Krishnamurti - Choiceless Awareness

It was like listening to a discourse of the Buddhasuch power, such intrinsic authority.

Original editors: Douglas Evans and Frode Steen.
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This journey I am proposing A fundamental transformation of the mind

What is Awareness? You cant be totally aware if you are choosing Being fully conscious of ones whole process of thinking, and being able to go beyond that process, is awareness When you say, I must be aware all the time, you have made a problem of it Out of this awareness there comes a clarity that is not induced The what is is what you are, not what you would like to be The awareness of which I speak is of what is from moment to moment. The beauty of listening Awareness is noneffort Do it, and you will see Awareness takes place when one observes Awareness is not self-improvement.

How can a process observe itself? My relationship undergoes a tremendous revolution If you can look without the observer, a totally different action takes place If the thinker is not understood, obviously his thinking is a process of escape.

Choicelessly Observant A Different Kind of Learning Experience hardens into a center, and from this center we act Can I discover for myself the activities of my ego? Expanding consciousness is always within the radius which the center creates When you are aware that you are transformed, you are not Creative release comes only when the thinker is the thought The self is always limited Is it possible for the mind ever to be free from selfcentered activity?

The field of consciousness No solution of any kind There is a stillness which is not induced Can there be thinking without memory? Without being aware and experiencing the ways of thought, love cannot be Forget the ideal, and be aware of what you are An ideal is merely a distraction To understand the actual requires awareness, a very alert, swift mind Can a conflict be overcome in a period of time? The moment the mind demands more, it must of necessity create time To discover what is beyond time, thought must come to an end If you can really understand this.

The very awareness of what I am brings about transformation Transformation and the Energy to Change We must be aware of how we dissipate energy In facing a fact there is a release of energy To awaken this energy, the mind must have no resistance The mirror of relationship It is only when the fundamental process of thinking is uncovered through awareness in relationship that it is possible to understand and be free Our conflict is in relationship When we regard relationship from a fixed point Self-knowledge is not a result When I can look at you and you can look at me without the image of memory Why does one create an image about oneself? What happens when I am aware of the fact that I have built an image of myself ? Are you anything in yourself? Is it possible to observe without the thinker? When one has a certain feeling, can that feeling be left unnamed and be looked at purely as a fact? Is it possible for the mind not to accept or deny? Cant I just look?

Can the mind dissociate the feeling which is called envy from the word? In this state of total awareness If you observe it with intensity, with a certain swiftness, you will go beyond ambition In the moment of being aware of fear An innocent mind has no fear In the intensity of observation, of feeling, of real affection, love has its own action When thought thinks about desire Can the mind be fully aware of the fact that it is lonely, insufficient, empty? Can the mind be aware of that emptiness without naming it? It is possible to stop escapes only when you are aware that you are escaping Most of us dont want to be intensely aware; it is too disturbing It is futile to fight one habit by another habit To understand one habit is to open the door to understanding the whole machinery of habit To live with beauty, or to live with an ugly thing, and not become habituated to it requires enormous energy A confused mind cannot find clarity What is essential is to see that one is confused.

Just look without thought You cannot explore if you are not free When the mind is free from all its projections, there is a state of quietness in which problems cease What is this silence? Can it be described? You cannot come to it by practice, by saying, I will first attempt to be aware, then choicelessly aware, then attentive, then silence. If the mind is totally aware in that quality of pure clarity, then out of that there is creation.

It is this total process that gives freedom, that gives comprehension, that gives understanding, and not the partial process.

This 'study book' is comprised of excerpts from the public talks, questions and answers, conversations, and writings of J. Krishnamurti on the subject of relationship. Krishnamurti speaks from such a large perspective that his whole vision can be implied by a given passage. To follow the thread of one's own inquiry, and to see how a passage is related to a whole discourse, one can refer to the sources provided at the end of each excerpt (a detailed bibliography can be found at the end of the volume). The intent of the teachings, and of these passages, is to serve as a springboard for further inquiry.