Stillness Reflection # 5. Who Or What Is The Observer

This contemplative audio invites listeners into a direct exploration of the sense of being an inner “observer.” Through gentle non-dual pointing and spacious pauses, the talk encourages a fresh look at thoughts, emotions, and perceptions as they arise — helping listeners recognize how the feeling of a separate watcher may itself be another experience appearing in awareness.

Designed for meditation, quiet reflection, and open awareness practice, this track can support deeper presence, reduced mental over-identification, emotional ease, and a natural sense of inner stillness. Rather than offering techniques, it points toward simple seeing — allowing insight, clarity, and a more relaxed relationship with thoughts and the sense of self to unfold naturally.

Transcript

Who or what is the observer?

There can be a sense that something is watching.

Aware of thoughts,

Aware of feelings and emotions.

Aware of the movement of life.

It can seem as though there is an observer behind all perceiving,

Quietly witnessing all that appears.

But now pause for a moment and look discerningly.

Can a formless observer be found?

Thoughts arise and are known,

Sensations appear and are felt,

Sounds come and go within indivisible awareness.

Yet no separate watcher can be located.

For quiet observing is spontaneously happening.

Seeing without a seer,

Hearing without a hearer,

Experiencing without anything or anyone defining how it should be.

What is present is indivisible presence,

Clear,

Unconditional and spacious.

Not someone aware,

But awareness itself,

All embracing.

No distance between observer and observed,

No separation between life and knowing.

Just this moment as it is,

Appearing,

Experienced,

Perfect,

Timeless.

There is nothing to hold,

Nothing to become,

Only the quiet recognition that uncaused awareness,

The unknowable,

Is inseparably present.

May this simple seeing remain as a quiet openness where awareness is clear,

Life unfolds naturally,

Nothing needs to be added or removed within the natural unfolding of this moment.

End