{"id":297875,"date":"2025-07-07T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=297875"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:47:34","slug":"krishnamurti-on-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/07\/krishnamurti-on-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishnamurti on War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life. It is an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this short but powerful quote, Krishnamurti sums up the causes of war, that it is the amplified result of what goes on inside ourselves: the conflicts, the divisions and the feeling that things or emotions are other than ourselves. We feel that warfare is something \u2018out there\u2019, something others are instigating, and yet we live perpetually with internal \u2018wars\u2019 even as we attempt to live a peaceful life.<\/p>\n

In this feature, we unfold what Krishnamurti has to say about war, something that has been with humanity for millennia and has not left us, and explore whether it is possible to live truly peacefully inwardly and so outwardly.<\/p>\n

The problems of war have existed before, but most of us have not been concerned with them as they were remote, and not affecting us personally and deeply, but now war is at our door and seems to dominate the minds of most people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps outward events can energise our inquiry into not only why the current wars are taking place, but moreover into the very cause of conflict, and whether it is possible for humanity to live without war.<\/p>\n

The problem that we should discuss, which is ever-present, is that of the individual and his relationship with another, which is society. If we can understand this complex problem then perhaps we shall be able to avoid the many causes that ultimately lead to war. War is a symptom, however brutal and diseased, and to deal with the outer manifestation without regard to the deeper causes of it, is futile and purposeless. In fundamentally changing the causes, perhaps we can bring about a peace that is not destroyed by outer circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Krishnamurti<\/em>: “Like a signpost, I am merely pointing the direction. The signpost is not important at all. What is important is the one who is journeying. The speaker is not a guru, he is not an authority, he is not a guide. One has to take the inward journey alone, not as a reaction away from outward things but as the inevitable process of trying to understand.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life. It is an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action.” In this short but powerful quote, Krishnamurti sums up the causes of war, that it is the amplified result of what goes on inside ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":297876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[3509,1170,308,281,805,481],"class_list":["post-297875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-krishnamurti","tag-life","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology","tag-spirituality","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297879,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297875\/revisions\/297879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}