Review Ending unnecessary Suffering by Peter Ralston

[AION]

After reading this book (I haven’t finished it) but you will see that all problems are self made. Especially other people’s problems, dramas, and tragicomedies are self made and it can be clearly seen. Then I realized if other people’s problems are self made then my problems are self made too. And it is much more difficult to see my own bullshit. I couldn’t see through my own problems when I looked at my problems at “human time”. Humans don’t think on long term. Humans usually think in terms of days and weeks while some very successful people think in months and years while if you really want to see through shit you have to think in infinity. Every moment is infinity. The book until now is the book of not knowing 2.0 and it is very refreshing. Reading that book prior is necessary though. I tried to listen to the book but one really needs to put all of the attention of the book to get anything out of it. 

Edited June 26 by AION

[James123]

4 minutes ago, AION said:

After reading this book, I haven’t finished it but you will see that all problems are self made. Especially other people’s problems, dramas, and tragicomedies are self made and it can be clearly seen. Then I realized if other people’s problems are self made then my problems are self made too. And it is much more difficult to see my own bullshit. I couldn’t see through my own problems when I looked at my problems at “human time”. Humans don’t think on long term. Humans usually think in terms of days and weeks while some very successful people think in months and years while if you really want to see through shit you have to think in infinity. Every moment is infinity. 

Moreover, the others problems or dramas are your imagination as your problems. 

[Breakingthewall]

Yeah, sure, except that "oneself" includes a genetic foundation created over millions of years with conditioning as solid as steel, plus each and every interaction with the entirety of infinite reality in infinite dimensions throughout infinite lifetimes creating butterfly effects that fluctuate in eternity until they create that small energetic vibration of unimaginable complexity that encompasses the entirety of reality, which we call "suffering." So, if you want to change that energetic dynamic that encompasses infinity and open your psyche to the whole, the lobotomy that Ralston proposes is only going to serve to increase the volume of his bank account, which is something. Oh, and to frustrate you and keep you trapped in a false idea without possibility of real positive movement , and the suffering is going to happen in another way, because those principles are not real. 

Edited June 28 by Breakingthewall

[Javfly33]

1 hour ago, Breakingthewall said:

 So, if you want to change that energetic dynamic that encompasses infinity and open your psyche to the whole, the lobotomy that Ralston proposes is only going to serve to increase the volume of his bank account, which is something. 

😂

[AION]

That is funny. I have to admit. But Ralston didn’t say that. It was my own addition. 

[Leo Gura]

Great!

[AION]

Finished reading the book. It is basically the book of not knowing 2.0. It is so simple in the sense that truth speaks for itself. At the end of the book I thought “why didn’t I know this shit?”. I do recommend to make annotations or highlights. His books are always hard to digest sometimes. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

6 minutes ago, AION said:

Finished reading the book. It is basically the book of not knowing 2.0. It is so simple in the sense that truth speaks for itself. At the end of the book I thought “why didn’t I know this shit?”. I do recommend to make annotations or highlights. His books are always hard to digest sometimes. 

I've read the Book of Not knowing twice over.

Re-reading juices these books for more every time...

[AION]

@Natasha Tori Maru that is a book worth rereading. 

[AION]

My guy is dropping bombs. 💣 

[Breakingthewall]

29 minutes ago, AION said:

My guy is dropping bombs. 💣 

It's difficult being more superficial. His understanding about human nature is a joke. Then, you cant know the unknown because you don't know it! (Ironic so nice giggle).

Okay, well, the human structure is maintained by fear, and fear of the unknown is the fear of destructuring. He doesn't understand it because his mind works by superficial logical obviousness.

Regarding depression, according to him, it's all thought about the past and the future. His understanding of how the human emotional structure is constructed is the same as a 14-year-old boy's. It's understandable why he's so successful; he says things that everyone can understand and seem obvious. The only problem is that they're false, but who cares? The important thing is that it sounds great.

I'm not saying this for aggression , just to help you to don't get lost in that perspective. It's unreal , just consider it

Edited July 30 by Breakingthewall

[AION]

@Breakingthewall That is not what he is saying. He says we can make things worse than they are with our mental activity / mind. 

[Breakingthewall]

7 minutes ago, AION said:

@Breakingthewall That is not what he is saying. He says we can make things worse than they are with our mental activity / mind. 

Sure but your mental activity is the reality.It's not something you do because you're stupid or because you're functioning incorrectly. It's the flow of reality, which splits into two lines, creating duality.

The work of enlightenment is to equalize those lines, seeing that they are one. This isn't achieved by canceling one of those lines, believing it to be nonexistent or illusory, but by taking a step back and placing yourself in an unlimited perspective in which the flow is seen for what it is. Then you are not afraid of the unknown, because "unknown" is meaningless, just as the known is. There is the becoming of reality, and you are that. And beneath the becoming is ultimate nature, your essence. If you open yourself to this, you can equalize the becoming of the human mind with external becoming. If not, it's impossible. It's a profound process, not something you do according to the simple logic that Ralston preaches. That's totally false. It's mental castration and it's absolutely frustrating. That's why I point it like Im a smartass, because i see it like a trap of a demon

[AION]

@Breakingthewall I think he doesn’t contradict you. He calls it mental activity versus mental action. He is not anti mentalism. Did you even read his books?

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

His understanding about human nature is a joke.

Your ignorant attitude is becoming untenable here.

If you don't correct your attitude you will lose access to this forum.

[gettoefl]

11 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Your ignorant attitude is becoming untenable here.

If you don't correct your attitude you will lose access to this forum.

He's one of the few to make a lick of sense.

If he's gone I'm out of here too.

[Breakingthewall]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Your ignorant attitude is becoming untenable here.

If you don't correct your attitude you will lose access to this forum.

Ok ok don't get angry. Could you call me arrogant and sure I should correct it, but I argumented my answer, I didn't say just that. Anyway, I agree, some expressions plays against me in any case, I shouldn't show reaction, emotional behavior, etc. It's nonsense. But all us are humans. 

[Breakingthewall]

2 hours ago, AION said:

@Breakingthewall I think he doesn’t contradict you. He calls it mental activity versus mental action. He is not anti mentalism. Did you even read his books?

No I didn't, I just listened videos. I admit I react too aggressively when I hear that of: you are responsible for your emotional suffering and that to solve it you just have to stop thinking, because it's an unrealistic vision that blames the sufferer and trivializes the suffering. Suffering is a symptom, it's a vibration that arises from a fractured structure. That fracture is what makes openness possible, but it must be deeply understood. If someone internalizes that suffering as a mistake they're making, they'll be stuck there forever.

[Breakingthewall]

1 hour ago, gettoefl said:

He's one of the few to make a lick of sense.

If he's gone I'm out of here too.

Thanks for appreciating, really I'm getting deeper and deeper, I can't avoid it, it's like a compulsion. The point is that one day you are one with the totality and next day you aren't, then it's not easy to write without fall in some blind points, but humbly, I think that in two or three years I'll be able to articulate a fairly clear explanation of the mind/enlightenment/absolute issue. I hope Leo doesn't ban me because I like writing here, although I've never looked elsewhere.

What I see here is that very few people are open-minded to real understanding, so sometimes I get into very silly, aggressive, and sterile arguments that only add stress. It's a stupid attitude that I'm trying to correct.

[AION]

@Breakingthewall you are constantly misinterpreting his work. It is getting tiring to constantly have to correct you. Obviously there is necessary suffering but his book is called ending unnecessary suffering (that one creates with unnecessary additions of the mind)