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 a conflict between the two. That is the very essence of the wastage of energy. As long as there is a duality between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be ‘ that is the wastage of energy. -Man is trying to become something else, making an effort to achieve what ‘should be ‘ that conflict is wastage of energy.
Why should I have the opposite at all, as 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. It is a great pretence, 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 ideals and only deal with the fact — which is violence – then there is no wastage of energy.this is very important to understand: J. Krishnamurti.









