Hello All,
It is interesting to read all these experiences with the witness. I have started to notice my own thoughts and feelings also in a somewhat detached way in situations, and reflecting if it’s necessary to think or feel this or that way, and then sometimes found a better way to think or feel, or there is just silence left.
Those of you who have found more of the witness, do you find that it gives you more control of how you can choose to think or feel in a given situation?
Hi Weaver
Absolutely. That is the beginning of stillness in action. Once we begin to operate from stillness, everything gradually becomes an expression of stillness. That is when samyama works. That is when self-inquiry works. That is when tantra works. That is when everything works. Not only do we gain more control, we also bring more power, empathy and morality into everything we do.
It’s the p-p-p-power of love.
Sorry, that’s an old Huey Lewis and the News thing. 
The guru is in you.
Hi all
Wow this discussion has blossomed since I was last here. Its fantastic to read all these accounts.
I don’t know when I started experiencing the witness but only recognised it as such when I read Tolle. This was the great revelation that Tolle gave to me, it suddenly made sence of so many things and it renewed confidence in my spirituality.
I have never had much conductivity, lot of escasties and various bit and peaces but not much else except peace and love, which is enough, I know.
Before Christmas I was witnessing emptiness in my being and out of the emptiness love started flowing out of my heart. I was aware that I was looking at this and yet it was emptiness. So who is this “I”. It is of course the witness. Is it separate from me, I have no idea. It seems like I am looking at myself from a vantage point.
weaver, my experience is that operating from the witness gives you a serious advantage. When I become agitated or whatever and rest in the witness the perspective changes. We can make decisions without being immersed and overwhelmed by what life throws at us.
This is the silence that you know about and the love out of which we can make our decisions, while looking on at the drama from an unattached place.
Louis
PS. Yogani, I did’nt see you last reply before I posted, yeh - The pppower of love.
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This is the silence that you know about and the love out of which we can make our decisions, while looking on at the drama from an unattached place.
[/quote]The great thing with the witness and being more unattached to our own processes is also that we can be more open and accepting and understanding of how other people think and feel and see them as valid instead of being caught up in our own. That creates more empathy, as Yogani said.
Hari OM
Hello All,
what a wonderful conversation. I enjoyed the word Yogani used… this stillness in action.
This is a state of being ‘restfully alert’. its the gap between rest and activity we experience. Think about when you walk and take a step, and before you take a new step. You are between a step and no-step, yes? this is a rest state, but fully alert. Between a blink of the eye, there is closed eye, that one momement of restfully alert.
With your heart, between beats, that rest stage. We are filled with this throughout the day. The Witness,is the time we can be restful, still, yet engaged in action. This becomes the joy as the witness state unfolds and integrates into all parts of our life.
This is why the adage of yogastah kuru karmani is so delightful. It says , established in this yoga ( this restful alertness) perform actions ( karmani); Actions are more purposeful and fulfilling, without all the baggage of past impressions (vasana’s)…So, happy witnessing to you all.
agnir satyam rtam brhat Frank in San-Diego