Over time, you will find that there is a place inside you that is behind the commotion of the storm. You can simply relax and fall into that place. This is the place from which you are noticing the inner commotion, and this place is still, quiet, and there are never any storms. That is the Seat of Self. You don't find your way back to Self-you simply cease to leave.
Michael A. Singer, living untethered, page 188
Behind the veil of the mind, is who we really are...the True Self, the Atman, the Soul, the witness consciousness...whatever you want to call it ( I don't care if you call it Fred) ...The point is, there is someone or something in there, in you, that knows you are noticing all that is happening. There is an awareness of you being aware of awareness. ( Sounds like a riddle, eh?) .
So we have a "you"...a psyche, mind, personality with your name in your body, taking on your roles on this planet. This thing called "you" thinks and feels and is so lost in those thoughts and feelings it identifies as them. "I am depressed!" you will say. "I am a person with great problems,"you might also say. This "you" may say, "I am a happy house wife" or a "contened plumber". "I am cursed" or "I am blessed." All theses things it says it is are just "thoughts" and feelings...Yet...we believe it when it says, "This is who I am". . We believe what the mind says even though it can change on a dime.
This "me/you" is where we put most of our attention and energy. This "preferring" entity of ever-changing thought and feeling is what we feed. We spend most of our lives grabbing whatever we can from the outside world to give it what it tells us it needs or we strive to protect it from the things it tells us will make it unhappy or unwell. This thing comes to build its separate being based on all the things we have been through in life and its tendency to judge what is good for it and what is bad.
B.F. Skinner said, according to Michael Singer, that the psyche ( this entity of "me/you") is nothing more than the sum of all your learned experiences. The experiences you select to store within you becasue they were too unpleasant to deal with or too pleasant to let go of...is only 1 percent of all that unfolds in front of you. So it isn't a very "significant statistic" according to Michael A. Singer, in his podcast, The Veil of Mind. Yet this collected data, you allow to determine the quality of life you experience as this identified "me". Just a bunch of thoughts and feelings ...nothing substantial, nothing real. It makes your life a living hell full of storms and commotions.
Yet, this thing we made is not the only thing inside us. There is something Greater...something behind the veil that doesn't change, doesn't get disturbed, doesn't collect data ...that simply allows all of life to come into it and then it lets all of life go...clinging to nothing. Just peacefully and joyfully observing and experiencing. It is this Self that we are.... It is here where we long to be.
The only thing in the way...is this veil we created...this veil of "me"/"you"...a temporal, not long for this planet, ever-changing and samskara ridden entity. It is blocking our awareness of the space in the background and it is blocking all the wonderful light from that space from coming through. What we forget is we are that which is back there...we just need to get the "me" and all its samskaras out of the way. We need to let go of that which we cling to and fall back into this Seat of Self.
The thing is, we are already there right? We never left. This thing we created is not real...it is just something we made up and decided to believe is us. So we really didn't leave the Seat of Self, we just "thought" we did. Freedom comes when we realize that we are not that "me/you" we thought we were, fall back into the Seat of Self and decide never to leave again...never to get so lost in mind stuff that we forget who we are again. We observe Life from there ...letting it all in and letting it all go. No preferences!
Hmmm! Anyway...that is the way I see it. Thanks Michael Singer...for helping me realize this Life changing stuff.
All is well.
Always remember, it is spirit's job to liberate you from yourself. Shakti wants to be free, but you're in the way.
Michael SInger, page 186
Michael A. Singer (2022) living untethered. New Harbinger/Sounds True
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( February 12, 2023) The Veil of Mind. https://tou.org/talk-archive/
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