard’s help you must be strong in truth, not stubborn in judgment.

47. Wisdom is alive and therefore always predictable.

48. Order is another face of chaos, chaos is another face of order.

49. The uncertainty you feel inside is the doorway to wisdom.

50. Insecurity will always be with the quester – he continues to stumble but never falls.

51. Human order is made of rules.  The wizard’s order has no rules – it flows with the nature of life.

52. The reality you experience is a mirror-image of your expectations.

53. If you project the same images every day, your reality will be the same every day.

54. When attention is perfect, it creates order and clarity out of chaos and confusion.

55. Wizards do not grieve over loss because the only thing that can be lost is the unreal.

56.  Lose everything and the real will still remain.

57. In the rubble of devastation and disaster are buried hidden treasures.

58. When you look in the ashes, look well.

59. To the extent you know love, you become love.

60. Love is more than an emotion.  It is a force of nature and therefore must contain truth.

61. When you say the word ‘love’, you may catch the feeling, but the essence cannot be spoken.

62. The purest love lies where it is least expected – in detachment.

63. Beyond waking, dreaming and sleeping, there are infinite realms of consciousness.

64. A wizard exists simultaneously at all times.

65. A wizard sees infinite versions of every event.

66. The straight lines of time are actually threads of a web extending to infinity.

67. Seekers are never lost, because Spirit is always beckoning to them.

68. Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of Spirit.  Ordinary people call these clues coincidences.

69. To a wizard there are no coincidences.  Every event exists to expose another layer of the soul.

70. Spirit wants to meet you.  To accept its invitation, you must be defenseless.

71. When you seek, begin in your heart.  The cave of the heart is the home of truth.

72. Immortality can be lived in the midst of mortality.

73. Time and the timeless are not opposites.  Because it embraces everything, the timeless has no opposite.

74. At the level of the ego we struggle to solve our problems.  Spirit sees that struggle is the problem.

75. The wizard is aware of the battle between ego and Spirit, but he realizes that both are immortal and cannot die.

76. Every aspect of yourself is immortal, even the parts you judge most harshly.

77. Wizards never condemn desire.  It was by following desires that they became wizards.

78. Every desire is created by some past desire.  The chain of desire never ends.  It is life itself.

79. Don’t consider any desire useless or wrong, some day each one will be fulfilled.

80. Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout.  From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

81. Cherish every wish in your heart, however trivial it may seem.  One day these trivial wishes will lead you to God.

82. The most good you can do for the world is to become a wizard.