One way to get free of attachment is to cultivate the witness
consciousness, to become a neutral observer of your own life. The
witness place inside you is simple awareness, the part of you that is
aware of everything — just noticing, watching, not judging, just being
present, being here now.
The witness is actually another level of consciousness. The witness
coexists alongside your normal consciousness as another layer of
awareness, as the part of you that is awakening. Humans have this unique
ability to be in two states of consciousness at once. Witnessing
yourself is like directing the beam of a flashlight back at itself. In
any experience — sensory, emotional, or conceptual — there’s the
experience, the sensory or emotional or thought data, and there’s your
awareness of it. That’s the witness, the awareness, and you can
cultivate that awareness in the garden of your being.
-Ram Dass-
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