The Present Perfect
Having entered the present, via any of the 84,000 available portals, you will have actually transcended this ‘moment’, free and clear. This is because presence is timeless, free of attachments or clinging. It’s the reality continuum of nowness.
This is most certainly the esoteric meaning of the ‘eternal life’ that is referred to in Judeo-Christian traditions. Eternal, in present understanding, is not implying a mystical ‘after-life’ existence, but a continuity of awareness in a timeless dimension: empty like space, yet luminously clear, manifesting the universe of appearances and possibilities, objects, forms, thoughts and emotions.
The perfect present is then the Suchness of just what is in the continuously renewed immediacy of the eternal now. As such, the ineffable perfection of this manifest display is great wonderment. There is no dualistic attachment to reifying concepts, nor anxious clinging to our conditioned opinions. Free and clear, we simply relax and enjoy the magnificence.
So prefect presence is,
ReplyDeleteNeither accepting nor rejecting.
Is it just a marvelous display of impermanence?
It is true. That which spontaneously arises,
Also spontaneously liberates,
and is gone without a trace.
Free and clear,
Who would even try to cling?
To that which has already vanished!