Presence

by Jayaji / transmissions and meditations for contemplation 

Prior to the moving world around you, prior to your ideas inside about it; prior to your personality and identity; prior to your problems and solutions, prior to everything there is a profound space that cannot be reduced, divided or conquered. 

Prior to all phenomena is an awareness that is aware of all phenomena. I know of nothing more real than the experience of this. For it is the experiencer. 

When we wake this awareness at the root level we leave trivialities behind. We leave behind concepts such as the past or future and we become present. 

Even if only momentarily, when we unwrap this present there it is, and what it is is just this: presence.

​​The nature of presence is the presence of nature. We enjoy time in nature because it reminds us of our own true nature. Our essential nature. It is in harmony. Harmony is when our inner world is in accord with the external environment. 

When one is in harmony choiceless clarity arises and one does not need to worry about awareness as much as the river does not worry about its direction. 

It is not the accumulation of knowledge but the pure space before knowledge was known. It is not the contents of the mind but the nature of the mind prior to the arising of contents. It is not the body nor the five senses or faculty of perception, but that which is aware of their function. 

Step into the place where there are no steps. Look in the direction of your ancient face. Let past and futures fade to reveal the light of the eternal dawn here and now. This is the primordial presence of the profound. This is the profound presence. 

Essential presence is pure. Essential presence is like the Buddha or the Christ, it is clean of itself not because of what it has done but because its nature is: clarity. It is the potential of all that arises. All that has already risen blossoms this presence within its breast.

Presence is ever-present. There is nothing you can do to evoke it or cultivate it. Therefore, do not worry about its practices or intellectualising its essence.

When one searches for its nature they enter the empty room. Sometimes it seems like a room full of mirrors. Infinite and eternally empty. When one truly knows this they enter the emptiness of the Buddhas.