Enza Vitam - Instant Presence: Allow Natural Meditation to Happen

PRAISE FOR INSTANT PRESENCE

This brilliant contribution to our modern understanding of authentic identity and Presence brings us to a new awareness of ourselves and our innate wholeness and completeness. Enzas personal awakening story, in the first few pages, is worth the price of admission. Enlightened wisdom is like an endangered natural resource today, which we overlook at our peril; lets join in exploring and developing our own innate transformational resources for a change.

LAMA SURYA DAS, author of Awakening the Buddha Within

This is a great offering to our appreciation of the genuine voice of Pure Presence. It brings us to a deep awareness of what it truly means to study and realize the Self and our intrinsic true nature as that which is already perfect, whole and complete. It is certainly worthy of your time and attention.

ZEN MASTER DENNIS GENPO MERZEL, author of Big Mind, Big Heart

Enzas book is a true book in that it continually brings the attention to what is the immediacy, the actuality right now, the uncontrived spontaneous naturalness. Being constantly reminded in various ways in every chapter that there is only life essence (awareness), the believed-in entity is seen to have no self-nature and not stand on its own. In this recognition the book has done its work and that is That.

SAILOR BOB ADAMSON, author of Whats Wrong with Right Now Unless You Think About It?

Enza writes in such a clear and down-to-earth way that it is almost impossible not to be able to relate to what she is pointing to. She describes how every child already knows their true nature and how simple it really is, and encourages the reader to check what is really true in their own experience rather than blindly believing what they have been taught since they have grown up. reading her wonderful book was just like drinking a nice cool drink that goes down so very easily. It is the validation that so many people are longing to hear.

UNMANI LIZA HYDE, author of Die to Love

To Awareness,
the only reality living through everything
as everything
and to you, dear reader,
may you realize your already existing freedom

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I offer heartfelt thanks to my partner, Leo. Without your encouragement, this book would never have happened.

Thanks also to Shanti Einolander for your loving and very patient editing. Thank you for your invaluable suggestions and feedback that helped to turn a bunch of notes I had been writing and collecting over the years into a book.

Finally, I offer a deep bow of love and gratitude to all the amazing teachers who have guided and inspired me on my path. I owe you a huge debt of gratitude and every day I offer all that is bright and joyful in my life at your feet, because without you, I would never have had the ability to appreciate it and recognize it.

FOREWORD

by Lama Surya Das

The inherent freedom and completeness of authentic being is the radiant, beating heart of our Tibetan Dzogchen lineage. Enza well knows this way of being and how it expresses and manifests itself as naturalness and spontaneous doing without pushing, striving or resistance and inhibition. We say that nownessawareness, or the immediacy of pure presence (of Mind, of Self), is the heart-essence of enlightenment, the innate wakefulness at the centre of our existence, even in sleep or coma.

To awaken to this makes all the difference, and liberates oneself on the spot. awaken from what? awaken from illusion, confusion and delusion; realizing autonomy within interconnectedness, not just a teenagers half-baked idea of independence and freedom. as if carrying ones own atmosphere wherever one goes and whatever happens, its a complete paradigm shift, a figure-ground turnaround from the small self to the supreme Self, from small thinking mind to non-conceptual Buddha-mind; from feeling like a mere cog in the wheel or a grain of sand in the universe, to the already complete and perfect wholeness and completion we call in Tibetan, The Natural Great Perfection that luminous primordial awareness directly intuiting that all is complete as it is and should and must be.

The hevajra Tantra scripture of Vajrayana (tantric) Buddhism spells it out: We are all Buddhas by nature. It is only adventitious obscurations which veil that fact. The sole task is to awaken to who and what we truly are. This is the essence of enlightenment and the luminous, numinous heart of the Dharma.

Enzas personal awakening story is worth the price of admission. Enlightened wisdom is like an endangered natural resource today, which we overlook at our peril; lets join in exploring our true identity and developing our own innate transformational resources for a change. When I become clearer, everything becomes clearer. This great work unveils this profound understanding, as well as how to penetrate it and integrate it into daily life.

I myself had long wondered if enlightenment or total wakefulness was real or even possible. Is there a there there, and where and what could it be like? Who knows, actualizes and genuinely embodies this sublime truth, this universal gnosis or transcendental wisdom woven throughout the mystical traditions of the perennial philosophy? It turns out to be truer than I could have conceived. anyone can become awakened, and even enlightened, similar to what the historical teacher named Buddha realized, as well as sages throughout the ages. There is a there there, and it is right here! Who knew? Being (t)here while getting there is the heart of the secret wrapped in a koan inside a mystery, which only the beyond-conceptual mind can penetrate.

Pre-eminent Zen master of Japan, hakuin, long ago sang:

This land where we stand is the Pure Land, paradise; this body the body of Buddha.

He dont mean Japan, or his body, but yours, mine, ours. Wake up, help yourself. Live authentically.

INTRODUCTION

I sit here looking out, filled with an emptiness that spills over and keeps on spilling. There is no end to this boundlessness, this delicious thrill of Presence.

Nothing can contain it, for everything is contained within it. The good and the bad, the black and the white, the harsh and the gentle simply flavours of Its passage.

Here, here, always here. So simple, so immediate. This is always here.

Call it whatever you will. In truth, This has no name. Too exquisite to speak of, too delicate to touch, delicious, tender, yet so very solid, vast, fathomless.

All that exists comes out of This. All that exists returns to This. No one owns This, yet everyone belongs to This.

This endless well of delight was first revealed to me in 2007, when the imaginary shell containing what I thought I was broke open, revealing what had always been here.

I had always believed I was this concrete separate entity called Enza, living in a big old world, and now the world was in me. I was literally filled with the world, which included the bodymind called Enza.

All ideas about higher or lower selves, all the inner debates about practice or no practice, enlightenment or non-enlightenment, were gone. Now there was only