Jiddu Krishnamurti - Most people are occupied with jobs

The speaker has said that going to an
office everyday from nine to five

is an intolerable imprisonment. But in any
society all kinds of jobs have to be done.

Is K's teaching therefore only for the few?

You have understood? Shall I read it again?

The speaker has said that human society is
so constructed throughout the world

that most people are occupied with jobs,
pleasant or unpleasant, from nine to five

everyday of their life. And he said also
that it is an intolerable imprisonment.

I don't know how you feel about it.

Probably you like being in prison, probably
you like your jobs from nine o'clock to five o'clock,

rushing, rushing back and all the rest of it.

What shall we do?

To the speaker he wouldn't tolerate it
for a single minute - for the speaker.

I would rather do something which
would be pleasant, helpful and necessary

to earn enough money and so on.

But most of us accept this prison,
this routine - right? We accept it.

So what shall we do?

Nobody, as far as one is capable of sufficient
observation, nobody has question this.

We say it is normal, it is the way of society,
it is the way of our life, it is the way we must live.

But if we all see together that such an
imprisonment, which it is actually,

that we all feel it is intolerable, not just
verbally but actually do something about it

we will create a new society - right?

We will if all of us say we will not tolerate
for a single day this routine,

this monstrous activity of nine to five,
however necessary, however good and pleasant,

then we will bring about not only
psychological revolution

but also outwardly. Right?

We may agree about this
but will we do it?

You might say, "No, I can't do it because
I have responsibility, I have children,

I have a house and mortgage, insurance"
- thank god I haven't got any of those!

And so you might say,
"It is easy for you to talk about all this."

But it is easy for the speaker to talk about it
because he refuses to go in that pattern.

From boyhood he refused it.

Now if we all consider that such a psychological
as well as physical revolution of this kind

is necessary, not bloody and all the rest of it,
then we will create the society - won't we?

You want others to create the society
and you can then slip into it.

That is what we are all waiting for.
A few struggle, work, create,

and refuse to enter into
this rat race and the others say,

"Yes, after you have constructed
what you think is right society,

then we all join you"
- but we don't do it together.

That is the whole problem. Right?

If we all had this, not idea but the fact,
that to spend our life from nine o'clock

to five o'clock probably before that,
every day of our life for sixty years and more,

we would do something about it.

As if you refuse to have wars
- you understand - wars, killing other people

in the name of your country, your god,
whatever the ideal is, if you all refused

to kill another there would be no wars - right?

But we have constructed a society,
built a society, based on violence, armaments,

each nation protecting itself against
other nations, and so we are perpetuating wars,

killing your sons, your daughters, everything.

And we support it. In the same way we support,
maintain this imprisonment.

It may be pleasant for those who have
an agreeable job but those who refuse

to enter this game they will act,
they will do something.

So the problem is, do we see the importance,
or the necessity of this change?

After all the human mind is
not merely occupied with

a particular job, pleasant or unpleasant.
The human mind has the quality of other things

which we disregard.