Becoming more present is an ongoing job. The mind or the ego, or whatever you want to call it, will not just go away.
It's difficult to stop thinking. So the first thing to do is to, see, that 'you' are thinking. Once you see that you are thinking, you have activated this other level of mind, which we can call 'the witness'.
The witness is normally dormant, but with ongoing practice it becomes more accessible. In fact it is always there, it's just that we have over-identified with the voice of the ego, and lost touch with it.
So you see, it's simple. But in practice is not so easy.
This is why we do Yoga, it's why I do Yoga.
Thousands of years ago the Rishis were apparently informed by higher consciousness entities/God, and from this evolved the Vedas, a highly complex philosophy on Yoga.
I'm no scholar, but I get the gist of it.
We are now thousands of years forward in time, and have been through many years of social and material development. The ego, in this era has been king, we needed it.
Do we now?
Why are you unhappy?
Don't you have everything you need.
Yet you are still unhappy.
Why?
What is it you think you lack?
Stop looking outside of yourself for answers. The new house, car, boyfriend, girlfriend, boat, whatever, will make you happy for a while, then the ego will look for something else to be miserable about.
You have become so enamoured with your own mental discombobulations, that you can't see it's your mind/ego that's causing the problems in the first place.
Peace
It's difficult to stop thinking. So the first thing to do is to, see, that 'you' are thinking. Once you see that you are thinking, you have activated this other level of mind, which we can call 'the witness'.
The witness is normally dormant, but with ongoing practice it becomes more accessible. In fact it is always there, it's just that we have over-identified with the voice of the ego, and lost touch with it.
So you see, it's simple. But in practice is not so easy.
This is why we do Yoga, it's why I do Yoga.
Thousands of years ago the Rishis were apparently informed by higher consciousness entities/God, and from this evolved the Vedas, a highly complex philosophy on Yoga.
I'm no scholar, but I get the gist of it.
We are now thousands of years forward in time, and have been through many years of social and material development. The ego, in this era has been king, we needed it.
Do we now?
Why are you unhappy?
Don't you have everything you need.
Yet you are still unhappy.
Why?
What is it you think you lack?
Stop looking outside of yourself for answers. The new house, car, boyfriend, girlfriend, boat, whatever, will make you happy for a while, then the ego will look for something else to be miserable about.
You have become so enamoured with your own mental discombobulations, that you can't see it's your mind/ego that's causing the problems in the first place.
Peace
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