The So, 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, right? 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, but I'm not gonna talk to you about taking the name today. It's not Sunday

It's become 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.

And like Robert Adams said, you don't have to try to make the mind silent to feel 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, only this presence, the silent presence exists.

Not work, not the problem, not the relationship, not even you.

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