Dr Sophie Jayamaha

We go about our daily life without appreciating little things that can give us immense satisfaction and innocent pleasures in life. We dont have to do much, but only by noticing and appreciating them we can bring peace and happiness to our lives. How about making a habit of waking up to our senses feeling happy and contented everyday. To experience true and lasting happiness and contentment we need to be in touch with pure consciouness.  When we just notice the things that our senses capture without our own interpreatation or judgment we are in touch with pure conciouness. All we need to do is to pay attention to what we see, hear, smell, taste, touch and feel without naming or shaming, blaming or praising. Just noticing them and acknowledging them as they are, we become aware of the most magical and precious gift that we all have received as a human being, that is the ability to be aware of pure consciousness that we truly are. As I wake up or any time in the day

Being in the Presence is to be in this present moment. This seems and sounds very simple, yet we make it very complicated by adding our mental concepts of what it is into it. Every spiritual path has become religions over time because of the same reason. The original teaching spoken by the original spiritual teachers such as Buddha, Jesus and Mohamed used words to point towards that which cannot be explained by words. When we don't see what was pointed at we interpret the pointers as the ultimate point of enlightenment. When subsequent authors added their own interpretations to the timeless original pointers using metaphors and concepts of their times, the original teaching became distorted, leaving us with conflicts, contradictions and confusion. Experience of Being in the Presence cannot be explained in words, because words are limited to mental constructions. All mental constructs involve thoughts and Being in the Presence is beyond thought. It does not mean that being