Written by Mathew Naismith
I was once involved in a group that
consisted of people from various degrees of awareness. A, so-called, higher
degree of awareness basically means having the ability to observe without
participating or having no urge to participate, particularly in the dramas of
life.
Within this group, as of any groups of
people, there were the observers who never participated in these dramas, in
actuality, they participated very little overall. I should point out that this
group was about discussing spirituality and any perceptions beyond normal human
perceptions, for example, the mind existing outside the human brain.
Because I don't judge or observe one motion
being any less or more worthy to experience, I at times became the participator
in the dramas of the group at times. I remember one of the observers of the
group saying to me that he couldn't understand why I was participating in the
dramas of the group, being an obvious observer, I was suppose to know better.
What occurs while becoming more aware
through observation is that you observe with more bias, not less, however, once
we become even more aware, these biases's lesson. Separating ourselves from the
dramas of life is bias, especially when we consider ourselves to be of a higher
consciousness or stature. However, this separation is only one part of the
process of becoming aware and wise, it's not the ultimate level to be at as
many people perceive. As we become aware and wise, we will observe more differences
thus creating more separation, not less separation. At this stage of the
awareness process, the separation between light and dark, black and white,
negative and positive, good and bad, become more apparent, this is a natural
part of the process.
To be perfectly honest, we actually become
more bias and judgmental at this stage, not less. Of course everyone expresses
a different variation of bias and judgment, for example, I never went through
the process of judging everything not of my own perceptions to be negative. I
was lucky; I had a natural tendency to observe through a balanced mind set void
of extreme expressions, however, this didn't stop me experiencing the dramas of
life; this confused the observers of this group.
Observation,
particularly void of bias, helps us to become wiser, as only through unbiased
observation can wisdom become more present in our lives.
How
do you become less of a participator and more of an observer void of bias?
Put yourself in a situation or an
environment that you detest the most. You can envision this but it is more
effective if you physically act this out. Now sit there observing void of bias.
At this stage of the process observing void of bias is going to be utterly
impossible to do, accept this. At no time berate yourself for being of the ego
or judgment at this stage; way too many have been conditioned to have an
immediate bias towards the ego and negativity, avoid this at all cost at this
stage of the process.
What you are doing is conditioning yourself
to observe void of bias as many people in the world are conditioned from birth
to express bias judgment.
As you allow your once detestable
environment to condition you, you will find your bias judgments will disappear
as if they never existed. It's not that you are accepting these detestable
environments to be apart of your life, all you are doing is lessoning your own
bias judgments while in observation. If applicable, it is even better to
participate to a certain extent while still in observation, especially in
observation of your own participation. If the environment you are
observing/experiencing is too destructive, only observe to the point of
conditioning yourself from bias judgments.
So many people make the mistake by trying
to avoid these so-called negatives at all costs; they indeed exist for a
reason. Nothing exists by chance in realities of motion. When you learn to
observe void of participation, which also takes one to participate at times to
one extent or another, wisdom becomes a natural part of your conditioning.
Think on this, uh, that is right, you can't think as you have judged thinking
is of the ego, and we have to avoid, at all cost, expressing the ego in
anyway!! It is your mind that is thinking, the brain is only a vessel for the mind
to think through and the mind does not have to be of the ego, but of course it
can be.
As science has proven, the brain is never
motionless but the mind itself can indeed become motionless through various
conditioning processes, not controlled by the ego. Meditation is a popular
practice to quieten the mind but so is the practice of observation of your
environment, especially when the mind is void of bias.
In the west, we are way too hard on
ourselves; we expect to be less judgmental and less expressional of the ego
straight off while becoming more aware and wise. One part of the process is to
become aware to the point of experiencing more separation, not less, however,
at no point is this part of the process the end of the process of becoming more
aware and wise, but it is apart of the process to one degree or another,
depending on a persons initial conditioning.
Any initial conditioning, especially to
extremes, is going to make this process more difficult. You will most likely
fixate yourself to a particular part of the process and go no further, for
example, experiencing love and light is but the start of this process, not an
ultimate state. There is no ultimate state as such as many teachings
teach/condition us to believe. All of what is, is the ultimate state void of
separation, however, the ego will never see this as being an ultimate state, it
has to be only of a higher stature!!
I really do hope this helps someone
understand this process of becoming more aware and wise. Try to become conditioned
by a practice that passively conditions you, this means avoiding any practices
that state that all the above is ego or negative and to avoid at all costs.
Everything is within an environment for a reason, use it wisely and free
yourself from non-passive conditionings. I do myself like eastern teachings,
even religious teachings like Hinduism. They don't have the same course
judgment of the negatives as we do in the west; it's far more passive and aware
in my mind. As we lesson bias judgment, we naturally become more aware and
wise, a state of freedom from bias judgments, even in participation.