A stage can be reached when one feels deeply that whatever is being done is

happening, and one has not got anything to do with it. Next, that whatever is
happening is not happening really. Whatever is happening is an illusion. Then one
feels that one is being lived, that whatever one is doing, one is not doing, but is
made to do it.
All that happens, happens in and to the mind, not to the source of the 'I am'. Once
you realize that all happens by itself (call it destiny or the will of God or mere
accident), you remain as witness only, understanding and enjoying, but not
perturbed.
A wise yogi views the world as transitory, as inert, and as a passing dream. Such a
one never expects the world to provide him with what is his: happiness, identity,
and reality.
All happens as if there is a mysterious power that creates and moves everything.
Realize that you are not the mover, only the observer, and you will be at peace. Of
course that power is not separate from you. But you must begin by being the
dispassionate observer.
All the difficulties in one's life should be merely watched like something in a
play. When one scene is finished, another scene takes place. The entire play does
not take place anywhere but in yourself. Ultimately the scenes that take place are
merely movements in your own consciousness.
Before this knowledge 'I am' appeared on you, you were absolutely unattached. As
soon as this knowledge dawned on you became attached to everything around you. Only
that false 'I' is attached. Everything is just happening and that false 'I' is
taking the credit for doing things.
Detachment is the feeling that all this is an appearance.
Dis-identification can only take place when it is understood that there is no
entity, and that what is happening is merely the program of the functioning of
consciousness. There is merely the functioning of consciousness, there is no entity
who is causing it, and there is no entity who is suffering. If this is not
understood all kinds of misconceptions occur.
In life itself a little whorl arises in the mind, which indulges in fantasies and
imagines itself dominating and controlling life. Life itself is desireless. But the
false self wants to continue… pleasantly. Therefore it is always engaged in
ensuring one's continuity. Life is unafraid and free. As long as you have the idea
of influencing events, liberation is not for you. The very notion of doership, of
being a cause, is bondage.
Just realize you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways
out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your
dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have
seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.
Let anything come and go. The attitude of pure witnessing is of watching the events
without taking part in them.
Look at consciousness as something that happens to you and not in you, as something
external, alien, superimposed. Then, suddenly you are free of consciousness, really
alone, with nothing to intrude. And that is your true state. You cannot step out of
consciousness for the very idea of stepping out is in consciousness. But if you
learn to look at your consciousness as a sort of fever, personal and private, in
which you are enclosed like a chick in its shell, out of this very attitude will
come the crisis which will break the shell.
Look at your body as if it belong to another. Then you will have a glimpse of
freedom from the burden of it, a moment of psychological space. Become interested
in this feeling of freedom, and it will be effortlessly sustained.
Once you realize that you are not the body, then there is no more attraction for
the manifestation. When a firm conviction is established that one is not the body,
things are merely happening by themselves and no credit is claimed. Such a one can
have no needs and demands.
Start by being within yourself, in the 'I amness', remaining as a dispassionate
witness, quietly watching the flow of the mind, observing whatever comes to the
surface. What we call thoughts are like ripples on the surface of water. Just as
water is serene when free of ripples, so is the mind serene when free of thoughts,
when it is passive and fully receptive. In the mirror of your mind all kinds of
pictures will appear; they will stay for awhile and then disappear. Silently watch
them come and go. Be alert but do not get involved; be neither attracted nor
repelled, neither interfering nor judging. This attitude of silent witnessing will
have the effect, gradually, of driving away all useless thoughts, like unwanted
guests who are being ignored. Then the deep unknown will be encouraged to come to
the surface of consciousness and release its unused energies to enable you to
understand its mystery.
There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up. It is your idea that you have
to do things that entangle you in the results of your efforts. There is nothing to
be done. Let it flow, just watch, do nothing about it.
Things happen as they will. All dealings in the world go on spontaneously. A rare
one will deliberate on this point and discriminate.
We have no control over our dreams; similarly, during wakefulness everything
happens automatically.
When you realize such a state everything will be done, don't participate, just
watch the happenings effortlessly.
In the waking state, to remain without thought is the greatest worship. You should
not feel 'I am so-and-so' while carrying out your activities.
Always keep your identity separate from this body while doing the working, thinking
and talking, it has appeared on you, you are not the body.
As long as you feel you have to do something or gain some result, it means that you
are still in the clutches of the illusion. Forget the illusion and be Him. Doing
nothing is Reality.
Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that
you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.