How to Know What’s “Essential to Understanding A Problem” – Step 7

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“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”

– Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986) Indian spiritual author/guru

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How has lessening the desire for immediate answers allowed solutions to unfold for you, lately?

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How might letting go of needing to control every answer help you feel more free and peaceful?

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Jay Z – 99 Problems (Director’s Cut) (Explicit) (4:17)

Indian Raga Meditation w/ Krishnamurti notes below (7:27)

Analysis

Step 7: How to Know What’s “Essential to Understanding a Problem” explores humility and surrender as essential human truths. The passage urges us to strip away ego and control. In Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, humility leads to freedom of the spirit. Bill W. believed humility allows people to accept imperfection and begin true recovery.

Likewise, It Works: How and Why teaches that asking for help brings liberation. The act of asking reveals faith, not weakness. It reflects the Wellbriety teaching that “healing begins when we stop running from our spirit.” Don Coyhis writes that surrendering self-will reconnects us with community and Creator. Humility becomes a sacred tool for balance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, in Freedom from the Known, explains that freedom begins when we drop the craving for answers. When we let go of fixed ideas, we see truth as it is. His insight aligns with the recovery principle of acceptance. Both teach that understanding grows in openness, not certainty.

Together, today’s Zonr post reveals that humility, surrender, and openness unlock spiritual clarity. They show that recovery and understanding share the same soil—honesty and faith. When we abandon control, wisdom enters quietly.


Spanish Translation

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“Llegar completamente lejos de nuestra aversión a ser humildes… requiere mucho tiempo.” (12 & 12, p. 73)

“Cuando pedimos a nuestro Poder Superior que elimine estas deficiencias… pedimos libertad.” (It Works: How & Why, p. 49)

“La libertad del deseo de una respuesta es esencial para comprender un problema.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti


Análisis

El Paso 7: Cómo saber lo que es esencial para comprender un problema muestra la humildad como clave espiritual. La lectura nos invita a dejar el ego y aceptar ayuda. En Doce Pasos y Doce Tradiciones, Bill W. enseña que la humildad abre la puerta a la libertad interior.

De igual forma, Funciona: Cómo y Por Qué enseña que pedir ayuda nos libera. Pedir demuestra fe, no debilidad. Refleja la enseñanza de Wellbriety: “La sanación comienza cuando dejamos de huir de nuestro espíritu.” Don Coyhis dice que rendirse a la voluntad propia nos reconecta con la comunidad y el Creador.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, en La libertad de lo conocido, explica que soltar el deseo de respuestas abre el entendimiento. Su sabiduría coincide con el principio del programa: aceptar en lugar de resistir. Ambas visiones nos recuerdan que la comprensión surge del corazón abierto.

Juntas, estas ideas muestran que la humildad y la rendición traen claridad espiritual. Al soltar el control, la paz y la sabiduría nos encuentran.

Pregunta: ¿Cómo te ayudaría soltar la necesidad de controlar cada respuesta a sentirte más libre y tranquilo?rse a la voluntad propia nos recon

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Comments

8 responses to “How to Know What’s “Essential to Understanding A Problem” – Step 7”

  1. Neyun Uzdlabayoh Avatar
    Neyun Uzdlabayoh

    How has lessening the desire for immediate answers allowed solutions to unfold for you, lately? ~

    Surrendering to flow, and letting myself “not knowing the answers fully yet” has been huge on my journey because it helps me worry less and trust more ~ I can live in the present moment more, and focus on my heart center and the love in my heart I have to give others in the present moment in my current reality ~

  2. Eli🌱🫶🏾🫡🪱 Avatar
    Eli🌱🫶🏾🫡🪱

    Often, I don’t need an answer to keep going best I can. The answer often wouldn’t change my action anyway. I can focus on following my morals, instead of constantly validating my beliefs. Replacing demanding inquiry with gentle questioning is less tiring and less futile, anyway.

  3. Ari L Avatar
    Ari L

    Not needing to control, but rather letting of the need to know the answer to something is hugely freeing for me. I tend towards the deep desire to just have something figured out even if it’s impossible to know for sure. I need to be able to let go and just be and observe and when I can I’m in a much better frame of mind

  4. Mink Avatar
    Mink

    Sometimes it feels a bit contradictory to hear that surrender brings strength but it makes sense. The strength of my recovery comes from others, and I won’t ask for help until I surrender

  5. Elexi W.S.A. Avatar

    I think it might assist me by knowin’ people are people, and as long as there’s no sick ulterior motifs I’m sensin’ I shouldn’t let them get to me too much. When I’m alone is when I feel most pleasantly zenful, and @ peace. Although in the near future meetin’ people with goals of complete sanity could be useful, so we could look at the ones, if still around, that just don’t want to get nothin’, and not jus’ because it’s too hard.

  6. Sabrina J Avatar
    Sabrina J

    Everything is exactly as it is supposed to be. It is only when I try to push the river that I end up struggling. My responsibility is to show up to every opportunity and be present in that moment. The rest will continue to unfold as it is supposed to. I trust my path.

    Thank you for sharing recovery with me. Grateful.

  7. E-Dawg Avatar
    E-Dawg

    I don’t need to know the answers to everything I just know what works for me… I can’t control people, places or things… I just focus on what’s important to me… Examining What’s going on and talking about it with someone Is the most freeing part of it to me… Just simply Talking to another person Frees me of all the anxiety…

  8. Bodhi Baba Avatar
    Bodhi Baba

    FEATURED POST FROM THE ZONR VAULT – “Solutions come in odd “co-incidents” at times. Like a mutual acquaintance of a friend of mine just so happens to work out at my gym. He could be a catalyst to healing a broken friendship. This friend could be using and I pray for him all the time. Solutions I find come in gods timing .. Not mine.” (Easy Does It, 10/12/2011)

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