Awareness is observation without condemnationby Parker on TwosAwareness is observation without condemnationIf I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasureAwareness is freedom, it brings freedom, it yields freedom, whereas introspection cultivated conflict, the process of self-enclosure; therefore there is always frustration and fear in itIntrospection leads to frustration, to further conflict, for in it is implied the desire for change and change is merely a modified continuity. Awareness is a state in which there is no condemnation, no justification or identification, and therefore there is understanding; in that state of passive, alert awareness there is neither the experiencer nor the experiencedIt is only when we understand the truth of daily existence that we can go far. You must begin near to go far but most of us want to jump, to begin far without understanding what is close. As we understand the near, we shall find the distance between the near and the far is not. There is no distance—the beginning and the end are one