Post by Figgles on Nov 30, 2017 3:15:12 GMT
“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”
― Osho
"Awakening is a shift in consciousness in which thinking and awareness are separate." Ekhart Tolle
This "space" (gap, separation) that both speak of , has really been capturing my attention lately, and it's something that is not so often specifically identified in nonduality talks....but yet, it is always nevertheless, indirectly referenced.
I've talked a lot about it myself in the recent discussion about seeing "I am" as foundational to all that appears in experience.
I think perhaps this might be a tad confusing to seekers. On one hand, the point "there is no actual separation" is being made, but on the other, the 'gap' between what sees appearances and what appears, is being acknowledged and even emphasized.
Just want to say for anyone who might be confused, that 'gap' is not itself indicative of actual separation......that which sees/witnesses and that which arises, still all one movement....but, they are 'different,' in an important way.
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”
― Osho
"Awakening is a shift in consciousness in which thinking and awareness are separate." Ekhart Tolle
This "space" (gap, separation) that both speak of , has really been capturing my attention lately, and it's something that is not so often specifically identified in nonduality talks....but yet, it is always nevertheless, indirectly referenced.
I've talked a lot about it myself in the recent discussion about seeing "I am" as foundational to all that appears in experience.
I think perhaps this might be a tad confusing to seekers. On one hand, the point "there is no actual separation" is being made, but on the other, the 'gap' between what sees appearances and what appears, is being acknowledged and even emphasized.
Just want to say for anyone who might be confused, that 'gap' is not itself indicative of actual separation......that which sees/witnesses and that which arises, still all one movement....but, they are 'different,' in an important way.
