Thoughts on Practicing the Presence
Marshall speaks after Night 8 of the 2018 Steps Vigil, June 2, 2018 | Thoughts on Practicing the Presence
Things that I presented the other night on Practicing the Presence is a practice that was given to me on a trip last fall. And it’s really something if you’ll practice it. But as in all things of this nature, it’s a little shaky when you begin. So you really have to find your way with it and not glorify it, not seek answers or revelations or personal significance out of it.
So I think I gave enough outline for it to be helpful, to be useful, if you seek to take it on. It was a new understanding for me. Even though I’d been practicing it already, it explained to me what I was doing, why it was working and how I could share it with others.
You can read the teaching on The Presence, which is a beautiful teaching. But then, how do you experience it using your perceptual abilities, how can you experience that if it’s all around you all the time? And the same in meditation—the space between your thoughts, the thoughts that come up and distract you and even dominate you—the space between them, if you focus on, the space gets bigger.
Yeah. It’s a good practice.
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“it’s a little shaky when you begin. So, you really have to find your way with it and not glorify it, not seek answers or revelations or personal significance out of it.” Thank you Marshall for these tips on this practice. I started it and it was shaky as in starting a new path without knowing where you are, what you are doing and where you are going. You are just taking one step into a new, strange territory. Since that first shaky experience I have ventured into that path again in moments during a day of mundanities in life. I feel like a fish who is just barely realizing that there is water that surrounds him…water, air, space, presence – once again I realize this step (fromSteps to Knowledge) that life is greater than I realize. Thank you Marshall for this practice.
“It was a new understanding for me. Even though I’d been practicing it already, it was, it explained to me what I was doing, why it was working and how I could share it with others.” Thank you, Marshall. My practice is my gift to you.