OSHO TEACHES THE KNACK OF WITNESSING....
Osho Joy of meditation
OSHO TEACHES THE KNACK OF WITNESSING. MAKE THE ARROW OF CONSCIOUSNESS "DOUBLE" - ONE TOWARDS THE OBSERVER & OTHER TOWARDS THE OBSERVED...... & THEN YOU BECOME THE THIRD, THE WITNESS….
“ Begin trying this experiment. You are looking.... You are sitting near a tree, you are looking at it. Then gradually, continuing to look at the tree, begin to see that one who is looking at the tree -- just a little adjustment.
Ordinarily the arrow of consciousness moves towards the tree. Let this arrow move in both directions. Let it bear fruit in both directions -- it should see the tree and at the same time try to see the one who is seeing. Do not forget the seer.
Catch the seer more and more. You will miss again and again -- it is an old habit of many lives. You will miss, but try to catch the one who sees again and again.
Experience transforms, the taste transforms.
You are listening to me here.... One can listen in two ways. While listening, if your attention is fixed only on what I am saying, and you forget yourself, then you are not an observer, not a listener, not witnessing what you hear. Your attention gets stuck on me and you become a spectator. You can become a spectator not only with the eyes, but with the ears also. Whenever your attention gets stuck on the object you become a spectator.
While listening, listen to me and at the same time keep looking at that one too, catch hold of him, keep touching him -- that one who is listening.
Certainly you are listening, I am speaking. But don't notice only the speaker, keep track of the listener too. Remember him again and again continuously.
These are statements of consciousness. These are words of another world. When you listen in sleep, you will weave dreams around these words.
Think about it. You are listening to me. As you go on listening, listen also to the one who is listening. Let the arrow be double: towards me and towards you also.
Catch the seer more and more. You will miss again and again -- it is an old habit of many lives. You will miss, but try to catch the one who sees again and again.
And as the seer comes into your grasp, sometimes only for a moment -- in that moment you will feel an emergence of unknown peace.
A blessing has rained down. An auspicious ray has descended. If it happens like that for a moment, in that moment you will enjoy the ecstasy of liberation.
And this ecstasy will transform the flavour of your life, change the flow of your life. Words are not able to change your life stream, scriptures do not transform.
Experience transforms, the taste transforms.
You are listening to me here.... One can listen in two ways. While listening, if your attention is fixed only on what I am saying, and you forget yourself, then you are not an observer, not a listener, not witnessing what you hear. Your attention gets stuck on me and you become a spectator. You can become a spectator not only with the eyes, but with the ears also. Whenever your attention gets stuck on the object you become a spectator.
While listening, listen to me and at the same time keep looking at that one too, catch hold of him, keep touching him -- that one who is listening.
Certainly you are listening, I am speaking. But don't notice only the speaker, keep track of the listener too. Remember him again and again continuously.
Gradually you will find that the moments you were in touch with the listener are the only moments you heard me; the rest is useless.
When you listen in touch with the one who is listening then you will hear exactly what I am saying.
And when you listen out of touch with the one who is listening then who knows what all you will hear; something neither Ashtavakra nor I have said. Then your mind will weave all sorts of webs. You are unconscious: in unconsciousness how can you understand words of consciousness?
These are statements of consciousness. These are words of another world. When you listen in sleep, you will weave dreams around these words.
You will spoil the colour of these statements. You will cover them over with cow dung mix. You will stretch their meanings in your own way. You will comment on them, and in your very commentary these very unique words will become corpses. Your hands will touch only Ashtavakra's corpse -- you will miss the living Ashtavakra, because to touch the living Ashtavakra you will have to touch your observer. There is the living Ashtavakra.
Think about it. You are listening to me. As you go on listening, listen also to the one who is listening. Let the arrow be double: towards me and towards you also.
There is no harm if you forget me, but you should not be forgotten.
And a moment comes when neither you remain nor I remain... a moment of such deep peace, when two do not remain, only one remains.
You are the one speaking, you are the one listening. You are the one seeing, you are the one being seen. This is the moment that Ashtavakra is indicating: "... the one observer of all, and in reality always free."
OSHO
BOOK - MAHAGEETA (VOLUME 1) , CHAPTER # 3 , CHAPTER TITLE - THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL , DATE - 13 SEPTEMBER 1976 MORNING , PLACE - GAUTAM BUDDHA AUDITORIUM, PUNE, INDIA
“ Realise your otherness from the passing thoughts and events .
Thus , exhaust all your karmas by being a witness ,
in the state of equanimity . “
WU CHING
BOOK - MAHAGEETA (VOLUME 1) , CHAPTER # 3 , CHAPTER TITLE - THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL , DATE - 13 SEPTEMBER 1976 MORNING , PLACE - GAUTAM BUDDHA AUDITORIUM, PUNE, INDIA
“ Realise your otherness from the passing thoughts and events .
Thus , exhaust all your karmas by being a witness ,
in the state of equanimity . “
WU CHING
The commentary on Ashtavakra's sutra by Osho contains profound understanding about witnessing. Osho has explained the sutra in a very simple words. Thank you for posting the commentary.
ReplyDeleteExtraordinary and unparalleled Osho insight! Only this much droplet about double arrowed consciousness by Osho contains an ocean inside it. Bow to you Master of Masters!
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