Are there different kinds of witnessing, and is my experience of it wrong?
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"True witnessing is a relaxed, egoless awareness; if your experience feels tense or sickly, it is merely the ego masquerading as consciousness."
According to Osho, if your “witnessing” feels tense or sickly, it isn’t witnessing at all but ego-based self-consciousness. True witnessing is relaxed, egoless awareness. Begin as Patanjali suggests: first concentrate on the object (dharana), forgetting yourself; next, drop the object and notice only the fact of watching. Only then does authentic, subjectless witnessing flower; otherwise meditation becomes another ego-disease.
If watching yourself feels tight, you’re in your ego; instead, calmly look at something, then feel the simple watching and let the “me” drop away.
Why this matters practically
- Reduces anxiety and strain by dropping ego-centered self-consciousness.
- Offers a clear method: focus on an object, then on the fact of watching.
- Keeps meditation healthy, not another ego-driven performance.
- Offers a clear method: focus on an object, then on the fact of watching.
- Keeps meditation healthy, not another ego-driven performance.
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