“Guruji,” a disciple asked his master, “I want to be as enlightened as you. What is something that you do that could help me get there?”
The master replied with ease, “When I’m hungry, I eat. When I am meditating, I am there. When I’m sleepy, I sleep.”
Perplexed, the disciple asked respectfully, “That is what I do too, how is it different?”
“When I’m eating, I’m only eating food, not thinking about the next task for the morning or the next meeting,” the Guru explained.
“I’m focused right there, neither in the past, nor in the future.”
Presence is the present of the present.
“Be here now.” – Ram Dass