Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
You Cannot Be Aware
Do you know what you mean by the word aware? Probably you use it in the sense that I think, I feel, and so on. It is very important to understand. The dictionary says, the condition of being aware. You cannot be aware of anything. Somebody has fed people with this kind of bum dole. You have been fed so long on this bunk that anybody saying anything on this probably creates some kind of indigestion there. You want the same thing there.
What exactly do you mean by aware? You cannot be aware. There is no you. When there is an awareness, there is no you. It is not there. It is aware of itself. It sounds mystical but it is so. The anger or the feeling is aware of itself. The "you" separates you from that. That is the movement of thought. There is nothing else other than what you are looking at.
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My emphasis is that awareness cannot be separated from the activity of the brain. It cannot be used as an instrument to understand anything, much less to bring about any change.
What exactly do you mean by aware? You cannot be aware. There is no you. When there is an awareness, there is no you. It is not there. It is aware of itself. It sounds mystical but it is so. The anger or the feeling is aware of itself. The "you" separates you from that. That is the movement of thought. There is nothing else other than what you are looking at.
My emphasis is that awareness cannot be separated from the activity of the brain. It cannot be used as an instrument to understand anything, much less to bring about any change.
