Jiddu Krishnamurti on Choiceless Awareness

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According to the well-known thinker J. Krishnamurti, choiceless awareness is a way of observing without making judgments. A choice interferes with the observer, preventing the mind from seeing "what is" without division or bias.

Choiceless awareness is not a method; it is a state of intense, passive alertness that removes psychological conflict, fear, and conditioning, resulting in a free, quiet, and genuinely intelligent mind.

He proposes that a free mind does not make choices because it is not torn by conflicting desires or conditioned responses, selfish viewpoints. It represents a type of learning that does not depend on knowledge but on direct, immediate perception that arises as 'what is' not from thoughts, feelings and words.

Inspired Quintains

There once was a mind, calm and clear,

That watched thoughts without any fear.

No "I" to react,

Just seeing the fact,

A witness, detached and so near.

A mind, clear and bright, still and deep,

No past does it hold, fast asleep.

When thoughts disappear,

No chooser is here,

Just Being, a promise to keep.

A mind clear and still, it's the key,

To watch thoughts and feelings flow free.

No judgment, as they go,

Just witness the flow,

Alertness, a calm constantly

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