I have done something and I do not want it to be discovered; I have thought something which does not come up to the mark, which puts me in a state of contradiction, and I do not like it. Where there is approximation, there must be fear and it is this fear that contradicts. Whereas if there as if there is no becoming, no attempting to be something, then there is no sense of fear; there is no contradiction; there is no lie in us at any level, consciously or unconsciously-something to be suppressed, something to be shown up.
All the time we want to know, because then we shall be able to continue, then we shall be able, we think, to capture ultimate happiness, permanency. We want to know because we are not happy, because we are striving miserably, because we are worn out, degraded. Yet instead of realising the simple fact-that we are degraded, that we are dull, weary, in turmoil- we want to move away from what is the known into the unknown, which again becomes the known and therefore we can never find the real.
All the time we are comparing ourselves- with those who are richer or more brilliant, more intellectual, more affectionate, more famous, more this and more that. The ‘more’ place an extraordinarily important part in our lives: this measuring ourselves all the time again something or someone is one of the primary causes of conflict. When you can look yourself without comparison you are beyond comparison.
