~ Meditation Witnessin atching As Time Goes By ~ Advisor ontains Nudity Enlightenmen he Only Revolution, by Osho, 1997. Paraphrased excerpts. There are three types of peopl erformers, spectators and observers. Performers are objects to be seen. The spectators are the vast crowd. Man's nature is to be a seer, an observer, a watcher, a witness. A spectator is one whose eyes are on others. The observer is one whose eyes are on himself. When your eyes are on an object you are a spectator. When your eyes are on the seer you are an observer. When your eyes stop on an object and you forget yourself, then you are just a spectator. When all objects of vision have departed when you, and only you, are there - only awakening remains only alertness remains - then you are an observer. When you are a spectator, you become completely oblivious, you forget yourself completely. Performers and spectator umanity is divided between these two. Very rarely an observer is born - a Buddha. Very rarely someone is awakened and becomes the observer. When you become an observer you know that the observer is only one, not many. Objects are many, spectators are many. The observer is only one. It is the nature of objects and spectators to be man t is a web of lies. When a person becomes free from being a performer or a spectator, has no desire to exhibit and be seen, and has no desire to see, when he knows that the trap of seeing and showing is false - no longer interested, he attains nonattachment, freedom from desire. Putting aside these two, putting aside this duality and plunging into the observer, one finds that there is only one. There is no other here. The other does not exist. Only love is. Here only one is. But this will not be understood until you have caught hold of that one within you. There is only one bondag ou consider the other, not yourself, as the observer. And there is only one liberatio o know yourself as the observer. Catch the seer more and more. You will miss again and again - it is an old habit of many lives. You will miss, but try to catch the one who sees again and again. The experiencer is not the sense organs, but rather someone hidden behind the sense organs?. Know yourself as the observer and not as the body, not as the eyes, the ears, the sense organs. Know only the inner consciousness as the observer. Human life can be divided into four circles. The first circle is of action - the world of doing. It is the outermost. Moving within a little we come to the world of thought. Moving a little further in we come to the world of feeling, devotion, love. Moving still further within we reach the center - the world of the witness. The witness is our nature, because there is no way to go beyond it. No one ever has and no one ever can. To become the witness of the witness is impossible. The witness is simply the witness. You cannot go deeper than the witness. It is our foundation. Our house is built on the foundation of witnessing - built of feeling, of thought, of action. (End of excerpts) Choiceless Awarenes he Path of the Mystic, by Osho, 2002. Paraphrased excerpts. Mind is a beautiful instrument. It has to be sharpened, but remember its limitations. The mind should remain a servant to the heart. The moment the mind becomes the master, the heart simply dies. In slavery, the heart cannot exist. And your consciousness is different from both, so a conscious person can use his heart when needed, can use his mind when needed, can put both to silence when he wants to be absolutely in a state of nirvana, where neither the mind is needed nor the heart. When he wants simply to be himself, both are not needed. The servant should be the servant, and the master should be the master. [The Ego is no longer master in its own house] And beyond both is your being which is neither servant nor master... which simply is. That "isness" is the goal of all meditations. (End of excerpts) The essence of all meditation techniques is witnessing or watching. From one's inner, focal point of witnessing, one watches things as they come and go. Awareness occurs in the gaps between the things that come and g reaths, sensations, thoughts, emotions. This state of awareness or consciousness is spiritual enlightenment. There are 60 seconds in one minute and 60 minutes in one hour. A standard clock face has three hands or digit our, minute and second. A clock or watch can be used to test your ability to sustain steady attention. How long can you observe yourself looking at the second hand or digit of a clock without your mind drifting? [I don't have a short attention span, I just? Oh, look, a Kitty!]. [Shortened Attention Span!] When you first become aware that your mind has drifted, some time may have passed. If you become aware of drifting at 10 seconds, you may have been drifting for 1 to 9 seconds. Rarely can someone remain continuously attentive for as long as 10 seconds. [We're all members of the Short Attention Span Society. Work Around It.] Most people cannot remain attentive continuously for more than 5 seconds. [Native Remedie ocu sychologist's Natural] A person who remains attentive continuously for 48 minutes attains full spiritual enlightenment. Awareness is beyond time, beyond space, beyond ego, beyond mind. When you are witnessing or watching the contents of your consciousness, you are beyond mind. Your mind and ego want you to be their slave, not their master, so they will try to distract you. [The Functional Brai enses, Balance, Memory, Thinking, Language, Movement, Behavior] The following video clips can be used in this test of your attention span. Or you can use any clock. 1. Clock Count U 5 seconds from 45 to 60. [Mind the Gap] 2. Clock Countdow 0 seconds from 10 to 0. [Mind the Gap] 3. Clock Countdow 0 seconds from 10 to 0. [Mind the Gap] 4. Clock Countdow 0 seconds from 10 to 1. [Mind the Gap] 5. Clock Countdow 0 seconds from 10 to 0. [Mind the Gap] 6. Clock Countdow 0 seconds from 10 to 1. [Mind the Gap] 7. Clock Countdow 0 seconds from 10 to 0. [Mind the Gap] Real people are aware, not slaves, not robots. Real people have always been rebellious, because reality wants to assert its being, to express its freedom. [Rebelutio ourage to Grow] [In this world filled with delusions, fueled by ignorance, greed and hatred, we must meditate and destroy?.] [? Go against the stream. Wake up, and defy all these dharma. Serve only the truth. This is the weapon of the real revolutionary.] To be aware, go within, beyond the mind and heart, to the innermost center of being.