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<v Speaker 1>The observer is awake. You built that through the weeks

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<v Speaker 1>of noticing, through the moments you caught the thought before

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<v Speaker 1>it named you, through the pause you found in places

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<v Speaker 1>where there used to be no pause at all. The

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<v Speaker 1>observer is awake, and today something new begins. Breathe feel

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<v Speaker 1>the particular quality of this breath. Not the first breath

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<v Speaker 1>of someone beginning, but the breath of someone who has

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<v Speaker 1>already been changed by the work of paying attention. There

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<v Speaker 1>is a pattern somewhere in your life. You already know,

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<v Speaker 1>the one, not the most dramatic, not the most shame fall,

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<v Speaker 1>the one the observer has already noticed, the one that

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<v Speaker 1>arrives on queue, the one that runs before you have

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<v Speaker 1>quite decided to let it. Let it be present now,

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<v Speaker 1>not as a.

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<v Speaker 2>Problem, not as evidence of anything about your character, simply

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<v Speaker 2>as a pattern, a pathway worn smooth by repetition, a

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<v Speaker 2>route the nervous system knows by heart. Feel how familiar

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<v Speaker 2>it is, how ordinary, how automatic. Now find the moment

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<v Speaker 2>just before the Q, the trigger, the particular feeling or

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<v Speaker 2>time or situation that has always preceded the dramatic.

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<v Speaker 3>Sit at that threshold. Not to fight it, not to

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<v Speaker 3>judge what comes after simply to notice there is a

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<v Speaker 3>moment here, a breath width of space, a gap so

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<v Speaker 3>small it was invisible before the observer was built. It

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<v Speaker 3>is visible now.

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<v Speaker 2>In that gap. The chooser lives, not a warrior, not

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<v Speaker 2>a disciplinarian, not a voice that shouts or strains or

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<v Speaker 2>white knuckles through the wanting something quieter, a presence that

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<v Speaker 2>simply asks, is this what I'm choosing? That question is enough,

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<v Speaker 2>not because it always changes what happens next, but because

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<v Speaker 2>it inserts you, the conscious, choosing, awake version of you,

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<v Speaker 2>into a process that was running without you. You are

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<v Speaker 2>in the room now. The automatic may still run, and

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<v Speaker 2>if it does, you will notice that too. And that

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<v Speaker 2>noticing is not failure. That noticing is the chooser learning

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<v Speaker 2>the territory breathe. Think of one moment in a recent

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<v Speaker 2>day where the automatic ran before you noticed. Hold it gently,

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<v Speaker 2>no verdict, no weight, just the plain fact of it. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>find the moment just before that moment, the cue, the threshold,

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<v Speaker 2>the breath with gap where the chooser could have been.

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<v Speaker 2>It is there, It was always there. You can see

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<v Speaker 2>it now. That is enough for to day, not to

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<v Speaker 2>change it, yet not to overcome it. Simply to see it,

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<v Speaker 2>because the nervous system cannot change what it cannot see.

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<v Speaker 1>And you, you can.

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<v Speaker 2>See now the observer is awake, the chooser is beginning.

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<v Speaker 2>And what begins quietly in the ordinary moments and the breath,

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<v Speaker 2>with gap between the cue and the automatic, it becomes

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<v Speaker 2>over time the architecture of a life built not by

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<v Speaker 2>accident

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<v Speaker 3>But by choice,