Yesterday’s Reading from The Book of Life (J. Krishnamurti)

The Anchored Mind

We carry on like machines with our tiresome daily routine.  How eagerly the mind accepts a pattern of existence, and how tenaciously it clings to it!  As by a driven nail, the mind is held together by idea, and around the idea it lives and has its being. The mind is never free, pliable, for it is always anchored;  it moves within the radius, narrow or wide, of its own center.  From its center it dare not wander;  and when it does, it is lost in fear.  Fear is not of the unknown, but of the loss of the known.  The unknown does not incite fear, but dependence on the known does.  Fear is always with desire, the desire for the more or for the less.  The mind, with its incessant weaving of patterns, is the mater of time; and with time there is fear, hope, and death.

Daily Dose

Last night’s reading was on pattern and the mind’s need for it. The hunger for sequence and order is insatiable. It is a self-serving act for the mind, the thinker, not the person. Which left unchecked by an off-balanced vessel can evolve into a self-loathing cycle.

When I get home later I’ll post the reading itself.

The synchronicity of the reading and my last post is beauty and truth.