When you meditate you can try to name, or label, your thoughts every five minutes, or so.
Notice this part of your self that is observing and labeling the thinking and images.
This is called the Witness Consciousness, or the energy of Mindfulness – and is the part of our mind that remains forever untouched by its contents – by the thoughts and images arising within it.
A traditional metaphor for this aspect of mind is that it is similar to the deepest part of an ocean – which remains calm, still & silent, even if at its surface, waves (of thinking, emotion, or sensation) are raging.
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The witness, Sakshi in Sanskrit, is the only thing that never changes.
(a yoga teacher)
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