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Can anything appear without awareness?
From one perspective, there may be seeing without awareness of the seen, no perception of the seen.... non-interpretive seeing.
In this sense there is no time gap, no seeing and then recognition of the seen, and in this sense no thing appears. This view says that awareness is equal to "recognition of" a thing that WAS seen (past tense)... so here no thing can appear without awareness.
I tend to embrace this view, even at the level of physics and cosmology. Any particle, energy, mass or wave participates in a dance with all other particles, energies, masses and waves. Here there is only action subject to the local sum total reality without anysense of "what" is creating that reality. It is the same with planete, suns, stars, black holes,, and galaxies. In the human experience, it can be the same. This I see as the natural state.
Yet humans want to know what is it that is over there. What is that which is affecting my trajectory. So human mental awareness is storing images, sorting images of objects that they are aware of , then accept, reject, modify etc. Human experience equates this modified perception as awareness and consciousness.
A slightly different view is where awareness is simply the recognition of presence, and not the recognition of an object which may be eminationg this presence. This is where I typicly find my awareness. Even here no "objests seperate from awareness" are appearing. So no thing is appearing, yet there is awareness of presence, an all inclusive awareness of presence. At the level of practical humann experience, recognition of objects is normal and necessary.
It is all a paradox, a wonder.... A mystery... We truly know nothing yet we function.

Concerning the message that was transmitted to me
under a pine tree in North Carolina
on a cold winter moonlit night.
It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry.
It’s all like a dream.
Everything is ecstasy, inside.
We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.
But in our true blissful essence of mind is known
that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
Close your eyes,
let your hands and nerve-ends drop,
stop breathing for 3 seconds,
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot,
which was taught in immense milky ways
of cloudy innumerable worlds
long ago and not even at all.
It is all one vast awakened thing.
I call it the golden eternity.
It is perfect.
We were never really born,
we will never really die.
It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea
of a personal self,
other selves,
many selves everywhere,
or one universal self.
Self is only an idea, a mortal idea.
That which passes through everything, is one thing.
It’s a dream already ended.
There’s nothing from staring at mountains months on end.
They never show any expression,
they are like empty space.
Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away?
Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space,
which is the one universal essence of mind,
the one vast awakenerhood,
empty and awake,
will never crumble away because it was never born.
The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bum

Here are ten remarkable quotes from the works of Jiddu Krishnamurti:

1. "Chasing after gurus and their systems around the world, reading the latest books about this and that seems utterly pointless to me—you may travel around the Earth, but you will still have to come back to yourself." (The First and Last Freedom)

2. "Have you noticed that love is silence? It happens when you hold the hand of a loved one, when you look at a child with love, when you absorb the beauty of the evening. Love has no past or future, just as the extraordinary state of silence is beyond time." (Bombay Talks)

3. "Unfortunately, most parents believe they are responsible for their children, and this sense of responsibility makes them tell their children what they should and shouldn't do, who they should and shouldn't be. Parents want their children to have a stable position in society. What they call responsibility is part of the respectability they worship. But to me, where there is respectability, there is no order." (Freedom from the Known)

4. "When you seek truth, it is merely a reaction, an escape from fact. Truth is what is, not a reaction to what is." (Bombay Talks)

5. "The environment around us, our current way of life, dulls and wears us down. How can you become sensitive when you read about the murder of thousands, see it in photographs—and this mass killing is presented as some sort of successful game? When you read about this for the first time, your heart probably aches, but constant repetition of this horrifying cruelty dulls the mind-heart, creating immunity to the unrestrained barbarism of modern society. Radio, magazines, cinema constantly drain the flexibility of feelings; they coerce, intimidate, and box you into a system. How can you remain sensitive amidst this noise, rush, and false ideals to cultivate right thinking?" (The Observer is the Observed)

6. "You may find satisfaction, but certainly—you cannot find happiness." (The First and Last Freedom)

7. "The present and the future are divided by a vast chasm. By sacrificing the present for the future, we choose unworthy means to achieve what may be a noble goal. But the means determine the goal. Moreover, who are we to decide what a person should be? Who gave us the right to box them into the framework of our own ideals, born from our ambitions, hopes, and fears?" (Education and the Meaning of Life)

8. "The rich are surrounded by their own peculiar atmosphere. No matter how educated, polite, noble, or refined they may be, there is an impenetrable and haughty detachment about them, that unshakable confidence and firmness that is hard to break. They are not the owners of their wealth—on the contrary, wealth owns them, which is worse than death. Charity is their vanity. They consider themselves trustees of their own wealth, they organize charitable funds, donations, they are creators, builders, givers. They build churches, temples, but their god is the god of gold." (Commentaries on Living)

9. "Self-expression without self-awareness leads to aggressive and ambitious self-assertion." (Education and the Meaning of Life)

10. "There is no freedom if you are seeking a result, for you are bound to that goal. You may be free from the past, but the future holds you—it is not freedom. Only in freedom can you discover something: a new idea, a new feeling, a new perception. Any form of discipline, whether political or religious, based on coercion, denies this freedom; and as long as discipline—that is, submission to action with a predetermined goal—blinds you, the mind can never be free." (The First and Last Freedom)