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Originally Posted by Max Power  The more I consider the whole concept of PD and self help, the more I see that the whole thing is so overly complex, I used to think if something was deep and meaningful, if the book was thick, if the DVD went for 3 hours, if the seminar went for 5 days, then it has to be good, but I've found that not to be true.
We want it complex because we want to believe it's not simple, simple is easy, we want something challenging and full of effort and work, we want these things mainly so if we fail, we can say "that was really hard, no wonder I failed" then we feel good about failure, but if something is easy and we fail, we feel very inadequate, we feel unworthy.
I'm just not smart enough to want it overly complex or super challenging, I must be lazy, I want it easy 
Max |
So true for me. I can complicate things easily. Research and get all intellectual if needed or not.
From Jeff Foster's
life without centre (2006) Non-Duality Press:
The End of The Search
This is it. This is the end of the spiritual search. Freedom and happiness and enlightenment are to be found nowhere else but here: right in front of us.
The low hum of the computer fan, a tingling feeling in the left foot, the tweet-tweet of the little birdies in the garden, hopping from branch to branch...
Why are we never satisfied with
this? Why is this moment never enough?
Perhaps it is because at some point in our lives we picked up the belief that there exists something MORE THAN THIS; some sort of state in which our TrueNature (TM) is revealed to us in all its glory, in which all thoughts dissolve, in which the ego burns up and vanishes for all time, leaving no trace. Some state, in other words, that is very different than this present state.
But what reality does any of that have? Right now, there is only the sound of the little robin jumping about in the tree over there, the beating of a heart, the stream rising from a freshly brewed cup of tea, the morning breeze gently caressing my cheek...
And then the thought "There must be more than this! I'm not there now, but soon, one day, maybe, maybe even in a few minutes, I'll reach that state that I have read so much about! That state of no-state, that freedom, that release!"
Pretty good stuff. The point is it does not have to be complicated.