[DanUKs]

Great comment. Thank you.

I'm currently reading "Manifest. 7 steps to living your best life". It's pretty much exactly what you've described. It sounds like you're going through an amazing transformation. Embrace it and change your life. They don't come round often.

Give that book a read when you get the chance :)

[oifjsidjf]

Will do, thank you.

It took me many years to finaly come to the deep realization that sitting down by yourself and brutaly examining my own problems that the mind generates is the only way forward.

The amount of resistance I felt to this was enourmous.

I escaped by trying to browse internet, read books etc... for way too many years.

Listening to 20hours+ of Krishnamurti's talk was what finally made me realize that there really is no other way that to examine what is inside of yourself.

And you will not find solutions to your "mind problems" on the internet or in books, only in your own mind, which is done by sitting alone, quitly and observing the mind precisely.

[wnolens]

Have a pointer to any of these talks? I always found him to be impossible to grok, saying really ambiguous things to the point of being devoid of practical meaning.

But what you cite that you got out of him is a mindset that I got out of years of therapy and reading self-help books - that is, those methods utterly failed and so now if it doesn't come from my own mind (with a few exceptions), I can't take the advice.

[oifjsidjf]

Yes he is "annoying" most of the time aka wasting your time. Basicaly it's 95% fluff since he talks about world peace etc... a lot.

But you find 5% of practical stuff in his talks. I probably listened to 20+hours of his talks. I put it on my phone and go for a walk in the city and fast forward it.

So as far as pointers to his talk...not really...but at some point you realize that:

1) It actuall works

2) That repeated exposure to ideas is required until the human comes to the realization that only self-examination can work.

Once you understand that you can somewhat easily "suffer" through Kirshnamurti, fast forward it and ignore 90% but then listen and re-listen to certain parts.

No magic sauce I'm afraid...

You might also wish to read Kapil Gupta's Siddha Performance website.

[oifjsidjf]

One word of warning though, this was a mistake that derailed me over and over again: don't get lost in self-help books.

The solution is in your mind, not in the books.

Very few books/people tell you that.

They sell you habits, methods of planning etc... but did you notice that somehow that never ends up working?

Sitting alone and examining the mind was the only thing that worked for me.

The gains were exponential. Well, compared to all other self-book, where the gains were zero, I guess I can say that the gains are infinite compared to any self-help book.