Krishnamurti

[Guest guest]

This is for you Bill, since you like Krishnamurti so much:

 

" A passionate mind is groping, seeking, breaking through, not accepting

any tradition; it is not a decided mind, not a mind that has arrived,

but it is a young mind that is ever arriving.

 

Now, how is such a mind to come into being? It must happen. Obviously,

a petty mind cannot work at it. A petty mind trying to become

passionate will merely reduce everything to its own pettiness. It must

happen,

and it can only happen when the mind sees its own pettiness and yet does

not try to do anything about it. Am I making myself clear? Probably

not. But as I said earlier, any restricted mind, however eager it is,

will

still be petty, and surely that is obvious. A small mind, though it can

go to the moon, though it can acquire a technique, though it can

cleverly argue and defend, is still a small mind. So when the small mind

says, " I must be passionate in order to do something worthwhile, "

obviously

its passion will be very petty, will it not?—like getting angry about

some petty injustice or thinking that the whole world is changing

because of some petty, little reform done in a potty, little village by a

potty, little mind. If the little mind sees all that, then the very

perception that it is small is enough, then its whole activity,

undergoes a

change. "

 

Krishnamurti.

The Book of Life - April 28