What does a religious life mean?

Good morning everyone,

Continuing with Religion today:

So, what is the basic cause of this corruption, this degeneration, this hypocrisy, the non-religious life? All your stuff, all the garlands and all that you put round yourself is not a religious life. Right? You are following somebody. Forgive me because you are all sitting in front of me, I can't help it. Don't laugh sir, it's much too serious. This is not a religious life. A religious life implies a life in which there is complete harmony in your daily action, in your daily life. We'll go into that if we have time later on. But all the temples, all the gurus, all the circus that's going on in the name of religion really has no meaning whatsoever. If you want to discuss that we will.

But after discussion are you willing to throw all this aside? Or you say 'That's your opinion, my opinion is different' - we are not discussing opinions. We want to find the truth of the matter and to find the truth of the matter one has to have a mirror that doesn't distort your reactions, a mirror that tells you the truth of what you are so that it doesn't allow you to escape, that is, face exactly what you are, and from there move, change, radically bring about a transformation. But if one is all the time avoiding, avoiding, avoiding, then we never come face to face with ourselves.

Krishnamurti at Rajghat

Here is my reflection:

The idea of a life that has complete harmony in every action: a life without contradiction. How many times do you hear yourself saying "I would do this if...." or "I should do that...". This is contradiction; it is disharmony. This is avoiding ourselves. It is keeping away from "I am this." Do you sometimes find yourself saying "I am angry". Could you see yourself being honest and clear enough to say "I am anger". In other words, can you live without reistance to yourself, can you give yourself complete attention? Can there be no distance between the perceiver, the perceiving, and the perceived. Can you practice samadhi on your anger? Or do you just want to practice samadhi on God? Without total attention to what we are cannot take responsibility for our lives. With this responsibility there is harmony; seeing the responsibility is it's own action.

Best wishes

Robert