----- Original Message -----
From: "John Kelly" <palistudent@...>
To: "Pali" <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:50 AM
Subject: [Pali] choiceless awareness


> Friends,

Hi John

> Does the term "choiceless awareness", as in meditation
> based on pure awareness without any particular object
> of meditation occur anywhere in the Pali Canon?

I don't think so. I don't see it as the Buddha's teaching. To me to be aware
always has the element of intention or knowing.

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