慈悲，即仁善心，即生命的神圣感，上次我们会面时，已经探讨过。那么，能否通过强制手段而产生慈悲呢？毫无疑问，当存在任何形式的强制时，当存在宣传鼓动或道德教化时，就不再有慈悲。如果你发现必须迎接技术挑战，否则人将不复为人而成为机器，从而被迫做出改变，那么这种改变中也没有慈悲。所以，改变必须不含任何缘由，因为任何出于缘由而产生的改变，都不是慈悲，而仅是一种交易。这是一个问题。
另一个问题是：我的改变将如何影响社会？或者，我是不是对该问题毫不关心？绝大部分的人对我们的话题并无兴趣，如果你只是出于好奇或某种冲动来听讲，然后擦肩而过，那么你也没兴趣。机器时代在迅猛发展中，多数人仅仅被裹挟在这洪流中，不能用丰富的爱、用慈悲心、用深邃的思想迎接生活。那么，我的改变将如何影响社会？社会，就是你我之间的关系，社会并不是离奇神秘之物，社会就是彼此之间的关系，如果我们中两三人改变了，这将怎样影响周围的世界？或者，是否有一种方法，可以影响人类的整体心智？
换言之，如果个人已经改变，是否能通过某种方法，去触摸人类的无意识呢？
——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）
Compassion and Goodness
Can compassion, that sense of goodness, that feeling of the sacredness of life about which we were talking last time we met—can that feeling be brought into being through compulsion? Surely, when there is compulsion in any form, when there is propaganda or moralizing, there is no compassion, nor is there compassion when change is brought about merely through seeing the necessity of meeting the technological challenge in such a way that human beings will remain human beings and not become machines. So there must be a change without any causation. A change that is brought about through causation is not compassion; it is merely a thing of the marketplace. So that is one problem.
Another problem is: if I change, how will it affect society? Or am I not concerned with that at all? Because the vast majority of people are not interested in what we are talking about—nor are you if you listen out of curiosity or some kind of impulse, and pass by. The machines are progressing so rapidly that most human beings are merely pushed along and are not capable of meeting life with the enrichment of love, with compassion, with deep thought. And if I change, how will it affect society, which is my relationship with you? Society is not some extraordinary mythical entity; it is our relationship with each other, and if two or three of us change, how will it affect the rest of the world? Or is there a way of affecting the total mind of man?
That is, is there a process by which the individual who is changed can touch the unconscious of man?
