Thought For Today 2 Oct 2022, J Krishnamurti

When I say, ‘I am angry,’ it is a form of resistance. I have named it as anger. The very naming of it is a form of conclusion, with past memories. So I am really not listening to anger. Can I listen to anger, or say, for instance, you tell me that I am a fool – can I listen to you that? It becomes difficult because I have an image of myself. I think I am a great man – I have some kind of image about myself and that image resists. Therefore I don’t listen to you. So, one must know oneself. Not according to anybody – one must completely know oneself. This means I must learn to watch myself – not how to learn or what to watch, but watching, listening. Watching and listening are both the same. To learn implies that the mind must be curious, intense to find out, observing. That intensity and observation is denied if you are looking with accumulated knowledge.

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