“Gently drop the sense of there being an observer in your subject of consciousness in order that: Your senses easy come up as themselves, wishes are skilled with out a desirer, conflicting vitality is just itself & concepts come up freed from an proprietor”
Expensive Integral Meditators,
In final weeks article I appeared on the distinction between single-pointedness & field-awareness. Within the article beneath we have a look at and distinguish two forms of field-awareness, the fundamental constructing towards a extra ‘superior’, richer, but in addition extra minimal place.
Fast heads-up; in addition to this months Monthly Qi Gong & Taoist Breathwork Clinic & Mini-retreat, I’ll even be doing a full-day Taoist Breathwork Day Meditation Retreat on June twenty fourth.
Within the spirit of dropping the observer,
Toby
Watching, then dropping the watcher
This brief article explains a technique to progress in your witnessing and observing meditation. It goals to point out you go from holding the position of the observer to then forgetting the observer and easily being that which arises, with no self observing.
These two levels are encapsulated fairly properly by this quote from the Hua Hu Ching chapter Ten (Brian Walker translation):
“Let the senses go.
Let wishes go.
Let conflicts go.
Let concepts go.
Let the fiction of life & demise go.
Simply stay within the centre, watching…
After which overlook you might be there”
Within the first half we arrange our fundamental commentary place; letting go of specific identification with our wishes, conflicts, concepts, senses and so forth, and easily watching them come and go. There might be motion, even loads of motion inside our consciousness, however we’re nonetheless meditating so long as we’re holding this central commentary place. As issues get calmer, we can be watching the interior area of our consciousness, like watching clear sky gradually emerge from clouds.
The primary stage is a meditation in and of itself, however as soon as we’ve got a sure diploma of competency, you may then ‘overlook you might be there’. What this implies is you gently drop the sense of there being an observer in our subject of consciousness in order that:
- Your senses come up as themselves
- Needs are skilled with out a desirer
- Conflicting vitality is just itself
- Concepts come up freed from an proprietor
That is fairly a radically totally different means of experiencing consciousness. In on a regular basis consciousness there’s at all times a way of observer and noticed, possessor and possessed, occasion and the experiencer of the occasion. By dropping the observer, we transfer right into a unitive, singular or non-dual state, the place the subject-object divide inside our thoughts collapses. We expertise issues straight, with out an ‘I’ getting in the way in which, interfering or judging. With this expertise we are able to then transfer fairly quickly and effortlessly into deeper meditation, as the primary impediment to that (the self!) drops away and stops getting in the way in which.
A ultimate quote from the musician Deuter on this course of that illustrates the expertise fairly properly:
“We sit collectively, the mountain & me,
Till solely the mountain stays”
This can be a meditation you are able to do informally whenever you journey, when resting or spending time with your self. Sitting meditation is simply part of it, and it actually comes into its personal after we play with it in day by day life.
Associated article: Dropping the self &
Integrating field awareness & single-pointedness in daily life
© Toby Ouvry 2023, you might be welcome to make use of or share this text, however please cite Toby because the supply and embody reference to his web site www.tobyouvry.com
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