being the source of the dream

Life springs endlessly up through the focal point of the present moment. It bubbles up like an underground spring and appears here and now, radiating outward from each center.

If you feel around in your being for the source of the present moment—for the source of that bubbling spring of event-hood, it seems to be coming from the heart. If you feel for it, you can begin to sense it.

What is in the center of the spring is our experience of the present moment. As the event spring spreads outward from our experience of it, we interpret that as both space and time. But our experience is always best right at the very center of the spring... the present moment.

In that center of the present moment there is singleness and peace.

As events emerge, thoughts about them arise. If we follow the thoughts, we lose touch with the spring and its peace, but it doesn't ever cease to exist.

Some thoughts are so habitual that they become beliefs and they divert the stream like rocks in a river bed, completely distracting us. We accept them as part of the landscape, forgetting that they are just thoughts we've practiced over and over again. As a human race, a culture, a civilization, we practice many thoughts together so often and so well that they become difficult to discern as just thought, because they seem so solid. But once seen, they begin to dissolve.

A thought arises about something that you want—a dream you have about how life will be better when this something occurs. Ask yourself, "How does having this dream of a future make me feel in the present moment?" It's how you feel right now that determines what kind of manifestation your spring will bring forth.

If you are desiring something from your seat in the present moment and it's making you feel bad because you don't have it—that "feeling bad about not having it" is what you are projecting and is the very future you will experience.

If you want a future of contentment, focus on finding whatever contentment you can in your present moment. If you want a future of happiness, listen for the faintest melody of happiness in where you are right now and put your focus there. Find the tone of your fulfilled desire as it exists ever so slightly in your present experience and just appreciate. Appreciation magnifies whatever quality it focuses upon.

Notice when the desire for a future in which things will be different, creates within you a disdain for the way things are right now—unless what you wish to experience are increasing levels of disdain, of course, which is perhaps something you are interested in investigating. There's no right or wrong way to have a dream. We are not judged. Judgment is an artifact of the human dream that remains within the dream.

The present moment is always your refuge, your shelter, your source and your guarantee. As it bubbles up through your heart, you tint the water with colors of thought, emotion or awareness, and then experience the manifestation as it spins away from you.

Comments

[Max]

Brilliantly precise and present. I feel like I can follow this as though it were simply a set of rules to be happy by. Relieving even. I'll do as you say.

[marian]

Thanks, sweetheart. It's exactly that... a simple set of rules to be happy by.

[lu]

I've been wrestling with this for so long, and slowly it's starting to sink in that it's the wrestling it that keeps it from being absorbed.

being present, letting go of expectation...

Thanks for being a consistent reminder all these years.

[marian]

Hi lu, it can take a while to get the hang of it because it feels backwards to the ego, but eventually it sinks in. It takes repetition, like learning anything else. xoxo

[New Balance 574]

When a single doorway of happiness closes, a different opens, but commonly instances we appear so extended in the closed doorway that we really don't see the 1 which has been opened for us.