KRISHNAMURTI: How does one cope with the extraordinary energy that human
beings have? Is that the question, sir? You cope with it most beautifully, don’t
you? You murder each other, you cheat each other, you waste that energy in
ambition, in greed, in conflict, in violence, in aggression, in suppression, in
following. You do it most beautifully. Why do you ask? Don’t you waste it in
sex, in pleasure, in going to the moon, living under the sea, hating? Isn’t that
what you are doing? You have plenty of energy for all that and to waste your life
in an office for forty years. Just think of it! Why do you ask that question, if I
may ask you? Why do you ask what to do with that tremendous energy you
have? Don’t you mean how can this energy, which is so immense—which we
have broken up as sexual energy, intellectual energy, emotional energy, physical
energy—move in a direction in which there is no war in us or outside of us? Is
that the question?
Q: More or less.
K: More or less. Which is it? More? Or less?
Q: How is one to meditate?
K: The gentleman wants to know how to meditate. What a tragedy we have made
of life! The speaker has gone into it for an hour and twenty minutes, and you
want to know at the end of it how to meditate. Too bad. That is what our life is;
we never listen, never find out for ourselves, never investigate, but ask “Tell me
how to live.” There is nobody to tell you how to live. If they tell you how to live,
then you are living according to them.
You know, this energy is so immense. Human energy is cosmic energy; it is
the same energy, the exploding energy of the universe. And we are using a very,
very, very small part of it. And that very small part we have broken up with “my
country and your country; my god and your god; my belief and your belief; my
family and your family.” So we are wasting that little energy which we have, and
we die miserably. So see this fragmentation, just see it. You can’t do anything
about it. Just observe this fragmentation of your life. When you observe it
silently, completely, quietly, without any movement of thought, then you will see
that you have extraordinary energy to change the whole structure of your being,
your society.
Q: You say creative happiness is for all, not only for a few. Could you explain
this?
K: You know, the word is not the thing. The word tree is not the tree, right? You
understand that simple thing? So the explanation is not the explained; the
description is not the described. So bear that in mind: the word is not the thing.
The tree is not the word, but we are caught in words. And the questioner says,
“Please explain what creative happiness is for everybody.” I can explain, but the
explanation is not the real.