How to deal with the emerging violence

There is one interesting thing about Krishnamurti that was both striking and educational for the people who attended his public talks. He never commented directly on violent events happening in the world. If asked, he actually said to people: "don't feed it. Don't give it energy." What did he mean by this?

During one public discussion a transatlantic passenger plane blew apart killing everyone on board. One would have expected that he say something to people about this tragedy. He said not a word. Not a single word or comment did he make. Krishnamurti saw our own mindless reaction to violent events as being part of the problem. He himself did not "react", and he advised others also, not to react. He often said to people: "When you react to violence you feed it and give it power, you make it happen." When in reality one had to withdraw the energy from thought, which is the source of all conflict.

During the talks and discussions Krishnamurti focused on the untapped resource of the human being to know peace, which was to have a mind free of conflict and violence. He considered that this world would only know peace when the mind was quiet and free of fear. When dealing with violence he suggested, seeing it for what it is and letting it go. The violence of thought was as real as the act itself. When he said: "You live such violent lives." He meant inwardly, individually, personally in the way people think and live.

During his talks he actually carried people away from the mundane world and into a world of peace. This peace resonated in his voice as passionate and something we must all demand of ourselves. He insisted that we accept nothing less, no compromise and that to do this would mean walking away from the world. He even suggested one has to leave the violence to destroy itself, and that "opposing violence" was, in itself an act of violence. He said the two have the same root, the same cause ... the cause being personal fear and the solution being the complete ending and absence of fear.

"Indira Ghandi was shot by two of her security guards October 31 at 9:20 A.M., as she was walking from her residence to her office. Riddled by bullets, she fell mortally wounded to the earth, surrounded by growing things. She fell close to the grove of kadamba saplings she had planted that rainy season, after the June tragedy in Punjab.

"Krishnaji sat through the day in my sitting room overlooking the garden; he had watched the trees and the birds, hardly speaking and eating little. At four in the afternoon he had felt Indira's presence and had commented on the need for silence within the mind to enable her to be at peace. I could see that he was deeply moved. Late the next night he was to say, "Don't hold memories of Indira in your mind, that holds her to the earth. Let her go." His hand made a gesture towards space and eternity."

From - Krishnamurti: A Biography, by Pupul Jayakar

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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God,

but to create him."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

In an April 1, 1997 profile in the New York Times, Clarke speaks about his new book 3001, the latest and perhaps final in the series of books beginning with 2001:

In the world of 3001 Clarke envisions for the story, the writer of the piece, John F. Burns, says: "Perhaps most controversially, religions of all kinds have fallen under a strict taboo, with the citizenry looking back on the religious beliefs and practices of earlier ages as products of ignorance that caused untold strife and bloodshed. But the concept of a God, known by the Latin word Deus, survives, a legacy of man's continuing wonder at the universe.

"In this, Clarke is giving vent to one of the few things that seem to ruffle his equable nature. 'Religion is a byproduct of fear,' he says. 'For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?'"

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You and nothingness are one - Krishnamurti

"You are nothing. You may have your name and title, your property and bank account, you may have power and be famous; but in spite of all these safeguards, you are as nothing. You may be totally unaware of this emptiness, this nothingness, or you may simply not want to be aware of it; but it is there, do what you will to avoid it. You may try to escape from it in devious ways, through personal or collective violence, through individual or collective worship, through knowledge or amusement; but whether you are asleep or awake, it is always there. You can come upon your relationship to this nothingness and its fear only by being choicelessly aware of the escapes. You are not related to it as a separate, individual entity; you are not the observer watching it; without you, the thinker, the observer, it is not. You and nothingness are one; you and nothingness are a joint phenomenon, not two separate processes. If you, the thinker, are afraid of it and approach it as something contrary and opposed to you, then any action you may take towards it must inevitably lead to illusion and so to further conflict and misery. When there is the discovery, the experiencing of that nothingness as you, then fear - which exists only when the thinker is separate from his thoughts and so tries to establish a relationship with them - completely drops away."

The explosion of meditation

Thought shattering itself against its own nothingness is the explosion of meditation. J. Krishnamurti



HAL 9000 when the screwdriver has taken over onbehalf of mankind. This sums up what all this was about... adventure aka humanity - now we are entering part 4 - BEYOND THE INFINITE - Are you READY ? Take your time & enjoy - it is fun - a game show - by Stanley Kubrick

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Action Without Thought

Some have asked me why I have two blogs.
I was born with Mars in Gemini. Many ideas...

"What do we mean by idea?




Surely idea is the process of thought. Is it not? Idea is a process of mentation, of thinking; and thinking is always a reaction either of the conscious or of the unconscious. Thinking is a process of verbalization which is the result of memory; thinking is a process of time. So, when action is based on the process of thinking, such action must inevitably be conditioned, isolated. Idea must oppose idea, idea must be dominated by idea. There is a gap then between action and idea. What we are trying to find out is whether it is possible for action to be without idea. We see how idea separates people. As I have already explained, knowledge and belief are essentially separating qualities. Beliefs never bind people; they always separate people; when action is based on belief or an idea or an ideal, such an action must inevitably be isolated, fragmented. Is it possible to act without the process of thought, thought being a process of time, a process of calculation, a process of self-protection, a process of belief, denial, condemnation, justification. Surely, it must have occurred to you as it has to me, whether action is at all possible without idea."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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