If you sit in silence, what do you notice about the present moment?

It just is, it’s just there. All that exists in this moment is just Being, Is-ness, Nothingness.

There are no unfulfilled needs. Unfulfilled needs could only be a part of the ‘future.’ Right now everything is still and perfect.

There is no connection to the ‘past.’ Something may have happened prior, but right now is only right now.

What Eckhart and all other awakened mentors (back to Buddha at least) are calling you to notice is that now, the quality of it.

Notice how it has no needs. Notice how it is ultimate peace. Notice how, right now, there is no judgment, literally no room for judgment, about ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ about how things could be different or ‘better.’ There’s only what is. Judgments of ‘good,’ ‘bad,’ ‘different’ or ‘better’ could only exist in the future, even if it’s only one nanosecond into the future.

So we call you to notice that Primordial Peace and Just Is-ness of now. Noticing that has a profound, life-changing impact. Even if noticed only for a moment.

It’s like you have spent all your life running from room to room, searching for peace, and then one day you find a door that opens into the room called Now. You walk in and Peace surrounds you like 10,000 heavens, settles on you like 10,000 coats made of the softest fur. Even if you leave that room (you will,) and return to running from room to room again, you can never forget or deny what you felt in the Now.

Now, I could state some profound Absolute truths like,
-Now is all that exists, ‘past’ and ‘future’ are merely illusions, or
-Even Now doesn’t exist, even this moment called ‘The Present’ is a concept, an illusion, or
-Even the sense that there’s really a “you” that experiences these three time-concepts, ‘past,’ ‘present’ and ‘future’ is an illusion, or
-Thoughts and visions are (as you may have noticed) merely rising & falling phenomena, always changing, and not who you really are, and should therefore not be believed, be given no credence whatsoever.

But that would only try to pacify the intellect, the mind, the very mind that you are not, and that keeps you running from room to room.

You asked for a practical answer - how to practice.

So I’ll tell you.

Enter that Room of Peace, of Now, just once. Sit in silence and notice that, right now, not one nanosecond later or prior, right now, you need for nothing. Everything is perfect. There is only peace. You’re not even thinking about fulfillment, because in this right now, everything already feels completely full. In this right now, you are not even thinking at all. Because thinking takes time, requires the passage of ‘time.’ And here, there is only right now.

Stay there as long as you can. When your mind starts up again (it will,) taking into the ‘future’ or ‘past,’ taking you into the ceaseless opening of all the other doors into other rooms, the moment you notice that, remember the peace of that Now room and come back to it. Indeed, the moment you noticed, you were already back there. Because ‘when’ did you notice it? Now!

Rinse and repeat. The same moment of dwelling in the Now, then forgetting and feeling restless to visit other rooms, then thoughts & visions churning, then remembering the profound, completely-fulfilled peace of that Now room, a room so already-perfect you don’t have a word for it except maybe God, then letting go of all thoughts, visions, pasts and futures, back into pure Now.

This is your practice. It actually works. Don’t question it…try to prove me wrong. Just do it, every day, as many times a day as you remember, but at least in two formal sittings every day. Some people call this ‘meditation,’ but it doesn’t matter what we call it. Just do it, and report back in 6 months. I promise you, the person who reports back will not be the same person reading this Now :-)