Jogrid of Shymasters.

What does it mean to do the inner work?

There's so many techniques to start with.

We talk about witness consciousness, objective observation.

That isn't just to start with.

The further you go, I don't care how long you've done it,

you're going to find out that is your way out. When it's said and done, can you notice what

is going on in there without you doing anything? You don't try to notice. Here, open your eyes. Do you see the room? How hard was that?

That's how hard it is. That's what witness consciousness is. It's the exact same thing

happening inside instead of outside. It does not require will. It does not require effort. It does not require will, does not require effort, does not require

techniques to see what you see, does it? Inside, there's stuff to see. There's a lot going on in there.

The question is, can you objectively see it? Can you just notice he's being neurotic? He fell in love. His heart is closed. His heart is open. He's feeling anger. He's feeling jealousy. He's feeling insecurity. They are happening. You use the words all the time. You do notice, don't you?

When you feel anger, do you notice anger?

When you feel jealousy, do you notice jealousy?

It's gone on a side of you.

You do notice or you wouldn't know what's happening.

That's how simple witness consciousness is.

That's how simple, Krishna, really called objective observation, the ability not to make

things happen, to objectively see what's happening. It's so easy, it's ridiculous. You can't

not see. You see every minute. Do you see your thoughts? Can your thoughts be negative? Can they be

positive? Can they be insecure? Can it be secure? Can it be big ego stuff? Can it be scared stuff? Yes or no? How do you know? Every one of you can tell me. You can sit and say, God, I'm having so much trouble with my mind. I told you once, you do not want to come to me for therapy. Sometimes they write, they say, does he do a one-on-one? No. Why? Is he too busy? No, you don't want to be there with him doing one-on-one. Because you're going to come here and say, I broke up and my girlfriend or boyfriend left me, and my heart is killing, it's just killing me, it's never been this bad. I will listen

for, I don't know, 20 seconds, and I will ask you a very simple question, how do you know? How do you

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