Most people seek what I call “freedom from...x, y and z”, or “freedom to...x, y, and z” 

Freedom from: their 9-5 job
Freedom from: debt

And, 

Freedom to: go on vacation...only to compulsively check their slack messages 
Freedom to: buy land
Freedom to: go for a run in the middle of the day 

But, these are temporary fixes–bandages if you will—for the profound pull we all feel toward freedom. Pure, unadulterated, freedom. Freedom that cannot be taken away. 


The 20th century Indian sage, Krishnamurti, invites us to explore what pure freedom is. 

Consider what’s being said. And notice the ego’s (the observer’s) impulse to agree or disagree, prove and defense, and so on. 

Here’s Krishnamurti’s inquiry: 

Can a mind—that is, your mind—that’s been nurtured in time, a brain that has evolved through time, that has accumulated thousands of experiences, that’s been conditioned in line with cultural expectations, whether such a mind can be free. 

Not free in some kind of utopian manner, but actually finding freedom living in this contradictory, and spiritual decaying world. 

Can a mind—again, your mind—as you have observed it, whether it can ever, both on the surface and deeply inwardly, be completely free?

Choiceless awareness means to be aware of both the outside and inwardly without the presence of choice. 

Without judgment—without Thought—choosing whether it likes what’s present, or doesn’t like what’s present. Without thinking “I want this...” or “I don’t want that...”.

To observe without the observer.


Who, or what is the observer? The observer is the past, who is conditioned, and therefore always looks at what is from that conditioned point of view. Which naturally leads to likes and dislikes, judgments, and prejudices. 

To be aware implies to observe the whole environment around you—the stream, the mountains, the trees, and so on—as well as the inward movement occurring: the tension, the contraction, and so on. 

And in that observation there is no decision, no observer, no choice.

Here, you find pure freedom.

Krishnamurti invites us to be aware of what’s present moment to moment without reference to thinking. In essence: to be aware that we are aware

Pure observation, pure perception outwardly and inwardly, pure awareness without referring to Thought, is like watching a movie with the subtitles off. 

Can the observer who is coloring our perceptions disappear as we stay with pure perception (outwardly, and inwardly)? 

I find that the more I do this the more joyful choiceless awareness becomes. 

And in that choiceless awareness there is freedom.


Pure freedom.  

And it’s accessible to us . . . right now. 



Love and Power, 
Alex