Corrected title: Bitten by the black snake: the ancient wisdom of Ashtavakra, the great Indian sage.

The first sutra:

The witnessing consciousness

The doer and the observer

Getting in the way of liberation

Games of the mind

Desire for enlightenment

A state of happiness

Behind the mask

Free will

Modern meditation

The space of stillness

Perceiving with the senses

Light vs. religion

Consciousness and heart energy

Stillness of the heart

The second sutra:

Looking out, looking in

The act of projection

The art of observation

The space of no reaction

Awareness and observation

No separation

Observing the whole

The freedom of one mind

The power of rebelling

As you think, so you are

Reality and projection

The serpent of ego

Thought processes

The process of doing

Creating desire

Waking up

Observing desire

The third sutra:

Being the observer

The end of separation

Bondage and innocence

Confusion creates observation

The bondage of motivation

Nothing to do

Faith and belief

Faith in consciousness

Form and stillness

Stillness of the heart

Being with what is

Reflecting consciousness

The stillness of emptiness

The fourth sutra:

The spiritual ego

Bypassing the ego

Becoming still

The structure of feelings

A third state

Lost connections

Beyond the ego

Knowing there is nothing

Sneaking around the ego

Feeding the climate

Dropping into stillness

The fifth sutra:

Creating illusion

Living in the heart

Beyond desire

Fear and desire

A question of motivation

Forgetting the self

Effortless awareness

Nothing special

Seeing the whole

Attachment to detaching

Desiring liberation

Working with the heart

The sixth sutra:

Happiness itself

Creating fear

The ego is like the apple

Transformation through observation

Off the map

The identification game

Can the climate change?