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Here’s a cleaner rewrite that keeps the spirit but makes it flow better:

What was the immediate insight Krishnamurti spoke of — the one that dissolves the self? It is not something reached through practice, control, discipline, or will. So what is one to do in order to see it directly, rather than merely think about it?

The “immediate insight” that both Jiddu Krishnamurti and U.G. Krishnamurti spoke of is often described as a flash — an instant, radical shift in which the whole structure of the personal self falls away. More precisely, it is the ending of identification with the illusory “me.”

But if that “me” is itself an illusion, then it cannot bring about its own ending. No amount of practice, effort, control, or intelligence can produce it.

It may happen, or it may not. And there is really nothing the separate self can do to make it happen.

Given how rare such total awakening or dissolution seems to be, it is fair to say that it does not happen for most people — including many who passionately ask how to see directly rather than mentally, and then devote themselves to intense practice. 🙃

That said, there is a well-known story of a man who traveled from England all the way to Ojai, California, to ask Jiddu Krishnamurti what the essence of his teaching was, and how such insight could be cultivated. Krishnamurti reportedly replied: “I simply don’t mind what happens.”

That may be as good a beginning as any.

To live in that spirit would mean not resisting what arises, not clinging to reactions, and not giving so much authority to the ego-self’s judgments and dramas. Let everything come and go. Let go, and let God — or let the Self, if you prefer.

In the absence of constant reinforcement, the ego’s sense of centrality may begin to weaken. It may wither. It may dissolve.

And then that flash may happen.

Or it may not.

Either way, it is okay. 😃

If you want, I can also make this more polished, more poetic, or more faithful to Krishnamurti’s actual tone.