Yoga of Radiant Presence
Yoga of Radiant Presence with Peter Brown
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You Are This: The Certainty of Radiant Presence
A Talk from the Retreat of March 23, 2020
We’re here to explore the yoga of radiant presence.
Radiant presence is reality.
Radiant presence is this immediate actuality – right here, right now.
Comprehensive. It’s what is.
Ordinarily, the presence of your reality may seem very complex.
It may seem to be you. It may seem to be your world, your body, your personality, other people, other things –
a vast array of conditions and things that appear separate from each other.
But in actual fact, there’s only one thing present:
This radiant presence – this reality right here – is the one thing that is.
Its nature is peculiar, because it seems to be all these different things.
It seems so complex, with many implications, many situations, many problems.
But that complexity is only how it’s interpreted by intelligence.
In truth, it is one thing.
One system.
One being.
And this being is you.
This being is God.
This being is the Atman.
This being is reality.
And it is nothing other than this – right here, right now.
So, there is a process of being with this, exploring this, discovering that it is not the complexity we think it is.
It is not the partialization we assume.
You are not the limited being you may be used to imagining.
By exploring the present actuality of experience, right here, right now,
you discover this one condition – this radiant presence –
this is what is present, this is what you are.
And as you discover this, the implications of what’s occurring – of what you are – change drastically.
We’re all familiar with the normal human worldview:
You are a limited person in a vast environment,
in a more or less precarious position,
struggling to survive, to succeed, to be happy, to secure your needs.
Right now, we seem to be in a precarious social situation.
People are uncertain about what’s going to happen,
unsettled by implications and possible problems.
But the implication of radiant presence is one of eternal fullness, richness, completeness, meaningfulness, profundity –
Beyond space and time.
And this is the actuality that is here.
This is what you are.
As you discover this through your own exploration,
you come to appreciate – and enjoy – the lusciousness of this implication,
by contrast with the paltriness of personal identity and consensus reality.
And the beautiful thing is:
you get to have your cake and eat it too.
You don’t lose your human personality.
You don’t lose your life.
You don’t lose your identification.
But you discover that all these are partialized modes
within this transcendental completeness that is actually present –
modes through which it expresses itself.
So –
Feel your being.
You are.
This is – right here, right now.
Feel this.
Notice that you are feeling it.
Notice that you cannot not feel it.
You know this is.
You know you are.
Feel this knowing.
Feel its richness, its certainty.
This is undeniable.
It is self-verifying.
It doesn’t depend on belief.
It doesn’t depend on ideas.
This is certainty.
Notice that you know this.
That you feel this.
That you are this.
That’s the implication:
What does it feel like?
What does being feel like?
What does your presence feel like?
It’s comprehensive.
It includes everything.
It supports everything.
Being supports you.
Being supports your world.
Being supports itself –
and yet, it is supported by nothing.
By nothing.
Being seems simple – we take it for granted.
We know we are, but we don’t attend to it.
It seems boring, hidden, uninteresting.
But in fact, it’s the other way around.
Being is the most important thing.
Being is fullness.
Being is richness.
Being is what everything is,
and where everything comes from.
It’s what you are.
It’s what your intelligence is.
It’s what your power is.
It’s what your functionality is –
just simply this being, right here.
And the way that’s so is known directly:
by feeling it.
By exploring it.
It will show you what it is.
It will show you how it is what it is.
Radiant presence is a very strange condition.
Unlike anything we are used to thinking of.
It is one thing – completely and entirely itself –
yet infinitely differentiated within itself.
But those differentiations don’t depart from it.
They don’t add to it or subtract from it.
They are flavors of apparition,
occurring within it as its expression, as its being.
But in itself, it is unaffected by what appears within it.
This is very difficult to think about.
It’s paradoxical.
It’s unthinkable.
Illogical.
Irrational.
But it doesn’t need to be conceived.
Simply feel it.
And you will have it for yourself –
the way that this is so.