Awakening the Observer
What if the chaos within you could be softened? What if your mind could become your servant instead of your master? Most of us are carried away by our own thoughts and emotions, letting them dictate our moods, reactions, behavior, and well-being. We believe we are our thoughts and emotions. But what if we are something far greater, the awareness behind them?
Imagine your thoughts and emotions as a train rushing through the landscape of your mind. Each wagon carries a memory, a fear, a desire, a judgment, a dream. For years you have been riding that train, jumping from one wagon to another, identifying with every passing story and feeling. You have been carried upward by joy and crushed by sorrow, lifted by hope and weighed down by fear. Sometimes it races like a bullet train; other times it moves slowly through fog. Yet all this time, you’ve been inside, never realizing you could step off.
Now imagine you stand on a bridge above the tracks. The train passes below. You watch the wagons go by, anger, doubt, jealousy, joy, hope. You see them, but you do not climb aboard. You feel them, but you do not become them. You simply observe. You see a wave of irritation, but you do not follow it. You see a cloud of fear, but you let it drift away. Then you notice something profound: you are not the train. You are the sky.
Psychologists call this mindfulness. Mystics call it awareness. It is the art of observing without judging, of seeing without becoming. Each time you witness a thought instead of following it, each time you feel an emotion without feeding it, you strengthen your inner peace and you calm your mind. You slow the train. And the observer within you grows stronger.
So, practice being the witness. Watch your mind, your emotions, your stories. Be kind to others, but especially to yourself. Be light to others, but especially to yourself. The more you awaken within, the more light you bring into the world.
And one day, as you stand on the bridge waiting to watch the train pass quietly beneath you, you will smile, for you will see there is no train at all. You were never the passenger. You were never your thoughts and emotions. You were always observer…the vast, peaceful sky in which everything comes and goes.
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Author: Maurice "Mao" Correa
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