Nothing Better Than This Moment
Nada mejor que este momento
A gentle inquiry into letting go of resistance so you can rest in what is actually here right now.
Nothing Better Than This Moment
Every single practice,
every true aspect of religion,
if successful, points to one thing,
or it helps us see one thing:
that there is nothing better than this moment.
And so there are infinite ways,
infinite attempts,
techniques,
methods
to try to help the many kinds of personalities and minds and people
who have different ways of escaping the moment.
But it's really one truth:
there's nothing better than this moment.
And in fact, if you go deep enough,
if you see deeply enough,
there is nothing other than this moment.
And so then you are unable to prefer something else,
and all resistance drops.
Then trying to escape the infinite ocean,
when we drop that attempt,
there is a great relief,
and the infinite ocean is now.
There's always some kind of promise or encouragement,
a recommendation that if this is fully done,
this releasing of resistance,
there will be a reward,
and that reward is to see that there's nothing better than this moment.
And there is a promise of a kind of resting and a peace that is possible.
It doesn't remove pain.
It doesn't remove challenges.
But it removes this underlying sense of, right here, right now, something's not okay.
And what is here right now is seen for what it is.
Only then can truth, love, and beauty be known,
and that is something that is always now.
We're constantly trying to escape the greatest treasure.
Noticing resistance
And so just see if what I'm describing resonates,
if you're aware of this mechanism,
this tendency to push away from what's happening.
What is in the way,
blocking the possibility to sink into the moment?
And there are obstacles and barriers,
mechanisms of the mind to keep us engaged
in the strategies of avoiding.
And as any of that comes up, any resistance,
uncomfortable sensations,
emotions,
acknowledge them.
Don't push them away.
Don't try to change it, remove it, fix it.
Just notice that it's not all of what is happening.
Give it just the right amount of attention
and leave the rest for the infinite mystery that is here right now.
Turning to what is appearing
There are sounds,
sensations of the body,
images in the mind,
narratives,
memories,
emotions.
All of that is appearing, moving, changing.
There will also be a sense of a me,
an I,
a subject,
seemingly located somewhere,
somewhere inside.
The subject hearing these words,
feeling the body,
having thoughts.
Looking for the subject
You look for the subject,
the sense of me.
What is it made of?
We can say it starts with a body.
There are sensations.
We infuse the sensations in the hand with a sense of me, mine.
But if you look closely,
the sensation of the hand appears to the subject.
So can it actually be an essential part of this sense of me?
If you follow that exploration,
you consider your past,
your history.
That feels like the sense of me.
You can see they are all thoughts,
thoughts appearing to this subject.
Fantasies.
Desires.
Desires are a core part of this sense of me.
What I want, what I like, what I dislike.
But in the same way, they are experienced, they appear.
They appear and are experienced by this sense of a subject.
Where does choice begin?
What we call "me that I choose" begins
a little before the movement,
when there is an intention that is felt.
It's a kind of energy that is felt just before the movement happens.
Just like any sensation in the hand
that we claim and call part of me,
that intention before the choice is appearing to us.
It is claimed as me, but it is separate from me.
If you follow that intention,
where does it come from?
Where does the choice begin?
Does it begin?
The beginning of every choice is the mystery of being.
The illusion of separation
Inquiring into this sense of me
challenges the belief in separation.
The illusion is just the sense that I know where I begin and I end.
That clarity does not hold under scrutiny.
It's the feeling and the belief that "I choose" is evidence that I am choosing.
The beginning of every choice is the mystery of being.