Thought For Today 20 July 2022, J Krishnamurti

If I make any kind of effort to be non-violent, the very effort to be non-violent is part of violence. Then what am I to do? I must first see that the entity making effort to be non-violent is in itself violence – therefore the entity can do nothing. So when I realise that the whole of me is violence – not part of me but the whole of me because I have been trained to make effort, to overcome, to defend, to be aggressive and so on – what can I do? Any movement towards non-violence is still violence. Any movement on the part of the observer to be non-violent is still part of violence because the observer is the observed. If it is really clear that the observer is the observed, all action on the part of the observer ceases. When the activity on the part of the observer ceases, there is a totally different activity.

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