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Ancient
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The mind that lies and the witness
Our mind continually supports an internal dialogue through which it justifies with the thoughts, actions, feelings, and it is so skilled that it is capable, with his dialectic, to demonstrate everything and the opposite of everything. The task of consciousness is to somehow silence the mind when it becomes too intrusive in the sense of bringing us to inner conflicts that make us suffer.
Focus on consciousness we note that we can observe our thoughts we can be the silent Witness and, with attention, rest in it: aware of being conscious. Whatever we are doing we can observe it by creating a small shift that allow us not to be totally identified with it: we are the subject who observes silently without judging, who does not enter the conflict of thoughts that face each other in the mind.
It is silently in the Witness that we can find rest, as we fix our attention on the presence of consciousness we make it grow that this consciousness of consciousness expands: the Witness is you “tat tvam asi” That is you. Not born, without the beginning and without end, all the forces align with this center, motionless engine, everything finds its place, this is the doctor and medicine, the miracle becomes possible without effort, just let it happen, resting in itself themselves, in the Witness: the hierarchy has restored, the mind is enchanted by its presence, you enter the mental silence, from here we can ask for everything and get what is necessary for our life.
The exercises taken up in the article, by their nature, lead to creating an observer center that will bring the practitioner in contact with his own deep Self.
…. In 1904 Steiner publishes a collection of essays which, in the Italian edition, is titled initiation. How do knowledge of the upper worlds are achieved? ..
. I quote a step by way of effective final balance: ..In the last analysis, everything is resolved in the fact that man brings himself continually body, soul and spirit, but that he is clearly conscious only of his body, and not of his soul and spirit. Instead, the occultist becomes aware of his soul and spirit, as the usual man is of his body. This is the reason why it matters to feelings and thoughts the right direction, because then the right to perceive what is invisible in ordinary life is developed ...
... of the Steinerian school is Massimo Scaligero, author who has cultivated the study of western and eastern philosophy from a young age ... ...from Techniques of Inner Concentration. ..Thought, through which man dominates the world, is unknown to himself, because he is never aimed at himself… ... the existence of being (the matter) outside the conscience is, for Scaligero, the result of the formation of being by the conscience which, later, is free, assigning them autonomy. In reality, such is the strength of thought to be one with the world and to be its origin. Yet this awareness is precluded, because the thought to which we normally refer is not the original one, but the cerebral-dialectic one ...
OSHO – IT IS SUFFICENT TO BE WITNESS
I've always heard you say: “You stop doing. Observe ”. Later, long after, I heard you say that the mind should be the servant and not our master. It seems there is nothing more to do if not to observe. However, that question continues to rise: shouldn't you do anything else with this unruly servant, as well as being witness? There is nothing more to do with this unruly servant if not this: to be watching.
Apparently it seems too simple a solution for such a complicated problem. But this is part of the mysteries of existence. The problem is perhaps too complex, but the solution can be very simple. Observing, being witness, being aware seem elementary words to solve the entire complexity of the mind. An inheritance of millions of years, a tradition, conditioning, prejudices, how will they be able to disappear with simple observation? However, they disappear. As Gautama the Buddha always said, if the lights of your home are on, the thieves do not enter; Knowing that the owner is awake, given that the lights are reflected in the windows, from the doors, the thief judges inappropriate to enter. When, on the other hand, the lights are off, the thieves are attracted to the house: darkness is an irresistible invitation. And as Gautama the Buddha said, the same situation is true for your thoughts, your imaginations, your dreams, your anxieties, your whole mind ... ..
Now we know that we have a chosen: when the fear overlooks we can choose between repeating blindly and looking at each other. We can choose, as they said hundreds of years ago in the Upanishad, to be "the silent witness". And this choice makes all the difference in the world. The only observing as we repeat takes us out of the past. We are not passively reabsorbed in the usual vicious circle, but we look at it and live it consciously.
Many people carry out their work in a state of complete identification with an idea of themselves and use the role they play to confirm that sense of self and consequently seek confirmation of their identity. They try to use every situation and every relationship to confirm and consolidate a role, to satisfy an avid idea of self. The consequence of behavior like this is: suffering and making it suffer ... ..
... 3. It has been said of the appearance to be of the Father now it should be said that another aspect of the Father is consciousness. Being and consciousness are consubstantial in him. The Father gives his son as well as the existence also the ability to know. Therefore, revealing the mystery that lodges in our hearts means solving the enigma of the subject of knowledge, the enigma of the silent witness of the multiple show of objects, coarse and thin.
4. "... it is this self inside my heart, which is smaller than a grain of rice, a barley wheat, a mustard wheat, a mile grain, a core of a mile grain: this Same self that is inside my heart is larger than the earth, larger than the space, the bigger than the sky, larger than all the worlds (Chandogya Upanishad). ".......