... inconsistent with the witness attitude. On the contrary by liberating from the ordinary Prakriti," 115 it makes easier the surrender to the higher or Page 128 divine Power. Very often when this witness attitude has not been taken but there is a successful calling in of the Force to act in one, one of the first things the Force does is to establish the witness attitude so as to be able... unassented Page 127 to, without meaning or justification, the contrary action of the nature. 113 In the same vein, Sri Aurobindo writes in another letter: The witness attitude is not meant as a convenient means for disowning the responsibility of one's defects and thereby refusing to mend them. It is meant for self-knowledge and, in our yoga, as a convenient station ...
... surrender it is not inconsistent with the witness attitude. On the contrary by liberating from the ordinary Prakriti, it makes easier the surrender to the higher or divine Power. Very often when this witness attitude has not been taken but there is a successful calling in of the Force to act in one, one of the first things the Force does is to establish the witness attitude so as to be able to act with less... Experiences of the Inner Being and the Inner Consciousness Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Inner Detachment and the Witness Attitude Inner Detachment It [ the individual consciousness ] is not by its nature detached from the mental and other activities. It can be detached, it can be involved. In the human consciousness it is as a rule always involved... a self-existent Ananda not depending on anything but the presence of the Divine, in which all works are done not out of personal interest or satisfaction but for the sake of the Divine. The Witness Attitude A man with a very developed introspective mind often identifies himself with the witness part of his mind and observes his own thoughts and studies their nature. That is a beginning which makes ...
... remaining primarily in the domain of our physical body, mind and emotions. Developing an awareness of the witness attitude—the observer within— stands central in all our work with Awareness through the Body. It is a never-ending process, a theme that resurfaces and grows. It is this witness attitude along with a deep sincerity that opens access to the psychic being. Objectives The key aim... use of the senses and breathing, collaboration with others, trust, responsibility for one's life and actions—but probably the key concept with which the work is done is the cultivation of the Witness attitude. This concept will be familiar to most of you as it originally emerged in Indian philosophy and is best known to the common man as saksibhava. The Witness is not directly defined for the students... landscape that involves ups and downs and crossing objects at different levels. Normally such an exercise is conceived as purely a balancing activity—keep the plate on the stick at any cost. Using the Witness attitude, however, it becomes a field for self-exploration and self-discovery. The students are led to examine how they keep the plate balanced, to see what state of mind or heart influences the activity ...
... 58 widening 74 Datey, K.K. 151 Defence mechanisms 90-91 Depth psychology 5,10,57 Depression 98,98fn, 111 Desire(s) 96-97, 101,102 Detachment 142-43; cf. Witness attitude Disidentification 135,136, 142 Doubt 94-95 Dreams 35, 37,42 Drug addiction 106 Dyer, Dr. Wayne 129fn Ebulia 95 Ego (egoism) 16, 18-19, 25,50, ... 35-37, 38, 39,105,106 the subliminal 38, 39-40,41 Tamas 130,142 tendency to keep grief 102 the two beings 138 the vital mind 90-91 weakness of will 103 witness attitude 126 Stress 100-01,145 Subconscient (subconscious), the 9-10,30,34-37,38-39, 105-08 and the inconscient 34 and the subliminal 8 and the submental 34-35 ... Physical, the Watson, J.B. 11 Welwood.John 20,24 Widening (oneself) (consciousness) 74,157-58 Wilber,Ken 18,20,57,58 Will see mental will under Mind Witness attitude 126; see also Detachment Wundt, Wilhelm 3 Yoga 21,83 and psychology see under Psychology and psychotherapy 55,62, 136-37 Page 166 ...
... witness of the movements of one's ordinary, surface nature. As Sri Aurobindo states: "Very often when this witness attitude has not been taken but there is a successful calling in of the Force to act in one, one of the first things the Force does is to establish the witness attitude so as to be able to act with less interference or immixture from the movements of the lower Prakriti." 8 ...
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