By
J. Krishnamurti
/ jkrishnamurti.org
FEAR, PLEASURE, SORROW, thought and violence are all
interrelated. Most of us take pleasure in violence, in disliking
somebody, hating a particular race or group of people, having
antagonistic feelings towards others. But in a state of mind in which
all violence has come to an end there is a joy which is very different
from the pleasure of violence with its conflicts, hatreds and fears.
Can we go to the very root of violence and be free from it? Otherwise
we shall live everlastingly in battle with each other. If that is the
way you want to live - and apparently most people do - then carry on; if
you say, `Well, I'm sorry, violence can never end', then you and I have
no means of communication, you have blocked yourself; but if you say
there might be a different way of living, then we shall be able to
communicate with each other.
So let us consider together, those of us who can communicate, whether
it is at all possible totally to end every form of violence in
ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world. I think it is
possible. I don't want to have a breath of hate, jealousy, anxiety or
fear in me. I want to live completely at peace. Which doesn't mean that I
want to die. I want to live on this marvellous earth, so full, so rich,
so beautiful. I want to look at the trees, flowers, rivers, meadows,
women, boys and girls, and at the same time live completely at peace
with myself and with the world. What can I do?
