I am in the present and I take what life is for me now. I live this instant, with what it brings, and I let it go. I am here right now. This is what I have now. And I let go.
Renouncement is in the present moment. I focus my consciousness in the present. I stop the movement that carries me backwards, to the past— remembering, ruminating, regretting, missing, resenting. I stop the movement that carries me forward, to the future—dreaming, projecting, desiring, speculating.
In this renouncing, an emptiness is created within me. This is the border I must cross. What is there when there is no past or future? I stop for an instant in my heart. What do I find? Unfathomable silence. Infinity. The unknown. There is no differentiation. Only Presence.
It is not easy to be there; sometimes it is possible for only a few seconds, a few minutes, perhaps. That is liberation. Sometimes freedom frightens me, causes vertigo. It places power and responsibility in my hands.
What is my world like? I live in the world that I am creating.
Do I choose to remain in the safety which comes from my thinking that I have no power to change anything? Or do I choose to dare to activate my potential for being an integral, full human being with the capacity to create good around me? I choose hope.
I need a life of ascetic and mystical practice to reach this interior point. I need to continue to know myself, simplify myself, silence the inner noise so that I can enter this sanctuary.
What am I?
I am a Human Being. I am the human who is born, who lives, who dies. A human who suffers, who is alone, who is confused, who gives up. I am the human who experiences joy, who dreams, who struggles, who has hopes. Everything is within me, and I embrace it.
I can see beyond my garments, my conditioning. I can see beyond the pairs of opposites that everything is becoming, that everything flows in the continuous stream of Consciousness, like rays of different colors which form part of a single light.
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