Month: January 2023

• January 3, 2023

  Being The Witness Purifies The Bodymind

  While re-reading Nisargadatta’s “modern spiritual classic” I Am That, I was pleasantly surprised to find him making two sorts of claims about taking one’s stand as the witness. You can find both claims in one marvelous sentence: “The idea ‘I am the witness only’ will purify the body and the mind and open the eye…
• January 2, 2023

  For Nisargadatta, The Witness As A Bridge

  In I Am That, Nisargadatta offers us not just any bridge but the most direct bridge from misidentification to Ultimacy. In fact, he couldn’t be any clearer about the role that the witness plays in his teaching: The person is never the subject [Nisargadatta tells one seeker]. You can see a person, but you are…