Passive awareness

 Passive awareness

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Book of Life

If my mind is occupied with the good

Or occupied with the bad

Then it is only concerned with the past

So what is important is to find out

How the mind is occupied!

If it is occupied at all, its always

Occupied with the past because

All our consciousness is the past!

Can the mind be free from occupation?

Ie., can the mind be completely without being occupied

And let the memory , the thoughts -good and bad,

Go by without choosing?

Yes, the past can never be put aside 

There is a watching of the past as it goes by

But not occupation with the past

So the mind is free to observe 

And not to choose!

Passive awareness : To watch or observe without choosing - good or bad !