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Do these quotes below mean anything to you.
If you see this in your daily life and are interested to discuss new ways of living in community and in exploring the feasibility of, or reasons for establishing something more concrete, not for the purpose of isolation but of cooperation then please contact .

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"If there is some peace among a few people, then those few, not necessarily the elite, will employ all their skill to bring about a different world, then religion and science can go together."
‘Krishnamurti To Himself’
Ojai California 27th March 1984

 

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"DB: So we say the world of society, of human beings, is one and when I say I am that world, what does it mean?
     JK: The world is not different from me.
     DB: The world and I are one - right? We are inseparable.
     JK: Yes. And that requires - that is real meditation, you must feel this, not just verbal statement, it is an actuality. I am my brother's keeper."
 
"The Future of Mankind" Brockwood Park
1st Conversation with David Bohm 11th June 1983
 
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     DB: Now suppose 'A' sees something and most of the rest of mankind does not. Then it seems, one could say mankind is in some way dreaming, asleep.
     JK: It is caught in illusion.
     DB: Illusion. And the point is that to somehow, if somebody sees something then his responsibility is to help awake the others up - right? To get out of the illusion.
     JK: That is just it. I mean this has been the problem. That is why the Buddhists have projected the idea of the Bodhisattva, who is compassionate and is the essence of all compassion, and is waiting to save humanity. It sounds nice. It is a happy feeling that there is somebody doing this. But in actuality we won't do anything that is not comfortable, satisfying, secure, both psychologically and physically.
     DB: Yes, well that is the source of the illusion, basically.
     JK: How does one make another see all this? They haven't time, they haven't the energy, they haven't even the inclination. They want to be amused. How does one make 'X' see this whole thing so clearly that he says, "All right, I have got it, I will work. And I see I am responsible, I won't be..." and all the rest of it. I think that is the tragedy of those who see and those who don't."
"The Future of Mankind" Brockwood Park
1st Conversation with David Bohm 11th June 1983

 

 

 

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