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From the beginning not to look for a result Posted: The
mountains must be alone. It must be a lovely thing to have rain among the
mountains and the rain drops on the placid lake. How the smell of the earth
comes out when it rains and then there are the croakings of many frogs. There's
a strange enchantment in the tropics, when it rains. Everything is washed clean;
the dust on the leaf is washed away; the rivers come to life and there is the
noise of running waters. The trees put out green shoots, there is the new wild
grass where there was barren earth; insects by the thousands come out from
nowhere and the parched earth is fed and the earth seems satisfied and at peace.
The sun seems to have lost its penetrating quality and the earth has become
green; a place of beauty and richness. Man goes on making his own misery, but
the earth is rich once again and there is enchantment in the air. It is strange
how most people want recognition and praise -to be recognized as a great poet,
as a philosopher, something that boosts one's ego. It gives great satisfaction
but it has very little meaning. Recognition feeds one's vanity and perhaps one's
pocket, and then what? It sets one apart and separation breeds its own problems,
ever increasing. Though it may give satisfaction, recognition is not an end in
itself. But most people are caught in the craving to be recognized, to fulfill,
to achieve. And failure is then inevitable, with its accompanying misery. To be
free of both success and failure is the real thing. From the beginning not to
look for a result, to do the thing that one loves, and love has no reward or
punishment. This is really a simple thing if there is love. - Krishnamurti,
Letters to a Young Friend,23 |
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