RE : Witnessing

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--- pliantheart <illusyn a écrit :

 

 

 

 

A spiritual practice recommended by many such as

Nisargadatta

is one of constant " witnessing " , as in:

 

M: Discover all you are not. Body, feelings,

thoughts, ideas,

time, space, being and not-being, this or that --

nothing

concrete or abstract you can point out to is you. A

mere verbal

statement will not do -- you may repeat a formula

endlessly

without any result whatsoever. You must watch

yourself

continuously -- particularly your mind -- moment by

moment,

missing nothing. This witnessing is essential for

the

separation of the self from the not-self.

 

Q: The witnessing -- is it not my real nature?

 

M: For witnessing, there must be something else to

witness. We

are still in duality!

 

Q: What about witnessing the witness? Awareness of

awareness?

 

M: Putting words together will not take you far. Go

within and

discover what you are not. Nothing else matters.

 

 

The beauty of witnessing as a practice is how it

brings home

the fact that all happens by itself. In " witnessing "

there is

no effort to *do* anything, just to witness whatever

unfolds.

When this practice is actually carried out it is

observed that

the many " doings " , the many activities and behaviors,

continue

to arise and fall away of their own. A conscious

effort by a

" doer " behind the scenes is not necessary.

 

To see this is very freeing. For it is the beginning

of realization

that all unfolds as of its own within Emptiness. All

is mere

appearance within the sphere of awareness.

 

To hear that idea is one thing. But to undertake

witnessing and

actually " taste " the spontaneous arising and falling

away of

behavior is quite another.

 

And that is freedom in its most fundamental sense. To

see that

there is no doer, that there never has been a doer.

 

Talk about non-action, non-doing can be a bit

misleading. It can

seem to be saying that it is best to " practice

non-action " . But

the practice of witnessing shows that non-action,

non-doing is

ever and always the case. The difference is not in

*ceasing* to

do, to act, but in *realizing* that there never has

been any doing

or action.

 

Bill

 

 

 

aaahaaa..

that unbearable lightness of being.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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