Ep. 99 - Conflict - The Ecstasy of Life with Sam Yogi | Kant Misra on J. Krishnamurti - Seeing the False as the False

Ep. 99 - Conflict - The Ecstasy of Life with Sam Yogi | Kant Misra on J. Krishnamurti - Seeing the False as the FalseExcerpts from an International Zoom Dialogue on Krishnamurti's Commentaries on Living are intersperses with an one-on-one by the host with with Dr. Kant Misra. Dr. Kant Misra goes into "Conflict" described within a chapter titled "Education and Integration" from Commentaries on Living by J. Krishnamurti, Volume 2. Questioner: "What do you mean by conflict?"J. Krishnamurti: "Conflict in every form: between husband and wife, between two groups of people with conflicting ideas, between what is and tradition, between what is and the ideal, the should be, the future. Conflict is inner and outer strife. At present there is conflict at all the various levels of our existence, the conscious as well as the unconscious. Our life is a series of conflicts, a battleground - and for what? Do we understand through strife? Can I understand you if I am in conflict with you? To understand there must be a certain amount of peace. Creation can take place only in peace, in happiness, not when there is conflict, strife. Our constant struggle is between what is and what should be, between thesis and antithesis; we have accepted this conflict as inevitable, and the inevitable has become the norm, the true - though it maybe false. Can what is be transformed by the conflict with its opposite? I am this, and by struggling to be that, which is the opposite, have I changed this? Is not the opposite, the antithesis, a modified projection of what is? Has not the opposite always the elements of its own opposite? Through comparison is there understanding of what is? Is not any conclusion about what is a hindrance to the understanding of what is? If you would understand something, must you not observe it, study it? Can you study it freely if you are prejudiced in favour of or against it? If you would understand your son must you not study him, neither identifying yourself with nor condemning him? Surely, if you are in conflict with your son, there is no understanding of him. So, is conflict essential to understanding?"#conflict #jkrishnamurti #kantmisra #krishnamurti #dialogue