7/30/2019 Krishnamurti-this Matter of Culture Chapter 14
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THIS MATTER OF CULTURE CHAPTER 14part2
Now, can we bring about, from the tenderest age, a sense of
complete security, afeeling of being at home, so that in you there
is no struggle to be this and not to be that? Because the moment
there is an inward struggle there is conflict,and to overcome that
conflict there must be discipline. Whereas, if you are rightly
educated, then everything that you do is an integrated action;
there is no contradiction and hence no compulsive action. As long
as there is no integrationthere must be discipline, but discipline
is destructive because it does not leadto freedom.
To be integrated does not demand any form of discipline. That
is, if I am doing what is good, what is intrinsically true, what is
really beautiful, doing it with my whole being, then there is no
contradiction in me and I am not merelyconforming to something. If
what I am doing is totally good, right in itself - not right
according to some Hindu tradition or communist theory, but
timelessly right under all circumstances - then I am an integrated
human being and have no need for discipline. And is it not the
function of a school to bring about in youthis sense of integrated
confidence so that what you are doing is not merely what you wish
to do, but that which is fundamentally right and good,
everlastinglytrue? you love there is no need for discipline, is
there? Love brings its own creative understanding, therefore there
is no resistance, no conflict; but to love with such complete
integration is possible only when you feel deeply secure, c
ompletely at home, especially while you are young. This means,
really, that theeducator and the student must have abounding
confidence in each other, otherwisewe shall create a society which
will be as ugly and destructive as the presentone. If we can
understand the significance of completely integrated action in
which there is no contradiction, and therefore no need for
discipline, then I think we shall bring about a totally different
kind of culture, a new civilization.But if we merely resist,
suppress, then what is suppressed will inevitably rebound in other
directions and set going various mischievous activities and
destructive events.
So it is very important to understand this whole question of
discipline. Tome, discipline is something altogether ugly; it is
not creative, it is destructive. But merely to stop there, with a
statement of that kind, may seem to implythat you can do whatever
you like. On the contrary, a man who loves does not do
whatever he likes. It is love alone that leads to right action.
What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it
will.
Questioner: Why do we hate the poor?Krishnamurti: Do you really
hate the poor? I am not condemning you; I am ju
st asking, do you really hate the poor? And if you do, why? Is
it because you also may be poor one day, and imagining your own
plight then, you reject it? Or isit that you dislike the sordid,
dirty, unkempt existence of the poor? Dislikinguntidiness,
disorder, squalor, filth, you say, "I don't want to have anything
to do with the poor." Is that it? But who has created poverty,
squalor and disorder in the world? You, your parents, your
government - our whole society has created them; because, you see,
we have no love in our hearts. We love neither our children nor our
neighbours, neither the living nor the dead. We have no love
foranything at all. The politicians are not going to eradicate all
this misery and
ugliness in the world, any more than the religions and the
reformers will, because they are only concerned with a little
patchwork here and there; but if therewere love, then all these
ugly things would disappear tomorrow.
Do you love anything? Do you know what it is to love? You know,
when you love something completely, with your whole being, that
love is not sentimental, itis not duty, it is not divided as
physical or divine. Do you love anyone or anything with your whole
being - your parents, a friend, your dog, a tree? Do you?I am
afraid you don't. That is why you have vast spaces in your being in
which there is ugliness, hate, envy. You see, the man who loves has
no room for anything else. We should really spend our time
discussing all this and finding out how
