Living in the Present, Resistance, Concentration, Compassion and Pity

A. Living in the Present

The Present is not an object of thought. To live in the Present, first of all you must know what is really ‘Present’. You know what is meant by Present? What really is ‘Presence’? Living in the Present means living in the Truth, because only Truth is Present, everything else is just fascination. Living in the Present does not mean that you must do everything that you want, this moment itself. Living in the present means, ‘living in that which alone is present.’

Living in the Present means that my mind is seated at its Centre, the Truth, i.e. Present. It has nothing to do with time. Living in the Present, you have all the freedom to think of the past and future. You can do that. Living in the Present does not mean that you have lost the capacity to think of the future; you can do that. Why not?

“I can think of the future, but I will not leave my seat.” My seat is in that which is present. My seat is in the Truth, not in some kind of hallucination.

You know what is suffering?

Suffering is displacement from the Present, as simple as that. The more the displacement, the deeper the suffering. If there can be a meter to measure suffering, you will see that as you go more and more away, the suffering meter reading keeps increasing.