Thought For Today 22 December 2022, J Krishnamurti

Here is an immense problem which my petty mind has not confronted. My petty mind tries to find an answer which is not only recognisable but must also satisfy the petty mind in its answer. But the problem is too vast for the petty mind. Whatever answer it tries will be a response according to its pettiness. So it says, ‘I am petty, this is too big,’ or it leaves it alone. Or it says, ‘I must stop being petty. My pettiness must go.’ The problem is not important now, but the pettiness itself. If there is any movement in any direction, at any level, the mind remains petty. If you see that, then the petty mind says, ‘I won’t do a thing; any movement from my centre of pettiness will still be petty, whether towards God or towards anything.’ It realises that and is quiet. That’s all. Begin with that.

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