Meditation academics discuss a silence inside us in between ideas, and inform us to consider our minds just like the display screen in a movie show. Our ideas and feelings seem on the display screen, however in between ideas, the display screen is our true nature, pure unconditioned consciousness. Another analogy is that our consciousness is the sky, and ideas are simply clouds showing in it. I’ve gotten a style of this, when my thoughts will get quiet throughout meditation (sitting or transferring), or spontaneously in nature, and it is rather enjoyable. This consciousness is totally nonjudgemental so it feels unconditionally loving. Yoga instructor Lilias Folan known as it the “witness within that observes everything and judges nothing”. I really feel I’m making progress in self-transformation once I can domesticate this sense. So I used to be completely satisfied to return throughout two books just lately that discuss it.
The first is Silent Awareness: The Revelation That Changes Everything by meditation instructor Cynthia Overweg. This guide is filled with essays to present us a really feel for what this consciousness appears like which I discovered inspirational. There are additionally some good workouts to expertise it which serve effectively for meditation.
The second is Awareness Adventures: Discovering Your True Nature by Brian Tom O’Connor. He begins by telling us his personal story which is fascinating as a result of it includes a nontraditional method to meditation. Brian was severely depressed and present process remedy. He tried numerous typical meditation methods however they didn’t work effectively for him. He got here up along with his personal “awareness games”, which had been imaginative methods to look at his personal consciousness and search for his true nature inside. He found that the extra he related to the silent consciousness past thought, the happier he grew to become. It seems his “games” match right into a department of yoga philosophy that seeks to inquire inside to seek out out who we actually are past our day-to-day thoughts chatter. Famous academics on this line embrace J. Krishnamurti and Sri Ramana Maharshi, who was recognized for instructing us to relentlessly inquire “who am I?”, however we’ve got to comprehend that the reply can’t be ascertained intellectually. I had beforehand discovered this kind of method to be form of dry and didn’t get far with it as a meditation method. But Brian’s consciousness video games make it enjoyable.
I like to recommend each of those books. We want a break from our overactive and overstimulated on a regular basis minds.