This last week’s meditation program, Program #05: Like the Empty Sky it has No Boundaries, inspired the latest posting on another koan.
Osho speaks about both watching the mind and forgetting the content. The two together seem to be quite a paradox. If I watch the mind, how can I forget the content? And if I forget the content, how can I watch the mind? When I first try to put into practice both of these instructions, I find that I am constantly flipping back and forth. So how can I simultaneously watch the activities of the mind and forget the content?
What I have found is that if I watch the mind in the same way as I watch a movie or a television show then indeed there is no way to both watch and forget the content. But if I watch with the qualities that are prescribed by Osho, that is watching without grasping and without rejecting, watching without analyzing, and watching without judging and at the same time remember that I am the watcher and not the content (the double-pointed arrow), then slowly, slowly the content begins to evaporate and I am left with only a watchingness without content. And so, here I am watching, and the content is forgotten, or more accurately the content has disappeared on its own, and there is no more flipping back and forth, at least until of course I fall out of watching with these qualities.
-purushottama
For more on this topic, you may wish to explore:
The Awakening of the Double-Pointed Arrow
Wonderfully put, Purrushotama!
Thank you 🙏❣️
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