Becoming the detached witness
 - exploring one’s true nature through meditation

 

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A second reason to meditate is to explore the depth and breath of our infinite consciousness and our true nature. That is, to explore the depth and breath of our own self. Just as the early scientists needed to become the observers of the external world to see and understand how it operated, we need to become an observer of our own internal world. No one can do that for us. Only we can observe that internal world of our own being.

However, it does need to be realized that meditation is only one way to achieve this inner understanding. Clear intention will achieve the same result as will clear intention coupled with a diversion such a play. Life reviews as with a life map, therapy, body work or mind altering drugs can do help us do the same exploration. Similarly the induction of a trance state through drumming and/or dance as routinely done by shamans can create deep meditative states. Another way to see our true nature is to reach a point of understanding that our body is going to die but our consciousness survives, for example, a near death experience. However, the experience of death is not necessarily the path that each need to experience, although that may be the path for some. You will need to choose a technique that is applicable to your needs and individual way of viewing and experiencing the world. You cannot expect that meditation will necessarily work for to explore your true nature.

What has been found is that when individuals explore their unique nature, sometimes the intention for one’s life may have intentionally blocked some methods of understanding. Often this is done so as to not fall into old patterns of the past. What you will find as you explore the true nature of individuals is that we are each unique. We are each here for unique reasons.. It will take a unique path to access our individual true inner nature in a way we can fully understand and experience our unique nature.

As such, some methods may not be beneficial to what you need to experience. You may find meditation cannot create the understanding you desire. You may need to use meditation in conjunction with another technique or use other techniques all together. In any case and no matter what technique or techniques you use, if you do not have the understanding to properly characterize the experience you have, you will be unable to fully benefit from the experience and it may be seen as pure fantasy or a bizarre nightmare.

As for using meditation to explore one’s true nature, there are several different reasons that can be given. Each depends on what you intend to accomplish by the focus of your attention and awareness on your true nature. In meditating, it is important to remember your intention is more important than what you do. It needs to be realized is that a strongly held intention can take us past the completion or manifestation of any single act or desire. So, in looking at the prospects of meditating, you should ask yourself, “Why do I wish to meditate and what to I wish to achieve by meditation?”

In any case, if you use meditation, to be an observer is insufficient to observe your inner world. Rather you have to become a detached witness. The difference between the two is the perceived separation between the observer/detached witness and what is observed. An observe is usually seen as standing apart and independent of what they observe. The observer is not seen to cause or influence what they observe because of how they observe.

The detached witness is seen as not being separate but often integral to what is being observed. They are connected and influence what is observed. As a minimum the detached witness is aware that their presence influences what is being observed and what is observed is affected by how they observe. The detached witness is aware to chose their method of observation, that is how they are influencing the situation, and then detach themselves and hold the selves seemingly apart to observe the flow and outcome. Yet, they know they have created the outcome by how they chose to observe.

If we don’t explore our internal world, we will never know exactly who and what we really are. Our consciousness is dynamic, constantly moving. It is never static or stationary. We are a creative living process continually recreating itself. Any perception of stagnation is often only the long interval between the turning points within the oscillation or vibrational flow into and out of the form of what you are observing or experiencing within your being.

All creations, internally or externally, are characterized by an oscillation into and out of form. We experience this assimilation into a form as a seed condition like the original conception of a thought, a gestation , a birth, a life, a death, a dissolution and assimilation into a new creation. Some intervals of this process are long, some are short. What we perceive as time is only a measure between two chosen points such as some memory of the past and now, or now and some point in the future or some span between the past and the future with the present somewhere in between. There is no time. There is only our perception of time by how we choose to observe and organize the events we experience around some arbitrarily chosen point. Most of us individually use our birth. Society usually chooses something convenient from the past depending of what aspect of society they wish to emphasize. How, and what, we choose as our starting point will determine how much of our own infinite consciousness we will explore.

If we become the detached witness of our true nature, we can see there is a shallow aspect of our being. It is greatly agitated and disturbed much like the surface of the ocean. In this shallow area one is very time orientated. One is constantly measuring the time between the experiences they have. However, there is a deeper aspect to our being much like the deep depths of the ocean. Here it is, seemingly dark and without life. Yet, it is dynamic and alive with a variety of deep undercurrents. Only they move in a slower more gentle movement. As with the life in the deep ocean, we can not just bring it to the surface and expect it to live on the surface. We must either go to the depths and observe the life there, or bring it to the surface in a specially constructed environment so as not to kill it and destroy it.

Meditation helps us to go to the depths and observe the deep undercurrents and the life within these realms. This is the doorway to the unseen realms of Creation. Meditation helps us to either localize our self in these realms. Or, it helps us to understand the environment of these realms. It can help us construct a suitable environment to bring the life from these deep aspect of our being into our everyday world without destroying the life we bring forth.

Why meditate - reasons to meditate

Remove the disturbances of mind - silence the mind
Becoming the detached witness - exploring one’s nature
Developing a single point focus - concentrate one’s focus
Purposeful meditation - conscious control to access one half of the creation process
Side Benefits of meditation

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