{"id":2026,"date":"2014-07-23T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T10:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2014-07-23T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T10:23:48","slug":"pros-cons-choiceless-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/pros-cons-choiceless-awareness","title":{"rendered":"Pros and Cons of Choiceless Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Pillai discusses the popular spiritual technique of Choiceless Awareness and why you may (or may not) want to consider it for manifesting 200% Life.<\/p>\n

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“I talked about the relative uselessness of what is called Choiceless Awareness.<\/p>\n

However, I must tell you that in a non-practical sense, it will be useful, somewhat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you are bothered by too many thoughts, if there is too much traffic going on in the mind, then probably you can take a stand-off view and keep watching thoughts without participating in it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one use of it (Choiceless Awareness).<\/p>\n

Another use of it: if you are obsessed with thoughts and identifying thoughts, thought watching could be useful.<\/p>\n

Most people who are really into Enlightenment, think that it could help take you into insight or revelatory experience.<\/p>\n

It is possible that that can happen too.<\/p>\n

But then for all practical purposes<\/em>, for ordinary human beings, the practical thing is how to use the thoughts. <\/em>How to select the thoughts, and use them.<\/p>\n

As I said in the previous video, it is the thought that becomes matter.<\/p>\n

So you have to be very, very careful about what you are thinking.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t care about manifestation, you can go ahead and do thought-watching.<\/p>\n

Then you probably won\u2019t be able to accomplish on the material plane by doing so.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not totally against thought-watching, but from a practical standpoint, just go on thinking.<\/p>\n

You need to think not too many thoughts, but stay with one thought and make that thought very powerful.<\/p>\n

This is what Patanjali recommends if you want to gain focus.<\/p>\n

Samadhi is not simply a trance, it also means focus, total focus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you have total focus on a thought, that thought will manifest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is very practical teaching.<\/p>\n

God Bless.”<\/p>\n

– Dr. Pillai<\/p>\n

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Dr. Pillai sheds light on a powerful spiritual practice and what can happen when you choose choicelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dr-pillai"],"yoast_head":"\r\nPros and Cons of Choiceless Awareness - Pillai Center Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Merits of choiceless awareness include thoughts monitoring and concentration. 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