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doubt, sometimes you trust. You are just wasting your energies. Not only wasting but creating a contradictory nOw in yourself. You move one step ahead and go one step back -- and in the end you find that you are right where you have always been. You have not progressed because with each step you took, you negated what you did before. If you have been trusting and then you begin to doubt, you are negating your own self. If you have been doubting and now you begin to trust, again you are negating yourself.
A person who listens to Krishnamurti... If I speak against Krishnamurti and he says, "Don't speak against him," it shows that he is not a man who can doubt. He is a man who can trust. He even trusts Krishnamurti who doesn't allow any trust, who is not in favor of faith at all. But this man trusts him.
And where trust is needed, the man will doubt. He will go to a temple and say, "How can I believe that this image is God?" There is no question of how. There are people who just can. It's a question of your capacity to trust, not a question of how. There are people who can trust and there are people who cannot. That, too, is a question of capacity.
No one is higher or lower. One person is capable of trust; another is capable of doubt. So decide for yourself which you are capable of. For each there will be different techniques.
If you go to Gurdjieff, the technique is that of trust. You must trust him. First he will examine you to find out whether you can trust. He will create such fantastic situations that you cannot believe it! He will create situations so that you will try to escape from him. If you are a a doubter, then he will give you every opportunity to doubt, he will create situations so that you will doubt. Then he knows that "this person is not capable of trust."
Gurdjieff would tell stories about himself. He would create totally false stories about himself. And he would create such situations that only someone who could trust absolutely, in spite of everything, would be able to trust. Sometimes he would behave in such a rude manner that it would be impossible to stay with him. If you could stay in spite of his rude manner,
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