[awakenedawareness] Freedom From The Known

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Dear Ben ,

a most useful posting .This is a great stumbling block for many

seekers ,how to learn the non-judgemental awareness of any

manifestation .

 

Many are bothered by manifestations of unpleasant thoughts

and emotions which arise and try to get rid of them by various

mental manipulations,thereby strengthening them .

 

But whatever arises on the ocean of the Self

[consciousness-awareness] is like a wave and inevitably part of

the functioning of totality , no more or less than the need to blow

one's nose etc.So instead of being disturbed and perplexed

,accept willingly whatever comes and watch it go .

 

In fact everything is perfect in the sense that it is willed by the Self

or Cosmic Necessity to maintain harmonious balnce in the Lila .

 

With Atma Vichara and Surrender things change indirectly as a

consequence of the Practice without having to do anything.The

mind becomes satvic and less bothersome.So we welcome all

that appears on the screen without condemnation .

 

But if we can't help condemning then we welcome the

condemnation as another part of the manifestation ..Then there

is Peace and a Satvic mind which the Self [Friend] needs so it

can intimate what it wishes to us , for our good , for our sake.

 

I think this exchange could be appreciated on the Ramana site?

 

Regards and best wishes , as ever , Alan

 

 

 

awakenedawareness, "Ben Hassine"

<ben.hassine@x> wrote:

> Freedom From The Known

>

>

> To understand anything you must live with it, you must observe

it, you must know all its content, its nature, its structure, its

movement. Have you ever tried living with yourself? If so, you will

begin to see that yourself is not a static state, it is a fresh living

thing. And to live with a living thing your mind must also be alive.

And it cannot be alive if it is caught in opinions, judgements and

values.

>

> In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart,

of your whole being, you must have a free mind, not a mind that

agrees and disagrees, taking sides in an argument, disputing

over mere words, but rather following with an intention to

understand - a very difficult thing to do because most of us don't

know how to look at, or listen to, our own being any more than

we know how to look at the beauty of a river or listen to the

breeze among the trees.

>

> When we condemn or justify we cannot see clearly, nor can we

when our minds are endlessly chattering; then we do not

observe what is, we look only at the projections we have made of

ourselves. Each of us has an image of what we think we are or

what we should be, and that image, that picture, entirely prevents

us from seeing ourselves as we actually are. It is one of the

most difficult things in the world to look at anything simply.

Because our minds are very complex we have lost the quality of

simplicity. I don't mean simplicity in clothes or food, wearing only

a loin cloth or breaking a record fasting or any of that immature

nonsense the saints cultivate, but the simplicity that can look

directly at things without fear - that can look at ourselves as we

actually are without any distortion - to say when we lie we lie, not

cover it up or run away from it.

>

> Also in order to understand ourselves we need a great deal of

humility. If you start by saying, `I know myself', you have already

stopped learning about yourself; or if you say, 'There is nothing

much to learn about myself because I am just a bundle of

memories, ideas, experiences and traditions', then you have

also stopped learning about yourself. The moment you have

achieved anything you cease to have that quality of innocence

and humility; the moment you have a conclusion or start

examining from knowledge, you are finished, for then you are

translating every living thing in terms of the old. Whereas if you

have no foothold, if there is no certainty, no achievement, there is

freedom to look, to achieve. And when you look with freedom it is

always new. A confident man is a dead human being.

>

> J. Krishnamurti

> Freedom From The Known

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> © Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, Ltd © Krishnamurti

Foundation of America

 

 

 

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alan

 

 

 

 

 

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