J. Krishnamurti - Good & Evil : Part 3 (of 3), Q & A's, Brockwood, 1984.

Is there such a thing as good and evil in the world? Or, are these human concepts, values, and suppositions and projections?
What is good? And what is so-called not good? If we use the word 'evil' that has got such connotations behind that word. Let's forget the word evil for the moment.
Is the good related to the bad? And is the good in conflict with the bad?
in us there are these two opposing elements, this duality (naming process).
So goodness cannot exist where that which is bad. From the bad you cannot possibly go to the good. It is not a movement from this to that. It is not a process of time, from that which is bad to achieve that which is good - right?
As long as there is division - right? - racial division, class division, religious division - right? Political, economic and so on, divisions, those divisions create conflict, war ultimately, killing each other. You understand? Isn't that bad? No?
Can we be free of all that first? Not belong to any country, to any group, to any guru, to any religious organization because they are all divisive. That brings about another question: authority. Political authority, religious authority, the totalitarian authority - you understand? Is authority evil? Not authority in the hands of the wise is good. Do you understand? We have said that: authority of the wise is the salvation of the foolish!
So, then the question is: the bad. The bad we said is any kind of division. Don't misunderstand. The religious division - right? The division that says "We are closed, you can't come in here" - psychologically. But the door is open if you want to come in. You understand? That is not closed. So go into all this. It all comes down to any form of psychological, individualistic division - the Arab, the Jew, the Muslim and so on. Any psychological organizational division in that sense of that word. That's bad. Right? And can one be free of all that?

At Brockwood Park, 1st Public Question & Answer Meeting (28th August 1984)

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[ColbyFraser]

How can this only have 772 views. What he talks about must be the most important things i have heard my whole life.

[fitzerg]

So.. Evil is anything that makes us psychologically divide/separate ourselves from anybody?

[WolfEyesatNight]

I think the most interesting part of this video is when JK leaves the room,

and what he leaves behind, the disconcerted people, unanswered questions,

while he struggled to offer to anyone who listen ..

" the key" to open their understanding of themselves. 

[arzoyan]

The absolute truth is the interdependence of life, the entanglement of all and everything in the language of quantum physics. Capitalism is the historic process of PRIVATE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP OF ALIENATION,EXPLOITATION AND SUFFERING OF HUMANITY in a modality of commodity production with the sole motive of profit . A WORLD MARKET MECHANISM of ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY,, DISTORTION AND DESTRUCTION. The emergent realisation of limits and obsolete nature of Capitalism is on.

[Method9]

@fitzerg yeah. but its also inherent to the way in which we think. at a fundamental level our neurons are operating on a fire / dont fire switch. just like a computer operating on a 0 or 1 switch. this is called boolean logic, and it is capable of rendering everything a computer has ever simulated, and every thought in your head, through the use of dividing one thing from another. transcending this is going to take some work if its possible at all, in my opinion

[unovunodc]

When you say that 'you don't understand what you've learned' you seem to be expressing that you have heard and understood his words but not inwardly felt those words he uses to describe something. Perhaps you try too hard to grasp, and both trying and grasping is control and effort. I do understand that K. can be somewhat more illusive but once your in the right place inwardly, his messages will arrive within you. Try Alan Watts... this may help further.

[DontEatEggs666]

@fitzerg I don't know. I tried so hard to understand this interview. Good and Evil is the one topic I've never been able to grasp. It's like I just don't understand anything I learn from K, and when I do I forget it and quit living it by the next day.

[ACQUAARIA]

at the end of all that, You need to cry .....

[ksmms]

Thank you so much for all of your postings.

[AndAllThatOpera]

thank you for posting