Hello,
This is Pratiga.
You're very welcome here.
For these few moments,
There is nowhere else to be.
Have you ever noticed how rarely we are fully here?
The body may be present,
But the mind is often somewhere else.
Being here is not merely existing physically,
But truly arriving and remaining inwardly aware,
As the present moment unfolds.
Most of life is spent with an inner and an outer drive,
One of momentum,
Of doing,
Achieving,
Planning,
Striving or creating.
And here the body may be here,
Yet the mind is often moving towards or focused on somewhere else.
To be here is to gently withdraw from that constant movement,
The pull,
The distraction towards somewhere else,
Something imagined as being more complete,
Satisfying or more fulfilling.
Presence,
On the other hand,
Or being here,
Is not something we create with the mind.
It is what quietly remains when the movements of distraction,
Of thoughts,
Begin to settle.
It is the recognition of that which is the silent,
Unmoving background,
That behind all outer activity,
All doings and all points of view,
There is a still awareness,
Quietly present,
Behind the noise of seeking,
Doing,
Becoming or one of effort.
Being here may mean fully feeling the breath,
The body,
One's sensations,
The sounds around you,
And within this perhaps also discovering a stillness,
A silence,
A peace,
A calmness,
A joy or a quiet contentment.
Being here may also mean being fully immersed in the joy,
In the self-giving,
In the spontaneity,
In the momentum of an inspiring project.
Being here is so much more than a condition of the body or the mind.
It is the embodiment,
The energy,
The boundless awareness and the clarity of one's impersonal spacious presence,
That which is already here,
Quiet,
Patient and still.
Being here can also mean quietly allowing one's emotions and feelings to be fully felt,
Embraced in their rawness and aliveness,
Without the needing to change them,
Ignore them,
Dismiss them or deflect them.
The mind by its very nature asks,
What's next?
But one's quiet,
Inseparable presence knows that this moment is already whole,
Already complete,
Just as it is.
To be here is to stop searching for a moment,
To stop desiring movement or anything more than what is here in the now,
And to quietly and openly notice what is already present.
One's awareness is timelessly here,
Before thought,
Comments or labels of an experience,
A sensation or a feeling.
And with this,
There can be a simplicity of an inner awakening,
An openness,
A quietness and a calmness,
When each moment is fully and openly met.
Nothing needs to be added,
Only noticed.
Being here does not mean becoming something new,
It simply means to arrive,
Then relaxing enough to fully and peacefully recognise and embrace this moment,
Without needing it to be anything else.
Blessings to you.
