IN BRIEF: Consciousness and awareness.
“Experiencing is challenge and response, and this experiencing, together with naming or recording of it, – this total process, at different levels, is consciousness, is it not?
..Thought is always the superficial, the conclusion. Consciousness is the recording of the superficial..[ ] This concluding process is consciousness. The conclusion, the result, is self-consciousness.
..The self is memory, the many conclusions; and thought is the response of memory…Thought is always the superficial, the conclusion. Consciousness is the recording of the superficial.” *
J Krishnamurti
~ For decades I confused and conflated the word-pointers ‘consciousness’ and ‘awareness’, and while there’s more clarity in aware living these days, I’m moved to simply – in a non-scholarly way – explore here how these pointers are sometimes used and confused. 
Of course, “the word is not the thing” as K notes elsewhere, but it seems relevant to those of us who are urged, pushed and variously prodded to directly realize that the word ‘awareness’ points beyond the finite, body/mind consciousness, beyond time and space.
Re awareness, here’s one way to simply suggest (not define) and differentiate for brevity and clarity’s sake: awareness is that ever-fresh, alertly living infinity one is which is aware of all appearing and disappearing body/mind conscious, sentient experience. I’ll leave the topic here with an invitation to you to perhaps share and comment.
James Waite
~ I happened upon this photo of Alan Watts (center, with wife Joan (?) and J Krishnamurti posted by Michael Coffman. I didn’t know they met and am delighted to see their joy in that meeting.
~ You’re invited to Zoom in to the Aware Living Cafe hosted by James Waite; to enjoy and contribute to a six-part series (Jan. to April, 2024) exploring K’s Book Of Life, Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 10am to 11:30, Victoria, BC (PCT) More details and to simply register: https://krishnamurti-canada.ca/…/aware-living-cafe-2…/
