Another helpful approach is to ask yourself, "I wonder what my next thought will be..." and see what happens. Great video Andy!

1. Awareness: Thought comes. 2. Objectivity, not judgement. Thought is there. There is a thought, a program etc. but it isn't "me" 3. Realization: If I am capable of observing my thoughts, I cannot BE my thoughts. I am a "whiteboard" of thoughts. When you observe, you are not feeding thoughts. 4. Freedom from emotional entanglement

this is profound because it’s the first step in stepping out of a dream-like, automatic state, and into a conscious state where you can choose what to follow and what to dismiss, this is the power needed to change your life

We are awareness. And awareness looks upon anger with never having been angry, or upon fear never having been afraid, upon jealousy never having been jealous, etc. etc. etc. Great reminders from Keith Kavanagh and many others like you that are so aware that we are simply awareness. Thank you brother! 🤗 PEACE & CALM & JOY to you.

Become the sky & Not the clouds........I LOVE That!!!!

1:39 your 2nd thought is observing your first thought. If there is no thinking there is no thinker. In deep sleep no thinking no thinker. Thinking and thinker are the same.

It’s hard! my thoughts are tough as nail but I’ll keep trying to conquer them and become a masterful observer. I’m a new apprentice barely a baby but I won’t give up. 💆‍♀️

A great book to help anyone on this path..is watching your life..by Teja Anand..he has over 50 years experience...thanks for the video❤

I just broke through the (necessary) 'observer' stage last week. It is needed in order to completely 'rise' into absolute awareness. IMO there is just this 'one' stage above/after learning to observe. Basically, you can step back one more *critical* time from watching or 'observing' your thoughts. ... and alas. you-are-there-in-crystal-clear-awareness. 😉🕉 (deep studies since 2014). At least, this is what worked/works for me. 🕉🕉🕉

This is what Ramana Maharshi explained, if you do it, you will become a thinker without thoughts and dreamer without dreams. Your thoughts are generated by choiceless awareness received by five sences, eye ears nose taste and skin, if you stop receiving external awareness by shuttin down five senses, your mind will turn inward and start the inward journey . Now you can obesrve your thoughts. When thought ceses and become meaningless , you are going to meet yourself , the real you , who is sath- chith- anandaswaroop means soul with true bliss, this is what Jesus explained as "kingdome of God is with in yourself" . When you meet yourself , you will become God in the human form , shankaracharya told this as "aham bramhasmi" means "I am God". Jesus told the same " I am in the father and father is in me" I and God cannot be seperated . Jesus is the Budda of the West , unfortunately he was misunderstood and crucified. If everyone find God within himself , humans can creat heaven on earth. My salutation to God in you

Andy Wang, you're a warrior! Youre not a punk!

Thanks mate, very simple and clear message. 🎯⭐

Really helpful and concise Andy, subscribed.

The 'You' is 100% Thought

Thank you for your work we really appreciate it

Thank you for your video. It was well explained and excellent.

I found this really helpful thankyou

What are you on about, Andy Wang ? "Just observe your thoughts" you say. But the very action OF that observing REQUIRES a thought to initiate it ! So you can never be truly free of thoughts. And neither can you truly say that "You are not your thoughts." Even if there is ONE left, it's still needed. And even IF we temporarily removed ALL thoughts, how does that change the challenges we still must face every day whilst in this 3D life ? Whatever we do and say or is said and done to us by others is still going to provoke emotions within us of some kind. Will we get on better with the workmate who doesn't like you ? How will your boss react if you don't think whilst performing your work tasks ? Are we supposed to enjoy a migraine ? Or do we think to ourselves "I hate this horrible pain" ? Yes we acknowledge the pain. It will be there whether we think about it or not.

As J Krishnamurty says, "In observation, there are no words, there is no judgement". The moment you say, "There is the tought. That is not me". That's again one thought negating the other and you entrapped yourself again. In observation, there is no thinking.

Profoundness of observation varies

Thank you

Thanks so much for this!!

This i learned through osho the master .... You are absolutely right 🙏🙏🙏

I notice, not me, not my business. Thoughts are like the madperson ranting in the street

Thanku bro from india new sbsr

Thank you! ❤🙏

GOAT

Thank you!!

Brilliant video dude!

isn't observing just another thought. you've occupied the negative thoughts with another thought about observing your thoughts.

Beautiful🎉I had thesame realization

There’s nothing to gain from observing time aka thoughts so please don’t make a habit out of it. The brain loves mechanical behavior such as practicing observing thoughts. Just understand ALL thoughts are mental garbage and naturally your brain cells will ease up and silence enters. The key to observation is LEARNING. Discover what’s new about your observations ? Not your thoughts which are a collection of images and projections over a period of time.❤

That space is the “I am”…

It's all the choices for the moment, but I'm not sure if really "you" or "I'm" choosing it. I think there is only one "I" in this planet and that is knowing through all human conceptual self minds.

Whenever I try to observe my thoughts, they disappear, and I can think of practically nothing, it's as if my mind has been silenced. Is this a good sign?

Is visualization a good technique to stop thoughts and or not identify with those thoughts? Like for example just picturing straight up black or visualizing a nice location. I know it sounds a bit weird but just a hard focus point to not lose control of your mind.

I don't understand how to observe....like I hear my thoughts is that observing? Can you explain what you do when observing x

Life doesn’t happen to me life happens for me

what if our thoughts happens? then they prove that they are not just thoughts!

Surely we can observe ourselves, so does this mean we are not ourselves?

yas

Hey can you explain to me how I observe my thoughts?

Everything you may achieve by Meditation for long duration, I mean deep meditation.

But you watch your thoughts with the same mind that creates thought. The thoughts arent diferent of me, how creates them?

Ek❤

The I which is observing is already a biased I..how can that limited I approach the unlimited. The one who wants peace has to observe and it wil observe only if when you gather so much energy that can break the shell of limited I. It can only happen when there is pure attention like you give when you totally merge into something and for that particular time forget to yourself. And this can only happen if you really wanted to be free of burdens of life. And this can only happen when you firstly free of self centred activities you have to totally honest with yourself. and if you try this you will get punch daily form every person because everyone has ego and you'll get more and more hurt, your true ego will get crushed and after that detachment will arise. Spirituality is not. that easy. what most people do is they want peace and ofcourse will get peace, mind will give you whatever you want, but they're not free from fear, jealousy,envy, hatred.. if not in this life than another life they'll have work on this.

When i do that my all thoughts go away

You need to go deeper …. Then who is the observer ? The observer is another thought …. Listen to j Krishnamurti … Let me know if you have other advice 🙏

It's impossible to follow

He is following sadhguru ❤

You talk like. Osho rajneesh

We are not our thoughts but you can only think about thoughts. Why use a word like _observe_? There's no need. Nobody can control their thoughts, but, this being said, we usually have the opportunities to pick in what to think. So what actually sets us free from thoughts is not observing them, but to point them towards themselves. Put your thoughts to think about them and they will stop telling how horrible you, your face and your life are.

Hey bro you got a second ?

But the fact is you are a thought. That thought says you are not thought you are something else. Its all illusion

I have to say this is a nice train of thoughts. But its nothing more. Its not an observation. So be very careful what you do. Because what you practice here is called separation. What i observe is that IAM anger. Iam not different from anger. The observer is the observed therefore there is no oberver. You create a seperation between what you call "you" and your anger. Where there is seperation, there will be conflict. As you said it: you are not your thoughts. But what you mean with "you" is the whole body, the whole human. But "you" is a product of thought. Its a product of your mind. What you see as an "I" is nothing more but a movement of thought. So you are correct in some sense but you did not observed it. You used logic and analysis and that are not the tools of observation.

U r soo confusing