Essence Mini-Satsang: Precious Present Moment

Essence Mini-Satsangs are brief spontaneous spiritual teachings and guided meditations with periods of silence. Join our beloved community to hear a simple teaching to awaken and deepen spiritual practice, then silences for reflection and contemplation. Mini-Satsangs offer accessible, shared experiences of spiritual consciousness and practice, so that we engage and live our true nature, our original Self, together here and now in this present moment. The practice begins and ends with three singing bowl rings.

Transcript

Yes!

G Further Om I'm Jacob Watson and welcome to this mini satsang.

Here we are in this time,

In this space together,

An extraordinary privilege.

May you breathe deeply and take in the extraordinary energy of this moment.

The universe offers itself to us.

This present moment comes around all the time.

We don't have to schedule it.

We don't have to make an appointment.

We don't even have to welcome it.

It's ours.

It's here and it's now.

As I sit here with you,

We are joined together across the miles,

Across the internet,

Across whatever barriers come up.

In fact,

The barriers disappear.

Here we are.

Indeed,

The spiritual realm drops away.

All space,

All time.

Boundaries dissolve.

Bodies melt away.

There is only spirit.

We have the precious privilege of being in bodily form and yet,

And yet,

We are spirit as well.

We don't even have to go into what it means.

I mean the words come,

The words go.

Descriptions come,

Rationalizations come.

Doesn't matter.

What's always present,

What's always here is spirit.

Your spirit,

My spirit.

Indeed,

One spirit.

One spirit.

I invite you to drop into this space,

This spirit,

This time,

This spirit without space and time.

Notice your breath.

In and out.

In and out.

In and out.

For as long as we're here,

For as long as we have a body,

For as long as we're embodied on this planet,

Our breath comes in and goes out.

This is the precious present moment.

There will come a time,

There will come a space,

A place when our breath will cease,

When our breath will no longer come in,

When our breath will no longer go out.

And we will leave this space,

This place,

And this time.

And we will be,

We will become,

We will return to simply spirit.

We are both now.

We are both matter,

Body,

And spirit.

Again,

The precious privilege of being both.

It's astonishing,

Isn't it,

To be both,

To have this physical form and to be a being,

A spiritual being.

Astonishing.

Two opposites,

If you will.

And yet,

Here we are.

We are both right now in this precious present moment.

This moment,

Of course,

Is alive with mystery.

I have,

We have no idea what will happen.

The next minute,

The next second even.

We think our breath will come in and go out.

We live with many assumptions,

And yet,

And yet,

We live in mystery.

We live with mystery.

What happened in that brief silence,

A time for meditation,

A time for reflection?

What happened?

Was it what you expected?

Were you able to ease your mind,

Let your mind go?

Don't worry,

It'll be there when you need it.

Thing is,

It's often there when you don't need it.

Here we are again and again in this precious present moment.

Amazing.

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Reviews

I was in there very deep, the first of the final bells startled me back! Thank you for sharing! 😊

💖so gentle, thank you💖

A great reminder to find stillness and peace in this moment. Thank you.