Hello everyone and welcome to today's talk.
So today I'd like to talk about the question, "What is choiceless awareness?"
Now can we talk about this by merely answering this question or describing this state of
choiceless awareness?
Now isn't the term, "Choiceless awareness" only a mere snapshot of the actuality of it?
Because immediately, once we talk about what choiceless awareness is, we believe that it
is this "thing."
And therefore, we try to enact it, bring it about or try to maintain this state right?
And therefore, that implies choosing to be choicelessly aware, therefore, are we seeing
the contradiction there?
And choiceless awareness, the "actuality" of it, implies no choosing, no choice, whatsoever.
So I feel that we have to go into this completely differently.
So instead can we talk about the choosing process and therefore, ourselves, come to
an understanding of what choiceless awareness is?
So what is this choosing process?
How do we navigate through this, through understanding this?
Now isn't our thinking process or choosing process... isn't that machinery?
It is like an automated targeting system.
It is always operating, recording everything in our ongoing experience, just like everything
we do on a computer.
The hard drive records it and saves it and stores it up as memory.
This brain is a machine, it stores up our past experiences into the brain cells as memory.
And there we begin to act, communicate and everything we do is memory right?
Because we are using words that we have learned, we are basically doing things in order to
get somewhere, to get answers, to achieve, to become, etc. all that.
So therefore, why does this choosing process believe that it can come to or discover a
sense of completeness, wholeness?
Meaning this choosing process is like a targeting system, because our thoughts respond to whatever
our senses pick up.
Thought sense, touch, smell, taste, our thought responds to that.
And the human organism is limited to the range of our senses.
How far I can see.
How extensive my arm goes out to touch whatever is around me.
What I can smell in my particular area that I'm in...
So our senses are always limited to this center, this range of this particular human body,
physical organism and our thought responds to that, it records that, stores it up in
the brain cells as memory, as thought and therefore, it desires the other.
So thought is targeting.
It's always targeting looking for complete, permanent, satisfaction correct?
Without dissatisfaction.
So if I smell something wonderful, like, let's say a fresh salad in the afternoon...
I smell that and my thought responds to that and I want to choose to smell that again.
However, once I leave the room that the salad is in and I go outside, I smell cow manure.
And therefore, we try to do away with with one aspect and try to go back and achieve
a previous experience that we've had before.
Now why does thought think that it can achieve complete, satisfaction?
The actual fact of life is its wholeness.
It contains both of the opposites, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, yet through countless
training, our minds have been trained to believe that we can pursue Happiness, Truth, Enlightenment
and we can achieve that, that there is some sort of way the past can come to this permanent,
complete State of Bliss, of Happiness, we call it many different things, but I feel
that everything that we have contributed in this society, everything that we do, is against
this fact of life, that every "thing" contains everything.
So therefore, if we desire or if we want to choose one thing, in that has both the satisfaction
and dissatisfaction… any direction we choose.
So therefore, is it a matter of making the right choice or not?
Is it a matter of going back thinking, "I should have done this or I should not have
done that."
How can the process, which is always unfinished, incomplete...
How can that ever completely know what was the right decision, what was the right choice?
Or if I'm going to make the right decision or the right choice now?
Can it ever completely know?
Being limited down to my particular human body and my range of sensory perceptions...
How can that incomplete tool or mechanism have the complete answer?
There are scientists who are always gathering data and they're always gathering, gathering,
gathering data in order to come to a complete conclusion, but they never do.
They just get tired of collecting data, data and data over time, that they just give up
and stop wherever they are, but it's always limited.
There's always more data to acquire, to gather.
So every choice we come to inevitably becomes something that requires more choices, more
decisions and those choices/decisions we come to require more and more because thought,
always being unfinished, incomplete... is inherently missing something and we desire
this full completeness.
We desire to fill up this missingness.
So we are once again caught in the cycle of trying to make the right choice, choosing
more and more again and again.
So that's all I wanted to talk about in this video when it comes to choiceless awareness.
Thank you all for watching and listening and I'll see you all next time, bye.

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