Can I feel inside my hand?It's a really... I've never...-Sense your hand.-I've never...I've never tried to do this.Okay. We're gonna try it right now.Okay, so sense your hand.Sense your index finger from the inside.Index. That's pinkie.Okay.-Yeah, it's kind of warm.-Yeah.Warm and what else?Numb. I don't know. Warm and numb.-Numb?-I don't know if numb is the right word.It just feels like an energy, you know.Yeah, you're right. See if you can senseyour whole hand from the insidein the same way.Take your time.If you've never done this before,it's hard.Yeah, I can feel something in there.Like...You do?Let it just...Gently let your attention go up your arm.Yeah.See if you can sense your whole armfrom the inside.Yeah, it feels like there's wolvesrunning in my arm.Oh. It does not.See if you can sense both of your armsat the same time from the inside.Yeah, I could do that.And if you can do that, add your legs,so that you can sense your armsand your legs at the same timefrom the inside.Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, I can do that.That...is presence.That's weird.-I've never done that before. It's weird.-That's presence.And what you're doingis you're not in your mind.This gets you out of your mind.You are not mediating your senseof your arms and legs through your mind.Through your mind. Mental.So that's a way to get out of your head.That's what you can do immediatelywhen you're on the side of the riverbeing nibbled by weasels and bees.And so the next thingyou can do, Duncan...Yes?...is, while you are sensingyour arms and your legs simultaneously...Yes....add two more facets.Look. Sense your arms and legs and look.-Look at what?-Whatever you see.Just let it come to you.-Don't search it out.-Okay.Just take in what you see.It's a bee with a thousand eyes and horns,-holding a dagger covered in pentagrams.-If you're on the side of the river,what else could it be?-You know...-Wait a minute. There's one more piece.Go ahead.And listen.So you sense your arms and legs...you look and you listen,all at the same time.Three things you're doing.Yeah, I get it. It gives youa kind of clarity. It kind of...It gives you clarityand it takes you into a slightly differentdimension of consciousness.It's quite different, actually.It is quite different.Because I've got a microphone in my face,it's hard for me to do what I would...Like if I was really sitting by myself...But I think that this recipefor a meditative exercise is awesome.Well, what it does is it allows youto get into presence without a teacherand without a penny to your name.-Yes.-And even as you are in that...um, state of presence...if you are in it, even for a minute,if you can stay in it for a minute,you will begin to sense the flow...-Right.-...of energy.You will sense that there is a river,because a lot of peopleon the side of the riverdon't even realize there's a river.Right.-So...-What's the river?It's reality, with its...flowing dynamism.

there's things in the 10th Century in what we think of as now as broadly Western and Central Europe 01:13:46 that are beginning to show up particularly in art and architecture and poetry and music not an accident the musician we know that artists are often people who sense 01:13:59 things and are ahead of a culture they give the first articulation to a set of ideas and so if you today if next time you're in Ottawa I invite you to go to the 01:14:10 National Gallery because the National Gallery in Ottawa has one of the world's best collections of European northern European art and it starts about 1300 01:14:22 there's some before that but their collections of that's old enough to get you into it and it works through historically as you work through the rooms and at least it used to last time I brought it was there it brought you 01:14:36 out into a post-modern into postmodern art as if what's beyond what we think of as Modern Art uh into post-modern art

You are correct, Paul. All of you is always present, and all of you is always functioning in the Omnipresent Now. There is no such thing as progress on a time line, in the sense of moving from a point in the present to another point in the future. Nevertheless, there is the nonspatial Omnipresent Unfolding of Being.