Self Therapy

It is not possible to bring change without understanding the sanity of world around you.

To seek reality requires immense energy; and, if man is not doing that, he dissipates his energy in ways that create mischief, and therefore society has to control him. Now, is it possible to liberate energy in seeking God or truth and, in the process of discovering what is true, to be a citizen who understands the fundamental issues of life and whom society cannot destroy?
You see, man is energy, and if man does not seek truth, this energy becomes destructive; therefore society controls and shapes the individual, which smothers this energy...And perhaps you have noticed another interesting and very simple fact: that the moment you really want to do something, you have the energy to do it...That very energy becomes the means of controlling itself, so you don’t need outside discipline. In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. The man who is seeking reality spontaneously becomes the right kind of citizen, which is not according to the pattern of any particular society or government. Jiddu Krishnamurti (The Book of Life)9

Culture and society have hypnotised you. —Krishnamurti

From Madras 1968, Talk 2

Context:
Look what is happening in the world: we are being conditioned by society, by the culture in which we live, and that culture is the product of man – there is nothing holy or divine or eternal about culture. And the culture, the society, the books, the radio, all that we listen to, see, the many influences of which we are either conscious or unconscious, all these encourage us to live within a very small fragment of a vast field of the mind. You go through school, college, and learn a technique to earn a livelihood. For the next sixty years, or perhaps less, you spend your life, your time, your energy, your thought, in that specialised little field. And there is the vast field of the mind. Unless we bring about a radical change in this fragmentation, there can be no revolution at all; there will be modifications, economic, social, so-called cultural, but man will go on suffering, will go on in conflict, in war, in misery, in sorrow, in despair. I do not know if you read sometime ago, one of the marshals of the Russian army, reporting to the Politburo, said that in the army they were training soldiers under hypnosis – you know what that means? You are put under hypnosis and taught how to kill, how to obey completely, function with complete independence but under a pattern, with the authority of the superior. That is, the culture, society, is doing exactly the same thing to each one. Culture, society, has hypnotised you. Do please listen to this very carefully – it is not only being done in the army in Russia, but it is being done all over the world. When you read the Gita endlessly, or the Koran, or repeat some mantra, some words endlessly, you are doing exactly the same thing. When you say, 'I am a Hindu, I am a Buddhist, I am a Muslim, a Catholic,' the same pattern is being repeated: you have been mesmerised, hypnotised. And technology is doing exactly the same thing. You can