philuk
04-17-2005, 12:28 PM
Nice passage I read today,
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" The mind is bound to raise this question sooner or later, because the mind is very afraid of your becoming a witness. Why is the mind so afraid of your becoming a witness? – because your becoming a witness is the death of the mind.
The mind is a doer, it wants to do things, and witnessing is a state of nondoing.
The mind is afraid that, "If you become a witness, I will not be needed anymore."
And in a way the mind is right.... Once the witness arises in you the mind has to disappear, just as if you bring light into your room and the darkness has to disappear; it is inevitable. The mind can exist only if you remain fast asleep, because the mind is a state of dreaming, and dreams can exist only in sleep.
By becoming a witness you are no longer asleep, you are awake.
You become awareness – so crystal-clear, so young and fresh, so vital and potent. You become a flame – intense, burning from both the ends...as if, in that state of intensity, light, consciousness, the mind dies, the mind commits suicide. Hence the mind is afraid."
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" The mind is bound to raise this question sooner or later, because the mind is very afraid of your becoming a witness. Why is the mind so afraid of your becoming a witness? – because your becoming a witness is the death of the mind.
The mind is a doer, it wants to do things, and witnessing is a state of nondoing.
The mind is afraid that, "If you become a witness, I will not be needed anymore."
And in a way the mind is right.... Once the witness arises in you the mind has to disappear, just as if you bring light into your room and the darkness has to disappear; it is inevitable. The mind can exist only if you remain fast asleep, because the mind is a state of dreaming, and dreams can exist only in sleep.
By becoming a witness you are no longer asleep, you are awake.
You become awareness – so crystal-clear, so young and fresh, so vital and potent. You become a flame – intense, burning from both the ends...as if, in that state of intensity, light, consciousness, the mind dies, the mind commits suicide. Hence the mind is afraid."