Awareness is Profound Interest
La Conciencia es Interés Profundo--por J. Krishnamurti
El hombre que quiere mejorarse a sí mismo no puede ser consciente nunca, porque la mejora implica condena y el logro de un resultado; mientras que en la conciencia hay observación sin condena, sin rechazo o aceptación. Esa conciencia comienza con las cosas externas, darse cuenta, estar en contacto con objetos, con la naturaleza. Primero hay conciencia de las cosas de uno, se es sensible a los objetos, a la naturaleza luego a la gente, lo que implica relación; luego hay conciencia de las ideas. Esta conciencia- ser sensible a las cosas, a la naturaleza, a la gente, a las ideas- no está formada por procesos separados sino por un proceso unitario.
Es una observación constante de todas las cosas, de todos los pensamientos y sentimientos y acciones que surgen de uno mismo. Como la conciencia no es condenatoria, no hay acumulación. Sólo condenas cuando tienes un estándar, lo que significa que hay acumulación y por lo tanto mejora del ser. Conciencia es entender las actividades del ser, el “Yo”, en sus relaciones con la gente, con las ideas y con las cosas.
Esa conciencia es de momento a momento y, por lo tanto, no puede ser practicada. Cuando practicas algo, se convierte en un hábito, y la conciencia no es un hábito. Una mente que está habituada es insensible, una mente que está funcionando con la rutina de una acción particular es sosa, inflexible; mientras que la conciencia requiere flexibilidad constante, vigilancia.
Esto no es difícil, de hecho, esto es lo que haces cuando estás interesado en algo, cuando estás interesado en cuidar a tu hij@, a tu esposa, tus plantas, los árboles, los pájaros. Observas sin condenar, sin identificación; por eso en esa observación hay comunión total: el observador y el observado están en completa comunión. Esto en realidad tiene lugar cuando estás profundamente, totalmente interesado en algo.
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La lectura de arriba está sacada de ‘Conciencia sin Elección 1’, donde Jiddu Krishnamurti contesta a la pregunta, “¿Cuál es la diferencia entre introspección y conciencia?”
Reading above is excerpted from 'Choiceless Awareness 1', where Jiddu Krishnamurti answers the question, "What is the difference between introspection and awareness?"
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to notion that wanting improvement precludes awareness? Can you share a story of experiencing communion between the observer and the observed? How do you reconcile the practice of self-improvement with this author's criticism of it?
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On Feb 18, 2019 hs wrote :
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On Sep 24, 2015 madhukar wrote :
I could appreciate the article only when I read the context - "What is the difference between introspection and awareness?"
I saw few comments and am not sure if responding to them is acceptable or not. So just want to give an example. If you see a child crying, you could have 3 different feelings (i) if it is your child (or generally if you know the child) then sadness or worry (ii) if you don't know or are occupied otherwise, then indifference (iii) if there is a history behind or for some other reason there might be irritation.
Your feelings influence the way you see that child crying. However, there is a 4th way to look at the same incident - you experiencing the pain which forces tears to flow even though you are not crying at that moment. You are still experiencing feelings but this time there is communion between observer (you) and observed (child), which was missing in all the 3 cases above.
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On Sep 24, 2015 MEHERYAR BHAGWAGAR wrote :
DO not think about what can happen in a month. Do not think what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hrs in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
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On Sep 22, 2015 Lennox wrote :
I'm in awe of the simplicity of this teaching. To improve oneself is to let the preconditioned mind be the judge of the quality of an experience or outcome. A state of living dominated by memory and anticipation. The present is merely a means to an end , a receipt for more suffering!
When I am fully present I become one with the experience. No separation between self and the experience!
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On Sep 22, 2015 Sidney DeKoven wrote :
I love the last part that being deeply interested in something you are in communion with it. And that this is not difficult. How wonderful to hear that. I have always had difficulty understanding what K. means when he says the observer is the observed. But here he says that in deep interest the observer and the observed are in complete communion and that gives me an understanding I did not have before.
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On Sep 21, 2015 satyagrahi wrote :
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On Sep 21, 2015 JM wrote :
I respectfully disagree with the author. Yes, I believe that a degree of awareness is required for one to pursue self improvement. However, instead of 'condemnation', I choose the word 'curiosity'. In my youth, my explorations were oft times motivated from a state of lack. Lack of money, lack of food, lack of female companionship and lack of purpose are but a few of my motivations. But as I matured, I realized that part of the human experience is feeling. To practice observation without emotions diminishes the Self. While allowing emotions to govern our decisions is potentially dangerous, so too is act of denying them.
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On Sep 21, 2015 xiaoshan wrote :
"You condemn only when you have a standard, which means there is accumulation and therefore improvement of the self". You condemn only when you refuse to accept, in this case, refuse to accept the state where you are at the moment. How much have I been improved after so many years of striving for self-improvement? Have I ever got rid of that constant agitation, fear, insecurity, ready to re-act, ready to please...? comparing to that fearless younger self whom I once was, I am not sure what the years of self-improvement has been serving me... lol
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On Sep 19, 2015 david doane wrote :
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