This is not passive. Presence is not a trance. Presence is not being dissociated. Presence is the most awake state a human being can be in. It is the direct, conscious embodiment of awareness itself. And it transforms your entire life. When you live from presence, nothing can haunt you because nothing can hook you. You are not entangled in the mind... See more

But presence is not psychological at all, because anything psychological is of the mind. Presence is what you are before the mind arises. It is the field of awareness in which the mind appears, like a bird flying through the open sky. Thoughts fly through that field, emotions move through it, memories appear and disappear, but none of those things... See more