Quotes About Being

The Power of Now

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem. no sutterns. nothing that is not wro you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time: it cannot survive in the Now.

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. The

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Yes. Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.

Así pues, "habitar el cuerpo" es sentir el cuerpo desde adentro, sentir la vida dentro del cuerpo y por lo tanto llegar a saber que usted existe más allá de la forma externa.

You get there by realizing that you already are there

the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.

Descartes believed that he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking.

Being. Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. What an incredible liberation this is!

That is the joy of Being," I said. "You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception—happens.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. It also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.

who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.

True salvation is fulfillment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is to be who you are, to feel within you the good that has no opposite, the joy of Being that depends on nothing outside itself.

You only experience the present moment, or rather what happens in it. If you go by direct evidence only, then there is no time, and the Now is all there is.

El único lugar donde puede ocurrir un verdadero cambio y donde puede ser disuelto el pasado es en el Ahora.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. The Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind.It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of being .

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.

Pienso, luego existo".

the present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not "this moment.

All you really need to do is accept this moment fully.

Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now (see chapter 6).