Skip to main content

The problem of existence - Fortunately I have no children

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

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

You should have very strong feelings - feelings of passion, anger - and watch them, play with them, find out the truth of them

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/chapter-8 That is why you should have very strong feelings - feelings of passion, anger - and watch them, play with them, find out the truth of them; for if you merely suppress them, if you say, "I must not get angry, I must not feel passionate, because it is wrong", you will find that your mind is gradually being encased in an idea and thereby becomes very shallow. ... In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectuals - intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea. That is why you should have very strong feelings - feelings of pa...
Post a Comment
Read more