The first step of karma yoga is to get free of the attachments to your own life, to develop a witness. We have thousands and thousands of meâs and there is one me that watches all the other meâs, right? Thatâs the only game. Itâs not trying to change any of the meâs.
Itâs not the evaluator, and itâs not the judge, itâs not the super ego. It doesnât care about anything. It just notes, âhmmm, there he is doing that.â That witness, that place inside you, is your centering device. And that begins to be the work one does on oneself. Once one understands there is a place in oneself that one is not attached, the first job is to extricate yourself from attachment.
Itâs not the evaluator, and itâs not the judge, itâs not the super ego. It doesnât care about anything. It just notes, âhmmm, there he is doing that.â That witness, that place inside you, is your centering device. And that begins to be the work one does on oneself. Once one understands there is a place in oneself that one is not attached, the first job is to extricate yourself from attachment.
- Ram Dass -
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