Emptiness

 K: What is the relationship of violence, which is an actual fact, to truth? What is the actual relationship to a recognised, well-known factor in oneself as envy, greed, fear, to truth? Right? What is truth? We will come to that. I daren't touch it for the moment. But we can go into this question by being aware what is reality. Fact - right? - facts, 'what is', reality, truth. What would we call facts, 'what is'? What would you say, or describe, or talk about, 'what is', actually 'what is', not theoretical, not abstracted, not an abstraction, or a supposition. When we say 'fact', 'what is', what do we mean by those two words? Right? Facts. The fact is that there is war. Right? The fact is that human beings are violent. The fact is there are national divisions, political divisions, religious divisions, ideological divisions. Right? You and me - division, the woman and the man - division. And the fact is, where there is division there ...

 “Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all” Krishnamurti - Freedom from the Know

This talk seem nothing interesting but K have revealed some very important topic. The first is about the Family in the East is tremendously important. For the family they'll do anything. The family in the West are disappearing more and more when in the East the family is still the same. The second one is about relationship, a mere form of attraction ? biological responses on both sides, the curiosity, the sense of want to be with another which may be the outcome of unconscious fear of loneliness, the tradition which have established that habit.     In both case there's the fear of losing possessing, exploiting each other sexually and all the rest of it, u follow? On relationship and responsibilities, I have already 'know' that there are not single or a few people on relationship with me but the whole. My responsibilities is for the whole too, for the violent, poverty... Lee Kuan Yew have some statement about the Family value or something like Singapore must have keep it...