REPLY WITHOUT REACTION

Reply without Reaction ~ 162 ~ West and India, but has still not relaxed his efforts to make people see what he thinks ought to be seen. Once a man in the audience asked him angrily, “Year after year you say that we are not going along with you; then why do you keep talking to us?” Mr. Krishnamurti politely replied, “Sir, have you ever asked a rose why it blooms?” When you are provoked by a remark of your critic, all you do is react. But when you resist provocation, you are able to give an answer which will render your critic speechless.