Practice 6

Awakening the Inner Observer - Part One

Congratulations on making it to the sixth practice!

By now you’ve experienced the power that deep, intentional meditation can bring to your life.

Meditation isn’t just about wrestling with the mind, decreasing stress, or even finding presence. It has the power to transform your every moment of consciousness into one that is observational instead of strictly self-conversational. It allows you to shift your identity from your ego and it’s human life story of judgement-based projections, reactivity, and defended conditional regard, to a realm of soul consciousness. True liberation.

Operating through soul consciousness is a different way to be in the world because our soul’s level of reasoning and desire goes beyond what our ego can perceive and thus, want. Our bodies become the vessels that are in service to manifesting the missions our souls sought in coming to earth when we unblock soul communication barriers.

We shift identification from being our bodies operating through brain consciousness to becoming the witness of the dramatic adventure our earth vessel body is taking our soul consciousness on. Creating this identification of the ‘aware witness’ is strengthened by our awakening the inner observer energy.

The inner observer has no sense organs of its own. It is you in your most pure essence—as energy itself.

Through MRI’s of the brain, we’ve discovered the sense organ that verifies for us that there’s something wonderful going on in the stress-free zone of meditational living. A state of being where the body heals itself continually. A state of consciousness where the observer comes into the foreground, rather than our ego structure overshadowing the function of the observer, and loosens suffering’s grip on our experience. In this state of meditation in every moment, we are continually in touch with the channel to our soul-self. We feel more safe and at home in our bodies.

A self which is permanent—always there whenever you turn attention to it and is unafraid of what our body brains fear. Though we loose touch with it when we fall back into mind-stream, it never went away. We simply forgot about its importance—it stopped being our priority. But when you can remember to awaken, it is the inner observer that shows up once again in the foreground, in the ever present now.

Falling back asleep means becoming identified with your ego-self and it’s typology, and it will happen over and over again in your lifetime so there’s no need to create an antagonistic relationship with it. Ego mind-stream takes over and before we know it we are thinking unconsciously, traveling into past and future events, projecting and judging rather than observing our inner landscape (outward pointed focus). But how does one live in meditation in every moment? By remembering and choosing to awaken in every moment possible, and seeking identification with your inner observer.

Your primary work as a self-chosen awakened human being is to awaken over and over and over again.

Meditational living is more than practicing meditation in formal sitting. It means bringing meditation with you in every moment—anchored through your identification with your inner observer. Identifying with an awareness that is permanent, reliable, and unconditioned. It has no opinion, it has no imagination or thoughts or feelings of it's own, it is neutral without conditionality, without bias. It is purely reflective.

The inner witness recognizes that it’s aware—pure awareness that has no conditions set upon it. No bias, no patterns, and it’s fresh each time we go there. It is pure awareness that is connected to greater awareness, that has nothing to do with education, with gender, with your race, with your economic status, with your nation. It is a universal reflective capacity of the mind, regardless of where you’re located on the planet or what language you speak. It’s been with you always.

Collectively, we’ve forgotten the truth of the matter that we are also spiritual beings. And unfortunately, the contemplative methods are so far back on the shelf and forgotten, that we’re adrift about actual direct experience of who we truly are—in the world but not OF the world (spirit). We can witness this whole deal of life on Earth from a neutral, dispassionate point of view—from the point of view of our inner observer. When you live from this perspective, life is reflected, one thing only. No anticipating the next. This is perpetual presence.

Continually connecting to the inner observer takes practice in understanding the mechanics of your attention, and how it moves away from one focus in the present moment. If you achieve living through your inner observer, your relationship to suffering will shift, your spiritual growth accelerates, your clarity will increase, your intuition will thrive, and so much more.

This meditation will awaken your relationship to your inner observer and requires you to accomplish what Zen Buddhism calls Dhyāna, or meditative absorption. Meditative absorption is an intense single-pointed focus on something so completely that you are completely ‘absorbed’ into the reality of that experience. You essentially immerse yourself so completely into the imaginary experience that you truly feel as if you are there.

We will continue in encouraging this growth into full-time meditational living through the next three practices which focus on fostering your relationship with your inner observer using meditative absorption.