Question on enlightenment

Question: How can I be "in the moment"?

The truth is, you are the moment itself. You are presence itself. You just
think you are not. And the problem is not even the thinking, it is your
identification with your thinking. Look right here, right now, in this
moment. Let all thoughts, emotions, sensations be as they are right now,
feel them completely. Do this right now. Let everything be. Watch.

It may be uncomfortable, but let that uncomfortablness be. Human egos are
very resistant to being in the moment. Egos are always looking how to
change, how to get what we we think we want, how to mold ourselves into what
we think will make us happy. So stop all of this and let everything be as it
is.

And this is not a doing, it is a not-doing, a giving up. If you
struggle to climb over a wall but it is too high, you struggle to climb up
it, you create plans to get over it. There is a constant stress because you
will not be at peace until you get over the wall. So, give up the idea of
going over the wall, just give up and stay on this side of the wall and rest
here. Really, there is no wall.

Question: "I feel imprisoned by my thoughts day and night. "

You only think they imprison you. Let them be as they are. Stop judging
thoughts. When you remember, simply stop following them and watch them from
here. They come and go all by themselves. By letting them do as they wish
without chasing them, they will go all by themselves. The power is in the
awareness of them, the watching them come and go. Not fighting them.

Question: " What technique can or should I use?"

Ask yourself "Who am I?" Without referring to your knowledge of what you
were taught about who you are. Ask yourself right here and now, without
referring to your thoughts "Who am I?" It will automatically bring you back
to this feeling of simply being. It cannot be described or denied that
there is an experience of "I am." Try asking this. Really you are
searching for the location of this feeling "I am" and staying with this
feeling of "I am."

This is a great technique because it gives the mind something to do and
shuts it down at the same time. Even if it's only for a half of a second
that you feel the "I am" keep asking the question and the length that you
rest in the feeling of simply being will become longer.

"How can I allow myself to "be present with what is, right now" as you suggest? It sounds like it should be easy but I don't feel that it is. "

Because you try to do it with your ego. Your ego is who you think you are,
your ego is the controller, is the identification with your knowledge, opinions, judgments, the doer. Your ego never gets enlightened. Your simply see that you are not
the ego and you are enlightenment itself. When you ask who am I? Stop
trying to get something, simply give up to this moment.

Consciousness moves your
form. You must surrender to this moment and let consciousness do what it
needs to. It will not be like you think it is, it will be as it is.

Question: "If it's so easy how come so few are
enlightened?"

To be truthful, karma, we wake up when it is time for us to wake
up. Everything is consciousness, everything will one day realize it's true
nature and dissolve back into consciousness.

On a different level, nobody wants to give up their ego. I meet lots of
people that say to me they want enlightenment, but soon they are throwing at
me everything that they know, their judgments about this and that about
what they want and don't want, what is right and wrong. This is their ego,
who they think they are and they are not willing to give it up. They fear the death
of who they think they are more than they want enlightenment. And truly
there is no death of the ego. You just see through the illusion of the ego. And this is their
karma, it is the way it is supposed to be. One day the balance will shift.
They will be clear enough to give up everything that they think they are and die
to this moment. Then they will see that they always were and that there
only is consciousness.

Question: "I want to know the joy and peace that you and so many have described. I'd be happy just being able to experience stillness. But no matter what I do, I wind up being miserable most of the time."

Your intense desire to wake up is a blessing. Your misery is a blessing.
Let the misery be as it is right now. You try to get out of what is. Let
everything be without trying to change it. It is a surrender. It is not
that all of your feelings go away and there is serenity. It is that you
stop judging and resisting your emotions. Then everything moves through and you remain the witness, you remain at peace.

You are saying, "I don't want to feel this, I want stillness." But
stillness is what you are when you let yourself feel this. Enlightenment comes when you
stop fighting what is in this moment.

Everything is happening perfectly. I promise.

And listen to some of my music, it comes from stillness and constantly calls
you back to stillness. I highly recommend that you meditate to my CD, "Ocean Euphoric" on a daily basis, it will make staying present much easier. And if you can sit with one who is enlightened on occasion, do that too. Their presence empowers you and gently calls you back home.

Much Love and Blessings,

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