02/10/2026
Day 274
Problems
Is this vast problem of the world your problem and my problem, or is it independent of us? Is war independent of you? Is the national strife independent of you, the communal strife independent of you? The corruption, the degradation, the moral disintegration, are they independent of each one of us? This disintegration is directly related to us, and therefore the responsibility rests with each one of us. Surely, that is the main problem. To put it differently, is the problem to be left to the few leaders, either of the left or the right, to a party, a discipline, an ideology, to the United Nations, the expert, the specialist? Or is it a problem that directly involves us? This means: are we directly responsible for these problems, or are we not? Many of you may not have thought about this, and therefore it may be quite strange to you. But the question is whether the individual problem is the world problem and whether you can do anything about it. There is the religious collapse, the moral collapse, the political corruption, the so-called independence that has produced nothing but decay. Is it your problem, or do you leave it all to chance or wait for some miracle to happen that will produce a revolution? Or do you leave it to an authority, to a political party? What is your response? Don’t you have to solve it, don’t you have to attack it, don’t you have to respond vitally to a challenge of this kind?
From How to Find Peace
Copyright © 2026 Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. All rights reserved.