Emptiness

K: Yes. Overpopulation. Fortunately I have no children. What am I to do about it, what are you to do about overpopulation? You go to India, which I do every winter, except last year, and you see there are 570 million people, crawling. For one job there are about 5,000 people - you understand? - people sleeping in the streets. Tremendous population. China is the same, go to the East, it is burdened, and in Europe too. So what are we to do? You and I, not somebody else - what are we to do about it? Join the Family Planning Board? Advocate which is the best contraceptive and so on? Is that your major problem? Come on, sirs, is this what you want to discuss, talk over together, how to prevent... https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/content/problem-existence

https://www.quora.com/What-did-J-Krishnamurti-mean-If-we-can-really-understand-the-problem-the-answer-will-come-out-of-it-because-answer-is-not-separate-from-the-problem ... When is perception complete and adequate? By not operating on the fact, the fact initiates its own movement - it can be seen to be born, flower and wither away – the experience is completely lived and not stored in memory. This involves dying to the past - because only then is there a constant renewal. JK explains this through the analogy of the difference between a stagnant pool of water and a river which through its constant ebb and flow is ever renewing itself or cleansing itself. This is an entirely different movement which is permanent but not static – for it is constantly in flow. It is a movement from moment to moment. ...