20150120: Why Gossip? - First of all, why do we gossip? It is a form of restlessness, is it not? Like worry, it is an indication of a restless mind. Why this desire to interfere with others, to know what others are doing, saying? It is a very superficial mind that gossips, isn't it? -an inquisitive ind which is wrongly directed. The questioner seems to think that others are revealed to him by his being concerned with them- with their doings, with their thoughts, with their opinions. But do we know others if we do not know the way of our own thinking, the way we act, the way we behave? Why this extraordinary concern over others? Doesn't it offer an escape from ourselves? I think, first of all, we gossip about others because we are not sufficiently interested in the process of our own thinking and of our own action. This was written by J.Krishnamurti in the newspaper, DNA on 20th January, 2015, and is now reproduced for the information of "sundercircle" members. Kind Regards. Sunder T
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