Special Experiences
It may happen that when you see what you really are, that a
special experience, or altered state of consciousness will
arise in the mind. Similarly, when you see this nothing
special may happen at all.
These sort of experiences are no different from a strong
experience of fear or jealousy or boredom – it is something
that is arising in the empty witnessing. The pleasant or
blissful experience will subside – the experience is not
what you are – it arose in what your are. The empty
witnessing was there before the experience, during and
after it.
All kinds of experiences will come and go in the story –
haven’t they always? What is real is just this empty
witnessing, ever present and unchanging.
Similarly, when you have seen this clearly there is no need
to act in any special way. How can you? Thoughts, actions
and events are just happening - you're not doing them. No
one is ever doing anything. Everything is just happening of
its own - it all happens in the living-nowness of this
empty witnessing which is no thing. Yet, you are it.