What is one to do in a society which is corrupt, which has such contradictions in itself, in which there is so much injustice?
You have to earn a livelihood, you marry, you have children, you become responsible for them and so you accept the life of an engineer or a professor. As society exists can there be a right way of living?
I am asking myself: what shall I do?
Is it possible to earn a living rightly and not having conflict in oneself?
It is possible to live a life without a single shadow of conflict only when you have understood the whole significance of living - which is, relationship and action.
Life is action, movement, talking, acquiring knowledge and also relationship with another. You have to find right relationship if you want to find a right action which is absolute.
What is your relationship with another? What is your relationship with a particular person?
We say: "I love you." In that love there is always the sense of possessing and being possessed. And when that situation is threatened there arises all the conflict. That is our present relationship with each other. We create an image about each other and cling to that image.
So, can we live together without being tied, without being dependent on each other psychologically?
When you really understand the nature of relationship, which only exists when there is no attachment, when there is no image about the other, then there is real communion with each other.
Right action means precise, accurate action, not based on motive; it is action which is not directed or committed.
The understanding of right action, right relationship, brings about intelligence. Not the intelligence of the intellect but that profound intelligence which is not yours or mine.
That intelligence will dictate what you will do to earn a livelihood. Without that intelligence your livelihood will be dictated by circumstance.
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