cue to disidentify

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Chapter22.3

 

 

If you have the sensation that what is watching is located in the head or

chest, remember again that anything that you can watch cannot be what is

watching. This applies to any sense of a localized object, even to an

observer.  You may now have the sensation of receding away from all mental

objects towards an inner you,  which is sometimes described as being prior

to, or upstream from, all mental objects. Stay in this state until

involvement with thoughts recurs, then repeat the question and look again.

This state is one of stillness, peace, and fullness in which you are

disidentified from everything in manifestation.

 

If you still have the sense that there is an observer that is looking, ask, 

 

 

What is it that is aware of this observer?

 

 

and then look.  This will help you to recede even further.  

 

With practice, you will find that you stay in this state for longer and

longer periods before asking again. Eventually, you will be able to omit

asking, and simply look at what is looking. You may also begin to feel the

pull of the Self itself and, with more practice, the Self may pull you in

and hold you with little or no effort from you.  And finally, you may

realize that the Self is always what you are, and is always what you have

been.

 

Every incident of suffering is another cue to disidentify.  Whatever happens

or does not happen is never up to you, so the only thing that you can "do"

in any situation is to disidentify from it.  This will bring an immediate

but profound sense of silence and peace which will be irresistible

inspiration for continued disidentification. 

 

Disidentification may also be initiated simply by the reminder,

 

 

Go inward.

 

 

Go inward past all thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions, as far

as possible until you can see that none of the contents of the mind is you

or yours.  Then go still further and see that there is nothing there.  You

will then see that you are not an object.  You are not something you can see

or conceptualize.  While you are inward, you will be unmoved and untouched

by anything that happens in the body-mind or the world because you will be

identified with the unmovable and untouchable.

 

 

)))))Shawn