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How Can You Live In This World And Yet Be Innocent?

https://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=2282 https://medium.com/brightpin/a-short-review-of-freedom-from-the-known-d22f52f8cdd3 “It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.” Awareness is the quality of mind which observes without any justification or condemnation, approval or disapproval, like or dislike - merely observes. http://jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/1934-1935-what-is-right-action/jiddu-krishnamurti-what-is-right-action-43

What to do when there's a military draft?

The question "What do I do about...?" often arises. If the response is "Do this" or "Do that", then the responder is assuming authority, which is violence - certainly a hypocritical response for this particular question! Yet, compassion - i.e., the awareness of the unity of existence - compels a response to a plea for help. The response here seems to be essentially the same as in other talks: understand the totality of the situation, discard all the false, then what else remains but the truth? The answer does not arise from decision, but from choiceless awareness. In this case, understand the full meaning of violence and its many forms: conformity, "discipline", ambition, competitiveness. With a genuine and complete orientation towards a life without any kind of violence, with neither will nor resistance, then all that remains is the true answer to the question.