5 Ways To Improve Your Presence Of Mind
Most people get it wrong when they think about living in the present, because they think that you have to try to be present.
From the beginning you are, and always have been, always in the present.
The problem is that very soon you started to get a sense of time and with that a sense of the past and future.
To get back to being present in the moment you have to remove everything else.
Do not try to be present but try to let go of everything but the present.
Whenever a thought comes up about how things were, how things should be, or what might happen, let it go.
The more you do this the easier it will be to recognize what the present really is and how to live in it.
There is a very nice Zen tale that can help to illustrate this:
“One day, two monks set out for a temple in a valley beyond the woods. While cutting a pathway through the woods, they came across a choppy stream they needed to cross. There, stood by the bank of the stream, was a beautiful young maiden dressed in silk. She was clearly at a loss as to how to cross without getting muddy and wet.
So, without thinking twice, the elder monk gestured to pick her up. Shocked, she obliged. He put her over his shoulder and…
