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“SELF-OBSERVATION”

Because the mind (ego) originally believes in the need for self-improvement and betterment, it is very strict in its value-based judgments, and therefore, it is very natural that the more strongly we are in a state of identification with the mind (ego) and body, the more afraid we are of facing ourselves. It is also very natural that this fear makes it difficult to pay attention to the heart’s longings.

The unconscious resistance to self-observation that arises from this fear is caused by the mind (ego), and moreover, our body, which is strongly connected with this mind (ego), is as tense as the resisting mind is tense.

Therefore, when we find difficult to face ourselves, we should be given priority to creating an environment in which we can relax our body and mind first, and then focus our attention on actually releasing the tension in our body there.

As the body becomes relaxing with calming breaths, resistance by the mind can gradually and naturally come to release at the same time, and thereby we can much more easily enter into the innermost stillness, it will become easier to focus on what is really necessary.

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What every one of us needs to do is to find utter stillness, the innermost stillness of us (void).

There, there is no linguistic interpretation to arise at all, we can observe as a clear image of everything we say and do like a silent movie, which completely devoid of the subjectivity of the mind (ego) and illuminated in every detail.

Moreover, the images do not have the distinction between past or present as the passing of time that the mind (ego) recognize, nor do they have any assumptions or interpretations by the mind (ego), so we can only observe the facts as they happened.

Moreover, the images we observe at this time are beyond the scope of what the mind (ego) recognize as memories, and even include things that the manifest mind at that past time was completely unaware of.

What we can comprehend through these images is that the past is not an event that happened somewhere in the past past as the mind believes, but something that is happening again and again in the present (is happened by the ego), and that “I” is ultimately a completely different existence that transcends the mind (ego) and body, even though it uses them.

Thus, the realizations that we gain at the innermost stillness, is what leads us to a higher level, and who gains the realization is not “I” (mind, ego) as a doer, but the very essence that exists in the void where such mind has been completely surrendered and where can be unreachable by the mind (ego) at all.

At this time, we are fully concentrated on listening the voice of the heart.

In fact, at such times, even if we slightly notice that the voice of the mind (ego) is far away, but we won’t pay attention of it to grasp its details.

This is so-called “Kanshō” in Japanese, the basic state of self-observation. In other words, it is “Tendai meditation,” or “cessation and contemplation.”

In this state, no matter what we observe, we do not apply it to our mind-level values, and there is obviously no judgment of right and wrong. It is always the mind that makes judgments, comparisons, and such judgments or comparisons are said to be a “noise” caused by the mind (ego), which is a state of distraction from the concentration necessary for self-observation, in contrast to stillness.

If you notice such a state of yourself, don’t be upset, but stay in that awareness of noticing it. Then let your concentration return naturally.

The significant thing to remember at this point is not to get obsessed with any concept the mind clings or any state of yourself. All obsession comes from the mind (ego), so it is necessary to be aware of even that obsession of the mind (ego).

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By deepening this self-observation (just observing facts as facts) and self-inquiry (focusing on one thing and inquire into its source), we can ultimately transcend the duality of mind and come to the non-dual consciousness (encountering God), neither philosophy nor religion, but only by actual transcendence.

And even the work still continues from there, but this transcendence inevitably and radically makes us a tremendous change. The change is irreversible: our awareness expands tremendously, the depth of the world we can perceive increases, even compassion expands its realm, and everything else is also far beyond what the mind (ego) can imagine.

And finally, we will come to comprehend deeply, deeply, deeply that everything that the mind (ego) had believed until then was merely a concept, or an assumption, or projection and that everything was totally an illusion at all. (OM 🙏)

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