LAW OF THREE (55) The Observer

LAW OF THREE (55)

THE OBSERVER

"In non-duality the separate self sense is greatly reduced and even disappears. Everything that happens is the direct experience of reality. It is being able to lead ordinary life without thinking of oneself. When you look at a tree, it is a tree, and not you looking at a tree. The latter is the response of our rational intellect.  "Thomas Keating 

Who is looking at a tree?

"That which makes the eye see, but needs no eye to see, that alone is Spirit."  

The Kena Upanishad:

The observer that can be observed is not the observer.

David Finkelstein

In observation' we can discern three independent forces: the seer, the seeing, and the seen.  Our individual power of attention enables us to exert the power of seeing just by focusing the attention to an object  However the source of sight does not come from ourselves. The power of 'seeing' is given. 

Full attention without reference to the ego (felt-self-sense) gives rise to those rare moments of experience without thought. In the absence of thinking you are simply seeing.You see the tree and not you looking at a tree.  This is the experience of the unity of seer-seeing-seen.