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In Emacs, you can find the position of the cursor (also known as the point) by looking at the bottom of the screen or in the mode line. The cursor position is displayed in two formats:

1. Absolute position: This shows the exact position of the cursor in the buffer or file. To view the absolute position, look at the bottom-left corner of the screen, where the mode line displays the current buffer and line number. The cursor position is shown in the form of "(line, column)".

2. Relative position: This shows the position of the cursor relative to some reference point. To view the relative position, look at the bottom-right corner of the screen, where the mode line displays information about the current buffer and cursor position. The cursor position is shown in the form of "column / total columns", where "column" is the current column number and "total columns" is the total number of columns in the buffer or file.