Quotes

Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teachings on choiceless awareness emphasize observing life without any form of selection, preference, or judgment.  Below are select quotes where Krishnamurti explains how to practice choiceless awareness. Choiceless awareness of the manner of your approach will bring right relationship with the problem. The problem is self-created, so there must be self-knowledge.

This moment is enough ~ Watch, Listen and Relax

'When the awareness has abandoned one object and remains fixed without moving on to another object, then through the state in between (the two) the supreme realisation will unfold'

And then the ninth, the last, arises: the need for spiritual activity – meditation, SAMADHI. And this is the beauty of the whole phenomenon – that the ninth is again the first, because the ninth again pays attention to breath. The circle is complete. First is breath, ninth is again breath; that’s why no spiritual science can neglect breathing.

But what are you going to do with your mind? Your mind will create a thousand and one difficulties. Those techniques are needed to remove the mind from the way, to create a space in which the mind becomes quiet, silent, almost absent.

Meditation is life's ultimate luxury Osho

Oh Bhairavi, by focusing one’s awareness on the two voids (at the end) of the internal and external breath, thereby the glorious form of Bhairava is revealed through Bhairavi. ~ Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. ~ Tao Te Ching

You should feel no guilt about where you are on your Spiritual path ~ Ram Dass

When the awareness has abandoned one object and remains fixed without moving on to another object, then through the state in between (the two) the supreme realisation will unfold. ~ Verse 62 One should concentrate on the state when sleep has not yet come, but the external awareness has disappeared (between waking and sleep)—there the supreme Goddess reveals herself. ~ Verse 75

Leave everything undefined, including yourself ~ Jeff foster

Look for the mysterious in life. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it ~ Osho

We're all just walking each other home ~ Ram Dass

It is Ignorance to know the diversity of the whole world and never to have asked, Who is the Knower ? ~ Billy Doyle

In the gap between the Subject and the Object lies the entire misery of humankind ~ Krishnamurti

“The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.” Li Po

“The best way to miss life is to have a certain attitude towards it. The attitudes originate in the mind, and life is beyond mind. The attitudes are our fabrications, our prejudices, our inventions. Life is not our fabrication; on the contrary we are just ripples in the lake of life" Osho