Arek Szopa
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| Introduction | Unitary Perception: Perception not directed towards any object. https://www.percepcionunitaria.org/en/introduction-to-unitary-perception-university-of-guadalajara-jalisco-mexico |
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| Interests | Unitary Perception is something that is very simple to define, something very easy to do, something that doesn’t require any effort at all. However, it is THE NARROW DOOR, through which the ballast of words cannot pass, however poetic, philosophical and metaphysical they might be. When I say that it is the narrow door, it is implicit that it IS NOT one door among many, but the only one that there is. The big religions are just shells of words which are fabricated around that fundamental action, Unitary Perception. We have to recognize that very often we prefer literary religious and metaphysical narrations, to passing through the narrow door of Unitary Perception. And when we decide to enter, it is easy to fall back into our habitual state, which is the fragmentary perception of thought, words, knowledge, fear, sadness, anger, imagination, fantasy, and even lies itself. Once again we believe that the teaching is for everyone, but not for oneself. The Passion for Silence - Rubén Feldman González --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A mind which is seeking the 'more' is never conscious of 'what is' because it is always living in the 'more'-in what it would like to be, never in 'what is'. ... So we are asking is there a holistic awareness of all the senses, therefore there is never asking for the 'more'. I wonder if you follow all this ?. Are we together in this even partially?. and where there is this total-fully aware-of all the senses, awareness of it-not you are aware of it.... the awareness of the senses in themselves-then there is no centre[...] Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| Favorite Movies | How can I break habit? Awareness means to look at something without any reaction, without any choice. I am aware of chattering, without any condemnation, justification. Just watching it. So that the old reactions, the old traditions do not come in. Watch it without any reaction of past memories. I am giving complete attention, at that moment, my all energy and capacity is there. When there is complete attention which means there is no wastage of energy than that habit has no place [...]. Your concern is not attention but wasting energy. We waste energy in thousand ways. Chattering is only one of them. How do I waste energy. I'm going to watch, learn, see where I'm wasting energy! There are so many ways! So my mind is not mechanical now that it must attend. But all the time picking up new things. So the brain becomes extraordinarily alert! And when it is so alert habits have no place. Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| Favorite Music | I see that I am caught in habit. Politically, religiously, as a writer, as a painter, as a man or a woman, I am caught in a particular way of thinking. Being an Englishman, I have a certain tradition with a fixed attitude towards life, or I am trained in Catholicism, in this or in that, and it has become a habit. Can that habit be broken immediately, or must it be done away with gradually over the years? If I say it will take time, that it must be done away with gradually over the years, what then is the state of my mind? Obviously my mind is lethargic, dull, unaware. Nationalism, for example, is a habit, and it can be broken instantly; but it gives us pleasure, it gives us a sense of importance to be identified with a particular country, especially if it is a powerful one. Most of us like being identified with a particular government, with the flag, and all the rest of that nonsense, so we don't want to break the habit of nationalism, and then there is no problem. But if you want to break that habit - and you can only break it instantly, not over the years - then how is it to be done? Is there a method by which to break a habit? Surely, a method implies time, moving from a beginning to an end. If you see for yourself that time does not free you from habit, and that methods or systems are therefore of no avail, then you are actually faced with the fact that your mind is caught in habit. You are faced with it, not through words, not through ideas, but you directly see the fact that your mind is crippled with habit; it is inescapably so. |
| Favorite Books | And then what happens? You are not trying to change a habit; you are not trying to break it down. You are simply faced with the fact that your mind functions in the groove of habit. And what happens when you are directly faced with a fact? What happens if you come face to face with the fact that you are a liar, that you are jealous? If you don't try to change it, than the fact itself gives you enormous energy to break the fact completely. When you are directly faced with the fact, your mind is no longer dissipating itself in escapes, in denials, in trying to change the fact through time[...] Jiddu Krishnamurti |