‘Aware of the PercepHon’ or ‘Witnessing the PercepHon’ are the same thing.
The awareing and witnessing are the same - anything with qualities (including the witness) is experience, and the mind cannot judge truth; when you don't believe thoughts, awareness is instantly clear.
In the two statements, You are aware of your percepSons, and the statement- You witness your experience, how is heard differently?
[ Chuckles] Maybe its more of an idea or the fact… lets see…yeah it's more an idea that something should happen and the witness should be more even more apparent or something like that it's it's just an a kind of idea not
Your not witnessing enough, you need to become more witness! [Chuckles] you should see the witness as if it is something is it? But that will also become an experience which you will witness. Anything with a quality, a shape, you see, anything with any size, Hme, duraHon and anything with a quality is phenomenal. So that is the experience or the percepHon. So now when you say, Awareness or Witness of… it’s the same thing. You are aware of the percepHon or you are witnessing the percepHon. How do you know you have to solve this?
It's just a thought, just exposing father that and this also has the same answer i know but i want just to say it so, I keep leaving my inquiry too quickly you know because but it's just nonsense, nonsense
Either leave it instantly or do it for a long Hme
sorry
either leave it instantly or do it for a long Hme
what do you mean uh do we do it for a long Hme
like instant is clear
yeah yeah
then you don't need to know about long Hme
because you know there is this idea that they should they should sit more and they should sit more with this and and this insight is so clear and something is saying ‘yeah, okay, got it.’
Other moments when it is not so clear, what is happening?
‘Yeah, you see, it’s not clear!’
[Laughing] Just thoughts, belief in thoughts. Try to make the insight that you are aware unclear without believing a thought. Make it unclear- that you are aware, without buying into a thought
yes that's impossible
That’s it. How much Hme does it take to say it is impossible?
this is before Hme
so the instrument called the mind cannot make a true judgment about your life and anything in your life and the only trouble is in the instrument called the mind. Now if this was the only device in your room like i called it alexa before, so if this was the only device in your room then we would say we are in trouble because it's a faulty device. But you have device which tells you the truth also so there is no trouble in staying with that in fact when you are not going to the false the truth is fully apparent and it's in operaHon.
Yeah that's analogy that you share that uh mind can't understand, you can never understand you will never understand with the mind and what is apparent is always apparent and it's and when you are confused, somehow you are going you're using the wrong instrument.
Where you don't know, you can never know. And where you do know , you can never not know. its only a quesHon of using the right instrument. But a liZle bit of struggle is on because we are trying to squeeze this into the wrong instrument, you see, we're trying to get the thermometer to operate like the measuring tape. We can't do it.
Key Teachings
- 'Aware of perception' and 'witnessing' are the same thing - no different state to achieve
- Anything with quality, shape, time or duration is phenomenal (experience), including the witness itself
- The mind is a faulty instrument that cannot make true judgments; truth is fully apparent when not going to the false
- You ARE aware - it's impossible to make 'you are aware' unclear without believing a thought
- Either leave inquiry instantly or do it a long time - if clear, it's clear; if not clear, thinking more won't help
From: Suffering Is To Be Closed, To Resist; Open and Empty Is the Absence of Suffering - 12th April 2021