900 Krishnamurti: The wasting of energy
Krishnamurti talks here about how easy it
is to waste energy in the quest for bringing about change. The problem with
bringing about change is that we would rather accept, obey, and follow. In other words: We are lazy. As K says, this is an age-old problem we must overcome. I have an essay KRISHNAMURTI video
We
must be aware of how we dissipate energy
"To bring about a good society, human
beings have to change. You and I must find the energy, the impetus, the
vitality to bring about this radical transformation of the mind, and that is
not possible if we do not have enough energy. We need a great deal of energy to
bring about a change within ourselves, but we waste our energy through
conflict, through resistance, through conformity, through acceptance, through
obedience. It is a waste of energy when we are trying to conform to a pattern.
To conserve energy we must be aware of ourselves, how we dissipate energy.
"This
is an age-long problem because most human beings are indolent; they would
rather accept, obey, and follow. If we become aware of this indolence, this
deep-rooted laziness, and try to quicken the mind and the heart, the intensity
of it again becomes a conflict, which is also a waste of energy.
"Our problem,
one of the many that we have, is how to conserve this energy, the energy that
is necessary for an explosion to take place in consciousness: an explosion that
is not contrived, that is not put together by thought, but an explosion that
occurs naturally when this energy is not wasted. Conflict in any form, at any
level, at any depth of our being, is a waste of energy."
Krishnamurti,
Collected Works, Vol. XVI, 152, Choiceless Awareness