Questioner:
I think you said that we are responsible for the whole of society. I have
not interpreted exactly what you mean. Are we responsible for the wars
and so on?
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, in hatred obviously. To live in peace
means to live peacefully everyday doesn't it?
Questioner:
I would say that some people are more responsible than others.
Krishnamurti
Ah! The gentleman says that some people are more responsible for these
ugliness than you and I. That is a nice happy way out of it. But
I am afraid that we are not, when you are a German and I a Russian,
when you are a Communist and I am a capitalist, are we not at each
other's throats, are we not antagonistic to each other? You want
everything as it is, undisturbed anything that disturbs you, you
hate. Are you not responsible when you insist
That you will not "be disturbed"? And you say "my religion,
my Buddha, my Christ", my everything, your whole security and
misery you won't want to be disturbed. A man who thinks quite differently
you hate him. To live peacefully everyday 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 |