Peach

Good morning.

God morning to you.

I was thumbing through Aldous Huxley's

The Perennial Philosophy this morning and came across a gorgeous quote.

It says, sweet is the memory of Jesus giving true joys to the heart.

But sweeter beyond honey and all else is his presence.

And then he goes on to talk about the importance of practice.

Not just thinking about God, reading about God, but feeling, experiencing God.

And then immediately after that he goes on to talk about the importance of repeating the name.

And he says whether it's Jesus, like it was in this quote or Krishna or Buddha, repeating the name is very powerful practice across all religions, across all philosophies.

Take the name.

And I'm not going to talk to you about taking the name today. It's not Sunday.

It's a come a thing.

I will, however, invite you to invite the presence into your experience right now.

To invite your awareness of the presence because the presence has been here this whole time.

I've been talking this whole time you've been listening this whole time you've been simultaneously thinking about something else.

The presence is like Robert Adams said you don't have to try to make the mind silent to fill this because the mind doesn't really exist.

Says what appears to be the mind will disappear of its own volition and become silent.

And when you become quiet, like you're becoming now you're settling into that quiet.

When you abide here everything takes care of itself.

The thoughts about work about that problem or about that relationship they all get replaced by this presence in this moment.

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