How to be the Silent Witness that is not Suffering your Experience

Rest as the awareness which watches the mind silently without judgement. Rest as the changeless witness to all the changeful.
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How to be the Silent Witness that is not Suffering your Experience
Returning to simply being the witness of your experience can be said to be one of the main spiritual practices that you must implement during the day.
The witness is silent, judgement-less, unbiased, uninvolved, unperturbed, and free from suffering the content of experience.
Today I will share with you a simple pointer which will help you carry out this practice in a clear and easy manner throughout the day.
Doing so will begin to melt away your mind’s dysfunction.
It will begin to dissolve the identification with your thoughts and feelings.
It will begin to cleanse and purify the dense mind, helping you wake up to what lies beyond mere appearances.
Watch the video here. I know it will help you greatly :)
If after you watch this video, you need further help with this, learn more about my School of Awakening. It is my program in which I work with you to help you dissolve mind identification, wake up to your true nature, and become free from suffering your experience.
0:00 Constantly return to being the witness only
6:08 Awareness is judgement-less, unbiased, and all embracing.
8:32 The must must be cleansed of all associations & identifications
12:39 No thoughts are you.
15:14 The witness cannot be found as an object
17:48 Meditation will cure all this dysfunction
24:32 Learn about School Of Awakening
Sunny Sharma
www.selfinquiryschool.com

[@selfinquiryschool]

Here is a guided meditation which will walk you through how to observe the mind without interest or getting caught up in it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWm0k6uggsuDoZo

[@Jadedgems]

Odin had 2 crows that represented his thoughts and memories, see them as flighted birds that are not a part of you, but are tools, friends that come and go

[@selfinquiryschool]

Beautiful thanks for sharing :)

[@em413]

Strange I have been dreaming of Odin & to see this comment😌

[@jamesharkins6799]

Thank you, I love that

[@devikassum5036]

Who’s Odin. Sorry I’m ignorant :(

[@jamesharkins6799]

@@devikassum5036 no apologies necessary, everyone is ignorant. Odin is Norse name for Indra.

[@user-id1ij8vc8i]

The mind is awful if we don't have one it would be great 🙉🙊🙈. Thanksyou sir 👍🙏

[@jeanthornton2107]

Aha! To live from the presence not the person. Thankyou! What a mind pill!

[@oneworldonehome]

"One of the most profound and important aspects in all of your education, regardless of what you do in life, is alertness. It seems so commonplace that no one thinks of it when they talk about personal development, spiritual training and so forth. People talk about awareness, but awareness is not the same as alertness. When you are alert, you are watching things around you. When you are aware, you are rarely aware of things around you. You are aware of yourself thinking of things around you. When you are alert, you are looking with very little thinking involved. If you were trying to listen to a conversation in the next house down the street, you would have to listen very carefully. You could not be thinking, “How am I doing right now? Here I am listening to the conversation in the next house. Why am I here anyway? What’s going on with me? I feel this way and my body hurts.” That is the difference between alertness and awareness. Awareness is very important, but alertness is more important. The person of Knowledge is extremely alert, which makes life very exciting." *Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2* - Chapter 27: Disappointment

[@Vlad-wl3fw]

Very good point, brother. there's a book called Awareness, Alertness, Mindfulness by Osho.

[@herbertmorales7299]

Is Alertness same as Atention?

[@oneworldonehome]

@@herbertmorales7299 If you're paying attention beyond yourself I would say it is correct to say so. Check out the book in the comment, it's free online.

[@silentdream97]

A very simple but powerful pointer!!!it's so inspiring how dedicated you are to the path at such a young age, really a motivation for so many seekers....Thank you!!!🙏

[@WigWamSam7]

Just brilliant…..the mind has decided to convey 😊

[@henriettadecosta2928]

Thank you for fine-tuning this Truth so finely and patiently. May it help us to let go of our Unconscious Addiction to Listening to the Voice.

[@Mika-El-]

True as it is, this work is not the complete work. We need to work with insight, wisdom, understanding, feelings and the biology of trauma also. Otherwise it can end up being a huge journey of ego-based spiritual bypassing.

[@natarajanmeenakshisundaram757]

Sir, thank u for this video. There is this sudden flaring of emotions which needs to be addressed,and i have understood beyond doubt that i need to know my true nature and i need to detach myself from all accumulations. I need to go in to silence and people like you help us in this most important direction.

[@sussansharp34]

I love this!

[@davidrozen1703]

Thanks for the reminder.

[@gemjess132]

Thank you

[@em413]

Wow that’s very good awareness you’ve imparted. 🙏 thank you

[@llinalayful]

I love how I know the truth about the voice inside. ☺️☺️ I remember me being a child , the teacher 👩‍🏫 ask a question. I knew the answers and was going to raise my hands 🙌 up . But I couldn’t do it because all I heard in my head was don’t do it . I put both hands on my head and said why . Man… I was so sad 😭. But it’s coo. This is present 🎁 and I’m all for it.

[@sharmainewilliams8950]

Thank you for your profound teachings🙏🏽

[@jasonc8910]

Thank you Sunny.

[@selfinquiryschool]

🙂

[@aevy250]

Thank You. Thank You. Thank You!!!🙏

[@WigWamSam7]

Brilliantly explained as a recap when we become lost in too many videos

[@dsouzavinoo]

Thank you 🙏

[@missn111]

Thank you very much Sunny for this teaching. 🙏🏼

[@ease117]

Beautiful 🙏❤

[@selfinquiryschool]

:)

[@jaroslavfricek7772]

Sunny … amazing you can give it Thank you❤😊

[@katnip198]

Helpful helpful helpful, Thank you.

[@selfinquiryschool]

❤️🙏🏽

[@Talitha_V]

Again a great video sunny 🙏

[@selfinquiryschool]

❤️🙏🏽

[@Divine777Love]

Hi Sunny, while listening to the video you some how made one thing clear for me. It just came to me I keep reacting to somethings. This is something because I have been reacting to things for years because it is all I know. For awhile I could not see it till this video. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for the pointings and helping me see about reacting. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@quantumawakening644]

बहुत खूब 👌

[@selfinquiryschool]

❤️🙏🏽

[@lilyr.1432]

Great guidance, thank you! You are absolutely right, the mental voice that is always talking/opinionating, even subtly, is not the real me.

[@franciscosifuentes3007]

A sense of aliveness

[@afreennaaz464]

Yesterday I dreamt of you and thanks for new video I was feeling lil bit low

[@selfinquiryschool]

Happy it helped Afreen :)

[@Justin-fx9xu]

I am normally very good at mindfulness but had a tough day or two of. "mind attacks". Thank you for the reminder, I stopped listening to the story in the mind it was all about :). I was dwelling in things that haven't happened, could happen, etc. The moment I switched to the witness of the thoughts, it ceased to be an issue. I was trying to do this daily for a while and was having success not believing the dialogue. Yet, somehow thinking seems to take over at some point or rather my attachment to it.

[@user-id1ij8vc8i]

Thanks for your help with this good luck 🙏👍

[@henryguthery5311]

❤

[@kushallamichhane8374]

These teachings are making more sense each day Before the same teachings were perceived differently with some effort But when everything becomes still there's emptiness with only witnessing and knowing Is that the pure emptiness ? Or there's something beyond

[@selfinquiryschool]

Find out :)

[@monauikewa3997]

🙏🏼🌹

[@christiansamaroo]

Have your mind come to that conclusion 100%.

[@indicphilosopher8772]

Sunny, make a video about Isha Upanishad and read its english translation.. Its one of the most important philosophical text and explains how we should maintain a balance between spiritual and material.. Plz do a video about this

[@selfinquiryschool]

Will consider

[@MirkkGoffe]

Nice video as always, that's Mickey Singer right? He has a very unique style 😇

[@selfinquiryschool]

Yes :)

[@robinelliott5561]

What if in the present moment we are in excruciating pain from a bear attaching us.

[@tombarry1650]

How do I get in touch man? Love your stuff I hear you so clear watch out world!

[@amandaroncatobatista2727]

Come to know the one who watches the voice talking in your mind

[@gkianleng]

Can consider creating shorter snippet videos like 3-10mins? This will help busy people (like me) to pause & watch, between train commutes and break times. Too long, tends to skip over, even though the content is highly relevant unless there is time to complete the whole video. Many thanks.

[@robinelliott5561]

Can this concept help people in chronic pain.

[@kevy1yt]

I might even restate the question as instead of “who am I” to “what am I” because it further takes the “person” away and, I believe, gets us closer to the Consciousness we each really are. Thoughts about that?

[@ira4600]

What am I is more fitting

[@anirbanghosh1670]

Hello sir! Hope you are doing well. Thank you for this wonderful channel. Just a question , that now I am able see that negative or positive both thoughts do not have any thinker, they are just thoughts. Now if my awareness is like staying as it is for few times a day(I meditate daily), and other times being aware of simple sense of peace and freedom Then will my reality give me reasons for feeling peace freedom? Thanks again.

[@selfinquiryschool]

Disengage from this question and practice without expectation of result

[@anirbanghosh1670]

@@selfinquiryschool what a classy reply!! Will definitely follow it.

[@13_Kas]

If we are to become spiritual and not think how are we suppose to interpret “signs” from the universe.

[@rohitl4792]

How to bring unconscious data back into conscious ?

[@TomiIslam33]

Not sure what this video is for but hope it helps me i have big numb and mental problems im soo unproductive not sure how i got soo lost but woke at same time

[@selfinquiryschool]

Watch and practice if it resonates!

[@sandiam7809]

Where is the link to the school of awakening?

[@selfinquiryschool]

Here you go Sandia: www.awakenwithsunny.com/coaching

[@robinelliott5561]

Why do we have a body if that’s not who we are?

[@JohnM...]

How do I stop the anxiety that comes up that is temporary, and connected to fear of failure? example: still (currently, at this point) on a course to study to become a new teacher, about a week or 2 ago, I was due to give 2 lessons in my subject - mathematics; I am a shy person, and an introvert, but I REALLY want to become a teacher of maths; anyway, about 15 seconds after walking into the school, my legs wouldn't take me any further and my body wouldn't move an inch. My internal dialogue was "I can't do this... damn it yes I can!..no, i can't ..who am I kidding I can't do this...etc. I was paralyzed, like Buridan's Ass, and stood there for about 2 minutes in utter indecision. I finally decided to exit the school, but found myself STILL mentally fighting myself saying alternately "isn't this WHAT YOU WANT?" and "no, I can't do it. " IWhen I got home I felt relieved, *and* ashamed of myself at the same time. I don't know how to get past that anxiety gaining control again, or even if I'll get a second chance to become a teacher. 😢☹

[@selfinquiryschool]

Learn to turn away from thoughts. Practice the pointers from this video. Also sit down for daily meditation and practice what I share in my How to meditate video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rovXpYCFm5aWb8U

[@ira4600]

Disidentify from thoughts and feelings: they are not you

[@Harekrishna54321]

Brother I'm doing observing thoughts meditation .but sometimes during day I feel like I'm intentionally remembering the thoughts which I don't like what can I do brother

[@selfinquiryschool]

Practice what I shared in this video and the video I linked in the first comment

[@inevitableillumination7212]

Sunny, I have become fearful of my thoughts ever since reading into law of attraction. The statement that your 'thoughts become things' is deeply concerning to me. Many people take this statement literal, as in you are to blame for what comes into your life, including negative experiences (i.e. if I think I will get cancer then I will get cancer). I don't know whether to take this statement literal or not. This teaching is seemingly the opposite of what practically all spiritual teachings preach. Can you please clear this up for me. This fear is becoming unbearable, although I know intuitively that this is has to be a misconception. Thank you

[@herbertmorales7299]

@inevitable illumination your thougths don't attract anything to you. Those who preach that are confuse. How your feel, who you believe yourself to be, is what attracts. Relax. Thoughts whithout a thinker is what the mind is all about. Blessings.

[@inevitableillumination7212]

@@herbertmorales7299 thank you. I understand that the key is to observe the thoughts, detach from them and allow them to pass. I realize that I am not the thoughts that arise. But when they say 'thoughts become things' it contradicts the actual truth.

[@herbertmorales7299]

@@inevitableillumination7212 there has been a misunderstanding in regards to the obsesive never ending toughts appearing in your mind, and the power to manifest atributed to them. True manifestation lies in "action" in the here and now. To change the dream we need to find the dreamer. To act from a sense of being fully present in the now, is different from the day dreaming of useless obsesive thoughts. We need to move from ilusive thoughts to Presence, and from Presence to Power.

[@inevitableillumination7212]

@@herbertmorales7299 it's more about 'being' that which you want to become. The thoughts themselves don't matter, rather it is 'embodying' that which you want to become, correct?

[@herbertmorales7299]

@@inevitableillumination7212 absolutely correct. If you read Neville Goddard, or even Jesus in the new testament, they never ask you to daydream imagining what you need to manifest in your life. Both of these teachers ask you to assume, to embody, to accept as your new reality that which it is need it in your life. Have you read A Course in Miracles?? The first 10 lessons stress the fact that "my toughts mean nothing, they are like the objects I see all around me".

[@rg6310]

0:20 kinda freaky lol

[@robinelliott5561]

Why do we have a brain that thinks and the amygdala that is always trying to keep us alive?

[@amitusa]

You are reading a script ?

[@Carlbooze]

My question is: what if there are no thoughts to watch, but only watching what's happening?

[@selfinquiryschool]

Even better!

[@Carlbooze]

Thanks!

[@Carlbooze]

@@selfinquiryschool Thank you!

[@manabdas7979]

Thank you 🙏