How can we realize truth in our daily life?
Krishnamurti:
"You think that truth is one thing and your daily life is something else, and in your daily life you want to realize what you call truth.
But is truth apart from daily life?
When you grow up you will have to earn a livelihood, will you not?
After all, that is what you are passing your examinations for: to prepare yourself to earn a livelihood.
But many people don't care what field of work they enter as long as they are earning some money.
As long as they get a job it does not matter to them if it means being a soldier, a policeman, a lawyer, or some kind of crooked business man.
Now, to find the truth of what constitutes a right means of livelihood is important, is it not?
Because truth is in your life, not away from it.
How you talk, what you say, how you smile, whether you are deceitful, playing up to people - all that is the truth in your daily life.
So, before you become a soldier, a policeman, a lawyer or a sharp business man, must you not perceive the truth of these professions?
Surely, unless you see the truth of what you do and are guided by that truth, your life becomes a hideous mess.
So, if you want to discover the truth in that vital process which is your own life, you will have to inquire deeply into all these things; you will have to give your mind and heart to it.
You will have to think independently, clearly, without prejudice; for truth is not away from life, it is in the very movement of your daily living."
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