Witness

99% of our suffering dissolves when we learn to observe our thoughts instead of believing them.
Who is the witness of the mind? Who observes this thought arise and depart, without clicking 'like' or getting lost in an endless thread of commentary?

The Witness of thought is not a thought, and cannot be known by thought.

Gracefully transcending the mind, rest as boundless living silence, then return refreshed for action. This is the value of meditation.

Pick up the intellect again and use it as a tool, but it doesn't use you.

Dispel a thousand thoughts like clouds in the blue sky of awareness. But keep one sparkling jewel in your heart, the sun of pure love.

The one who teaches you this transcendental art is truly your Friend.


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2 comments:

Mystic Meandering said...

"rest as boundless living silence, then return refreshed for action." Yes, I know this to be true, but I have utterly failed at this...

AKL said...

To know this, there must be some inner experience of it already there. I only can experience this directly because of the initiation of the spiritual teacher who taught me to transcend. Peace.