B: What is NOW? Who is NOW? Is it a thing? Is it an energy? Is it a body, is it a mind, is it a movement? Is it a thought ? Is it a feeling ? What is NOW?
Q: When you go there… I can’t answer it with anything I know.
B: That’s exactly the point! But you can go there, because the one who is listening is Now but the mind cannot do anything but keep making that NOW something other than the one who is here, objectifying it. That's what really hurts. You think everything else hurts, but that's the only thing that hurts.
Objectifying NOW. You can't ‘do’ NOW, you can only stay openly realising what NOW is.
What is it that's NOW?
If I say 'Who?', that's another arrow of another way, but what is it that is NOW? That has Awareness disappearing. As Awareness disappears it realises WHAT it is. Light happens and the disappearance of Awareness turns into bright instantaneous Pure Knowing or Consciousness.
When we say 'perception'… you don't actually perceive ‘things’ and there is no one there that is perceiving.
NOW is perceiving NOW.
Wow! Your mind is like a 1000 doves or more. Then all the shields around this idea that you're a someone and that there are others, they just crumble.
So the moment a shield comes up just be so open that you really fully allow yourself to experience that resistance because it is also in NOW.
You come to a place where openness is no longer just a word. Heart is no longer some mental idea in your brain. You begin to actually experience what openness is because it is What You Are.
It's quite different to live a life so utterly belonging to That alone and still have clarity and intelligence within our daily life. But NOW….. NOW, there is not a single thing that is not made of NOW.
That's a treasure beyond belief. Everyone is convincing everyone that you are not NOW.
But you ARE. You ARE That.
From Lounge Room session NZ 200709