Inliytened1

You grasp it all as potential. It doesn't need to be actualized.

This does not contradict Solipsism at. All others are imagined by You. The twist comes at the end. Half way through the movie you may think it's trash. But you may be shaking your head in awe as you walk out the theater.

Wait until you wake up. You won't be able to decipher the difference between your night time dreams and reality.

Yes and all there is is permanence.

I was messing with him ?

Of course there is. It's right here eternally.

What would happen to everyone around here then when they find out that psychedelics isn't permanent enlightenment?

?? indeed.

And there are those who survive cancer and are better for it.

That could be part of his own growth. This circles back to you are your own authority. Kill the Buddha and be him

Why do you care if he's likeable? Was he at one point your guru and now the servant has become the Master? Who cares? What you are doing is judging..notice that. He may be stuck in a delusion of grandeur but why is there any problem with it? Yet it seems to trigger you.

Don't be fooled. Deep down he is serious. He thinks meditation can't awaken one. And he is stuck in a delusion of grandeur. His ego has the God complex. This isn't a problem, really. But don't be fooled by the so called joking around.

No I see where he was going with it after he edited the post (as @amanen said) but then he stated Peter was awake. Yes ultimately no one else can be awake but you because you are God. You and I are the same..which means I am God thus none of you are awake. But then to say Peter is is kinda like mixing up the relative or the dream, with the Absolute. Relatively speaking i don't think anyone here is awake either save maybe one or two. @Consillence never claimed he was awake.

It is a case of conflating the relative with the Absolute. We all do it. I guess.

That is bullshit. No amount of meditation coild ever awaken you because you aren't wired for it.

It was a joke because you said no one on this forum....but yeah I'm it and your my imagination. So why bother arguing with myself ? Ralston is your imagination. It seems you have some bias towards him because he laid the breadcrumbs in your own awakening. But he is not awake and neither are you. Your just my imagination. See how this doesn't help others awake?

I guess you are including yourself on that ?

This song sums it up

When they become real to you and then you look to them for Truth, you are deceiving yourself that Truth can manifest from second order. Truth is first order but self deception will trap you into thinking that second order, or concept, is Truth. And then you don't actually awake. @Consilience understands the difference but most will not. Either way ultimately you must become your own Master. After which everything else just becomes, well, second order.

Your not conscious that you are constructing these other gurus that's the point. You are imagining they are real, and then they become real. And then you look to them for the Truth. It's self deception at its finest, on full display.

Yes but balance again is key - they need them really only to provide the framework and point you to the tools..that's it. Those are the breadcrumbs I mentioned.. But what tends to happen is you place too much into them and then it becomes a hindrance and not a help. Thus...buy the Buddha a drink, pick his brain for a bit - then cut his head off. Remember the song by The Police? Wrapped around your finger? Well, the servant must become the Master

But you don't know it's you yet. You place finding Truth in a duality you constructed- which is second order. You cannot become 1sr order from second order.

This is true - but the point of saying kill the Buddha or be your own authority is meant for one who isn't yet awake to being God. If they aren't yet awake, then putting authority into other will not allow them to ever awaken because they are still looking outside themselves for Truth and not within. Regardless, the main thing is that you are doing the spiritual practices and self inquiry, contemplation, psychedelics, etc. And once you awake you will transcend all teachers and teachings..Now..after you awaken - then yes -- you can read a book or watch a video by someone else and realize that this is your mind and your writing reflecting back to you..(all authorities are you) and yet you can get something out of it that perhaps you didn't know as the ego. You can also realize it was always your own mind in those other gurus leaving you breadcrumbs to wake up. But most of the time reading books or watching videos after awakening will be for more practical, relative stuff. Relatively speaking you don't need an external source to give you Truth, in fact it cannot. You must look within. Afterwards, yes of course all external sources collapse into you as the Absolute. Prior to, though,and dualistically speaking, they are external and separate.

Nice catch.

Might need the samadhi snacks for this one ? and a nice reclining chair. ?