November Project: Question #16
This question comes from Donal on the original November Project post. He can be found on Twitter @irldexter .
For the watcher to act with wisdom, does practice entail sacrifice?
Thank you for the question, Donal.
The watcher will never know if it acts with wisdom. The interpreter might decide whether or not the actions are wise. But the watcher is not the interpreter; it is all action.
The watcher will never know if it has sacrificed. It may go days without eating, years without a loving embrace, and it may never have the money to buy beautiful clothes, or expensive cars. But where is the sacrifice? Where might it sit?
The watcher may be wise, and it may have sacrificed much, but that is for the interpreter...not the watcher.
7 comments, since Nove
Oh Takuin! I wish i knew where my watcher is.
a,
She's just a bit tired. Sleeping.
She'll wake up soon...
In gassho.
_/|\_
This post has confused me:) During meditation I have come across an awareness that seems to be watching me yet at the same time it is eternal. Is this what you mean?
Thanks, Mits.
Is it watching you, is it actually you, or is it something else?
Thanks, Mits.
That is a bit different from what I was talking about in the post. It is more about the labeling of activity in hindsight. The watcher will never know if it is wise, as that would require the watcher to place attention on a moment from the past and attach a suitable label to the event.
We could call it a doing without a name. There is no label, nor any person to attach significance to a label.
I don't know if that helps...
I think it is me as it seems to be eternal or infinite? if this makes sense? Where does one go from here? As some people may say it is the absolute, some may say it is god, some may say it is the Higher Self. Others may say it is the Divine Self?