Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind
One of the most important things to learn is how to separate awareness from thinking, and then we can see that thoughts and emotions are not the center of who we are. We then discover that awareness is the source of mind that brings the peace that passes understanding. One student said, “This is what it feels like to be open-minded.” It is our natu
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In the moment of Awakening, while my consciousness was landing more fully in the absence of a self, another realization flashed into my consciousness. Everything and everyone is without a me, a separate and distinct self.
Stephen Snyder • Demystifying Awakening: A Buddhist Path of Realization, Embodiment, and Freedom
Your consciousness is pretty lost, constantly focusing on this false mental concept of self. Fortunately, there is a way out—it’s called witness consciousness. If you can learn to sit back and simply watch that voice inside your head, you can free yourself.
Michael A. Singer • Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
When you wake up from the illusion of your personal thoughts, you wake up from everything you have been thinking. You step back from your personal thinking and, as it quiets down, you become present. You enter into the now, into pure Consciousness — free of the distortions, the limitations, and the contamination of your personal thinking.