Your mind can be both conscious and unconscious, but when you transcend your mind, there is no unconsciousness and no corresponding consciousness. Consciousness is a quality of your mind, but it is not your total mind. There is still a difference between consciousness and awareness. This doesn’t mean that awareness isn’t consciousness it is pure consciousness, but no one is conscious about it. If one begins by witnessing conscious activity, then the jump becomes easier – the jump into awareness without any conscious object, without any conscious subject, without any conscious activity at all. It is possible but arduous, so a step in between is helpful. It is difficult to jump from ordinary, unconscious action into awareness. That is, the activity has to be replaced by inactivity. But something more still has to be changed.

Something has changed: activity has become conscious unconsciousness has been replaced by consciousness. It is not awareness, but, as compared to ordinary activity, unconscious activity, it is a higher step.

Witnessing is a technique, a method toward awareness. So from ordinary unconscious activity to awareness there is a gap that can be filled by witnessing. You can do something and be unconscious – our ordinary activity is unconscious activity – but if you become conscious in it, it becomes witnessing.

But through witnessing awareness is possible, because witnessing means that it is a conscious act it is an act, but conscious. Awareness is non-doing witnessing implies a doer. So awareness doesn’t mean that anyone is aware, nor does it mean that anything is being attended to.Īwareness is total – total subjectivity and total objectivity as a single phenomenon – while in witnessing a duality exists between subject and object. Awareness is a total act, integrated the subject and the object are not related in it they are dissolved. There is no one who is witnessing in awareness there is no one who is being witnessed. Awareness is absolutely devoid of any subjectivity or objectivity. Witnessing is a relationship between subject and object. So the phenomenon of witnessing is divided between the subject and the object. Witnessing is still an act you are doing it, the ego is there. There is much difference between awareness and witnessing. Osho describes the difference between consciousness, witnessing and awareness: the essential three step progression to the Divine.

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