You will have to become more watchful

Intelligence has no choice. That's why Krishnamurti goes on defining intelligence as choiceless awareness.

You will have to become more watchful about the thoughts, dreams, memories, flicking by, moving around you. You will have to have more attention focused on the thoughts. Thoughts are the objects and you will have to become aware of them. This is the first awareness: ‘awareness one’. Krishnamurti talks about this, he calls it ‘choiceless awareness’. Don’t choose. Don’t judge whatsoever thought is passing by, just watch it, just see that it is moving. If you go on watching, one day, thoughts don’t move that fast; their speed has slowed down. Then, some day, gaps start coming: one thought goes and another does not come for a long time. Then, after some time, thoughts simply disappear for hours… and the road is just empty of traffic.

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