Man is trying all the time to become non-violent .so there is a conflict between ‘ what is’ which is violence, and ‘what should be’ which is non-violence.there is the conflict between the two. that is the very essence of wastage of energy. as long as there is a duality between ‘what is’ and ‘what should’ —-man trying to become something else , making an effort to achieve ‘what should be’ —that conflict is wastage of energy. as long as there is a conflict between the opposite, man has not enough to change. why should I have the opposite at all, like non-violence, as the ideal? the ideal is not real, it has no meaning, it only leads to various forms of hypocrisy being violent and pretending not to be violent. or if you say you are an idealist and will eventually become peaceful, this is a great pretense, an excuse, because it will take many years for you to be without violence. indeed it may never happen .in the meantime you are a hypocrite and still violent. so if we can, not in abstraction but actually, put aside completely all ideas and only deal with the fact—– which is violence— then there is no wastage of energy. —– J.Krishanamurti.
