Waking up to Wisdom In Stillness and Community  On Greed  --by
Krishnamurti (Jul 27, 1998)  "Take greed. Do you know what greed
is? It is eating more food than you need, wanting to outshine
others at games, wanting to have more property, a bigger car
than someone else. Then you say that you must not be greedy, so
you practice non-greed - which is really silly, because greed
can never cease by trying to become non-greed. But if you begin
to understand all the implications of greed, if you give your
mind and heart to finding the truth of it, then you are free
from greed as well as from its opposite. Then you are a really
intelligent human being, because you are tackling what is and
not imitating what should be.  So if you are dull, don't try to
be intelligent or clever, but understand what it is that is
making you dull. Imitation, fear, copying somebody, following
and example or an ideal -- all this makes the mind dull. When
you stop following, when you have no fear, when you are capable
of thinking clearly for