Daily Quote, Thursday February 26, 2009

Hello everyone,

It's bright and sunny this morning and I'm heading off for a walk in a few moments. It's wonderful that the sun is not coming up early and it's light at 6:30am. :-)

I'm reading The Beginnings of Learning and finding it an incredible illumination of the other Krishnamurti teachings that I've read. He is talking with the pupils at Brockwood Park School, which he founded, and they are having a conversation about the problems of living together without a set of rules that everyone has to conform to. It touches up his ideas of responsibility, affection, and intelligence. There is a fascinating and very helpful dialogue on sentimentality.

Today's quote picks up on Jackie's interest in choiceless awareness.

The beauty of listening . . .

The beauty of listening lies in being highly sensitive to everything about you: to the ugliness, to the dirt, to the squalor, to the poverty about you, and also to the dirt, to the disorder, to the poverty of one's own being. When you are aware of both, then there is no effort, that is, when there is an awareness which is without choice, then there is no effort.

Collected Works, Vol. XV - 61