The Power of the Watcher

For the human being there is no higher awareness than the Witnessing Presence of the watcher.  

If you can see your thoughts, or feel your emotions, it is the evidence of the Light of Awareness within you. It is evidence of the beginning of salvation from the slavery of the mind and all of its entanglements.  

The mind can not see itself and remain intact, for Awareness shining Its Light on the mind exposes and begins to annihilate the ego which has taken over the mind. Of itself the ego-controlled mind seeks to avoid this kind of exposure in the same way that a vampire avoids the sunlight at all costs.

When the soul has suffered enough, when it is sick and tired of being sick and tired the way for the arising of Awareness comes, the doorway opens. Awareness IS the One and Only watcher, and is wholly (Holy) complete, containing within Itself depth without end.

The Light of Awareness and the Illusion of Separation

Woman: "The Holy Spirit makes contact with our spirit when we meditate, when the flesh is not in the way."  

Man: Thats not entirely correct. It is the mind first and foremost, not the body, that gets in the way of Oneness with Spirit. The Holy Spirit is already within us, sustaining our living, breathing existence and acting as conscience when we are not as one with Him. When we become still and separate from our mind we discover our innate Oneness with Him. He is the inseparable Light by which we, the watcher, see. It is the mind that produces all sense of separation from Him. Awareness, which all children are born with, and which we must return to, precedes all subsequent sense of mind identity, of all culturally induced identity, the illusion of being a separate entity from the Light of Awareness we come into the world with. "Except ye become as little children again..." In meditation we discover that we are already in Union with Him, that He has always been there beyond the mind, and that without Him we could not hope to existence. Awakening means to realize who we already are, but in order to awaken we must lay down the culture formed mind as the source of our identity. Returning home, like the prodigal son, means to leave behind mind and all its thoughts about who we are, as we return, once again, to the state of pure Awareness we were born with.

Resistance Is Futile

The longer I live the more ridiculous I see it to be resistant to what is. With growing evidence I see that patience and a willingness to accept (on an emotional level) the way things are can produce results far superior (and unexpected) than any other way. Resistance can be defined as any negative emotion...or action resulting there from; impatience, denial, anger, resentment, upset are just a few examples of resistance to circumstance.

To obtain and maintain inner peace...a peace that surpasses all understanding...we must learn to accept, on an emotional level, the way things are. This, of course, does not mean we will always like what is, that we have to live with a given circumstance, or that we can not change things, it just means that we drop the "emotional resistance" to what ever our circumstances are. Creative Energy is available to us only when we do not emotionally resist a given moment...when we accept on an emotional level what is as it is. 

It makes no sense to deny that you are being robbed with a gun to your head, for example, yet it is calm acceptance of the current reality that offers you opportunities to deal with the circumstance in a Creative Way. I am reminded of that young lady who calmly read from the book "A Purpose Driven Life" and gently lead to Reality the man who held her hostage in her own home for several days to have him peacefully turn himself in at the end of the ordeal. Her emotional acceptance of her then current reality and the resulting calm and presence of mind that arose within her helped to save both their lives when it could have just as easily turned into unspeakable tragedy through emotional resistance to it.

All suffering and emotional pain are the result of resistance to what is. Have you ever lost something and suffered for it? A girlfriend, boyfriend, a job, a special piece of jewelry or anything at all that you had valued? Did you notice that you suffered for as long as you indulged in resistant thinking about your loss, and the emotions those thoughts gave rise to within you? Did you notice that you suffered in direct proportion to your failure to accept the reality of your circumstance? 

Indeed, all emotional suffering is the result of our inability to accept what is as it is. Peace and contentment come to the degree that we accept reality and offer up no resistance to it. Cultivate the watching of your inner self...your mind, your thoughts and feelings within you. Learn to identify negative thoughts and feelings and learn to drop indulging in all inner resistance to Reality. See then, in this way, your inner peace progressively grow into a solid rock that nothing outside of you can ever take from you.