The Depth of Now
La Profundidad del Ahora
An invitation to sink beneath the surface of thinking and trust the richness already alive in each moment's sensations.
The Depth of Now
We invite the world of sensations.
Every moment is an ocean,
deep,
vast,
mysterious.
Let yourself sink into the depth.
Notice the temptation to know,
the temptation to stay
clinging to the surface,
to the known and the knowable.
Longing for depth
Long for that depth,
long for that mystery,
the freedom of not knowing,
the newness and wonder of every moment.
A childlike openness.
The breath calls us downwards,
to the body,
to sensation.
Choosing this moment
Every moment there is a choice.
What do I want?
What am I looking for?
In the deepest place there are only two possibilities:
something that is here now,
or something in the future, in the past.
What we want is given,
is given to us.
What matters is how deeply we listen.
If you listen through thinking,
you look for what is not here,
where something is always missing.
Listen with trust in the unknown,
the unborn,
this moment.
Your aliveness keeps the satisfaction of being.
Dropping into sensation
Every moment we choose one or the other.
Drop into sensation,
pulsing of skin, textures,
sounds.
Here is the veil of knowing.
Life is here.
Why add to its fullness?
Make room for any discomfort,
tension,
worry.
Every instant you notice being tempted
into thoughts, into the world of the known,
go back into sensations,
sounds.
Trusting now
The instant we choose now,
we take a great leap.
If that seems small, with little effect,
trust that it is of immense value.
This is the way of the heart.
The heart loves now.
Not in the future;
it's always loving now,
calling us to love now.
It will always feel like a leap without guarantees.
Trust this moment.
Trust what brought you here.