Anski east c Join me now on a meditation,
An exploration of what in fact is going on every single moment,
Deep within you.
Close your eyes,
Relax your body,
And just listen as we go on a journey to the place from which we started,
The eternal now.
What if you could eliminate all the causes that have made this moment what it is?
If you are experiencing some sort of dismay or distress and your mind is diligently looking to find the cause in hopes of finding relief,
What if we could just set aside all causes for the moment?
What if we were to regard our experience,
Our life,
Like an image appearing in front of a projector?
At the rate of 30 frames a second,
The image moves in front of the projector,
Creating the illusion of motion on the screen.
The action in one scene appears to have been caused by an action in the previous scene.
Someone says something,
Someone responds,
And in the illusory environment of the theater,
We think the response happened because the person said something.
But the only reason that response happened is because that frame in the film went by the projector.
The thing that the first person said really had nothing to do with the response.
The cause-and-effect relationship was an illusion projected on a series of events.
What if our life was like that?
Maybe you've had some emotional distress,
Some problem that has persisted apparently for a long time.
What if that entire story could just be disposed of?
What if you could let that entire thing go right now?
What if what you were experiencing right here,
Right now,
In this moment,
Was in fact being spontaneously generated by you here and now?
That it was not caused by something that happened in the past,
But by the way you are in the present.
For just a moment,
Let's consider that everything happening in your life is not the result of a long line of linear causation going all the way back to the Big Bang,
But is a spontaneously generated moment coming right out of who you are now.
That would mean you were no longer the prisoner of circumstances.
You were no longer the victim of your past,
And you never were.
It would mean that right now,
In this very moment,
The possibility exists that you could choose a different experience.
You could choose different events.
What if you were to see what's happening to you right now as if it was the very first time it happened?
There would be no long-term problems.
There would be no chronic illness.
There would be no recurring patterns of behavior.
There would be no habits.
All we know,
All we can ever know,
Is what is happening right here,
Right now.
Our explanations for what is happening and why are just a story we've made up.
We hoped that this story that we made up would bring us relief,
Comfort,
Maybe even healing.
Somehow,
If we know the origin,
We can change the effect.
Well,
That's true,
But the origin is not somewhere back in time.
The origin is right here,
And right now,
And is you.
So,
For just a brief moment longer,
Let yourself completely release all thoughts about the past,
Where this moment came from,
And the future,
Where this moment is headed and what might happen.
And instead,
Simply let this moment be exactly as it is.
Not burdened by a past,
Not pressured by a future,
But fresh,
Innocent,
Natural.
Just the way it is,
Like a clean slate.
So,
With that clean slate,
Without the tyranny of the past,
Without the need to escape it,
Without any need to change anything in this moment,
What would you like to have happen?
What would you like to experience?
And if thoughts of doubt or feelings of resistance appear in the body,
Say,
Thank you,
But I don't need you right now.
I'm just going to be here in this moment,
Created in the likeness of my deepest heart,
My highest aspiration.
No thought about the future,
And will it manifest or not?
Leave that to the future,
And just be here,
Isolated completely within the warm cocoon of love that is now.
And as this meditation comes to an end,
Recognize that this is not simply a choice that you are making while in this state of meditation,
But it is a choice that you are making and can make every moment.
It simply requires a willingness to be aware,
Aware that this moment and every moment is being spontaneously generated from within and not imposed upon you from without.
You really live in the now that has no past and needs no future.
This is your eternal home.
Thank you.
