From a friend.

The Present Moment

All that is, abides right now

This will always be true

Unending and unchanging

Life is one unending here

This is its true unchanging nature

Yet perceptions and conceptions made in the now

each are subject to transformation, change and end

And still yet likewise they permanently abide

Since at all times they are in the now

What is perceived and (appears to be) changing is

Nothing more than a dream within a dream

When one sees beyond conditions

One sees what is truly real

The Buddha’s made the path to enlightenment

As a vehicle or a raft used to perceive the path

Yet even these perceptions must be abandoned

When one has successfully crossed the stream

This is all just one complete whole

We are all together always in this now

To perceive this point is to practice directly seeing the truth

The path, the practice, the attainments and perfections

Are not to be perceived or acquired

Succeeding in doing so

One has truly achieved them

Perceptions, conceptions, discriminations and volitions

Are styed as various, different and many,

yet these in truth are always one complete whole

Letting the mind settle on this one now

One sees the original truth of all things

And finds the root of the true nature of this one now

That which is the source of all things

That which is the source of all meanings

Perceiving the one complete whole

Is to practice directly perceiving enlightenment

That which is the original aim and goal

of all spiritual practice

Thank You