Violence & Anger The Ideal and the Actual - J Krishnamurti

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 conflict, 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.

 © `Freedom from the Known' by J Kishnamurthi, published (1999) by Krishnamurthi Foundation Trust, Brockwood Park, Brahdean, Hampshire SO240LQ, England, UK.  Reprinted with permission.

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