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What is right action in this chaotic world - J. Krishnamurti - Brockwood Park 1980 - Public Talk 1

J. Krishnamurti - Teachings

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The Importance of Being Free of Attachment

Each one of us has some kind of image about ourselves or about an image created by thought in a church. Those images are very comforting, reassuring, giving us a tremendous sense of security - which is no security at all. And when a mind clings to something that is finished, weathered away, corruption begins. This is the real responsibility for each of us. Not to have a single image. Just keep one or two secretly to oneself. But we are totally, completely free of all that. If one cannot, then you are maintaining fragmentation and therefore conflict, division, struggle, wars, and all the ensuing miseries.

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