11/04/2025
Healing of the mind gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree and the blade of grass that pushes through cement, with the hills hidden by the clouds. —Krishnamurti
Context: We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite, we would never harm a monkey, dog or guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds and our bodies. The healing of the mind is something totally different, which gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through cement, with the hills hidden by the clouds. This is not sentiment or romantic imagination but the reality of a relationship with everything that lives and moves on the earth. Man has killed millions of whales and is still killing them. All that we derive from their slaughter can be had through other means. But apparently man loves to kill things, the fleeting deer, the marvellous gazelle and the great elephant. And we love to kill each other. This killing of other human beings has not stopped throughout the history of man’s life on this earth. If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, bushes, flowers, grass and the fast moving clouds, we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever. Organised murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, we have never demonstrated against war itself. We have never said that to kill another human being is the greatest sin on earth.
Krishnamurti to Himself