Through timeless presence, we also increase the possibility to awaken to and work with the content of our experience, especially our suffering, the suffering of others, and the suffering of the world. As we said before, what arises in experience isn’t prohibitive to presence. We simply cultivate letting experience be, and when we do so, we more experience what’s arising more directly and intimately, and so, we feel it all more deeply. Ajahn Chah’s final line from the above poem summarizes this perfectly: