Understanding Awareness: The Witnessing Self and Turbulence

The witnessing self recognizes turbulence without attachment, finding stability in the unchanging essence of being.

### Understanding the Witnessing Self: Navigating Turbulence and Awareness
* 🧘 The current state of suffering is an experience perceived by both the **individual** and the **awareness observing it**, prompting a **deeper inquiry into one's true nature**.
* 🔍 There is a recognition of a **deeper space within** that remains **unaffected by the waves of emotional turbulence**, indicating a separation between the **observer and the observed**.
* 🌊 Every happening, while time-bound and transient, exists within a broader context of "**non-happening**," which is significant to understand for **true awareness**.
* 🗣 The essence of the inquiry lies in determining whether one identifies as the **commentator of experiences** or as the space where these experiences occur **without attachment**.
* 🌀 Acknowledging the "sense I am" serves as a pivotal point, acting as a **door that connects the manifest world to the infinite**, allowing for a perspective that **transcends turbulence**.
* 🌈 The witnessing self can observe turbulence without being consumed by it, reinforcing the importance of **maintaining stability in the unchanging aspect of existence**.
* 💫 "Turbulence doesn't know itself," emphasizing that **awareness can recognize emotional disturbances without granting them undue significance**, fostering a **deeper sense of peace**.

I need to go deeper because my current state is unbearable. Okay? Both the current state and I want you, the two of you, to each one here if you're really in for this, to stand with him in your own, in your own seeing, and so you make use of what's

happening now. Your current state and the one who is suffering it, who finds it unbearable, is they're not, are they not an appearance that is perceived also as well as experienced? Can I go this far? And I want to feel if you are really

listening also. Your current state, you say I, this my current state and I'm suffering it. So both the state and the one who appears to be suffering it, is there not an awareness of them? Yes, Mooji, there's also, I am, I do have the

awareness that there is a space that is, although there are these waves or this current state, there is I, I recognize that there is something here that does not have to be involved in that. Are you different from that something? No. I mean really, if you are the awareness itself,

let's say that every happening, I think I hinted at that yesterday, every happening is in time and have a certain duration. We can perceive it, we can write about it, this thing happened yesterday or this is happening now. But if we look at that

with some detachment, you will experience that every happening occurs in a much broader space of a none happening. You follow? Anybody? Yeah. That is significant. Is the none happening reacting to the happening? Is the none happening dead? No. From you, you say I'm aware of, of that deeper space.

but in a sense in your language it indicates that you are perceiving the deeper space as a phenomenon, you know, there is some place in me, but you're not speaking from that place, or asking that place, you follow? And is it simply a

question of semantics and language, or is there a truth in what I'm speaking? You see, yeah, I'm aware of that deeper place which is not involved in this. So you who are speaking, are you placed, are you the commentator here, the reporter? Is where is it the one who is

suffering, or is it the space in which the apparent play of suffering is taking place, but it's not caught up in it? Which are you? It's important, what I'm sharing is, it's where you're reporting from. Who are you reporting as? I want to see

what I'm speaking is of any, can you relate to this? Yes, good. Okay, then follow on and then we, you are speaking now, we're going to clear this up now. You're saying you know, yes, I'm aware that there's a deeper place in me that is not

really, it's not caught in the scenario of my feelings and moods and the turbulence, it's not that, it is the non-happening place, isn't it? Yes, you who are speaking now, we're in the happening place and the non-happening place, or on a bridge between

both. Where you're speaking though, we can slow down, we can slow down. I'm not, because if you get this, it's worth a thousand points. Okay, I'm on the bridge because I also see that there's still a pull to look at with interest. Yes, what's

happening and this is very significant what she's speaking is,  "I am in that place, in a sense, between both a great master, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, he put it beautifully, he says, "The sense I am is the place where you're speaking from."

It's like a door that swings one way into all of the manifestation and the other into infinity again, the sense I am is like a door that swings opens one way to the manifest world and swings the other way to the infinite. You are speaking from this place which I call

the place of the witnessing self. Yesterday I gave an example of the second bird who is witnessing the first bird's activities but it's not caught up in them but it could, it has the capacity to identify with the phenomenon it perceives also, or to observe them but to, but with

detachment. This is very crucial what I'm speaking now. I don't also, you have no wasted moves, no wasted time, I have no wasted words for you. Awesome, okay. So that which the position, let's say the position where you're speaking from, you

say, "Yes, I am there. I am aware of the immensity of being somehow, is right there and I'm aware of this life of the manifest world where which sometime is playing as a kind of turbulence, okay? Now turbulence doesn't know itself. Turbulence doesn't know, "I'm turbulent."

Turbulence is, is a reaction to something, so it, the witness, the witnessing position is aware of turbulence. I experience some turbulence here, but you know what, I'm not giving it that much importance. I want to be more stable in the place which is completely

Mooji - Witnessing Unbearable States (highly recommended for all those who are struggling)

Universal Awakening

The unbearable current state and the search for a deeper understanding.

The speaker's current state is unbearable, and they seek a deeper understanding.

The speaker questions whether the current state and the one suffering are perceived and experienced as an appearance.

The speaker acknowledges awareness of a space beyond the current state.

The speaker questions whether they are different from the awareness of the space beyond the current state.

The speaker explains that every happening occurs in a broader space of non-happening.

The nature of awareness and the speaking self.

The speaker questions whether perceiving the deeper space is a phenomenon or a truth.

The speaker identifies the self as a reporter or commentator, separate from the suffering.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of identifying the source of reporting – the suffering self or the witnessing space.

The speaker clarifies the concept of a deeper place untouched by feelings and moods.

The speaker positions the self as being on a bridge between the happening and non-happening places.

The witnessing self and the analogy of the two birds.

The speaker uses Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's analogy of the sense 'I am' as a door to manifestation and infinity.

The speaker refers to the speaking self as the witnessing self.

The speaker uses the analogy of two birds, one witnessing the other's activities without being caught up in them.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding the position from which one speaks.

The speaker explains that turbulence doesn't know itself, unlike the witnessing position which is aware of it.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of stability in the unchanging place.