How to Witness Thoughts in Zen Meditation

Zen meditation is the path of awareness. You areimpossible.
about to learn how to attain witness consciousness,You simply watch it arise and disappear without
how to be free from desire and how to tell thegrabbing hold of it.
difference between witnessing a thought versusSo you see, in Zen meditation, as you learn to
getting identified with it.witness thoughts, you see that thoughts arise and
In Zen meditation, you learn to witness thoughts bydisappear on their own. You are not thinking the
learning to stop identifying with them.thoughts, they happen regardless of you.
If a thought arises 'I would really like an ice-cream'In Zen meditation, you discover you are not the
and you consider yourself the 'I' in that sentence thatmind; you are the witness of the mind. And it is here
wants an ice-cream, that is identification.you experience witness consciousness.
With identification, you are in a dream state. You areLike walking by a television that is on. You notice the
somewhere else besides here.television and you let it go. You don't sit down and
If that same thought arises and you just notice it aswatch it. You do not become engrossed in it.
a thought arising, without being involved in theAnd if you're really present, you don't even
meaning of the thought, that is witnessing. This isbotherlooking to see what program is on.
Zen meditation.It is there, making noise and you are aware of it.
The thought arises and disappears and youAnd because you are aware of it, what noise it is
remainpresent and watching.making does not affect you.
In this you see the thought that you want anYou remain as awareness and the nature of
ice-cream arose on its own. You did not want anawareness is bliss.
ice-cream, the desire arose on its own and you eitherThis is the essence of Zen meditation and how to
identified with it or you witnessed it.enter witness consciousness. Learn how you can
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