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Books on how to stop being mentally weak?

>> No.18756120

>>18756092
The Bhagavad Gita. Unironically.

>> No.18756124

>>18756092
It's easy bro. Just stop.

>> No.18756127

The Bible and/or break your life down till its nothing

>> No.18756133

>>18756120
Explain your pick

>> No.18756140

>>18756092
I demand to know who created this gif.

>> No.18756144

>>18756120
The Gita saved me from dropping out of uni just before finals

>> No.18756145

>>18756133
Heinrich Himmler used it to distance himself mentally from the crimes of the SS. He carried a leather-bound copy of the Bhgavad Gita on him at all times, and whenever he felt conflicted about doing something, he'd read it to ease his conscience, by alienating himself from the world essentially, and treating it as an external flow of phenomena that doesn't involve him.

>> No.18756150

>>18756145
Source? Very believable bc that is what the Gita says but still

>> No.18756152

>>18756133
Doing the thing with 100% conviction and detaching yourself from outcome fress you from all expectations - internal and external. In this way you discover your inner divinity as God works through you which is right and natural. This state frees you from anguish and makes you invincible.

>> No.18756156

>>18756145
>Gita reader
>Nazi
hmm

>> No.18756158

>>18756156
Many such cases

>> No.18756159

>>18756145
>by alienating himself from the world essentially, and treating it as an external flow of phenomena that doesn't involve him.
That's pretty gay though. Like this might be the most cowardly thing I've read and this is coming from a shut in little NEET.

>> No.18756160

>>18756150
>The problem for those in power is how to get people do the dirty work without turning them into monsters. This was Heinrich Himmler's dilemma. When confronted with the task of killing the Jews of Europe, the SS chief adopted the attitude of "somebody has to do the dirty job". In Hannah Arendt's book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, the philosopher describes how Nazi executioners endured the horrible acts they performed. Most were well aware that they were doing things that brought humiliation, suffering and death to their victims. The way out of this predicament was that, instead of saying "What horrible things I did to people!" they would say "What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!" In this way, they were able to turn around the logic of resisting temptation: the temptation to be resisted was pity and sympathy in the presence of human suffering, the temptation not to murder, torture and humiliate.

>There was a further "ethical problem" for Himmler: how to make sure that the executioners, while performing these terrible acts, remained human and dignified. His answer was Krishna's message to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita (Himmler always had in his pocket a leather-bound edition): act with inner distance; do not get fully involved.

>Therein also resides the lie of 24: that it is not only possible to retain human dignity in performing acts of terror, but that if an honest person performs such an act as a grave duty, it confers on him a tragic-ethical grandeur. The parallel between the agents' and the terrorists' behaviour serves this lie.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jan/10/usnews.comment

>> No.18756164

>>18756145
Tolstoy did the same but with Prophet's sayings

>> No.18756167
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18756167

>>18756156
Yes, and...?

>> No.18756180

>>18756160
Wait that article was by Zizek?? Was he a writer on the Guardian?

>> No.18756182

>>18756160
Thank you

>> No.18756185

>>18756180
Zizek wrote for many publications in his life-time, you might have already read a few online articles by him without knowing it.

>> No.18756187

Books don't work. You have to get into a routine of doing something challenging repeatedly.

You could start with lifting.

>> No.18756195

>>18756182
No problem!
Not Hinduism, but I also highly recommend reading "Zen at War", it's about how Imperial Japan in WW2 justified its campaign in East and South-East Asia through Zen Buddhist doctrines (especially with regards to The Rape of Nanking):

https://www.amazon.com/Zen-War-Brian-Daizen-Victoria/dp/0742539261

>> No.18756201

>>18756195
Thanks for the rec, I'll look into it

>> No.18756207

>>18756145
>>18756160
>>18756195
>nazis: hinduism
>imperial japs: buddhism
Did Italy's NFP also adopt some oriental religion?

>> No.18756208

>>18756124

>> No.18756225

>>18756207
No idea, but it would be hilarious if they did.

>> No.18756614

>>18756120
Please go into some detail.

>> No.18756656

>>18756145
Well that explains why India is the way it is.
Sounds like mind poison.

>> No.18756675

>>18756656
>Implying most jeets read the gita

>> No.18756693

>>18756675
Most Christians don’t read the Bible but it’s still foundational to the culture.

>> No.18756743
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>>18756693
>most Christians don't read the bible
anon, you finally solved a doubt I had for a long time. It's a matter of time.

>> No.18756760 [DELETED] 

You need to reach a clear point in which you can feel your weakness, the urge to get away form discomfort pressing on you and surpass it, repeatedly. The most straightforward manifestation of this is physical exercise and discipline. DON'T dive into books in order to learn this shit, you have to do it yourself. If you wanna read books on it, read biographies of people who became defeated the weakness and became stronger, people such as David Goggins(his book's title is "Can't hurt me"). DO IT REPEATEDLY.

>> No.18756771 [DELETED] 

You need to reach a clear point in which you can feel your weakness, the urge to get away from discomfort pressing on you and surpass it, repeatedly. The most straightforward manifestation of this is physical exercise and discipline. DON'T dive into books in order to learn this shit, you have to do it yourself. If you wanna read books on it, read biographies of people who became defeated the weakness and became stronger, people such as David Goggins (his book's title is "Can't hurt me"). DO IT REPEATEDLY.

>> No.18756779

You need to reach a clear point in which you can feel your weakness, the urge to get away from discomfort pressing on you and surpass it, repeatedly. The most straightforward manifestation of this is physical exercise and discipline. DON'T dive into books in order to learn this shit, you have to do it yourself. If you wanna read books on it, read biographies of people who defeated the weakness and became stronger, people such as David Goggins(his book's title is "Can't hurt me"). DO IT REPEATEDLY.

>> No.18756826

>>18756779
are you speaking from experience about this?

>> No.18756840

>>18756826
Yes. Grew up sheltered, with no father figure, raised by women only. Couldn't learn anything that didn't come way to me because I literally never pushed myself. Used to be disgusted by my own mental and physical weakness so I started doing callisthenics and things just rolled from there. You just can't "get it" from a book, you have to do it yourself.

>> No.18756849

>>18756826
Yes. Grew up sheltered, with no father figure, raised by women only. Couldn't learn anything that didn't come easy to me because I literally never pushed myself. Used to be disgusted by my own mental and physical weakness so I started doing callisthenics and things just rolled from there. You just can't "get it" from a book, you have to do it yourself.