Observer and Observed.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
Is it possible to be both the observed and the observer simultaneously? It seems to me that the awareness of the observer reduces or dims the intensity of the observed’s experience, whether that experience is joy, sadness, anger, etc.
What if, as an observer, I wish to undergo as much intensity of an experience as the observed to fully appreciate the event?
Response:
Yes, it is possible to be the observer, the observed and the process of observation all in one. In fact, there aren’t three separate components to experience, it is one thing that we conceptually break apart to try to understand it. Just as you could conceptually break down bicycle riding into pedaling, steering and balancing. However, the experience of biking includes those elements but is something more as well. In Sanskrit, that oneness of experience is called the Samhita value of consciousness; a state of wholeness that includes the entirety of experience or knowledge. In that state, one mode does not dominate or diminish any of the other. It is only when awareness begins to lean toward the observer aspect that the observed aspect will recede in intensity. So to gain the maximum intensity (if you can call it that) from the experience, without losing the wholeness, then you want to have awareness remain on an even keel in that state of silent consciousness.
Love,
Deepak
