Be TheChange

Many famous scholars and wise elders talked about how all change starts with a single fire in a person's soul.

Krishnamurthi

"There is no peace in the world. There are the preparations for war by all nations, especially the present crisis, nuclear war and the destruction of the whole of mankind. So there is no peace in the world, nor is there peace in ourselves. To be a religious human being requires a great deal of intelligence, and also to live peacefully in this world, without conflict, without problems, without this divisive process, that also requires a great deal of intelligence. Not repetition of some slogans, not following some guru, all that is gone, finished, because man no longer, if he's at all aware, intelligent and conscious of what is going on, he has put aside all that rubbish. You may not agree but please listen to the very end of it, if you have the patience and if you want to face facts. Because facts do not need opinions, they are so. How you translate facts depends on your background, on your prejudices, on your conditioning, but facts remain facts, like that there is war in certain parts of the world, that they are preparing, both sides, right and left. One hopes there will be no war.

It is far more difficult to take a journey inwardly. It's fairly easy, if you are well informed of what is going on in the world. But one must have a criteria to evaluate, as in a mirror to see things as they are, to see what is happening in the world, in the outer world - it's really not an outward world at all, it's a world which we have created. It's like a tide going out and coming in - it's the same water. But we have unfortunately divided the world as the outer and the inner. This eternal movement of action and reaction, challenge and response, problem after problem, and these problems are increasing more and more, not only created by the politicians and also by all the religious people but also the problems which we have created for ourselves. It's a society which we have created. It hasn't suddenly come into being. This is what we are. If our house is burning, disorderly, competitive, ruthless, we have created such a society - whether it's brutality, cruelty, injustice, and so on. So it's our responsibility, not to change society but to see in our journey which we are going to take together, whether in that very movement of taking the journey there is a possibility of changing ourselves fundamentally, a psychological revolution, not a physical revolution. So let us go together.

So, together we are taking the journey to find out if we human beings can radically bring about a change in ourselves. Not through compulsion, not through some enticement or some promise, but seeing things as they are - the frightening, the desperate state man has reached, the confusion that really thinking man is in, because he has been told so many things all his life, all contradicting. So we are confused human beings whether you admit it or not; confused not only consciously but deeply, in the deep layers of the consciousness we are confused. The world has reached that point, where you believe neither in the scientist nor in politicians nor in any of the so-called - these thoughtless gurus. Man has not changed. And when one has reached this stage of confusion, deeply, then that very confusion demands right action, that very confusion brings a crisis in our life. The crisis is not out there but the crisis is in our consciousness, in our being.

So, as our brains are conditioned by thought, through thought, is it possible - please listen to this - is it possible to find a totally different movement which is not of thought, which is not put together by thought? Thought being the activity of time, a material process. Don't go off into meditations and all that kind of stuff. We'll deal with that presently. But to find out, that is, if thought is the only instrument we have then we are condemned forever. You understand this? Because then all our action becomes limited, then whatever we do, religiously, politically, economically, will be always limited, and therefore perpetual conflict and more problems. But thought is necessary. If I want to write a letter to you I must employ thought. To go from here to your house you need thought, and so on. So we are asking is thought necessary in relationship with each other? And to discover for oneself, not to be told everlastingly, but to discover for oneself an instrument - not an instrument - a process of living in which thought doesn't come in. This requires... this requires enormous enquiry. This requires a great deal of your attention because knowledge has become so important to you - knowledge about the Gita, about the Upanishads and all the commentary. Knowledge - you worship knowledge. Your goddess... you have goddesses, don't you, of knowledge. But knowledge has its place. Truth isn't knowledge. It isn't something put together by thought, it's something that comes into being when the brain is totally free, uncontaminated, pristine, original. And to discover that is part of meditation - not this stupid repetition."