Choice Is the Activity of Awarness

A man asks for clarification on how consciousness directing attention is not in conflict with us being choiceless. Rupert asks him to consider the idea of a flashlight bulb that can be illuminated before being set in the flashlight tube. The naked bulb shines its light but in no particular direction. We can liken that to pure awareness – wide open, unfocused. Attention, then, would be placing the light bulb in the tube and directing the light. Unfocused awareness is pure, wide open, directionless, choiceless. But it can be directed through the agency of a mind (the flashlight cone). The thought or belief that consciousness is identical to the body and therefore seems to acquire the limitations of the body, and seems to facilitate choice, is actually, like everything else, an activity of awareness.

From event 20 April - 20 May, 2024 Seven-Day Meditation Retreat at Mandali – 20 to 27 April 2024

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