E192: Waking Up to Witness Consciousness
6/22/202649 min
Spiritual awakening begins when a person realizes they are the witness of the mind rather than the mind itself. This awakening evolves as one objectively notices the inner voice and realizes how it creates suffering by resisting reality, fearing painful experiences, and clinging to pleasurable ones. Through witnessing, practicing surrender, and learning to relax through emotional disturbances, one gradually becomes centered, loving, and free to align with the natural flow of life.
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First 90 secondsMichael Singer· Host0:00
Mm-hmm. Jai Guru Dev. Jai Masters. There's some very clear benchmarks, turning points on your spiritual growth. There are many before and plenty after, but let's just talk about the main points that will determine your growth. First, called waking up. "I wake up every morning." You wish. You wake up to your mind's chatter. You wake up to the issues of your emotions. You wake up to thinking, "What's going to happen? What's not going to happen? What do I want to happen? How do I make it happen? What might happen? How do I stop it from happening?" If you're a human, that's what you wake up to. So that's asleep. You know, that's, you seem to be awake, but you're being driven by your problems, being driven by the samskaras, the patterns that you stored inside your mind and your heart, and then you try to figure it out. You're very busy all day and night. So the first awakening, first major point is, why it happens, I, I don't know. People seem to get it from some of the books people write. Um, certainly a lot, a lot of people get it from Untethered Soul, where all of a sudden you notice that you're noticing. That's all I can say. There, there's no magic words. It's just you are always noticing, or you wouldn't have