Comparison

In the Book of Chen Jen, the chapter about the fat bird, there is a comparisson on the wandering, ragged, poor sage and the sage in the palace who has ammassed wealth from his position.

In life we often compare one person to another or ourselves to another. You can't be anyone but you though!

An old Yogi once showed off how he could contort his body with such flexibility to rival any youngster and, what did this really prove? That he had still a firm hold of the false self. Comparison one to another displays that the person is still in the grips of the ego idea.