cee: It seems like for endless eons I have been looking and witnessing the states of mind. i was instructed to look the other way. it made a huge difference. even the witness had some sense of identity to it. the states of mind have no reality. what is leftover is unmoving, so complete. this teaching will take one all the way. the inquiry is the perfect tool to dissolve any concept of who I am, and it is communicated in silence because there is only one here, but the words are perfect also. there is nothing left over. there is nothing left over.
nome: yes, the whole purpose of the inquiry is to negate whatever is “other” so that the sense of reality returns to its rightful place, so the sense of Identity returns to its rightful place. in relation to all else, when we consider all else, whether we view all else as real, as a passing phenomena, as a dream - however it is viewed, in relation to all else - the self is referred to as the witness, not just the witness of phenomena, of course, but witness of the content of the mind, witness of whole states of m ind such as waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, within which is all the content and all the objects or worlds that one ever experiences. in relation to all that, it has been called the witness. that very same thing, called “the witness,” not in relation to anything else, is just pure consciousness, the unmoving reality that has no change.
how does it get to be “not in relation to anything else?” by deep inquiry, recognize there is no such thing as "anything else.” it is not that we ignore anything else. rather, we are no longer ignorant, and so no longer conceive of “anything else.” then that very same thing that was called the witness is just resting in itself as pure consciousness, one without a second.
that is the abiding reality. it is completely unmoving. it has no change at any time. if some idea arises, even so much as the idea of “i,” whether that “i” appears as an experiencer, a thinker, an embodied being, so forth and so on, then the inquiry should be taken upright then and there, so the sense of identity or reality remains firmly right where it belongs, not mixed up with something that is really born out of imagination. yes, the way is always non-objective, not looking outward, which means looking into imagination, but looking inward, which really means not a direction but in terms of knowledge.