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A Conversation with Americ Azavedo: The Truth Demands to Be Live
For ten semesters, Americ Azevedo's seminar, 'Time, Money, and Love in the Age
of Technology,' cultivated in students an awareness of the larger issues that
form a context for their lives. He was well qualified. Earlier in his life he
was reading a passage from Krishnamurti, "Live the Truth." That same day he
stood in front of a room full of trainees, uneasy with his job and its values.
He turned to the trainees and said, "I can no longer do this work. We're not
real with each other in this place. I quit." Back at his desk, he saw everything
in a new light. A spiritual fog had lifted. In some ways, it all began when he
was bullied and called stupid as a child, and found a way to relate to his
bullies and rid himself of the epithet.
