Why I Stopped Reading Spiritual Books

[@UmmatiMuhammadin]

I've met people who never read any book (let alone a spiritual book) but know far more than those who have. Forget knowing, who had bigger hearts & forever forgiving 🙏🏾 my deepest respect to them

[@mmgibson1]

It is so refreshing to hear someone be so honest. I felt like I was also sitting there by the woods and listening to birds chirping while you shared the story of your journey. I have also grown to a point that I don't rely on an opinion of a book author, but it does light the way for me to analyze myself. Sometimes I just need to be reminded that I am on the right path for me, usually when I am feeling doubtful about how I am dealing with everyday life challenges.

[@Gaurav.P0]

Hey, how are you doing now in your spiritual journey??

[@danshari5975]

"It takes a whole life to learn how to live." SOCRATES

[@ravenravella1000]

Not if you have been reincarnated enough thousands of times :))

[@danshari5975]

@@ravenravella1000 Even a dozen in this crazy f@#&ed-up world would be enough, since every reincarnation is the greatest ordeal... 😂😂😂😉

[@ravenravella1000]

@@danshari5975 : Fer SURE !!!

[@kellysmiles849]

Many times more than one ☺️ Do a natal chart, ya heeping pile of.....#@&$% stardust. Know thy self🤪

[@danshari5975]

@@kellysmiles849 Yes; unfortunately it takes more than one... the wheel of kharma... 😌

[@edwardpetersen4309]

Yes. And many gurus, shamans, teachers, and method experts gain this intellectual understanding. They write a book to sell or peddle workshops for extravagant cost. They can talk a wonderful game, yet their hearts and spirits are not quite as advanced as their rhetoric. There is an old Zen adage as to this, "selling water by the river." I have tried to distance myself from this spiritual commerce. Love is free . . . or it's not Love. Enlightenment is a gift of inner grace. No way to buy either.

[@morphomedha4497]

Yes sir fully agree with you but tell me one thing how would you know that life doesn't want spirituality to be commercialized? Isn't it some dogma that spirituality can never be commercialized? Money, wealth is not out of spirituality. Is it? Yes , but if the purpose is only to sell and not service (seva) then it is problematic.

[@edwardpetersen4309]

@@morphomedha4497 Well, one can buy a load of intelligence about peaches, but one can't buy the experience of tasting a peach. One can buy descriptions of Love, but not the Love itself.

[@scottkraft1062]

I made a couple of videos explaining what I think your talking about I would really like to get your opinion

[@DilbagSingh-ox8li]

Love you edward love you, so clear, selling water by the river, aha, all i Need is to jump off right into the river, love you for reminding, love you edward love you.

[@DilbagSingh-ox8li]

@@pauliepaul500 yes, yes, really you said what really there is, ah, love you Paul love you, yes the king is really naked

[@billybobwombat2231]

Start looking at trees and all of the life within, around and on them, you'll learn a lot 🤙

[@amothergoddess2774]

i stopped reading spiritual and self help a long time ago as i'm 60 now, i have read it all just about, and I had the friend who I was helping too, but he wasn't overcoming his stuff either and his problems with other people, i became one of those people who he had a problem with, yes life is best teacher!

[@stanjones6659]

Life really is the greatest teacher, it goes straight to the heart of any hang ups that need addressing.

[@gracesanity6314]

YES!!!! I find also l can no longer read anymore so called spirtual books. I'v read hundreds and learned nothing. Only concepts. Thousands spent. I dont (having done many) attend workshops either. Learned that these facilitators, authors had not done their own shadow work. Thank you oh YES.

[@warriorprincessharmony]

Books are important. But do we use what we read? Do we apply it? Be doers not just hearers of The Word. The only way books will help us is in our application of what we've studied

[@TheCosmicInitiative]

Exactly I think that’s what everyone is missing

[@stariadreamtea]

Spot on. I used to be a Gothic intellectual from teens and all through my twenties. Perfectionist. Now I appear more immature or child-like on the surface because I have more joy, less pretention and more emotional expression. I'm not the cool or mysterious person I once seemed. However I feel much wiser now than when society perceived me to be. We need to live and feel through life.

[@truseeker1]

This totally resonates with where I am in my life. The room as a library. The spiritual books. But my life being a mess. This is exactly where I am. The self delusions and the spiritual ego boosting. but am now aware of it and really focusing on the being. And applying. And slowing down ❤️ Thank you for sharing this because I am exactly in that place where I am working through my inner self. I finally accepted and recognized that I was distracting myself.

[@davidking4879]

So true. This realization was a part of my journey and still is. About four years ago, after reading the Bible from beginning to end, I decided to stop reading these books, attending those seminars, etc. I then started to meditate more and over time, I found that I gravitated more to nature, even on my dining table. Great talk my brother.

[@AXZJ104]

I see myself in what you say. However focusing on God has helped me to see Him and focus more on Him. Books confirm these realisations.

[@ryanramkissoon1630]

We get the lessons we NEED from living itself. He is right

[@eline5093]

Wow! It's amazing that i found this video at this moment. I just got out of a relationship where i felt similar to you in the friendship you described. Thank you, i realize now that gathering more knowledge and information won't help me if i don't use it

[@7ennifer]

I feel like you are describing me exactly. I'm at the 15 year mark, I have almost 200 spiritual books. I have an excellent intellectual understanding of spirituality, but realized this year that I feel quite empty. I also had a good friend who was my spiritual partner, so to speak. We often discussed and learned together. After she passed away and I turned to my spiritual knowledge to help me through the grief, I realized I had never learned how to incorporate any of it. I've been feeling so lost those past year, but I'm slowly starting to learn how to put spirituality into practice in my everyday life. I am so grateful that this video crossed my path. I feel far more certain I'm on the right track and feel reassured that the answers don't lie in my library. Thank you. I don't feel quite so alone with this problem. Your honesty and good advice was very much appreciated.

[@BreaunaM]

Your videos are profound in their simplicity. What you speak of is true spirituality. You have such a nice voice and such a calm and smooth delivery. Do you just choose a topic and then start speaking or do you write these out and then have a little teleprompter on your camera? You don't have to answer or give away your secrets haha. It just seems so natural the way you say things and you speak for so long without stumbling or saying "umm...". It's very impressive. I wish everyone would listen to your videos, now more than ever. If we all wanted to heal ourselves, we could then heal the world.

[@ludwin439]

Hi Michelle, what a beautiful comment, just the way I would have commented it, but wasn't capable of...thank you! Greetings from Germany.

[@BreaunaM]

@@ludwin439 Aww, thank you! Greetings from the US :)

[@Gaurav.P0]

Love your comment. Greetings from India ❤️

[@Skye-hy3bd]

This just messed up my whole day but thank you! Wow. It truly is all within.

[@DAMN__________]

This video has nothing to do with "love" but this helps with my relationship. Thank you man

[@rizwanqamar1974]

I have been there as well. I acquired so much knowledge through books but my internal state did not change. I am learning about me more now when I spend time alone and observe things and patterns. Pain taught me so much. Spiritual, physical, emotional pain. It humbled me down to the ground. I am getting to bring in change in my life "softly" by being in the moment. Thank you for enlightening me Awaken Insight. I appreciate your help.

[@ravenravella1000]

I guess this is what happens.....evidently i'm not alone!

[@davidking4879]

There are many of us the world over. We are One Within. Keep on. You have a lot of support. See you Within:)

[@dinaibrahim4022]

"The experiential understanding"...I like.

[@Francescofilmmaker]

Very interesting. I've been on the 'spiritual' path for 2 years now. Honestly I've been having these realisations so hard lately. I would keep buying spiritual books.... I would think, 'these are all saying the same thing.' It's quite a scary thing to let go of. The egos a funny one isn't it. Haha. We're all just people. We don't have to do anything :). I'll keep checking out your channel.

[@DilbagSingh-ox8li]

Love you francessco love you, it's really funny all and everything and dear to travel really laughing is itself an art , slap off my serious face with that smile of yours,love you,love you

[@charismavensacred5185]

@@DilbagSingh-ox8li Are you a psychopathic? 😂✌

[@Malika-zi2uv]

@@charismavensacred5185 I am laughing alone.

[@MrSauceman09]

Hey man, thank you so much for this video. I also have been finding myself trying to gain as much knowledge as I can about the universe and spirituality because I am hurting deep down. Instead of experiencing life I'm trying to distract myself by trying to figure out what makes it tick. I've found myself falling into delusions that are really unhealthy for me. Instead of focusing on making my life better and overcoming past traumas I fall into the belief that life is going to take care of it for me, or even worse sometimes I'll feel as if life is going against me when neither of these things are true. I really appreciate the content you make, thank you.

[@susanrocca6108]

It's quite possible t overindulge in books of doctrine, or spiritual instruction while not attending at all to personal habits and growth. I've been there; it takes humility and painful insights to break out.

[@DilbagSingh-ox8li]

Yes Susan yes, love you, love you, it really need to bend down and touch the ground.

[@tellmethetruth3393]

most of us have to spend a long time learning what realization is not before we can realize what it is

[@krisrattus8707]

Thanks a lot for sharing this so honestly. Really appreciate it. Thank you!

[@zahraexshiatruthseeker1]

This is something of great value to me I can relate to so much. I stopped reading books when I started to read Jiddu Krishnamurti books around 2007. I felt my loved ones and I were going through the same turmoil and challenges you had with your friend. Can't thank you enough for sharing this. Best wishes

[@lololucas4031]

Those books definitely had contributed to your growth, have a look at you , awesome !...Books just tools to help us and the rest are up to you , it will not fix your problems that’s for sure , I will read more books and more , thank you.

[@GratefulZen]

Great insight! Always looking for answers outside ourselves!

[@finflwr]

I feel it's a stage. An important stage for many. Stepping stones are many and as varied as the human race

[@joosthulsman191]

Hi finflwr, Thank you for putting that so kindly. It was just what I was thinking (but without the right words). The opposition AI makes between "distraction" rather than "going really deep" implies a dichotomy (even a norm?) that may be constructed as much as any 'intellectualized' spirituality. For many of us the intellectualization is part of the journey. Take care, Joost

[@sosi5710]

@@joosthulsman191 well said ! 🥰❤️ Much love 💕 Hessah

[@PassionForOldFashion]

Listening to you helps me bring forth what is already known by my true self , thank you ❤️

[@TalkingTruewithJulieHoyle]

Sure. This is what happens in the awakening process. While it is important to read spiritual books (and attend retreats etc.) there comes a point when you start hearing the same thing dressed differently. After a radical kundalini awakening in 1989, I was obsessive about the practices and about reading. Then ten years or so ago, I clearly saw that seeking (and/or looking for resonance/validation) was the biggest obstacle. I dropped everything. All the practices and the reading went. Instead, I opted to enter as a deeply into the silence as possible. Then there was the clear recognition that the place I was looking from, was the Self. And this recognition has reminded. IT does not come and go. Thank you for sharing, brother mystic. 🙏

[@chessc.3407]

That self analysis is something I have done. It’s more about putting to practice what we are learning even if a bit at a time than knowing so much in theory yet not apply it. The thing, we realize usually through observing someone else as you did and then realizing you’re just in the same path/situation or through having a very difficult thing happen where we open up and have to truly analyze ourselves so honestly. I am new to your channel and just want to thank you for putting such a wealth of information here (we all get it in our own time) just as you explain. Thank you 🙏 l❤️

[@soulspaces]

thank you for this. I have been seeking since 5 years old. I have had two pretty huge spiritual experiences and after the last one I started getting book after book trying to figure out what happened to me and the nature of reality. that was 8 years ago and I honestly am feeling the same thing. When I pick up a book, I feel exactly what you described. I see that life will be offering every lesson I need in the experiential realm and that I have been hiding in the pages, soothing myself with concepts that are no longer new. we already are what we seek.

[@crisauden5606]

Wow!! On point for me. I am so good in distracting myself from my personal issues, my attachments, and reading lots of books about spirituality... That is also my problem. Thank you for sharing this with me, with us.... 🙏❤️

[@g00.41]

Wow! You have just described me. I have a library of spiritual books in my bed room. I have read & re-read some of them. I keep on buying some & when I start reading, midway I put it aside because I feel as if am re-reading what I have already read. Have I made progress? I feel not. That experiential touch has not happened. Have now zerod in to one book by Nathan Gill's two books: "Already Awake & Being:the bottom line." I completely resonate with what he says. That awakening or enlightenment is not something to seek. We are seeking what we already have or are. It's by Thy Grace that one comes to that understanding. We are part of life & life is taking it's own cause. There is nothing wrong or right. The is no a wrong turn. Just be. All is happening like bubbles on the surface of the ocean. Popping up & rescending into the ocean. We are also pops of bubbles on the surface of awareness/consciousness & in time we rescind into awareness. All the seeking, struggles, hurtaches, worries, etc are just dramas of life.

[@sue6776]

For over 20 years, l have had an all consuming fire for reading anything of a spiritual nature. I have always had an intrinsic awareness of my spiritual nature and my life's goal has been to achieve spiritual enlightenment in this incarnation. I left no stone unturned. Like yourself a saturation point was reached resulting in a great deal of knowledge but little lasting experiential awareness. All my years of reading, following various Sampradayas, seeking out spiritual teachers brought me back to me. You really could be talking about my journey. It was a long journey to come to the realisation that you are actually the path you so desperately yearn for. The intellect cannot lead to enlightenment.

[@higherintelligence4871]

And the first lesson is when you stepped back when the friend of yours was kinda of distract to you .. because most of people including myself, we get annoyed by someone's behavior, rather than getting the message to us from the universe through they .. 📒🦋

[@cluck_cluck]

Spot on! For years now I’ve been addicted to reading books (and articles) about meditation, self-help and spirituality, and yet, despite the amount of time I spend yabbling on about it, I rarely find the time to actually sit down and DO the work required. It’s become another attachment and vehicle for my ego. It’s true, life always has the lessons we need: my dog is whining at me to go for a walk right now, so that’s what I’m going to do.

[@RavenMadd9]

books and KZbin videos ....thank you brother

[@danielpaulson8838]

I know this isn't a current video. It came around and I do appreciate your channel and content. Thank you. I have walked, (perhaps many of us) a similar path. I also was very locked into it. I still have piles of books, a crystal ball, crystals, singing bowls, my wife the tarot card reader, and every religious book I could get my hands on. I too have at times been obsessed with it. I also don't read much or seek new things, but settled into practice. They do all teach the same thing. I created a channel about my own path to get there. I think at those times we're being our own guru on top of being our own student. The Upa guru. At the very least, we were actively wiring our brains with academic knowledge. We were voracious in our desire to learn and maybe even became addicted to it for a time. Then you stop finding new things and need to experience the knowledge. All the masters nested it in their words, hidden at a deeper level. We need to live into what we have learned and allow it to metabolize in our being. It should be us when we don't think about it. Programmed intentionally as it were, through awareness, and practice, and gentle course corrections. Repeat as needed. And YT, keep sending me these, please.

[@dv5084]

What I prefer to label "heart experience" is the best and possibly only teacher.

[@maggieadams8600]

Yes, I've done those things. I still love spiritual texts though. I go back to the words of wisdom of the ages for the joy of it here and there. I just read that words can talk about love but can't be love, but words can be and are love if they were written in love, and that is why they are enduring. Like water, they quench a thirst. There's a comfort, a light and beauty to them, that is itself an eternal flame.

[@reeann5854]

great insight, i went through the same thing. knowledge without action is wasted knowledge 🙏

[@AeroAngeloA]

This was profound I definitely had to reflect on all you said for some time before coming back to comment much love 💜

[@kalosevillinas]

What beatidul soul to admit this..i have been watching your vidieos and i am blowed away about your candor and what your express...I have et go of all te gurusand books..The andwer sre within each ne of us and we are all different..

[@williamroberts8470]

Great points

[@keeesh444]

This is deep.

[@si12364]

So rightly express. I found my self in this point, working with everythings daily life theach me. More I enter in this more I realise how many conditions patterns walk inside the one I call me.It's an adventure...and more I walk my experience, more life comunicate and teach me directly, and everythings I did, including "think to understand reality" brought me to this point of clarity. Some time is getting hard, but at that point I "remember" that everythings is for the better, for let my heart open more and more. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, it resonate a lot!

[@QuietSpacePhotoStudioLLC]

Great information an personal share, thank you. Reminds me of when I was obsessed with having a journal for every thought. One day I was so overwhelmed I put them all away. A break from my mind and myself. Now I have 2.

[@vincem.9849]

You are absolutely great: thank you, brother!

[@nijinskihind]

In reference to your friend you mentioned, Krishnamurti made the distinction between "self-improvement" and "self-effacement". It seems we are both, with self-effacement being more related to the spiritual journey, and self-improvement being more related to the mind-body complex. Thank you. I enjoyed hearing your story, and it is similar to my own.

[@CaptainPhilosophical]

I feel like your words could of been spoken by me to myself. This has been a slow realization. I have suspected it for some time now but kept distracting myself because it was easier. I am noticing spiritual concepts/thoughts/ideas floating by during meditation and they are just as distracting as anything else. Instead of deep diving into my practice I am tempted to contemplate something else or try a different method. Its a bitter sweet realization. I've listened to countless hours of spiritual teachings/philosophy and some of those voices are dear to me but I received the message and need to hang up the phone.

[@Bestlife4us]

Thank you just what I needed to hear

[@saadnasiry8267]

Love that advice! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼

[@mariadolenc444]

Thank you. I so relate to your sharing. Feeling very greatfull to your sharing. My heart is joyful 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@citizent6999]

As an older man on a similar path to yours I tend to agree with a lot of what you say. Nowadays I tend to cover my bookshelves with cloths. Any other external suggestions of a specific path / belief system have been neutralized. Nobody can tell what I believe by looking at me or visiting me.

[@elfiewild3044]

This is me right now .Iv suddenly realised I'm so over reading everything I can get my hands on ,it all feels the same now . It's time to move ,thankyou so much for sharing ,this is exactly what I need to hear

[@scorpzero2245]

Thank you. I feel like reading about spirituality is more of a chore to me. There’s so much to learn and yet I start to stress out and forcing myself to read. From now on, I just want to let that go. Thank you 💜

[@nguyenhailong8392]

Thank you very much. This video woke me up. I am in a similar situation.

[@DallyDragon]

Like Abraham Hicks says "Words don't teach. Experience teaches" Books can be a good starting point but most of the information is there to help us remember what we already know.

[@elisenieuwe4649]

I recognize this. I am someone who is in my head a lot so reading and thinking about things suits me. In the meanwhile I have quite big suppressive problems right now and it's actually giving me problems in my life. I need to get away from the screen and the books it seems. Thanks for this insight.

[@lifestylechannel8777]

I relate to this on so many levels, been in a similar situation before. Eventually I found out that life is the real teacher, through living, breathing and interacting with the people around us, teaches us in so many ways that books just can’t put into words.

[@roselawson277]

I’m new to this channel and I loooove it!

[@williamb7275]

I think many can relate to what is being said.

[@theroadaheadofus]

I burned all my spiritual books 15 years ago. I felt so free to be myself after that. I've fallen from that place. I think it's time to rediscover it.

[@Nicole-ld6ev]

Tbh i haven't really watched the videos but i have read the comments. And I'm so happy I've found this because i was ashamed of this months ago. I didn't understand how i would be forgivable if i made a mistake DESPITE knowing better. I had the courage to listen to my intuition that was telling me that none of this can be taught. I can know better but my soul would still want experience. I've learnt that the experience, even though It went in a way that could make me or other people say: "you knew better", is Just the confirmation of what i know. i didn't really have the chance to be a child growing up and I'm doing it now. And I'm liking to be able to make even experiences in childlike enthusiasm when my soul likes to, even if i feel like i have an old soul and a lot of past life knowledge :) (or maybe I've learnt by watching others)

[@simonavacca3813]

Thank you for being so genuine and humble.

[@qazedc3]

Interesting, I have had the completely opposite experience. I've had a lot of suffering and challenges in my life, went about it without any boundaries and restrictions. Learned lessons the hard way through experiences and obversations, pattern recognition and talking to a lot of people etc. Mostly listened to other people's opinions about things, rather than seeking out knowledge for myself. I've learned that I am an old soul, and I'm still learning to hone my intuition and inner wisdom. I've always had it but just had trouble trusting myself. Started reading spiritual books slowly but surely several years ago, and recently I've picked up the pacing of it slowly. It feels like I am remembering information a lot of the time, and everything just feels so validating to what I have always known but couldn't put into words. It validates my own self-trust and that I don't have to do this alone, because the books feel like a type of guidance and support for me in my journey along with my own thoughts and feelings about things. Although I will say, there is a part of me that is scared or hesitant for some reason, to really accelerate on the reading. I get information overload easily since I'm an HSP so I need to read and digest information slowly, especially anything mind-expanding like spirituality and self development.

[@christieporter9421]

I sooo relate to this! I love getting my own answers, in that way I can actually use the wisdom that comes through(since it's for me) and at the time needed, instead of filling my mind with things that may not even hold significance to me at the time or just give me knowledge that I can't fully own or use yet, because it lacks the experience to fully understand, integrate and use it. (Total info overload) It requires a lot of trust to stop looking outside for knowledge and answers, and open up to our own wisdom, and it get's harder to recieve our own guidance the more we occupy our space and mind with other peoples experiences, theories and ideas. They still can be valuable of course, I have been recieved excellent guidance from other people 🙏 I just don't seek it out from others anymore, try to find it in books or workshops, I trust that I will recieve what I need, when I need, because I know I'm doing the work! Thanks for this video 🤗

[@elsapierozak1332]

Thank you 😊

[@hattyflame3889]

Thank you 🙏💗🌻

[@Salamander1269]

If books are dry information, your brain will soon be fed up with it. This means that those books, spiritual or not, were not the right books for you. Only when somebody processes the information, it can become knowledge or understanding. If you think, you understand. Otherwise they become distractions. It is much easier to take part in life's experience if you are prepared for it. To go the other way round may have unexpected consequences. To regurgitate what others were saying in their books was not the right way to awakening. Everybody should learn to expand their own system of thinking. This will finally lead them to freedom and personal enlightenment.

[@Rinchen-t1l]

Thank you very much!! 😊

[@angelotuteao6758]

So true - work on the inner self creates deep shifts in perception

[@EliTheVegan]

Perfect timing for me to see this video. I've been on a intellectual pursuit for awhile too. Growing the heart and the many layers of the soul is the true development towards enlightenment of the spirit, the prior is enlightenment of the mind. The heart chakra is before the third eye (mind) chakra in alignment.

[@renegadejane6122]

I feel like this is exactly where I've been for several years now, to the point of writing blogs about needing to put the books/videos/info down and focus on practice. I think I am attached to the stuff and like you said, keeps me unconsciously distracted. Like I'm feeding me mind, but not my soul. And after too much consumption of info and the plethora of it, I'm not digesting anything 🥴

[@vivekamar99]

Your own soul is your greatest teacher. Once you realise this, there's no need for books.

[@fireheart455]

Spiritual Awakening gives u a new way next level mind set to perceive reality. It gives you real path for ultimate success.

[@aggiesart6]

Same here, you say my thoughts in the right words.

[@tomreid2686]

Some exterior knowledge has been very useful to me personally such as resonance, geometry,astronomy,ancient civilisations,conspiracy theories, chakras, penial gland ,meditation ect as it has given me a greater sense of being connected to everything I have known this for a long time but have never truly grasped the fact all matter is interconnected until recently and has given a great sense of forfillment and of meaning to my life .peoples opinions social media,negative people don't bother me anymore

[@PatriziaViselliArtist]

Thank you for sharing such personal info. It helps! 🙂⭐

[@deb4610]

Thank you for sharing this, it resonates deeply. I appreciate your videos, your point of view and presence are honest, kind and wise. Namaste 🙏🏻❤️

[@sistaschin]

I resonate with this so much 💜

[@jimosage6499]

Thank you.

[@suelenstone8056]

Yes, life is the greatest teacher.

[@GoyalReema]

Thanks..it's beautiful ❤️

[@edwintepuendikum3527]

Amazing, I learned a lot bro, Thanks so much for sharing 🙏🏿🙌🏿

[@zeehondje1000]

I know what you mean. I have read sooooo many books about sprituality, that i sometimes forget to live. Thank you fot the eyeopener.

[@heathersmith5237]

I have read all the books like you but concurrently took up spiritual practices so I was able to integrate much of what was in them. Books can help inspire us to spiritual practice - if they don’t do that, their value is limited. I read many books on meditation, but if I had never taken up the daily practice of meditation, the books would have been a waste of time.

[@bodhisambodhi1770]

Wisdoms is in content peace in daily livings yet unlearning the concepts and merging as being

[@ryanramkissoon1630]

Yes life is the teacher.

[@radhikamohan1406]

Beautiful, deep stuff

[@danielchow7499]

thank you

[@manmohanpatra5734]

Eminently suitable advice for me

[@amythomas3745]

I just wrote something long that i got list in as far as where i was going with it and camt find it now. I think what i really wanted to say was yes i found myself using books in this as an escape that i was surprised to find that i hadnt changed my life just by reading them. But what i didnt get to was that without them id have had no clue what it was that I was missing, and why my understandings were just so extremely narrow. Now im just xonsrantltnhaving to go back and remember what actual actions i want to take or what these things Ive learned...just how to go about applying them. And i keep losing this. As I know at this point I should be able to listen and know...betond all of the pointless thinking. Id be able to ask questions that i felt were truly being answered outside of my own mind and memory. Then two days later i just find myself soeaking 'at' God or whatever higher power, and kind of 'hanging up like I just left some voicemail. And wondering, wait, why am i doing it like this again, and how l, why was a different a few days ago. And books can remind me, but theu can also take the place of actully doing anything else. Meditating, whatever. Ok this comment probably isnt an improvement.

[@yetanotherperson6436]

Isn't it possible to just live and keep looking without any 'spiritual' growth? For example the thousands of buddhist monks that came nowhere near to enlightenment. I am not qualified to give advice , but in my own enquiry I can see that listening to others and reading helped me a great deal in terms of showing a possible way. Things that I would never have thought of on my own. Of course I had to 'put down the books' and 'try the path'. I think that this video might be confusing for beginners, it would have confused me.

[@chrisman5493]

I'm curious what you mean by the thousands of monks that came nowhere near to enlightenment? It isn't a perspective I have heard of before. I agree that it might be confusing for those who are just starting, as at least some knowledge and/or teachers are helpful to contextualize your experience. It looks like that is remedied in the latter part of the video when he talks about reading what is relevant to your current struggle.

[@andybrown3016]

There is often a mistake of overly conceptualising spirituality. Once you know the essentials I feel it is best to stop constantly seeking outside yourself. Use the self enquiry methods of Advaita Vedanta to seek within yourself the answers you seek. As Sri Ramana Maharshi said “ My primary teaching is silence”

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