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by wnolens 1432 days ago
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.

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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.