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Choiceless Awareness

Episode 60 of the Bruce Lee Podcast covers "choiceless awareness." A simple Google search shows an entire Wikipedia entry on choiceless awareness : Choiceless awareness is posited in philosophy, psychology, and spirituality to be the state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion. The term was popularized in mid-20th century by Jiddu Krishnamurti, in whose philosophy it signifies a main theme. The first post for this blog also cited the same philosopher. The Bruce Lee Podcast makes no mention of Jiddu Krishnamurti, although numerous articles discuss his influence on Bruce Lee's personal philosophy. For example: Bruce Lee and Krishnamurti: The Dragon and the Retired Messiah Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Influence on Bruce Lee and Popular Martial Arts Culture Bruce Lee's September 1971 Black Belt magazine article, Liberate Yourself from Classical Karate , contains a section titled "choiceless observation.

To be is to be related.

I heard this quote on episode 57 of the Bruce Lee podcast . "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self–revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself. To be is to be related.” Also online via  Goodreads  as: "Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related." This is a direct quotation of Jiddu Krishnamurti: " Relationship , surely, is the mirror in which you discover yourself . Without relationship you are not; to be is to be related ; to be related is existence. And you exist only in relationship; otherwise, you do not exist, existence has no meaning. It is not because you think you are that you come into existence. You exist because you are related, and it is the lack of