The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness

‘Being present’ is a state in which you feel yourself being organized by the present: being informed by it, touched by it, moved by it, filled with it—guided by the sensitivity of a seamless whole that holds you in its embrace at every moment. That can’t be experienced if you are the one doing the organizing.

Presence; this required a certain “struggle” that was not directed against automatic functioning as much as it was for the positive aim of remaining present; it was important to maintain an inner “look,” to “stay in front” in an “act of seeing”; and one had to experience Presence as a “second body” in order to have a stability and independence that

Yet, without this discipline each present moment is only the repetition of something already seen or experienced. In order for genuine novelty to emerge, for the unique presence of things, persons, or events to take root in me, I must undergo a decentralization of the ego.

Presence is who you are underneath all the conditioning, armoring, beliefs, and identities that you carry. You are the experiencer, pure and simple.

That is how an awakened being lives in the “now.” They are present, life is present, and the wholeness of life is passing through them.