
Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. Then you are not worried what others say about you- it is irrelevant! If you had known, then there would have been no problem- then you are not seeking opinions. Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself… You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. Whatsoever people say is about themselves.
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That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.” Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.Īnd this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you.

Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. “I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane.
