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Mirror of Self-Observation
October 3rd, 2009 by Gary
Hipworth
What is it?
Self-observation is actually very simple. You
watch yourself. You watch everything going on around you and inside you as if you were a detached observer. In
this state, you are not personalising what is going on. Just look without the controller or judge in you wanting to
rush in and fix things.
Why bother with self-observation?
Self-observation is the beginning of wisdom because you start to see how conditioned
you are, how much you react to events, and you will even see your deeper underlying motives for everything you do.
It shocks you into wanting real freedom i.e. freedom from reacting to every event like a salivating dog, not the
relatively unimportant stuff that your society believes is freedom e.g. freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and
so on.
Self-observation is true meditation unlike most of the meditation products you can
buy in the market place. It's a marvellous way to meditate at any time of the day or night. And nobody can tell you
how to do this. It's your natural state before thinking took virtually absolute control of the human
brain. Peace of mind is a contradiction in terms. Mind is the problem!
The very act of self-observation gives you some valuable breathing space to choose
not to go ahead with your worst thoughts about others. Also, what you judge
you can't understand, but what you observe without judgement you do understand.
