With all due respect to Jiddu Krishnamurti, I disagree fully. I suspect they were not speaking/writing in English, so maybe something got lost in translation, but a "modification" IS a "change."
If I'm walking down a straight path due north (to make the example easy, and each day I make a "modification" to my path by one degree to the left, in 90 days I'll be moving due West perpendicular to my previous path of travel. In my book, that is a change.
I probably take this personally because I have made some huge changes in my life in the last 25 years. Changes that started by changes I made 30+ years ago that lead to the bigger changes 25 years ago.
I had no idea when I started what I was changing into. Going back to my previous metaphor: It is like I was walking through the woods on a known path. I liked some things I encounter on this path, but others I really didn't like. So I made a decision to change my behavior. To leave the path I was on.
The key is that there was no path then. I was heading into the unknown, and I didn't know where I was going or where I would end up. This was not a mountain with a peak I could aim towards. I was just going through the woods and finding my way however I could, making decisions that made me feel better about my life. The path wasn't straight. Sometimes I had to backtrack.
Eventually, I reached a place that I liked better than the old path I was on. I can look back and see how I got here, but I could not have told you that when I started.
It is also clear that where I am is not where I have to remain. I can (and do) go off again "into the woods." I can continue the process till the day I die. I plan to, in fact.
How I relate to people, how I act in certain situations has changed massively over my adult life. I have rejected some things I learned and accepted. This was not without cost. To my mind that is change.
My confirmation that this is change is the fact that people who were on the old path with me no longer "understand" or accept me. I even have it a couple of times in writing when an ex-friend would write that "they don't understand" me now.
