E192: Waking Up to Witness Consciousness

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 noticed, but you notice that you're noticing.

That's your first awakening.

That you're in there, and you notice that the very mind that's always been in there is still in there doing its thing, but for some reason, you're behind it.

You're not controlling it.

You're not stopping it, not to start with, but you notice...

Hey, how do you know you notice? "Hey, that mind is crazy." Not, "What do I do?" One, you're in it, lost in it, involved in it, drawn into it, distracted by it, and the other, it can be big or small awakening to where all of a sudden you realize, you don't think it.

You don't have to think it.

Thinking is what the mind does.

You notice that you notice.

That's all I can say.