here and now...

I don't mean to be 'negative' here, but sometimes the best way to deal with what is bothering us is to clearly see and state what it is that is bothering us, the basic dysfunction we find ourselves experiencing.

One way of describing the basic human dysfunction that is bothering us, that which keeps most of us alienated from our true self, is to say that the majority of human beings keep getting stuck in a conceptual experience of their life and identity and take that conceptual 'reality' to be more real than the actual direct experience of reality that they are always having here and now.

'Waking up spiritually' is the simple realization, which gradually or suddenly dawns, that the true life we are looking for is always, simply, eternally here and now and has always been here and now and will always be here and now.

When life and 'identity' is reduced to the here and now that is eternally, effortlessly present, life becomes much more simple and even inexplicably happy!


Francis Bennett