essay
by JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
What is peace and its relationship to intelligence? In a world that is disintegrating with wars, nationalism, sectarianism, idealisms, and every form of division — opinion against opinion, data against data, judgment against judgment — can we have peace in the world first? Can we live peacefully? What does it mean to live together — men, women, or a group of people not committed to any belief or faith? Can we live together peacefully? Apparently this is one of the most difficult things in the world.
In search of peace, one goes off to a monastery, shaves one’s head, puts on some kind of garb, and takes vows. This has been tried for generations, in India, the West, and the Far East: a group of people committed to living peacefully together and to subjugating all their opinions, conforming to a certain pattern of idealism, certain…