...When the mind is awakenedthrough a shock, which you call suffering, that is the true moment to inquire into the cause of suffering, without seeking comfort.

There is the sorrow of disease, there is the sorrow that man feels in complete isolation. There is the sorrow of poverty when you see all these poor, ignorant, dirty, hopeless people. There is sorrow when you see all the animals of the world being killed, destroyed, butchered in laboratories.

So, what will make you change? A crisis? A knock on the head? Sorrow? Tears? All that has happened - crisis after crisis. You have shed tears endlessly, and nothing seems to change you because you are relying on somebody else to do the job... Nobody says, "I am going to find out.

You raised a question: what is sacred Without finding that, without coming upon it - not you finding it - without thatcoming into being, you cannot have a new culture, you cannot have a new human quality.