[ the root history of war ]
“To understand violence, you must look at it totally anew, not in the old way. To look at a flower, or the marvellous cloud that carries the hills along, to look at it, you must have a clear, unspotted eye, an eye that has lived, seen a thousand experiences and is free of all experience. It is only then you can see. And you can see totally only with innocent eyes, only when you give your attention. This attention is not the result of will. You can’t say, ‘I will attend, I’ll give my heart to this attention.’ If you do, you have brought about conflict in that attention.
But if you see, actually see sensuously with your eyes, with your ears, with your heart, with your mind, actually see that it is only possible to bring about a radical revolution in the mind when you give complete attention – to your words, to your gestures, to your meals, to the way you eat, to the things you eat, to the words, the feelings – everything – then you will see that there is a radical mutation in the mind and the heart, without struggle, without effort, without an ideology. This change is immediate because one has seen clearly the danger of violence.”
~ J Krishnamurti
~* Perhaps you, too, have been moved and shaken by the war in Ukraine, and are, once again, struck by man’s historic inhumanity to man. Indeed, war would not happen if we realized our direct connection – our oneness in fact. It’s only the conditioned mind – with its need to be safe and secure – that separates and seemingly presents what we believe is real and true, what we think and feel sets us apart. And only the direct recognition of our own beliefs and emotions about being separate will end the endless conflict in our minds and hearts, in our neighborhoods, and in the world. That’s no longer reaction, no longer personal and conflicted; that’s love, loving. 
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