source Kopp Delaney
“Come home to yourself. Observe yourself. That’s why I said earlier that
self-observation is such a delightful and extraordinary thing. After a
while you don’t have to make any effort, because, as illusions begin to
crumble, you begin to know things that cannot be described. It’s called
happiness. Everything changes and you become addicted to awareness.
There’s the story of the disciple who went to the master and said, Could
you give me a word of wisdom? Could you tell me something that would
guide me through my days. It was the master’s day of silence, so he
picked up a pad. It said, Awareness. When the disciple saw it, he said,
This is too brief. Can you expand on it a bit? So the master took back
the pad and wrote, Awareness, awareness, awareness. The disciple said,
Yes, but what does it mean? The master took back the pad and wrote,
Awareness, awareness, awareness means awareness.
That’s what it is to
watch yourself. No one can show you how to do it, because he would be
giving you a technique, he would be programming you. But watch yourself.
When you talk to someone, are you aware of it or are you simply
identifying with it? When you got angry with somebody, were you aware
that you were angry or were you simply identifying with your anger?
Later, when you had the time, did you study your experience and attempt
to understand it? Where did it come from? What brought it on? I don’t
know of any other way to awareness. You only change what you understand.
What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You don’t
change
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