"Simplicity is the key to brilliance."
— Bruce Lee
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Here's an interesting fact I’ve been reminded of on this Ishayas' Ascension teacher meditation retreat that I’m doing.
One week and a few days in, and I’m loving it.
It’s amazing how much we can complicate life … over-thinking and over-feeling everything.
The answer?
The answer to any problem, to any quest to get more from life, to any inner path and teaching, is always to return to now.
Return to this moment; embrace this moment.
If you want a good and Quality life, return to now.
This is it.
Base your life in this moment in time.
That’s about as advanced a teaching as you’re going to get.
Not very glamorous, huh?
We can get so lost in looking for the next, more “advanced” piece of information that will take us further in our path of self-development, and yet the greatest of teachings all point right back to here.
Not glamorous no, but it’s certainly simple – and that’s something that I love being reminded of, time and time again.
“You mean, all I have to do is live here, now?”
So simple, yet so profound.
This moment is life.
This moment has all the answers you truly need.
This moment, despite how your mind will attempt to complicate things by adding in possible future scenarios and maybes, is all we can do anything about.
But the problem is that this teaching is so simple, people get stuck in what a friend of mine, Si Gwilliam, calls the "Yeah-Yeahs".
The Yeah-Yeahs are when people know but don't do:
"Oh yeah-yeah, be present, I know that".
We know it but we're so at risk of taking it for granted in the quest for newer information that we don't do it.
If you don't do it, you don't reap the benefits of it.
So, don't mistake simplicity for limited.
Don't take it for granted.
Actually make the cornerstone of your life being here and now.
Alrighty?
The beautiful thing is it’s the one thing you can do.
You can absolutely do now.
You can be present and mindful now.
You can.
If you stop thinking about it and actually do it, it’s something you can always do.
And the more you remember to remember, the more you forget to forget ... which is lovely.
So put yourself in the way of remembering …
Make the absolute most of now.
And it will lead you by the hand to where you need to go.
Go well!
Arjuna