Power of Restful Awareness
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September 8, 2010
Restful awareness is the direct way to living enlightenment. Let me define restful awareness. When you walk, feel through your body, who is perceiving the earth and who is seeing the scenes? Just see with awareness, feel with awareness the cold, and feel with awareness how you respond to the morning. Feel with awareness how you are responding to your own, old, boring and worrying thoughts. Such a beautiful morning, but suddenly, some thought about something that happened some days before disturbs you. One thought is enough to take away the whole beauty of this morning. Perceive with awareness. The awareness which perceives is only you, nothing else! The moment you bring awareness, two things will happen. One, slowing down. Second, the immediate shift in your consciousness - what I call a cognitive shift. In the space where cognition happens in you, the gear gets shifted from matter to Consciousness. Unclutching is necessary only for this shift to happen. For any gear change, you need dis-clutching of the gear box and the engine. In the same way, for the cognitive shift from matter to energy, Consciousness, you need that unclutching. Infusing awareness into you will automatically make unclutching happen, and the shift in how you perceive will happen immediately.
Activity Less thoughts, less action is tamas or inertness. More thoughts, more action is rajas or restlessness. Less thoughts, more action is sattva: living enlightenment. Just live for a few days with less thoughts and more actions. Be aware while you walk; perceive through your eyes, and perceive through all your other senses, remembering and knowing that you are different from whatever you are perceiving.
When you start perceiving through all the instruments with which you can perceive, including your mind, you will exactly feel - empty. You will think, Oh God! Then all my worries, fears, insecurities, and greed have no base!
That is the truth! So infuse awareness again and again and again. You will see, less thoughts and more action happens immediately. The moment less thoughts have started happening, the body and mind will be in a different space.
