The Esoteric Meaning of "Living in the Moment"

JIBOH SHA CAFE, Okazaki Kyoto

"The Esoteric Meaning of LIVING IN THE MOMENT"

22: 51, Feb 22, 2011

How to live in the moment when you are in a bad mood? 

If you are deep in debt, can you still live in the moment?

Emmanuel's answer is again beyond expectation…...

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Dear Emma, calling you this way, I feel the peace of silence...... 

I can't find a word to describe how you come, but you’ve simply come!  

You are not on the left, not on the right, not above or below. 

It’s not correct to say that you are in my heart, either.  

It’s the whole (of you) that simply appears. 

I can’t feel you in a certain “place”, but as a whole, including even my body…... 

and you are not a "you". 

In fact, when I type or think, you may fade away. 

When I pause to feel you, I am speechless... and you permeate.

Dear Emma, that is how I have merged with you.

Since enjoying the moment is the only way to meet the true god, now, I’d like to invite you to talk about the meaning of  "Living in the Moment"? 

How does someone practice opening his heart and enjoying the present moment?

 

Emma: 

Oh, my dear, don’t make the thing seem so difficult.  

In fact, "Living in the Moment" is like the time when you walk out of a hot bath, and you smell good. Ah!  You feel relaxed, nothing in your mind. 

At that time, you only smell the aroma of your skin and the warmth of your red body. 

At that moment, you are doing nothing; you are practicing nothing.  

You are simply relaxing at that moment.

ZHANG, Cheng: 

But if you feel upset and find yourself unable to be pleased, what about that kind of moment?

Emma: 

My dear, your thinking about this problem, with a certain worry in it, gives this problem a sense of importance. This is surely not an "easy" problem. Now that “uneasiness” is right there inside you.  How, then, can you "Live in the Moment"?

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Well…...When asked about this, I was not thinking about how to answer you. I want to feel my state of being first…... and now, I feel a sense of tension; a little anxiety; that is, the "problem consciousness" is in my heart chakra. So how can I live in the moment? I discovered that my so-called "Living in the Moment" refers to a kind of relaxation, with no tension and no uncomfortable feeling in the heart chakra. In other words, when "Living in the Moment" comes to my consciousness, my consciousness has presumed “Living in the Moment” to be something different from my status quo.  So how do I change from the status quo to another state of being? This is the meaning of my question "How to Live in the Moment"..….. And then…. I don’t know how to discuss this issue further; I am stuck.

Emma: 

Relax, dear child, as long as you relax yourself, you can continue.

ZHANG, Cheng:

It’s fun, Emma, I found a contradiction. When you told me to relax, I did, and then I thought I could continue.  But what is it that I should continue?  “To go back to that problem and solve it, is that so?” I asked myself. Then I chuckled. After I relax, I will return to tension, and then solve it from there? It’s strange. If the mind doesn’t return to the "tension" and forces itself to resolve this tension, it will feel that it has learned nothing.  That is, the mind will feel that it has not learned how to deal with a tense situation.  It’s like, now I can feel my mind saying, “No, I don’t think we have solved the problem of ‘How to Live in the Moment When in a Bad Mood’”.  The mind says, “This issue was not discussed, it was just transferred, ignored, skipped.”

 

Emma: 

Alright, child.  When your mind persists in this question, let me ask your mind, 

“Are you not asking me?”

“ Are you not asking a wiser being for guidance?”

“Don’t you want his answer?”

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Yes! I am consulting a higher wisdom. 

I am asking, “How to Live in the Moment When One is in a Bad Mood?”

Emma: 

Right, you are consulting me now, but once you have stated your question, are you not supposed to listen to me carefully? Would you like to listen? Otherwise, what is this dialogue good for?

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Okay, I am willing to listen to you.

Emma: 

Alright.  If you’d like to listen to me, then the "processing" on your part is finished, you would empty yourself and leave it to me now, wouldn’t you?  So, focus on me, next, what answer do you hear? And what do you feel?

ZHANG, Cheng: 

I hear you say, “Relax, child, just relax. And, I really feel a very kind smiling face, I feel that energy of relaxation. 

Then, I see my mind still resisting, and it wants to say, ‘But…... it seems that the problem has not been solved yet.’”

Emma: 

Dear child, now you must decide whether you continue to describe your question or you feel my answer.  And this answer contains not just words, but the energy behind it. But obviously you have experienced the fact: as long as you continue to describe your problem, you will not be listening, but as long as you listen, you will lose the problem you are trying to describe.

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Yes, but for the mind, "losing the described problem" solves no problem.

Emma: 

My dear child, what you say is still a description of the mind, isn’t it?

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Yes, it is.

Emma: 

Don’t you realize that as long as you describe your mind, you will immediately have feelings of anxiety that "the problem is not solved"?

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Yes, I do.

Emma: 

The frequency of this mind is different from the frequency you feel when you let go of yourself and listen to me, right?

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Right.  Now I am going to feel you…... Dear Emma, I love you…... I can feel a completely different frequency. Your part is like spring. If I stand by your side, I can instantly type these words with a smile. There is no problem at all here with you . It’s exactly the sense of lightness after shower, relieving fatigue of the day. Comfortable and brisk. Nothing on my mind.  Filled with joy, so I don't think of any problem at all.

Emma: 

What to do? My child, so could you tell? 

"Problems" cannot be solved,  either there’s a problem or there’s no problem. 

In the realm of the mind, if you always have a problem consciousness and describe the problem, think about it and explore it, you may think you are trying to solve it, but YOU ARE NOT. 

You have become "problem consciousness" itself. 

By describing it, you become it! 

The inherent quality of problem consciousness is the perception that the problem is not solved. 

You plan to describe the problem first, and then solve it, but NOTE here something subtle.  As you describe it, you become it! It's like when an actor plays the role of a depression victim, he must go into depression. You go into depression first, and then think in depression, do you think there will be a way out? In the same way, when you have feelings of anxiety and insist that this problem is a very reasonable problem and must be resolved, you are using logic to convince yourself to seize this feeling of anxiety.  This is what you are doing.

ZHANG, Cheng: 

So, dear Emma, how do we live in the moment when we are in a bad mood?

Emma: 

My dear, when you are in a bad mood, try to stop describing any problem, including “How to live in the moment?” because you are using this sentence to “describe” that you “do have” this problem, you “do have” this difficulty at the moment.  Then, my dear, the more you paint, the more things get darker.

 

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Let me give you an example. For instance, you just got scolded by someone, which provoked your uncomfortable feeling. If you haven’t read any book on spiritual development, then it’s quite alright. If you have read such a book, the following is how you would describe your discomfort in this moment, 

1. I was scolded. 

2. I cannot relax at this moment. I cannot live in the moment. This means that I have read the book, but I don’t really understand it. 

If you are just a reader, it’ll be okay. If you are a writer of spiritual growth books, then you would describe it, like 

1. I was scolded. 

2. It is true that I know nothing about living in the moment, or else why I live in unpleasant memories. 

3. I write spiritual growth books myself.  I get emotional easily, what should I teach others? I am a fake.

If you write spiritual growth books, it’s not the worst. 

In case you are once enlightened, then it would be even miserable. 

You may add a fourth stab, “What enlightenment am I enlightened to?”  

So you will become unhappier. Your description will make you feel heavier.

Emma: 

Dear children, asking is not a good way to solve problems.

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Haha, Emma, without perception, one may continue to ask, “Then what is a good way to solve problems?”

Emma: 

Ha! child, now you know this is a trap.

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Yes, now I am not even inclined to say, “So if I encounter problems in the future, I should…....”

Emma: 

Right.  When you talk about a "problem", you have already had a problem consciousness, in which there is no way to get rid of it. The best way to enjoy life is not to see the status quo as a problem.

ZHANG, Cheng: 

If I am in debt, I would have to work hard to repay the debt every day.  But I don't want to live this way. Isn't that a problem? How can we not see this suffering as a problem?

Emma: My dear child, a very good question.  But would you like to enter me and first feel how I see it.

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Dear Emma, I got an amazing answer. I found that my whole existence only says one sentence, “I HAVE NO DEBT!”

 

Emma: 

Dear child, when you enter me––––that is, your great essence; your deeper nature––––you will know well that “I HAVE NO DEBT”. Your existence; your true essence has no debt.  It has only deep peace, which has nothing to do with it all.  You have no debt at all. Do you know…...  Simply knowing deeply that you are not in debt is a great emotional release. And if a person can often enter his great essence—––that is, his divinity, then God will begin to lead how he pays off his debt in the material world. Your mind can never think of these ways and rhythms, in which a "blissful debt-paying life" emerges.

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Haha! “A blissful debt-paying life” is nearly beyond human imagination.

Emma: 

Yes, only God dares to think! In a situation you consider to be the most negative, God dares to have the most optimistic thoughts. Well, this is why God is God! So, why not join the kingdom of God? What will you lose?  What will be missing is just some “precious problems”!

ZHANG, Cheng: 

Dear Emma, thank you for your presence, I love you and I love myself, too.  

I celebrate and appreciate such vibrations.  

Dear Emma, thank you! My love.  Good night!