The Silent Consciousness Inside – BionicOldGuy

Meditation lecturers discuss a silence inside us in between ideas, and inform us to consider our minds just like the display screen in a movie show. Our ideas and feelings seem on the display screen, however in between ideas, the display screen is our true nature, pure unconditioned consciousness. One other analogy is that our consciousness is the sky, and ideas are simply clouds showing in it. I’ve gotten a style of this, when my thoughts will get quiet throughout meditation (sitting or transferring), or spontaneously in nature, and it is extremely enjoyable. This consciousness is totally nonjudgemental so it feels unconditionally loving. Yoga instructor Lilias Folan referred to as it the “witness inside that observes every part and judges nothing”. I really feel I’m making progress in self-transformation once I can domesticate this sense. So I used to be completely satisfied to return throughout two books just lately that discuss it.

The primary is Silent Consciousness: The Revelation That Adjustments The whole lot by meditation instructor Cynthia Overweg. This e-book is stuffed with essays to present us a really feel for what this consciousness looks like which I discovered inspirational. There are additionally some good workouts to expertise it which serve properly for meditation.

The second is Consciousness Adventures: Discovering Your True Nature by Brian Tom O’Connor. He begins by telling us his personal story which is attention-grabbing as a result of it includes a nontraditional method to meditation. Brian was severely depressed and present process remedy. He tried numerous standard meditation strategies however they didn’t work properly for him. He got here up together with his personal “consciousness video games”, which had been imaginative methods to look at his personal consciousness and search for his true nature inside. He found that the extra he related to the silent consciousness past thought, the happier he grew to become. It seems his “video games” match right into a department of yoga philosophy that seeks to inquire inside to search out out who we actually are past our day-to-day thoughts chatter. Well-known lecturers on this line embody J. Krishnamurti and Sri Ramana Maharshi, who was identified for instructing us to relentlessly inquire “who am I?”, however we’ve got to appreciate that the reply can’t be ascertained intellectually. I had beforehand discovered such a method to be type of dry and didn’t get far with it as a meditation method. However Brian’s consciousness video games make it enjoyable.

I like to recommend each of those books. We’d like a break from our overactive and overstimulated on a regular basis minds.