It’s Right Here, Right Now

Question: Things are unfolding nicely here…

John: What is knowing that? In what is it all unfolding? Come back to that. Unfolding is in time. Reality is every-present and timeless. Hone in on the core of timeless presence-awareness. Everything else comes and goes. This does not.

Question: It is relatively effortless.

John: Awareness in one hundred percent natural and effortless. When, in your experience, is it not shining? The fact of being present and aware is totally effortless. That is what you are, and it is already present. We overlooked it because we were looking for something exotic, but it has been right here all along.

[By John Wheeler in his book, “Right here, Right now”]

Just a little fine tuning and coming back to basics…coming back to what is already naturally happening, right now, and giving up any sense of “unfolding” to what is already present. Actually, when we “hone in on the core of timeless presence-awareness” there isn’t even a “giving up” of anything. It’s so simple, but we can miss this simplicity in our intense “search for enlightenment or completion in this lifetime.”

Bhagavan Ramana shared this simple truth over and over again. He kept gently bringing people back through the question, “Who?” But the mind was relentless in wanting to do something rather than just BE. Can we relate?

Nathan Gill, another non-duality teacher, says it’s not even about “being awake.” It’s simply about Being. Being awake implies that we were not already awake and we now have to be awake. That’s how subtle the tricks of the mind can become.

When we say that Sri Bhagavan’s message was one of non-duality, do we really know what that means? Is there a relaxing into this Beingness, this aware-presence that we are and allowing what is arising to complete itself, naturally? This is the end of the search…already complete, totally finished, here and now.

Just checking in…