Dear Friends

I wonder if you know about the new book

published by Watkins titled How To Find

Peace. It’s an expanded and re-edited edition

of Social Responsibility, one of KFA’s

thematic study books. It begins with

Krishnamurti’s piercing 1985 speech at

the United Nations in New York, given as

part of the official observance of the UN’s

40th anniversary. (I attended the talk, and

remember being disappointed that the hall

wasn’t full.) Following this Introduction

are 10 sections, among them: What is

your responsibility to society? How does

the free mind live in this world? and The

intelligence that brings order and peace. This is an extract from the section

titled On War:

K: How war came into being

Question: All except a few do not want war, so why do they prepare for it?

Krishnamurti: War means destruction, killing and maiming one

another, with the noise, the brutality, the ugliness, the appalling misery

of pain.

Do you know how war has come into being?

Keep reading: ( download pdf )