Yesterday A.H. Almaas mentioned that essential presence is what transforms the consciousness.
One’s practice becomes how to stay in touch with essential presence and not about achieving any particular state of consciousnes.
Almaas said that there are very few people who can actually live from, move from, and act in essential presence though many think they do. It is more difficult than we imagine.
After one is able to maintain contact with essential presence, expressing it becomes the practice. The practice eventually leads to: essential presence is what acts, it’s what does, it is what is.
A result of this is that one’s life becomes a life of service – lived not from the perspective of the ego – getting what I want, enjoying what I want, but serving that deeper nature.
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