The
technique of the witness is to merely sit with the fear and be aware of
it before it becomes so consuming that there’s no space left. The image
I usually use is that of a picture frame and a painting of a gray cloud
against a blue sky. But the picture frame is a little too small. So you
bend the canvas around to frame it. But in doing so you lost all the
blue sky. So you end up with just a framed gray cloud. It fills the
entire frame.
So when you say, 'I'm afraid' or, 'I'm depressed', if you enlarged the frame so that just a little blue space shows, you would say ‘Ah, a cloud.’ That is what the witness is. The witness is that tiny little blue over in the corner that leads you to say, ‘Ah, fear.’
So when you say, 'I'm afraid' or, 'I'm depressed', if you enlarged the frame so that just a little blue space shows, you would say ‘Ah, a cloud.’ That is what the witness is. The witness is that tiny little blue over in the corner that leads you to say, ‘Ah, fear.’
- Ram Dass -
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