by winston » Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:08 am
Choiceless Awareness
"Choiceless Awareness" implies to be aware both objectively, outside and inwardly, without any choice.
Just to be aware of the colours, of the tent, of the trees, the mountains, nature – just to be aware.
Not choose, say, ‘I like this’, ‘I don’t like that’ or ‘I want this’, ‘I don’t want that’. Right?
To observe without the observer. The observer is the past, which is conditioned, therefore he is always looking from that conditioned point of view, therefore there is like and dislike, my race, your race, my god, your god, all the rest of it.
We are saying to be aware implies to observe the whole environment around you, the mountains, the trees, the ugly walls, the towns, aware, look at it.
And in that observation there is no decision, no will, no choice. Get it? You understand it?
J. Krishnamurti
Talk 7, Saanen (Switzerland), 1977
It's all about "how much you made when you were right" & "how little you lost when you were wrong"