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Why, according to Krishnamurti, are the concepts of freedom and discipline contradictory to one another?

Discipline and freedom are contradictory to one another and that in seeking real freedom there is set going quite a different process which brings its own clarification so that you just do not do certain things. Freedom and discipline are contradictory to each other since they can be taken as two sides of same coin that is they are interrelated to each other and real freedom is acquired through discipline.


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