In part one, he examines the notion of self and the inner dialogue we all live with. Part two examines the experience of energy as it flows through us and works to show readers how to open their hearts to the energy of experience that permeates their lives. Ways to overcome tendencies to close down to the rest of the world are the subject of part three. Enlightenment, the embrace of universal consciousness, is the subject of part four.
And finally, in part five, Singer returns to daily life and the pursuit of unconditional happiness. Throughout, the book maintains a light and engaging tone, free from heavy dogma and prescriptive religious references. The easy exercises that figure in each chapter help readers experience the ideas that Singer presents. Just like reading about exercising in the gym will not make you stronger, so To the same extent, reading about soul searching will not help you to change your behavior.
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This book explores simple but complex points about freedom, the inner self, love, and suffering. Singer aims to help you change your relationship with yourself and the way you see the world while walking you through how consciousness and self-discipline are necessary to dispose of a painful burden and pave a path to self-realization.
Alden Marshall and the Condensed Esoterica Collection are wholly responsible for this content and are not associated with the original author in any way. You are encouraged to purchase and read the original text in addition to this summary. Singer provides unmatched clarity in describing the roadblocks to your own happiness and how to retake control of your mental health and well-being. Who could possibly win? It gets very confusing.
But I love him. Oh come on, you felt that way about Tom. What if you had married him? It will change sides in a moment if that seems to help. It simply adjusts its viewpoint and keeps on going. If you pay attention, these mental patterns will become obvious to you.
You might even try to yell at it in a feeble attempt to shut it up. I want to go to sleep. Why do you have to talk all the time? The best way to free yourself from this incessant chatter is to step back and view it objectively. Just view the voice as a vocalizing mechanism that is capable of making it appear like someone is in there talking to you. Stop feeling that one thing it says is you and the other thing it says is not you.
You are the one who hears the voice. Now shout it inside! Of course you can. There is a voice talking, and there is you who notices the voice talking. There is absolutely nothing that voice can say that is more you than anything else it says. This is also true of hearing the voice inside.
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind —you are the one who hears it. The answer is simple: none of them. If you watch it objectively, you will come to see that much of what the voice says is meaningless. Most of the talking is just a waste of time and energy.
The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it. The bottom line is, the sun will come up and the sun will go down. Billions of things are going on in this world. You can think about it all you want, but life is still going to keep on happening. In fact, your thoughts have far less impact on this world than you would like to think.
They have no effect on anything or anybody, except you. They are simply making you feel better or worse about what is going on now, what has gone on in the past, or what might go on in the future. You will someday come to see that there is no use for that incessant internal chatter, and there is no reason to constantly attempt to figure everything out. Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself.
Now this raises a serious question: If so much of what the voice says is meaningless and unnecessary, then why does it even exist?
The secret to answering this question lies in understanding why it says what it says when it says it. For example, in some cases the mental voice talks for the same reason that a teakettle whistles. This is easy to see when you are angry with someone and you feel like telling them off. Just watch how many times the inner voice tells them off before you even see them.
When energy builds up inside, you want to do something about it. He looks a lot like my first dog, Shadow. But why do you need this?
You should examine this very closely. If you see a tree, you effortlessly see the branches, the leaves, and the flowering buds. Why then do you have to verbalize what you have already seen?
The green leaves are so beautiful against the white flowers. Look how many flowers there are. Like backseat driving, it makes you feel as though things are more in your control. You actually feel like you have some relationship with them. A tree is no longer just a tree in the world that has nothing to do with you; it is a tree that you saw, labeled, and judged.
By verbalizing it mentally, you brought that initial direct experience of the world into the realm of your thoughts. There it becomes integrated with your other thoughts, such as those making up your value system and historical experiences. Take a moment to examine the difference between your experience of the outside world and your interactions with the mental world.
You are very accustomed to settling into the playground of the mind and creating and manipulating thoughts. This inner world is an alternate environment that is under your control. The outside world, however, marches to its own laws. When the voice narrates the outside world to you, those thoughts are now side by side, in parity, with all your other thoughts. All these thoughts intermix and actually influence your experience of the world around you.
What you end up experiencing is really a personal presentation of the world according to you, rather than the stark, unfiltered experience of what is really out there. This mental manipulation of the outer experience allows you to buffer reality as it comes in.
For example, there are myriad things that you see at any given moment, yet you only narrate a few of them. The ones you discuss in your mind are the ones that matter to you. With this subtle form of preprocessing, you manage to control the experience of reality so that it all fits together inside your mind. Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself. You have to watch this very carefully because you do it all the time.
You already knew it was cold. Why is it telling you this? That is why you mentally talk about it. This makes you feel more empowered. When your body experiences cold, there may be nothing you can do to affect the temperature.
Basically, you re-create the outside world inside yourself, and then you live in your mind. If you decide not to narrate and, instead, just consciously observe the world, you will feel more open and exposed. It does this by processing your current experiences in a way that makes them fit with your views of the past and visions of the future. All of this helps to create a semblance of control. Reality is just too real for most of us, so we temper it with the mind. You will come to see that the mind talks all the time because you gave it a job to do.
You use it as a protection mechanism, a form of defense. Ultimately, it makes you feel more secure. This world is unfolding and really has very little to do with you or your thoughts.
It was here long before you came, and it will be here long after you leave. True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection. This is done by constantly remembering that you are the one inside that notices the voice talking.
That is the way out. The one inside who is aware that you are always talking to yourself about yourself is always silent. It is a doorway to the depths of your being. To be aware that you are watching the voice talk is to stand on the threshold of a fantastic inner journey. If used properly, the same mental voice that has been a source of worry, distraction, and general neurosis can become the launching ground for true spiritual awakening.
Come to know the one who watches the voice, and you will come to know one of the great mysteries of creation. It always has a problem with something. Honestly, when was the last time you really had nothing bothering you? Before you had your current problem, there was a different problem. If you want to achieve peace in the face of your problems, you must understand why you perceive a particular situation as a problem. Who notices this inner disturbance? The very fact that you can see the disturbance means that you are not it.
The object is what you are seeing, in this case the inner disturbance. This act of maintaining objective awareness of the inner problem is always better than losing yourself in the outer situation. This is the essential difference between a spiritually minded person and a worldly person.
Worldly means that you think the solution to your inner problems is in the world outside. But nobody has ever truly become okay by changing things outside. The only real solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness and completely change your frame of reference. To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them. The first problem you have to deal with is your own reaction. You will not be able to solve anything outside until you own how the situation affects you inside.
Problems are generally not what they appear to be. When you get clear enough, you will realize that the real problem is that there is something inside of you that can have a problem with almost anything. The first step is to deal with that part of you. The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. There really is a way to let go of the part of you that sees everything as a problem.
You can watch yourself be jealous or angry. Who is it that sees all this? Who notices the changes going on inside? Once you take that seat of consciousness, you can get rid of these personal disturbances. You start by watching. Just be aware that you are aware of what is going on in there. I have more important things to do. This is a waste of time.
This is good. There are two distinct aspects of your inner being. The first is you, the awareness, the witness, the center of your willful intentions; and the other is that which you watch. The problem is, the part that you watch never shuts up. Real spiritual growth is about getting out of this predicament. It could ruin your wedding day, or even your wedding night! That part of you can ruin anything and everything, and it generally does.
But every time you drive it, your inner roommate finds something wrong with it. Once you see what this can do to your life, you are ready for spiritual growth.
One day it likes someone, and the next day it decides to pick on everything they do. My life is a mess just because this thing that lives in here with me has to make a melodrama out of everything.
Every time you meet somebody, every time the phone rings, just try to watch. Just watch what that voice has to say. You will see that it never lets you just take a peaceful shower. Your shower is for washing the body, not for watching the mind talk nonstop.
It just jumps from one subject to the next. But it is. You have to watch this if you want to be free of it. The way to catch on to what your inner roommate is really like is to personify it externally. Make believe that your roommate, the psyche, has a body of its own. You do this by taking the entire personality that you hear talking to you inside and imagine it as a person talking to you on the outside.
Just imagine that another person is now saying everything that your inner voice would say. Now spend a day with that person. The problem is, you have this person with you. You better go check. I want to finish watching the show. No, do it now. When will I get to eat? At one point, after a redhead appears on the show, your couch-mate starts mumbling about an ex-spouse and a painful divorce.
Then the yelling starts—just as though the ex- spouse were in the room with you! Then it stops, just as suddenly as it started. At this point, you find yourself hugging the far corner of the couch in a desperate attempt to get as far away from this disturbed person as you possibly can. Will you dare to do this experiment? Just try to get to know what you live with inside by externalizing the voice.
Give it a body and put it out there in the world just like everybody else. Let it be a person who says on the outside exactly what the voice of your mind says inside. Now make that person your best friend. After all, how many friends do you spend all of your time with and pay absolute attention to every word they say? How would you relate to a person who opened their mouth to say everything your mental voice says?
After a very short period of time, you would tell them to leave and never come back. No matter how much trouble it causes, you listen. What should I do? But you feel you owe the voice an answer. After seeing how often this person changed their mind, how conflicted they were on so many subjects, and how emotionally overreactive they tended to be, would you ever ask them for relationship or financial advice? As amazing as it seems, you do just that every moment of your life.
Have you ever bothered to check its credentials? How many times has that voice been totally wrong? I can feel it coming; I just know it. It was definitely a surprise to you, since you completely forgot the anniversary.
What if you had hired a relationship advisor who had given you that terrible advice? They had completely misread the entire situation. Had you listened to the advisor, you never would have picked up the phone. How could you ever trust their advice again after seeing how wrong they were? Well, are you going to fire your inner roommate? After all, its advice and analysis of the situation were totally wrong.
Is that rational? How many times has that voice been wrong about what was going on or what will be going on? Now the question becomes, how do you get rid of this inner troublemaker? You will now have a real use for them. You will be relieved to know that you are not the first person to have this problem. There are those who have gone before you who found themselves in the same situation. Many of them looked for guidance from those who had mastered this field of knowledge. They were given teachings and techniques, such as yoga, which were created to help in this process.
Yoga is not really about getting your body healthy, although it does that too. Yoga is about the knowledge that will help you out of your predicament, the knowledge that can free you. These practices are what you do with your time in order to free yourself from yourself. You will eventually catch on that you have to distance yourself from your psyche.
Your will is stronger than the habit of listening to that voice. Your will is supreme over all of this. If you want to free yourself, you must first become conscious enough to understand your predicament. Then you must commit yourself to the inner work of freedom. You do this as though your life depended on it, because it does. As it is right now, your life is not your own; it belongs to your inner roommate, the psyche.
You have to take it back. Stand firm in the seat of the witness and release the hold that the habitual mind has on you. This is your life—reclaim it. Who sees when I see? Who hears when I hear?
Who knows that I am aware? Who am I? Make believe that you and I are having a conversation. You tell them your name, for example, Sally Smith. Is that who you are—a collection of letters?
Is that who sees when you see? But then, who are you? My label is Sally Smith. I was born in in New York. I started dating in the ninth grade, and my first boyfriend was Joe. That is who I am. So you contemplate this, and you realize that never in your life have you asked yourself that question and really meant it.
That is what Ramana Maharshi was asking. I am five foot six and I weigh pounds, and here I am. So which are you? Are you the four foot six person or are you the five foot six person?
You told me you were. Perhaps we need to step back for a moment to ask some exploratory questions before returning to the core question. What you looked at has changed; but what about you, the one who is looking? You have to contemplate this very carefully. Who dreams? What does it mean to dream? Does the same you who is reading these words also look in the mirror and watch the dreams? When you awake, you know you saw the dream. There is a continuity of conscious awareness of being.
Ramana Maharshi was just asking some very simple questions: Who sees when you see? Who hears when you hear? Who watches the dreams? Who looks at the image in the mirror? Who is it that is having all these experiences? We can very easily generalize by saying that if you are the one who is looking at something, then that something is not you. That was easy. But who are you? You just have to pay attention and realize that you would still be in there experiencing feelings even if all the outside objects disappeared.
Imagine how much fear you would feel. You might also feel frustration, and even anger. But who would be feeling these things? Would you still be looking at the dog with the same intensity of focus?
Of course not. All of your attention can very quickly become absorbed in your emotions. But who feels the fear? Who feels love when you feel love? In essence, inside and outside objects compete for your attention. You are in there having both inner and outer experiences— but who are you? Eventually, you will begin to realize that the outside world and the flow of inner emotions come and go.
But you, the one who experiences these things, remain consciously aware of whatever passes before you. But where are you? Maybe we can find you in your thoughts. The question is, who is using the mind to form thoughts and then manipulate them into ideas and judgments? Does this experiencer of thoughts exist even when thoughts are not present? You are very aware of your presence of being, your sense of existence, without the help of thoughts. When you go into deep meditation, for example, the thoughts stop.
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