You think thats air you are breathing now?

Please check out this video from Matrix-1 - fight between neo and morpheus

Have you ever had this feeling of watching yourself go through some activity: the feeling where one part of you is going through the activity while another is passively aware that you are going through the activity. I am sure there would be some experience like that - mid way through some argument where you started feeling bored with it, mid way through a boring journey, a sudden surreal experience, during a sad event in your life etc etc.

That part of you which is passively aware of you going through an experience is the seer. For most people, it occasionally shows its head and then disappears, not to be seen for a long long time. But, this need not be the case. With a little bit of conscious effort, the seer can be kick started, nourished and be made healthy. This seer is the part of you that is permanent and unchanging. Its the canvas on which the constantly changing and evolving part of you, your personality, is pictured upon! Most often, due to the total absence of the seer, individuals are lost in the personality, the so-called lower self. This leads to a lot of unnecessary suffering - lot of retainment of pain from the past, lot of silly comparisons with others, conflicts etc etc. The lower self resides in the mind and higher self shows its face only when the activity of the mind subsides. By constantly practicing awareness, slowly but steadily, some of our life force is taken out of the lower self and is given to the higher self.

For the average person, almost all of his/her life force is given to the lower self. With constant practice of awareness, slowly but steadily, small shares of the life force is shifted to the seer. Initially the lower self cries foul at this and tries to smother the seer. Though it might succeed in this in the short term, this can never really totally happen. The eternal seer is eternally resilient and will come back from its ashes! When sincerely nourished for a short period of time, the seer quickly gains in strength and then comes a point when the life force is evenly distributed between the lower and the higher self and its game on!

Already the individuals life would have become lot more saner and calmer. With some more practice, the seer becomes all pervading and takes up most of the life force while the lower self is retained to add seasoning to life (granted, all seer would be a little bland :D). At this point, one will be able to see the arising of suffering in the mind. At this point, ones mind is so much under ones control, that the seer can simply decide not to indulge the mind in its need to suffer. The seer would tell the individual something equivalent to what Morpheus told Neo in the fight. Check out this part again. Then, the arising suffering may simply be shaken off in an instant - just like what Neo did. And this is no fairy tale. A powerful seer is so much under control that it will no longer put up with a mind that decides to go its own way. It will kick the mind on its butt and ask it to behave. How many times have we all cursed some software that decided to go its own way. The mind is nothing but software. Lets better bring it under control by awakening our seer.