J Krisnamurti on mundane mind: Viewpoint, quotes and inspired quintains

J Krisnamurti on mundane mind: Viewpoint, quotes and inspired quintains

Viewpoint

Jiddu Krishnamurti, a well-known thinker, philosopher, and author, believed that our everyday minds get stuck in a mechanical trap made up of habits, constant thinking, and psychological fragmentation. We make a mistake by splitting life into two parts: boring daily routines and idealized spiritual experiences, but this split only creates conflict. Real freedom comes from choiceless awareness—watching our daily thoughts, fears, and conditioning without judging them. When the brain recognizes its own mechanical limitations and stops trying so hard, the endless inner noise naturally becomes quiet and still in a deep, natural way.

Krishnamurti quotes on mundane mind

• A mind that is caught in the routine of its own desires, in its own habits, is essentially a mechanical mind; it is never free.

• Our minds are trained to be mechanical, to follow a method, a pattern, a system, and so they gradually lose all freshness, all sensitivity.

• The brain has been conditioned through centuries to respond mechanically to environment, to tradition, to knowledge. This mechanical response is not intelligence.

• A mechanical mind, however clever, however erudite, cannot possibly understand what truth is, or what love is.

Inspired quintains

A slender mind that feeds upon the crowd,

Wrapped tightly in a cold and selfish shroud,

It drains the life-spans of the gentle hearts,

And rips their peace and happiness apart,

While boasting of its stolen spoils aloud.

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Mean masked mind where devilish shadows breed,

Controls the rest through terror and through greed.

It breeds division just to hold the reins

,And binds the innocent in fearful chains,

Too blind to learn, too arrogant to heed.