Can the “present moment awareness” be practiced!

Q : Dear Maa, can the present moment awareness or inner body awareness as put by Eckhart Tolle in his book "The Power of Now" be practiced life long. Please provide your valuable inputs.

Lokesh

Answer

Lokesh I really wonder if you have truly understood the meaning of the present moment awareness and the inner body awareness spoken of, by Eckhart Tolle. It is easy to be caught up in words and that is the problem when you read good books.

When you read Upanishad, when you read Vedanta books then you pick up all these terminologies which are too heavy for you, Lokesh.

You don’t know what awareness is? You really don’t know. Accept this; it will be hard to accept because you might have read this book 10-20 times. But, still I am saying this, it is hard to pin point exact centre of what the present moment is. And until that happens in you, your mind can easily cram the good words without understanding their true essence.

When you read good books you gain good vocabulary. You can parrot it up and bring it up in your conversations. But is this enough to actually realize the awareness and the present moment? One needs to go deeper into that. You now have just caught the words but you have missed upon the spirit of the words.

Gurumaa

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