| One has to live in this world, earn a livelihood, unfortunately, and perhaps go to an office. If there were a decent government of one world, perhaps we would only have to work one day a week – then computers could take charge of everything, giving us leisure. As long as that doesn’t happen, one has to earn a livelihood, and one must earn it efficiently, fully. But the moment that efficiency becomes ugly, when greed, the barrier of ‘me’ and ‘not me’ comes into being, there is competition, this terrible desire to succeed and become somebody. This creates a barrier around oneself and therefore conflict. Seeing that, live decently, efficiently, without ruthlessness; live in complete relationship, not only with nature but also with other human beings, in which there is not the ‘me’ and the ‘you’ – which is the barrier created by thought. When one sees actually, not verbally, the very seeing, the actual seeing, is the act that brings down the wall of separation. When you see the danger of anything, like a precipice or wild animal, there is action. That action is probably the result of conditioning but it is not the act of fear; it is the act of intelligence. To see intelligently this structure, the nature of this division, conflict, strife, misery and self-centredness, if you actually see the danger of it, there is the ending of it. There is no ‘how’. So what is important is to take the journey into this – not led by another. There is no guide, but seeing the world as it is, the extraordinary confusion, the unending sorrow of man, seeing it actually, seeing the whole structure of it, is the ending of it. From Talk to Young People 2, Stanford University, 12 February 1969 Read more | 