Violence is not only in the killing, in the bomb, in revolutionary change through bloodshed; it is deeper and more subtle. Conformity and imitation are the indications of violence; imposition and the acceptance of authority are indications of violence; ambition and competition are expressions of this aggression and cruelty, and comparison breeds envy with its animosity and hatred. Where there is conflict, inner or outer, there is the ground for violence. Division in all its forms brings about conflict and pain. You know all this; you have read about the actions of violence, you have seen it in yourself and around you, and you have heard it. You have knowledge of all this and perhaps more, yet violence has not ended ā why? The explanations and causes of such behaviour are of no real significance. If you are indulging in them, you are wasting your energy, which you need to transcend violence. You need all your energy to meet and go beyond the energy that is being wasted in violence. Controlling violence is another form of violence, for the controller is the controlled. In total attention, the summation of all energy, violence in all its forms comes to an end. Attention is not a word, an abstract formula of thought, but an act in daily life. Action is not an ideology, but if action is the outcome of it, it leads to violence.
From The Beauty of Life ā Krishnamurtiās Journal
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