Friday, June 28, 2024

Let’s take a good look

 "Self-knowledge is not according to any formula. You may go to a psychologist or a psychoanalyst to find out about yourself, but that is not self-knowledge. Self-knowledge comes into being when we are aware of ourselves in relationship, which shows what we are from moment to moment. Relationship is a mirror in which to see ourselves as we actually are. But most of us are incapable of looking at ourselves as we are in relationship, because we immediately begin to condemn or justify what we see. We judge, we evaluate, we compare, we deny or accept, but we never observe actually what is, and for most people this seems to be the most difficult thing to do; yet this alone is the beginning of self-knowledge."

 J Krishnamurti."

 

 

I realized that the German word of judgement—Urteil—contains the word division. Every time we pass judgement we are—by definition—entering the realm of duality for there must be someone who passes judgement on someone else. Even if you think that you are in the “right” you have still left the realm of non-duality. Let’s take a good look today, at our own actions and at who the other truly is rather than what we want to see or fear to expect.


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