Absolute solipsism vs relative solipsism

[TruthFreedom]

I have been sitting contemplating this for a long time. I understand that everything occurs inside my mind, and there is nothing outside of my mind (that I can experience).

This can be a liberating experience, and I can see why it can be considered as an "awakening". 

However, I still question this idea of absolute solipsism. Because I am so affected by what seems to be "outside" forces, and how come this is the case? If absolute solipsism were the case, then wouldn't I have omnipotence, hence the ability to have complete control over consciousness? 

I was in a meeting last night, with a group of around 20 people. I was quietly focusing on solipsism and telling myself that all these people were in my mind. If they were, then I would be able to stay completely calm, and not be affected by any of them. But I WAS affected. The dude sitting to my left was clearly very tense, and there was a lot of aggressive energy coming from him, although he didn't seem to realise. As hard as I tried, I couldn't avoid being affected.

How can one seemingly be affected by others if absolute solipsism is true?

[Malkom]

Good question. Absolute solipsism isn't connected to the ego.
Simply put, if you want to become like God, let Him in.
But that's a joke. Although...
If you have this obsession idea-fix, it's bad...relax and enjoy

[Yimpa]

1 hour ago, TruthFreedom said:

I was in a meeting last night, with a group of around 20 people. I was quietly focusing on solipsism and telling myself that all these people were in my mind

Go deeper and this would be absolutely unnecessary. It would be abundantly clear that there is only YOUR mind and every “other” is a facet of consciousness. 

[Breakingthewall]

@TruthFreedom don't believe what is not logic. If only what you are conscious of now exists, where is the consciousness of being God creating this experience? Hidden? If something is hidden, many things can also be hidden, perhaps infinite things.

[Adrian colby]

On 30/10/2025 at 10:42 AM, TruthFreedom said:

I have been sitting contemplating this for a long time. I understand that everything occurs inside my mind, and there is nothing outside of my mind (that I can experience).

This can be a liberating experience, and I can see why it can be considered as an "awakening". 

However, I still question this idea of absolute solipsism. Because I am so affected by what seems to be "outside" forces, and how come this is the case? If absolute solipsism were the case, then wouldn't I have omnipotence, hence the ability to have complete control over consciousness? 

I was in a meeting last night, with a group of around 20 people. I was quietly focusing on solipsism and telling myself that all these people were in my mind. If they were, then I would be able to stay completely calm, and not be affected by any of them. But I WAS affected. The dude sitting to my left was clearly very tense, and there was a lot of aggressive energy coming from him, although he didn't seem to realise. As hard as I tried, I couldn't avoid being affected.

How can one seemingly be affected by others if absolute solipsism is true?

Think of it like peeling back layers. Your first instance is your interaction with this reality which is relative and through your higher cognitive ability the capability of projecting meaning and purpose onto the occurrences that happen around you or should I say within your experience.You do this from an individual identity and therefore your own bias and preference or even conditioning that you were brought up with so everything can be seen as a duality.

When you strip all of that away, you experience everything happening as it is without the projection of meaning on top of it. That would be your non-dual awareness but it is still experiencing form in contrast to other form.

If you strip all of the form away you are left with just awareness. there’s nothing but that: alone and solipsistic.

A lot of people dismiss and disregard the layers whenever they peel them back to see what is underlying all of reality but when you come back down on your return journey, it’s important to distinguish between absolute and relative. The relative occurs within the absolute and yet you don’t have access to it when you become an individual experiencing separation or form in contrast to other form and on top of that again the meaning and the purpose that you project onto it to experience your life. 
 

You don’t have the ability to change your control anything at the skin layer of reality all you have is your understanding of what lies underneath. you can have moments where you become conscious of that but you cannot function in reality purely from that state of mind.

this is an issue that occurs with people who have a full awakening and people who don’t have full awakenings if you simply glimpse the non-nature of reality and come back into reality it very often happens that people use non-dual understanding to gaslight dismiss and bypass everything in lived experience. It may not necessarily be that they have a full awakening to get over this but rather an understanding of the whole as an opposed to the part that they’ve just seen underlying everything. I see this happening a lot where spiritual people use it as an identity to gaslight and dismiss other peoples lived experiences instead of understanding that those experiences are part of the whole and are meant to be integrated and understood. trying to force solipsism or non-duality onto everything around you when you are in a state of consciousness that is individual and separate is never going to work. understanding the solipsism is meant to bring you peace, and knowing about what underline the whole of reality not some idea that you can project onto other people. 

And no pun intended, but that is for you and you alone.

Edited 4 hours ago by Adrian colby