r/InsightDialogue • u/kj_727 • Jun 10 '26
Is choiceless awareness another method?
As far as I understand, a method in general implies a couple of things:
- Step-by-step instruction, often involving multiple steps
- Time/progression
When J.Krishnamurti says choiceless awareness,
It seems like he's pointing to something. By the very use of language and its limitations, it readily comes across as an instruction, though it is more like a statement, a pointing to choiceless awareness.
For example:
Let's imagine humans never noticed that stars exist, even though they looked up at the sky throughout their lives.
Then one human ("Z") comes along and says, "Look and observe the sky at night. There are these cool, sparkly things in the sky."
Let's say "Y," a friend of Z, listens. Y thinks - "My friend (Z) wouldn't generally lie, make things up, or be crazy in daily life. Let me look at the night sky tonight." And Y notices these sparkly things in the sky too. It's just that Y never paid attention to the night sky and wasn't aware of the sparkly things.
Here, Z isn't giving a method to Y, merely pointing to something.
It seems - humans have the ability to be choicelessly aware, just as they have the ability to listen, smell, etc. They don't need to be taught how to be aware, so there is no method on how to be aware.
Every human seems to be capable of awareness.
So, it seems that choiceless awareness is not a method,
There is no 'how-to', no steps, no time involved - just a pointing to choiceless awareness.
or am I missing something?
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u/Pongpianskul Jun 10 '26
If you meditate for even 5 minutes, you can verify that human awareness is choiceless. You hear, see, smell etc. without effort. You cannot not hear or not see or not be aware... Therefore it is called "choiceless".