Hello my friends. Now isn't a moment in time that can be grasped and held.

Now is the rise and fall of awareness.

If you want to know who enforces the rules of virtual reality,

the clock is a good place to start. Once you identify with clock time your life passes in seconds, minutes and hours. Such an existence is mechanical and routine.

Breaking out of virtual reality now has to become a state of awareness,

not a slice of bread. When you wake up now. of awareness,

when you wake up now is a presence.

It is the unbroken experience of being here

and of being here now.

Experiencing this presence, you witness how the stream of consciousness delivers a sequence of fleeting sensations and perceptions.

When you are awake, you pay more attention to the presence of awareness

than to the fleeting events taking place in the mind.

Imagine that you're sitting on a commuter train looking out the window.

As the scenery rushes by, you don't see it by picking out each building, tree, car or person.

It's all just the passing scenery.

If you happen to notice something that stands out, it passes just as quickly

as the things you don't notice. Now instead of windows, substitute your eyes.

You are sitting behind.

You are sitting behind them watching the passing scenery.

When you adopt this position which is known as witnessing, you approximate for a moment what the permanent

state of being awake is like.