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Radical, fundamental change within...
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6/20/2009 1:09 PM
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"You are the world, the neighbour, the friend, the so-called enemy. If you would understand, you must first understand yourself, for in you is the root of all understanding. In you is the beginning and the end." "If you are very clear, if you are inwardly a light unto yourself, you will never follow anyone"
-- J. Krishnamurti
Don't you think that we are responsible for the wars? The way of our lives indicates that we are brutal, aggressive and have violent prejudices, we have divided ourselves into nationalities, religious groups, hating each other, we destroy each other in business; all that must express itself in wars - obviously. To live in peace means to live peacefully every day, doesn't it?
...because you have a little money, a child, a house and for God's sake you don't want to be disturbed... And you say 'my religion, my Buddha, my Christ,' my whatever it is, he is my God, in him you have invested everything, your whole security and misery - you don't want to be disturbed. A man who thinks quite differently, you hate him.
To live peacefully every day means you have really no nationality, religion, dogma, or authority. Peace means to love, to be kind; if you haven't that, then you are responsible for all the confusion.
I think one has to be extraordinarily, vitally serious about everything in life - not about fragmentary parts of life - because each individual human being is responsible for all the misery, for the wars, for the hunger, for the brutalities and so on, for this enormous violence that exists in the world.
(For those of you, please, who are not really very interested, who merely came for curiosity, would they all get up and go now - it would be much simpler. If you are serious at all about anything then stay and pay as much or as little attention as you can.)
I feel very strongly that each one of us, being responsible for the chaos, misery and sorrow in the world that each one of us as a human being must bring about a radical revolution in himself... Unless there is a radical transformation in the very foundation of ourselves... without that radical, fundamental change every effort to go beyond that has no meaning.
(J. Krishnamurti, Talks and Dialogues)
(According to this inspiring teacher who leads you to the clear consciousness that transcends rational thought, the highest sensitivity is the highest intelligence which, of course, must produce change, a deep and complete characterological transformation. But how does this come about? Obviously by the way we communicate and relate. Krishnamurti urges on the need for every person to know himself without illusion. Only in this way can there be the awakening of a new mind and a different way of living.)
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