Choiceless Awareness ( 10 Oct 2006 )

This Choiceless Awareness

Great seers have always told us to acquire experience. They have said that
experience gives us understanding. But it is only the innocent mind, the mind
unclouded by experience, totally free from the past - it is only such a mind that
can perceive what is reality. If you see the truth of that, if you perceive it for a
split second, you will know the extraordinary clarity of a mind that is innocent.
This means the falling away of all the encrustations of memory, which is the
discarding of the past. But to perceive it, there can be no question of 'how'. Your
mind must not be distracted by the 'how', by the desire for an answer. Such a mind
is not an attentive mind. As I said earlier in this talk, in the beginning is the
end. In the beginning is the seed of the ending of that which we call sorrow. The
ending of sorrow is realized in sorrow itself, not away from sorrow. To move away
from sorrow is merely to find an answer, a conclusion, an escape; but sorrow
continues. Whereas, i
f you give it your complete attention, which is to be attentive with your whole
being, then you will see that there is an immediate perception in which no time is
involved, in which there is no effort, no conflict; and it is this immediate
perception, this choiceless awareness that puts an end to sorrow.

The Book of Life - October 10