The Power Of Presence: Returning Home To The Now

Hi,

I'm Bassem.

Thank you for joining me.

I want to see this conglomeration of different people from different parts of the world coming together under the banner of self-development.

Spiritual realization from mind to no mind is the journey of the spiritual aspirant.

In the past two and a half thousand years,

The soul dimension has been taken out of the equation of our lives.

We no longer recognize ourselves as spirit beings,

Having a physical experience in space and time.

I want to start our conversation tonight by highlighting something that occurred to me some 20-something years ago when I was at a workshop for survivors of childhood abuse.

You don't suddenly wake up one morning and decide that your life or discover that your life has become unfulfilling.

Unfulfillment takes years of practice.

I find this such a stunning understanding.

I am what I am because of the things that I have practiced over time,

That I have refined and that I have become an expert in.

The state of the world is a product of all of the things that we practice individually and collectively.

We don't butcher and kill each other because we are happy.

We do that because we are fundamentally unhappy.

We have been practicing the things that produce our unhappiness.

If the present is a product of what I have practiced in the past and the future is a product of what I am practicing now,

Bringing greater awareness and greater presence in my current situation will ensure that my future is better if there is such a thing as future.

And it's for this reason that Eckhart Tolle so masterfully,

Intuitively,

Perhaps,

Called his book The Power of Now.

The power of now is the only power that is available to us.

By becoming increasingly more aware of the now,

I am more present in this moment than I was a second ago.

And not merely theoretically or spiritually or philosophically,

But actually,

I am present in my speech.

I am feeling my being as I share.

I have a greater sense of my beingness.

I am looking out,

But I am feeling the energetic reality of my body.

Practicing presence now is my insurance plan for a future should it ever come.

But if it doesn't come,

It's irrelevant,

Because I am home right now.

From the very start,

We are taught to orient our attention outside of ourselves,

To focus our five senses outside of ourselves.

In time,

The five sensorial apparatuses become prejudiced to the outside.

Think of this apparatus as a tool of perception by means of which you experience,

You sense and you perceive the world.

Experience is possible only because of your ability to perceive.

Your situation is such now that you can only look outside.

Our attention is directed outwardly.

It's not possible to look inside.

Think of the instrument of perception as a light,

As a torch that is fixated outwardly.

It's no longer capable of U-turning and lighting up the self.

Our experience has become exclusively an outward experience.

We look at the world without a sense of our being.

We are not in our experience.

And then we try to derive our satisfaction or our joy through the things that we perceive.

The outward fixation of our perceptual instrument,

Five senses,

Attention,

Mind,

This is one instrument and it is stuck on the outside,

Which means you can see the world but you cannot see yourself.

Someone who has U-turned or reversed their attention instrument,

The information that they were getting from the world is replaced by the attention that they're getting from within.

Every generation there might be one.

It's that rare.

Now in the cyclic movement of Earth,

The adversity is so great that it is forcing us to awaken.

This is the reason meditation exists.

An awakened man or an awakened woman,

They're not focused on the world.

Their five senses have U-turned.

They are now sensing their reality.

They are in their looking.

Information has now become replaced by intuition,

Guidance from source.

Everything is colored by the sense of God within.

I'm looking,

Staring at the screen and all I can see,

All I can feel is the bubbling joy of my being,

The aliveness and the awareness.

My body is an experience,

An appearance in the field of my consciousness or my awareness.

The body itself is an experience.

My feelings are an experience.

My mind is an experience.

Everything is an experience.

But I,

What I am,

Is not an experience.

We are source.

The five senses must turn around and look inward.

The five undergo a fusion and become one.

And the entire body becomes an extraordinary perceptual apparatus that's capable of seeing God.

Where the I am ends,

The God is begins.

Today we can talk about such things where five,

Ten years ago,

These would have been considered esoteric and abstract.

But today,

More and more people vibrate a higher frequency.

I would ask you to just consider the mystery of birth.

Nine months in the utero before your birth,

Your origin is meditation.

You are a meditating master.

You are a signature of the divine.

Give up your fear,

Anger,

Judgment,

Jealousy,

All of these things by beginning to recognize them for what they are.

Demons that keep you tracked down in a lower frequency.

I willingly release all that is not of love.

That should be your mantra when you go to sleep,

When you wake up.

To the best of my ability,

With humility,

Exactly as I am,

I am willing to release all that is not of love.

My fears,

My limits,

My beliefs that I am little,

Weak,

All of those things,

I'm willing to release them.

I don't know how to release them.

I'm simply willing to release.

If you are on this journey,

You have to be willing to let go of your ideas about ourselves that we inherited from others.

You are not a physical being.

You have never been a physical being.

You cannot be a physical being.

Your spiritual being,

Your lack of fulfillment may not be your fault,

But it's your responsibility to give up a collective conditioning that has been in place for thousands of years.

Your birth was the most mysterious event that can ever happen.

If you can think it's possible,

That's the tremendous power that's available to you.

If you want to fly,

As the saying goes,

You must let go of your fears,

Your doubts,

Particularly your doubts.

Nightly,

When you go to sleep,

Look what happens.

Look at the dream reality.

There are no rules.

There are no impossibilities.

Your spiritual being,

Before you became a child of a father and a mother,

You were a child of the universe.

You weren't always here.

You still are that reality.

Everything you know about you has been added on.

Get rid of the add-on and fly.

Looking out,

Feeling in.

The power of now is in a presence.

Washing the dishes,

Feeling my hands.

Becoming progressively more and more inwardly aware of your faceless reality,

Your spirit.

Spirit does not have form.

You cannot sense spirit with the five senses.

To realize spirit,

To see spirit,

The five senses have to become one.

They have to turn around and fuse and become one.

What we call the third eye.

The third eye is capable of perceiving your spirit reality,

Your non-physical reality,

Your deathless reality.

The body dies.

You don't die.

Ashes to ashes,

Dust to dust,

Spirit to spirit.

Build a ritual of practices that you can do daily.

Be sincere.

Awakening is better than childhood.

Develop a daily ritual.

Meditation.

A little breath work.

Daily positivity journaling.

One act of kindness every day.

Exercise.

And most importantly,

Gratitude.

Practice these five things to turn your life around.

The science of neuroplasticity,

Which is the science of mind creating synapses,

New synapses,

Breaking habits and creating new habits.

They say practice something for 21 days and the mind will create a new habit out of it.

So you have to practice these five things daily for 21 days.

That's the difficulty.

If you can't do it on your own,

Join a group.

Work together.

No one has ever realized their potential on their own,

Materially or spiritually.

Even Jesus had help.

Find a mentor to work with.

We must put the soul back into the equation of our lives.

The soul is the outer expression of inner harmony between the inner feminine and the inner masculine.

The ego is the outer expression of inner disharmony.

That's it from me,

My friends.

I wish you all well.

You are incredible.

May all of us be willing to release all that is not of love.

Thank you for joining me.