CONSCIOUSNESS-WITNESSING AND AWARENESS.wmv
Channel: Taosho Buddha
Date: 09/10/2011

CONSCIOUSNESS-WITNESSING AND AWARENESS

Your body is energy, your mind is energy, and your soul is energy. Then what is the difference between these three? The difference is only of a different rhythm, different wavelengths, that is all. The body is gross energy functioning in a gross way. When energy is gross it is visible phenomenon.

Both mind and heart are somewhat more subtle, but still not too subtle, because you can close your eyes and you can see the thoughts moving. With closed eyes emotions can be seen floating on inner sky. Emotional upheaval can be experienced through the body gestures. Certainly they are not as visible as your body. Your body is visible to everybody else, it is publicly visible. Your thoughts and emotions are privately visible. Nobody else can see your thoughts or emotions. Only you can see them or people who have worked very deeply into seeing thoughts and emotions. But ordinarily they are not visible to others.

Mind is logic. Mind is thoughts. All thoughts are logical, rational, and complex. Mind has eyes to discern. Mind has eyes but it is crippled. Mind can see but cannot move. Out of mind philosophy and various systems are born. The language of the mind is different. Heart cannot understand this.

Then there is another layer of energy that flows through the realm of heart. Heart is blind but it has legs. It has movement. It can move with great speed into unknown realms. It can soar to unknown horizons. It can weave dreams and hallucinate in myriad ways. Out of this another stream emerges. Heart speaks a different language that mind cannot understand.

Both heart and mind are like parallel straight lines that are always together but can never meet. They never intersect one another. Meeting is always impossible. At the most both argue, fight and lament their own saga. Head is barren nothing grows. The heart has fertile soil but there is no gardener to plant or nourish the growth.
So consciousness is a method to achieve witnessing.  And the second step is that witnessing will become a method to achieve awareness. 

Therefore these are the three steps: consciousness, witnessing, and  awareness the edifice of meditation.