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- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AWARENESS AND WITNESSING? [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/newage-foundation/t/ff48c9281956e74e
- The Master Key - An Existential Learning Program By Indroneil [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/newage-foundation/t/1d2a59582d5fd0e8
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Topic: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AWARENESS AND WITNESSING?
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/newage-foundation/t/ff48c9281956e74e
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From: The NewAge Foundation <global.oneness@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 20 03:55PM +0530
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/newage-foundation/msg/33e81d5ff018bc1e
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A message to all members of The NewAge Foundation
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AWARENESS AND WITNESSING?
There is much difference between awareness and witnessing. Witnessing is
still an act; you are doing it, the ego is there. So the phenomenon of
witnessing is divided between the subject and the object. Witnessing is a
relationship between subject and object. Awareness is absolutely devoid of
any subjectivity or objectivity. There is no one who is witnessing in
awareness; there is no one who is being witnessed.
Awareness is a total act, integrated; the subject and the object are not
related in it; they are dissolved. So awareness doesn't mean that anyone is
aware, nor does it mean that anything is being attended to. Awareness is
total - total subjectivity and total objectivity as a single phenomenon -
while in witnessing a duality exists between subject and object. Awareness
is nondoing; witnessing implies a doer.
But through witnessing awareness is possible, because witnessing means that
it is a conscious act; it is an act, but conscious. You can do something and
be unconscious - our ordinary activity is unconscious activity - but if you
become conscious in it, it becomes witnessing. So from ordinary unconscious
activity to awareness there is a gap that can be filled by witnessing.
Witnessing is a technique, a method toward awareness. It is not awareness,
but, as compared to ordinary activity, unconscious activity, it is a higher
step. Something has changed: activity has become conscious, unconsciousness
has been replaced by consciousness. But something more still has to be
changed. That is, the activity has to be replaced by inactivity. That will
be the second step.
It is difficult to jump from ordinary, unconscious action into awareness. It
is possible but arduous, so a step in between is helpful. If one begins by
witnessing conscious activity, then the jump becomes easier - the jump into
awareness without any conscious object, without any conscious subject,
without any conscious activity at all. This doesn't mean that awareness
isn't consciousness; it is pure consciousness, but no one is conscious about
it. There is still a difference between consciousness and awareness.
Consciousness is a quality of your mind, but it is not your total mind.
Your mind can be both conscious and unconscious, but when you transcend your
mind, there is no unconsciousness and no corresponding consciousness. There
is awareness.
Awareness means that the total mind has become aware. Now the old mind is
not there, but there is the quality of being conscious. Awareness has become
the totality; the mind itself is now part of the awareness. We cannot say
that the mind is aware; we can only meaningfully say that the mind is
conscious.
Awareness means transcendence of the mind, so it is not the mind that is
aware. It is only through transcendence of the mind, through going beyond
mind, that awareness becomes possible.
Consciousness is a quality of the mind, awareness is the transcendence; it
is going beyond the mind. Mind, as such, is the medium of duality, so
consciousness can never transcend duality. It is always conscious of
something, and there is always someone who is conscious. So consciousness is
part and parcel of the mind, and mind, as such, is the source of all
duality, of all divisions, whether they are between subject and object,
activity or inactivity, consciousness or unconsciousness.
Every type of duality is mental. Awareness is nondual, so awareness means
the state of no mind.
Then what is the relationship between consciousness and witnessing?
Witnessing is a state, and consciousness is a means toward witnessing. If
you begin to be conscious, you achieve witnessing.
If you begin to be conscious of your acts, conscious of your day-to-day
happenings, conscious of everything that surrounds you, then you begin to
witness. Witnessing comes as a consequence of consciousness. You cannot
practice witnessing; you can only practice consciousness. Witnessing comes
as a consequence, as a shadow, as a result, as a byproduct.
The more you become conscious, the more you go into witnessing, the more you
come to be a witness. So consciousness is a method to achieve witnessing.
And the second step is that witnessing will become a method to achieve
awareness.
So these are the three steps: consciousness, witnessing, awareness. But
where we exist is the lowest rank: that is, in unconscious activity.
Unconscious activity is the state of our minds.
Through consciousness you can achieve witnessing, and through witnessing you
can achieve awareness, and through awareness you can achieve "no
achievement." Through awareness you can achieve all that is already
achieved. After awareness there is nothing; awareness is the end.
Awareness is the end of spiritual progress; unawareness is the beginning.
Unawareness means a state of material existence. So unawareness and
unconsciousness are not both the same.
Unawareness means matter. Matter is not unconscious; it is unaware. Animal
existence is an unconscious existence; human existence is a mind phenomenon
- ninety- nine percent unconscious and one percent conscious. This one
percent consciousness means you are one percent conscious of your
ninety-nine percent unconsciousness. But if you become conscious of your own
consciousness, then the one percent will go on increasing, and the ninety-
nine percent unconsciousness will go on decreasing.
If you become one hundred percent conscious, you become a witness, a sakshi.
If you become a sakshi, you have come to the jumping point from where the
jump into awareness becomes possible. In awareness you lose the witness and
only witnessing remains: you lose the doer, you lose the subjectivity, you
lose the egocentric consciousness. Then consciousness remains, without the
ego.
The circumference remains without the center. This circumference without the
center is awareness. Consciousness without any center, without any source,
without any motivation, without any source from which it comes - a "no
source"
Consciousness - is awareness. So you move from the unaware existence that is
matter, prakriti, towards awareness. You may call it the divine, the godly,
or whatever you choose to call it. Between matter and the divine, the
difference is always of consciousness.
*Osho : Meditation The Art of Ecstasy*
*<http://thenewagefoundation.org/events/the-master-key-workshop-by?xg_source=msg_mes_network>
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Topic: The Master Key - An Existential Learning Program By Indroneil
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/newage-foundation/t/1d2a59582d5fd0e8
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From: "The NewAge Foundation" <global.oneness@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 20 09:46AM +0530
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/newage-foundation/msg/2bc3ebaf3ea001e3
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