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What is our responsibility to ourselves and others? | J. Krishnamurti

What is our responsibility to ourselves and others? | J. Krishnamurti  Some cool stuffs:  K mentioned India pop 800m without social security... One child vs 3-4... The word 'responsibility' is very complex (as many other word :)

Love, freedom, goodness, beauty are one

 This is the last talk. We were talking about the art of living yesterday. I think we ought to go much more into it. Most of us have given very little thought to that, we have hardly enquired into the nature of what life is, and how to live it. Our daily life, with all its ugly turmoil, passing pleasures, and a great deal of entertainment, both religious and otherwise. We have studied almost all the academic subjects, spent years to become a doctor, a surgeon or an engineer, and the engineer never asks how. He has studied perhaps five or six years, has learnt a great deal of information, stresses, strains and the material and so on - he never asks how to build a bridge, because that is his job. But we, ordinary people like us, we are always asking how. How am I to live a life without any conflict, without any of the problems that are involved in our daily unfortunate lives. We are always striving, reaching out, getting somewhere, and when a question, a challenge is put before you, ...

K on generation gap

 http://www.journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/the-art-of-parenting https://www.dailygood.org/story/1825/what-future-does-man-have-david-bohm-and-j-krishnamurti/ For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration. http://www.ibe.unesco.org/sites/default/files/krishnamurtie.pdf Chapter 66 - Without responsibility there is no freedom From "The Whole Movement of Life is Learning"