What is the “Power of Now” ?
Wherein does the power of the now lie? Or how does the “now” help you in your spiritual life?
Staying in the “now” is in essence practicing a meditation technique, which is used to reestablish your pure witnessing state. It is one of many techniques that are helpful in cultivating the thoughtless state of pure witnessing. The power, as such is only to help you at meditating, because the now is still part of the illusion, and attachment to the “Now” will not deliver liberation, because the changing “Now” is part of the problem. Your present moment in the world (the now) has to be transcended for self-realization, and staying with this “Now” method is helpful and, one step towards the “Samadhi state. The art of meditating on the Soul (Samadhi) without witnessing the “Now”, is the ultimate power that can take you beyond the “Now”. The “Now” in reality can’t go beyond itself, because it’s the very foundation for existing in the world, and the experiencer of the “Now” remains intact and undisturbed. We have to work at disassembling the person who is attached to the now, the past, and the future, which is part and parcel of ones personal identity. And, this is what the Samadhi state is used for, to help one in surrendering the whole package, which is what the experiencer of the now is so acquainted with, and refuses to give up. Being happy with just observing the “Now” is not enough to transcend it, and leads to the delusion of complacence from being stuck in the now. The “Power of the Now” really has little power to Realize yourself, but it is an important starting technique on the right path and helps you calm the mind. It must be incorporated with sincere determination for enlightenment, and through a relentless disassociation with the world as in Samadhi meditation. Like everything else in the world earnestness at practicing is a must for success, because until it becomes second nature striving and desire is the inspiration the drives one. Once striving becomes a normal and natural way of living then it happens without having to work at it or for it (realization) anymore. Then there is no more I am (the mind and the body) working hard for liberation when it is your normal way of functioning in the world. By disowning all that comes with manifestation continually is what the earnest seeker does, and he won’t give in to the world, the mind, or the now because they are the attention takers, and attention needs to be fixated on the inner Soul or God.
Staying in the “now” is in essence practicing a meditation technique, which is used to reestablish your pure witnessing state. It is one of many techniques that are helpful in cultivating the thoughtless state of pure witnessing. The power, as such is only to help you at meditating, because the now is still part of the illusion, and attachment to the “Now” will not deliver liberation, because the changing “Now” is part of the problem. Your present moment in the world (the now) has to be transcended for self-realization, and staying with this “Now” method is helpful and, one step towards the “Samadhi state. The art of meditating on the Soul (Samadhi) without witnessing the “Now”, is the ultimate power that can take you beyond the “Now”. The “Now” in reality can’t go beyond itself, because it’s the very foundation for existing in the world, and the experiencer of the “Now” remains intact and undisturbed. We have to work at disassembling the person who is attached to the now, the past, and the future, which is part and parcel of ones personal identity. And, this is what the Samadhi state is used for, to help one in surrendering the whole package, which is what the experiencer of the now is so acquainted with, and refuses to give up. Being happy with just observing the “Now” is not enough to transcend it, and leads to the delusion of complacence from being stuck in the now. The “Power of the Now” really has little power to Realize yourself, but it is an important starting technique on the right path and helps you calm the mind. It must be incorporated with sincere determination for enlightenment, and through a relentless disassociation with the world as in Samadhi meditation. Like everything else in the world earnestness at practicing is a must for success, because until it becomes second nature striving and desire is the inspiration the drives one. Once striving becomes a normal and natural way of living then it happens without having to work at it or for it (realization) anymore. Then there is no more I am (the mind and the body) working hard for liberation when it is your normal way of functioning in the world. By disowning all that comes with manifestation continually is what the earnest seeker does, and he won’t give in to the world, the mind, or the now because they are the attention takers, and attention needs to be fixated on the inner Soul or God.
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