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#Choiceless_Awareness:

This word was coined and popularized by Ziddu Krishnamurti.

This is being popularized by Scholars especially western scholars, that it's philosophy. It's totally wrong. It's not philosophy. Philosophy is something what you think about life nature or cosmos. Theories and hypothesis propounded by thoughtful thinkers is philosophy. The word दर्शन is considered to be synonym of philosophy. But it's totally wrong. Darshan is when you see the things without getting entangled emotionally or without being prejudiced about them. 

Only Drashta can do Darshan. Darshan is not thought or thinking. Whatsoever goes in West from anywhere,  it is concocted by them. Same thing have happened with this word choice less awareness. Becuase West haven't gone beyond intellect mind and thinking. 

Our brought up is such that right from beginning of our life, we are taught to see the things as right or wrong.Our family society culture and education teaches us to see the things in the framework of righteousness or wrongness. We develop our liking and disliking according to that framework. This linking and disliking goes upto extent of Religion and Nation. This is the root cause of most bloody wars between communities and Nations in last several centuries. 

Choiceless - denotes developing an awarenesses about the things, where we can stop making decisions in form of right or wrong, good or bad. We can elevate our awareness beyond our likings and dislikings. We can refrain ourselves from being prejudiced. We see the whole lot of things with our jaundiced eyes. That's why we can't see the things as they are. 

Awareness- Just getting out of bed and continue following the same routine everyday, this is what is happening in our life, more or less. When we close our eyes, we sleep. And when we open our eyes, we consider it to be awakened.

 But that is not true. Awakening means we are aware of each and every physical and Mental activities going on within ourself. A close observation and alertness about our physical activity as well as mental activities. 

As of now we are dissociated physically and mentally. Meaning by,  when we are indulged in any activity,  something other is going on in our mind. 

Simplest tasks like eating, we can't do with full awareness. While eating we are watching TV, mobile, newspaper or a book. And if we are not doing this, even then our mind is full of bizarre thoughts while eating. This is not awareness. In spiritual sense it's called sleeping. 

या निशा सर्वभूतेषु जागृति तस्य संयमी। 

यस्यामि जागर्ति सर्वभूतेषु सा निशा पश्यते मुने:।।

  - Bhagwat geeta 

What is known as night for all creatures Yogi is aware in those moments. What we called our awakend stage Yogi calls it as sleeping stage

So choice less awareness is not a philosophy as Western thinkers and psychologists have been propagating it. It's stage of being. It's not thought.

Rather than its state of thoughtlessness.

 © Tribhuwan Singh