One of the chief causes of hatred and strife is the belief that a particular class or race is superior to another. A child is neither class nor race conscious; it is the home or school environment, or both, that makes him feel separative. In himself, he does not care whether his playmate is black, or a Jew, a Brahmin or a non-Brahmin, but the influence of the whole social structure continually impinges on his mind, affecting and shaping it. Here again, the problem is not with the child but the adults, who have created a senseless environment of separatism and false values.

From Education and the Significance of Life

#krishnamurti
#Meditation
#life
#phylosophy
#day53

I never watched youtube in my life, and never understand why people go there to gather information, I treat youtube as video storage, for all bullshit. I watch the file only somebody curated it and sended me as link, to the job I need to do. I watch curiositystream.com/ which is cleaned, curated videos. No manipulation, no algorithms, no data collection, no my customer profile creation.

#news
#information
#video
#youtube
#curiositystream
#storage
#file

There must be freedom; it is the very basis of peace. There must be freedom from all the values of opinions so that we can together – actually, not theoretically – see that we currently have no peace. That is a tremendous demand, because we live on opinions. All the newspapers, magazines and books are based on opinions. Somebody says something; you agree, and that is your opinion too. Another reads another book and forms another opinion. To find out the true meaning of peace, the depth of it, the beauty of it and the quality of it, there must be no bias. That is the first demand – not that you must have faith in peace, or make it the goal of your life to live peacefully, or search out what peace is from books or from others, but to inquire very deeply into whether your whole being can live in peace.

From Where Can Peace Be Found?

#Krishnamurti
#Meditation
#phylosophy
#day51
#life

Most of us are concerned with partial revolution, economic or social. But the revolution of which I am talking is a total revolution of man at all the levels of his consciousness, of his life, of his being. That requires a great deal of understanding. It is not the result of any theory or any system of thought; on the contrary, no system of thought can produce a revolution: it can only produce a particular effect which is not a revolution. The revolution which is essential at the present time can only come into being when there is a total apprehension of the process in which man’s mind works – not according to any religion, philosophy or system – the understanding of ourselves as a total process. That is the only revolution that can bring about lasting peace.

From Insights Into Education

#Krishnamurti
#Meditation
#phylosophy
#Day50
#life

When one puts aside the religious recipes, as one puts aside the political formulas, what is left, and what is one to do? Naturally, civic order must be maintained: there must be water in the taps. If you destroyed civic order, you would have to start again from the beginning. So, what is one to do? Be concerned with radical change, with total revolution. The only revolution is the revolution between man and man, between human beings. That is our only concern. In this revolution, there are no blueprints, no ideologies, no conceptual utopias. We must take the fact of the actual relationship between us and change it radically. That is the real thing. And this revolution must be immediate; it must not take time. It is not achieved through evolution.

From The Urgency of Change

#Krishnamurti
#Meditation
#phylosophy
#day49
#life

Idealist revolutionaries, though they may talk convincingly about freedom, will inevitably bring about a dictatorship of the few or of the many. They will also create a personal cult and totally destroy every form of freedom. You may have observed this in the French and Russian revolutions. Your ideal, which may come out of the ashes of the present structure, will only be speculative and theoretical and on this speculative utopia, call it what you like, you want to build a new society. This is what all the physical revolutionaries have done. They begin with equality, social justice, the withering of the state, and so on, and end with a tyrannical bureaucracy, insistence on conformity, and the exercise of authority in the name of the state.

From Beginnings of Learning

#krishnamurti
#Meditation
#phylosophy
#day48
#life

If you don’t know how your mind reacts, if your mind is not aware of its own activities, you will never find out what society is. You may read books on sociology, you may study social sciences, but if you don’t know how your own mind works, you cannot actually understand what society is, because your mind is part of society; it is society. Your reactions, your beliefs, your going to a temple, the clothes you wear, the things you do and don’t do and what you think – society is made up of all this; it is the replica of what is going on in your mind. So your mind is not separate from society; it is not distinct from your culture, your religion, your class divisions, or the ambitions and conflicts of the many. All this is society, and you are part of it. There is no ‘you’ separate from society.

From Think on These Things

#krishnamurti
#meditation
#phylosophy
#day46
#life

We are society; we are not independent of society. We are the result of the environment, of our religion, of our education, of the climate, of the food we eat, the reactions and the innumerable repetitive activities that we indulge in every day. That is our life. And the society in which we live is part of that life. Society is the relationship between human beings. Society is cooperation. Society, as it is, is the result of man’s greed, hatred, ambition, competition, brutality, cruelty, ruthlessness – and we live in that pattern. To understand society, not intellectually, not merely theoretically, but actually, we have to come into contact directly with that fact, which is, a human being, that is you, is the result of this social environment, its economic pressure, religious upbringing, and so on. To come into contact with anything directly is not to verbalise it, but to look at it.

From What Are You Looking For?

#Krishnamurti
#meditation
#phylosophy
#day45
#life