Human Development
Direct perception
Description:
There is a transcendent spontaneity of life, a creative reality, which reveals itself as immanent only when the perceiver's mind is in a state of alert passivity or of choiceless awareness. Any form of judgement or comparison inhibits this transcendent awareness, committing the person irrevocably to duality. It is through choiceless awareness that non-duality becomes possible and opposites may be reconciled. The liberating process begins with choiceless awareness of what the person wills and of reactions to symbol systems indicating what ought, or ought not, to be done. Through this choiceless awareness, as it penetrates the successive layers of the ego and its associated sub-conscious, comes love and understanding, but of another order than that which is familiar. It thus becomes a highly effective meditation. The dangers of other forms of yoga is that their self-discipline leads to a form of self-induced rapture or false samadhi. The true liberation is an inner freedom of creative reality. It is a state of being, as silence, in which there is no becoming, in which there is completeness. Human beings are thus able to transform themselves radically, not in time, not by evolution, but by such immediate perception, without intermediary, duality or thought.Context:
Advocated by J Krishnamurti as a direct way, to be contrasted with the way of gradual evolution through states and stations of spiritual progress.< Related:
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