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 ," by the desire for an answer . Such a mind is not an attentive mind . 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 , if 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 ...
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:35:10 +0000
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