Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes on Mind

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) — the Indian-born teacher whose 1929 dissolution of the Order of the Star and renunciation of the messianic role the Theosophical Society had prepared for him became the founding gesture of his independent teaching — gave the twentieth-century cross-cultural philosophical engagement with mind one of its most influential contemplative voices. The central project, developed across the Krishnamurti-Bohm dialogues, the multi-volume Commentaries on Living, and the long sequence of public talks and notebooks, is the direct attentive observation of the actual movement of thought, fear, desire, and image-formation as these constitute the apparent self — with the corresponding doctrine that genuine psychological transformation comes only through the immediate awareness of these processes rather than through the mediation of doctrine, method, or guru. The framework, integrating elements of the Indian non-dual tradition with twentieth-century philosophical psychology, shaped a wide international audience and the late dialogues with David Bohm on the philosophical implications of quantum physics.