Choice
How Do You Decide?
The past dictates what we want to do, and what we do when we’re not paying attention. When we’re going on autopilot we do what we’ve done before. That’s what it means for the mind to be mechanical.
Have you ever been driving to the library and you find you’ve gone to the store instead? That’s your mind not paying attention. You had an intention to go to the library, but you went to the store instead. Because you go to the store more than the library and you forgot to pay attention.
Don’t worry, it happens to all of us. We zone in and out. But when the mind is clear, we know exactly what we’re doing. And if it’s really clear, we are aware, and we are open. We are free.
Motive dictates choice.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Are you free to decide? Who makes the choice of what to do next? How does the decision come about?
When the mind is free to observe without any choice or any motive, the mind sees that any choice would be the outcome of my conditioning. Motive is also an artifact of my conditioning. When there is freedom to observe this happening, there is truth.
That is simply an observation. Without the observer. The motive, the choice, is authority. It’s fear, it’s conformity, and obedience. The observer, when he is identified with these thoughts, is not free to act. When there is freedom there is action.
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