Reading and Watchfulness
Very few people read in a way that involves their own transformation. Self knowledge is an important building block to wisdom. You are sitting down or standing reading this. But you have never questioned how you are reading this. Most people read based on how they have been conditioned to read and therefore their reading is an avoidance of reality which gets in the way of direct experience. Most read to learn something or reaffirm what they already know, or agree or disagree with. Self knowledge is a movement in the moment. To be aware of your thoughts and feelings in action in the moment is to have a mind that is not burdened with the past. This sense of deep watchfulness brings about a different movement in human beings. To watch is to pay attention to feelings and action, without any sense to change, one way or another. In the moment one is giving one’s full attention to what is actually happening. This means one’s mind is not divided and therefore free to see both the cause and effect of what is happening in any given moment. Only a mind that is capable of being empty is capable of understanding.
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