Can compassion, that sense of goodness, that feeling of the
sacredness of life about which we were talking last time we met; can
that feeling be brought into being through compulsion? Surely, when
there is compulsion in any form, when there is propaganda or moralizing,
there is no compassion, nor is there compassion when change is brought
about merely through seeing the necessity of meeting the technological
challenge in such a way that human beings will remain human beings and
not become machines. So there must be a change without any causation. A
change that is brought about through causation is not compassion; it is
merely a thing of the market place. So that is one problem.
Another
problem is: if I change, how will it affect society? Or am I not
concerned with that at all? Because the vast majority of people are not
interested in what we are talking about, nor are you if you listen out
of curiosity or some kind of impulse, and pass by. The machines are
progressing so rapidly that most human beings are merely pushed along
and are not capable of meeting life with the enrichment of love, with
compassion, with deep thought. And if I change, how will it affect
society, which is my relationship with you? Society is not some
extraordinary mythical entity; it is our relationship with each other,
and if two or three of us change, how will it affect the rest of the
world? Or is there a way of affecting the total mind of man?
That is, is there a process by which the individual who is changed can touch the unconscious of man?
(J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life)
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