There is the observer, there is the observed, and there is a distance between them; that distance is called fear, attachment and the rest of our misery. The separation between the observed and the observer is human suffering. In witnessing, this separation goes away. Both the observed and the observer are gone — finished. Now there is a very new quality about them. You can call that quality ‘love’, or you can call that ‘witnessing’. And that’s beautiful.
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Questioner: What is the relationship between witnessing, the observer, and the observed?How does witnessing relate to J Krishnamurti’s statement “Observer is the observed?”
Acharya Prashant: What is observation? What is the observed one? Who is the observer?Who is the observer?
Listener: The mind (someone from the audience answers).
Acharya Prashant: The mind, right? Is it not something of obvious consideration that as we all sit here, we look at this color (pointing to the deep brown color in the background) in a very similar way? The proof is that all of us will give it the same name. Hardly anyone here will call this ‘yellow’. And is it a coincidence that all of these (pointing to the entire audience) are human beings and all of these, call this
