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posted on Sat, 31 Jan 2004, 18:41 by misiunas   Printer Friendly 
 
About CSSA

This web site was created as a meeting place between knowledge, understanding and personal experience.

The Center for the Study of Spiritual Awareness name was chosen as a means of conveying what is occurring on this web site. If you will notice, the name center-awareness.info has the identifying mark of INFO. This is very important in that there is no organization here, no business to run, no groups or committees gathered together under some banner or ideal, absolutely nothing other than one, a few, or even no one, finding a common ground in which to do what needs to be done.

There is no religion, philosophy, 'path' or even 'no path' that is followed, adhered to or 'practiced'. That covers a lot of ground but do not be fooled into thinking that this is a place of anarchy, where anyone can do anything that they may feel like at any moment they feel like doing it. It is far, far, from that concept of 'free' thinking.

WIthout investigation into our own personal universe, there is not much that will ever happen. In order to come to meet Ourselves, we must fervently pave the way. And even then there is no guarantee because though we may have no choice, we make our choices through our actions. Through our words and deeds, it is through in which we must come to terms.

Believe it or not, you don't get there by coming from here. If that were to happen, one would have to pass through anything and everything that stands between those two points. That would be called "The Long Way".

We can play all sorts of mind games, but perhaps, just perhaps, we have begun to grow a little whereby it no longer becomes quite as necessary.


On this web site we endeavor to "cut to the chase" and one of the ways that we do that is to keep attention where it is that it should be directed - on discovering ourselves. This is why you will not find numerous graphics to please the eye, sounds for the ear to rejoice in or wordy exposes' in which our minds can feast upon. We leave these all behind, stuffed into a discarded suitcase, so that our journey may be unencumbered by those things we really have no need of.

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misiunas Wed, 11 Feb 2004, 15:42   A Related Extract  
Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First And Last Freedom:

Before we can find out what the end purpose of life is, what it all means - wars, national antagonisms, conflicts, the whole mess - we must begin with ourselves, must we not? It sounds so simple, but it is extremely difficult. To follow oneself to see how one's thought operates, one has to be extraordinarily alert, so that as one begins to be more and more alert to the intricacies of one's own thinking and responses and feelings, one begins to have a greater awareness, not only of oneself but of another with whom one is in relationship. To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
 
 

 
 
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 Jiddu Krishnamurti : Ojai, 4th Public Talk, 4th June 1944 
Questioner: Last Sunday I understood from what you said that we do not take time from our jobs, family, activities, to study ourselves. This seems a contradiction of your former statement that one can be aware in everything one does.

Krishnamurti: Surely you begin by being aware in every thing that you do. But what happens when you are so aware? If you pursue this awareness more and more you come to be alone but not isolated. No object is ever in isolation; to be is to be related whether alone or with many. But when you begin to be aware in everything you do, you are beginning to study yourself, you are beginning to be more and more aware of your inward private thoughts-feelings, motives, fears and so on. The more there is self-awareness the more self-recollected you become; you become more silent, more purely aware. We are too much occupied with family, job, friends, social affairs and we are little aware; old age and death creep upon us and our life is empty. If you are aware in your daily relationship and activity, you will begin to disentangle thought - feeling from the cause of ignorance and sorrow. Through becoming aware of the inward as well as the superficial actions and responses, distractions will naturally cease and a simple life will inevitably follow.


  


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