Eckhart Tolle explains how to access presence beyond thought and sensation. The present moment is a timeless space where events come and go. Presence is non-conceptual and only felt when you stop thinking.
The present moment is deeper than what happens in the present moment, because what happens changes continuously. But the essence of the present moment, that is a timeless space in which everything happens, it arises and it passes away all in that space of now. Can you become aware of this now? Not through what's going on, not through sense perceptions or thoughts, but can you get a sense, be aware of the presence, that presence, that is the now. And this is a realization that is totally non conceptual. In fact, if you are thinking, you cannot sense it. You have to let go of thinking. And then what remains is presence. The presence that is the essence of you, that is the essence of now. In other words, it's you.
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