Review Ending unnecessary Suffering by Peter Ralston

[Breakingthewall]

Another approach (please, insult if you don't understand)

Ralston claims that “you are identified with your structure,” and that therefore you can “disidentify” from it and thus end unnecessary suffering. But this claim contains a radical structural error: it presupposes that there is a “you” separate from the structure that can step outside of it. In reality, you are your structure. There is no essential, independent “you” that can observe the structure from outside. The structure that is perceived as “I” is the form that reality takes in this particular node. So you are not identified with the structure, but rather you are that structure. You cannot disidentify from yourself, because there is nothing outside of you from which to do so. The desire for disidentification is, in fact, an even deeper identification with the idea of eliminating suffering. It is a reaction of the structure itself, which rejects itself.

The only way: It is not escaping from the structure, but opening totally from it. It is not denying the self, but seeing it as an inevitable form that can become transparent to the real flow. Freedom is not about disidentification, since the one who disidentifies is the self, which is placed on another artificial plane. Freedom comes with openness, in which the self becomes transparent and sees itself as the becoming of the absolute in eternal flow. This understanding is direct and present. It occurs when closure ceases.

Ralston conveys emptiness without glory, clarity without life, understanding without heart. This reveals that the openness he has achieved is partial, because he has not touched the living root of reality: he has not entered into the fire, the fullness, the absolute that manifests when the structure opens completely. Then, partial opensess is equal than closure. And closure leads to distortion, mistake. It's a problem, because seems authentic when you see if from more closure. 

Done with that topic, Its just my opinion , don't get offended 

Edited Sunday at 11:23 AM by Breakingthewall

[Joshe]

So are you saying if the average person wants to stop suffering, all they need to do is become enlightened? 

[PurpleTree]

15 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Address the thought with the aim to stop them occuring. 

You contemplate. Why am I having this thought? Fear. What am I afraid of? A concept. Is that real? What IS it? Can I touch it? Smell it? Taste it? No. It is not real. It is not in reality. It is a concept feeling negativity. It is blinding me, spoiling my experience. It is a thought. It. Is. Not. Real. 

Once you realise the above, the source for the thought, the fear, dissolves. No repression. Genuine insight. 

This is what Ralston is saying.

 

Is this like shadow work?

Or is this as buddhists say use an arrow to get rid of another arrow?