The Observer is the Observed
Imagine you're looking at an apple,
There are two things involved
The apple, the thing being seen.
You, the one seeing it.
The apple is the observed and You the observer.
Now let's take this a just take this a tinyyy bit further.
At night, when you're lying in bed, thousands of thoughts pass through your mind. Memories, worries, plans, dreams, emotions, could be your dr, could be the thought of getting into the void, all of them appear before you in your mind.
But if you can notice your thoughts, then your thoughts have become the observed.
And if your thoughts are being observed, then there must be something doing the observing
In that exact moment, your thoughts and the observer cannot be the same thing.
The same idea applies to your body,
You can look at your hands. You can see your face in a mirror. You can notice your heartbeat, your emotions, and even your personality changing over time, you cannot be the observed if you are observing yet here you are observing yourself
If you can observe all of these things, then are you really any of them?
Who is the one that is aware of them?
Imagine a mirror somehow became conscious and tried to see itself,it might think that it is what it reflects and not the one reflecting it yk? the mirror is not its reflections, it is not the image the object the tree the person standing infront of it, it is the one reflecting the images
Likewise,
Think of your mind as containing many "reflections"
Thoughts
Emotions
Memories
Desires
Fears
These mental states keep changing. minute to minute If they constantly changing, can they really be what you fundamentally are?
or are they just reflections appearing within awareness?
"I notice that I'm anxious."
there are 2 things happening here, your anxiety is present and there's something else aware of the anxiety
The anxiety is the reflection here
The awareness is the mirror
The awareness doesn't become anxious
It just notices the anxiety
Just like how a mirror doesn't become a tree when a tree appears in it.
The anxiety is the reflection and the awareness is the mirrorhe awareness doesn't become anxious.
It notices anxiety.
Just like a mirror doesn't become a tree when a tree appears in it.
What is the observer then?
the double split experiment in quantum physics says the same things. without an observer light behaves as a wave and with an observer light behaves as a particles which means that the presence of an observer affects reality
reality does not exist until you observe it
so then if you exist who is observing you?
which points to a realization that you are not in this universe you are the universe, you are the consciousness that the universe stems from,it runs from and one day will end from. you are shiva,vishnu as well as brahma. this is why jesus in the bible has said god is within you. its very important you do not become egoistical about this however, this knowledge will serve its true purpose once you completely disregard the ego
the advait vedanta a thousand years ago called this aham brahmasmi
"you are the universe experiencing itself"













