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 )
