{"id":623,"date":"2014-11-29T18:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2014-11-29T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:17:50","slug":"process-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/meditation-advice\/process-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Process of Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_624\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/witness1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-624\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-624\" src=\"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/witness1.jpg\" alt=\"witness quote by Osho\" width=\"350\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/witness1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/witness1-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simply sitting silently, witnessing your thoughts&#8230;.and the moment will come<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.<\/p>\n<p>And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.\u201d\u00a0 <strong>? Osho<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}