Text: Awareness is non-effort.   Does not effort mean a struggle to change what is into what it is not, or what it should be, or what it should be?come?  We are constantly escaping from what is, to transform or modify it... Only when there is no awareness of exactly what is, then effort to transform takes place.  So, effort is non-awareness. Awareness reveals the significance of what is, and the complete acceptance of the significance brings freedom.  So, awareness is non-effort; awareness is the perception of what is without distortion.  Distortion exists whenever there is effort.   Madras, 7th Public Talk, November 30, 1947 Collected Works, Vol. IV, pp. 117-18   Do it, and you will see.   Questioner: Sir, if there is no effort, if there is no method, then any transition into the state of awareness, any shift into a new dimension, must be a completely random accident, and therefore unaffected by any thing you might say on the subject.   Krishnamurti: Ah, no, sir! I didn't say that. [Laughter] I said one has to be aware.  By being aware, one discovers how one is conditioned.  By being aware, I know I am conditioned as a Hindu, as a Buddhist, as a Christian; I am conditioned as a nationalist: British, German, Russian, Indian, American, Chinese---I am conditioned.  We never tackle that.  That's the garbage we are, and we hope something marvelous will grow out of it, but I am afraid it is not possible.  Being aware doesn't mean a chance happening, something irresponsible and vague.  If one understands the implications of awareness, one's body not only becomes highly sensitive, but the whole entity is acti?vated; there is a new energy given to it.  Do it, and you will see. Don't sit on the bank and speculate about the river; jump in and follow the current of this awareness, and you will find out for yourself how extraordinarily limited our thoughts, our feelings, and our ideas are.  Our projections of gods, saviors, and Masters---all that becomes so obvious, so infantile. London, 5th Public Dialogue, May 6, 1965                         Collected Works, Vol. XV, p. 138   Awareness takes place when one observes. . .   You know, concentration is effort: focusing upon a particular page, an idea, image, symbol, and so on and so on. Concentration is a process of exclusion.  You tell a student, "Don't look out of the window; pay attention to the book." He wants to look out, but he forces himself to look, look at the page; so there is a conflict.  This constant effort to concentrate is a process of exclusion, which has nothing to do with awareness.  Awareness takes place when one observes---you can do it; everybody can do it---observes not only what is the outer, the tree, what people say, what one thinks, and so on, outwardly, but also inwardly to be aware without choice, just to observe without choosing.  For when you choose, when choice takes place, only then is there confusion, not when there is clarity. Ojai, 5th Public Talk, November 12, 1966                         Collected Works, Vol. xvn. pp. 82-3

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