Let's do a self-exploration on I Am That,
Chapter 6.
Let's explore how the unconscious dissolves when brought into the conscious.
Let's sit comfortably.
The purpose of this self-exploration meditation is to become conscious of our inner life.
So let's look within.
Take a step beyond the mind,
Beyond the sound of these words,
Being a witness simply to the sound,
Being a witness simply to the thoughts arising and falling in the mind,
Being a witness to the body sitting still.
You remain steady in the seat of the witness.
Just be.
From the seat of the witness,
Watch the film of the body-mind,
Unconcerned,
Untouched,
Simply knowing,
Simply perceiving whatever is arising without labeling,
Perceive whatever arises without prejudice,
Without referring to prior concepts,
Without resorting to prior conditioning.
Watch every thought,
Feeling,
Sensation,
And perception without a sense of ownership.
Sit back quietly and be the seer.
Do not get entangled in the scene.
When we simply watch the arising thoughts from a distance,
We discover hidden cravings and aversions arise from the unconscious into the conscious.
Let them arise.
Don't hold on to them.
Don't identify with them.
Simply be a witness to them.
Whatever weaknesses or vices you discover,
Let them be.
They are not mine.
Do not indulge.
I am not the doer.
I am not the experiencer.
I am simply the knower of this arising.
We overcome weaknesses simply by their very knowing.
The unconscious dissolves when brought into the conscious.
Sit in silence for the next few minutes and let the dissolution happen.
The unconscious dissolves when brought into the conscious.
Let the dissolution happen in silence.
By silently watching the influence of the arisings on you and in you,
Their grip will lessen.
By silently watching them in operation,
Their grip will lessen.
The dissolution of the unconscious releases energy.
This energy makes the mind quiet.
When the mind is quiet,
We come to know ourselves as the pure witness.
Leave the mind alone.
It will quieten itself.
Stand apart from it.
Withdraw from the experience and its experiencer.
Stand apart in awareness as awareness.
Withdraw from the experience and its experiencer.
Let the personality that imagines I am this or I am that continue as part of the objective world,
But let its identification with the witness snap.
Let the personality that imagines I am this or I am that continue as part of the objective world,
But let its identification with the witness snap.
Slowly open your eyes and look around.
Let the witness remain separate from the body-mind personality that is looking around.
Continue witnessing as you move through the day.
Watch the expression of the arisings in your thoughts,
Words and deeds.
Keep watching.
Keep witnessing.
Do not indulge.
In indulgence,
There is a going out towards the objects.
In witnessing,
There is just a staying back and letting the perception come to you.
Receive,
But keep nothing.
Gradually,
Their grip on you will lessen and the clear light of sattva will emerge.
This is true meditation.
Doing nothing.
Just being.
I am nothing.
I have nothing.
I am nothing.
