‘CHOICELESS AWARENESS’, A TERM USED BY JK?

Jiddu Krishnamurti, an enlightened master, popularly known as JK, who dropped his body, in late ‘80s, used the term, ‘choiceless awareness’, quite often, in his talks. So, what is the meaning of, this term and what does it take to be, in the state of, choiceless awareness. Now, first thing, first. Consciousness is our nature, our reality and the truth of this existence. Because, it is conscious or aware by itself and hence, the name, consciousness. Awareness, thus, is integral to consciousness and therefore, is the very nature of this existence and the nature of, we humans, too. 

Thus ‘Choiceless awareness’, the term used by JK, isn’t any different but is the same awareness, which has been talked about, all along. However, the word ‘choiceless’, is pre-fixed, because, awareness, being the nature of consciousness, comes to you, naturally, i.e. without your choosing and without your asking. The awareness, is intrinsic to your existence and hence, is there, with you, all the time, of its own accord i.e. without your doing or making, and that’s why the prefix, ‘choiceless’. Else, it is the same awareness, of the existence. 

Thus, choiceless awareness or simply the awareness, is effortless because it is not your doing, not your making but is naturally, there, with you, and is available to you, all the time, without any effort, on your part. So, when you are conscious i.e. when you exist, here, in your nature, meaning, you exist, here, in a state of pure consciousness, you exist, in the state of choiceless awareness, because awareness, is integral to your existence. 

Awareness, is pure knowing, as opposed to the ordinary seeing, which we are used to, because our seeing is always loaded, with some motive or intention and hence, of the mind. Seeing or knowing, at the level of awareness, is without any motive or agenda and hence, awareness, is not ordinary seeing but right seeing, which we also traditionally know, as Samyak darshan. Right seeing, is seeing the things, as they are and not with a motive or an intention i.e. with your mind, because motive or intention is of the mind and in the mind. That’s why consciousness is the ultimate seer (drishta) and the ultimate knower (gyata) and not you. You trying to become the seer or you trying to see, is nothing but your ego because, you see, only that, which your mind wants you to see. All your seeing, therefore, is in satisfaction of the ego or of this mind only. 

Samyak darshan or right seeing, thus, is both seeing and not seeing, at the same time, because, in the state of choiceless awareness, you don’t see and yet you see a lot more, because you see, which others don’t or can’t see. In a state of choiceless awareness, you don’t see but you perceive and when you perceive, you see much more, because you see the things, as they are and not through the eyes of your mind. 

Thus, choiceless awareness, though, is our natural state and yet we know, nothing about choiceless awareness i.e. pure seeing or Samyak darshan, because our seeing is nothing but just an expression of our individuality or of ego only. We, never see the things, as they are but we always see them, through the eyes of our mind. We, thus, have made it unnatural, by living, in mind or memory, all the time. Our current state, therefore, is not of ‘choiceless awareness’ but of ‘choiceless unawareness’. Choiceless, because, we are so used to living in mind, that mind rules us completely and unawareness or mind, thus, has, become a natural thing or habit, for us. Mind is not natural to our existence. Mind is external to our existence. 

Because, awareness and not unawareness is natural and integral to your existence and hence, no- mind state, is a state, which JK described as the state of ‘choiceless awareness’. In that state, of ‘choiceless awareness’, the whole existence happens through you, effortlessly. Because the awareness of the existence, has no motive, no agenda, no intention or purpose of its own but is simply there. So, if you exist here, in your natural state i.e. when you are ‘just being’ or you ‘just exist’, as a piece of life, which you are, then you will exist in a state of ‘choiceless awareness’. 

Please know that, it is your ‘doing’, in your mind, which is not allowing the awareness, to function or find full expression. Your ‘doing’, alone, is stopping this universal intelligence or the intelligence of the existence, from finding full expression. It is your puny mind, which is stopping this universal mind or universal awareness, to come to the fore and function fully. Hence, stop, your doing and you will exist, in your natural state, which JK described as the state of ‘choiceless awareness’. Spirituality is a journey from choiceless unawareness to choiceless awareness; from mind to awareness; from unconsciousness to consciousness, from seeing to perceiving. Meditation is a state of choiceless awareness; state of pure or plain seeing; state of Samyak darshan.

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