AWARE LIVING, OFF-GRID
“If you eliminate the things that make you look at life fragmentarily, your mind is then not following the rut. Therefore it is free. If you want to see the view of the valley from the hill, you survey the whole thing, don’t you? That means your mind is no longer merely fixed on a particular part; you look at the whole valley.” *
~ J Krishnamurti
One way to view the way we live is to see how grided we are in daily living and relationships. At their root, almost all – if not all – our responses are reactions culturally supplied and utilized to give us hope, to help us cope, with insecurity, aka fear.
The grid we depend on is like a ‘power system’ that’s maintained by our respective culture that’s ‘rutted’ in comforting traditions. It’s a webbed network of established habits. We function variously malcontented by the daily grind of living hooked up to a grid with its beliefs that define and separate, apparently. With reactions that prejudge the experience of what’s actually happening today as the same as yesterday.
In off-grid aware living, one is not burdened by yesterdays. Or tomorrows. Indeed, there’s a constantly renewed and spacous view of the whole, from the whole; a moment to moment abiding that’s totally sufficient. There’s delight in simply being, and a fresh, free and friendly reception to what presently is, as it is. Some call it love. 
James Waite
*From Discussion with students 2, Thatcher School, Ojai, 9 November 1966
~ You’re invited to Zoom in to the Aware Living Cafe hosted by James Waite and participant JC Tefft; to enjoy and contribute to a six-part series 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…/
