I'm Interviewing Peter Ralston - Gathering Questions

[BlessedLion]

Hey Guys,

 

In a few days I will be doing a one on one interview with Peter Ralston on my YouTube channel, @LionsHeartWisdom 

 

I wanted to come here to gather some questions you guys might have or things you feel need clarification. I've already come up with a pretty distilled list of topics and (full honesty) I don't see myself changing it much but more input wouldn't hurt.

 

Please note:

-This is for direct questions to Ralston about HIS work and books, any questions regarding "Leo said this, you said that" will be OMITTED 

-Try not to give questions that are just wanting some straight up answer to a metaphysical question, those won't go anywhere with Ralston (Ie, Is God Love? What is a chakra?) try to provide questions that Ralston can actually direct you to an answer for within your own experience or based on his work.

 

So far, i've got the topics of 

 

-Mastery/Purpose

-Suffering

-self, Self and Awakening 

-Infinity, Space, Time

-Social World (self, other, language)

-Love

-Communication and Relationships

 

disclaimer; I can’t promise to ask every question, but I’ll be reading everything to help refine the depth and direction of the conversation-

 

Thanks, with Love!

[UnbornTao]

Nice.

Why do we have such a pressing urge or impulse to believe? Why do we sometimes conflate our assumptions for so-called reality? What is a belief? 

Can you envision a future where this kind of work and its spirit remains alive even after your death? Why do these things almost inevitably turn into a religion once the founder dies? Why do people, as a whole, tend to do that?

Something along those lines.

Also, haha, is it going to be eight hours long? 

Edited 10 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Does the role of language enhance suffering? It seems to me, if we were to somehow remove language, or just our instant habit of making distinctions with it, the lines between emotion and cognition would be more blurred. I have noticed language can act to enhance my suffering (rumination). But in some contexts it can also reduce suffering. Sometimes I feel as if language removes me from experiencing a more honest state of 'being.' Conversely I can also use it to guide myself closer to direct experience. Do you consider language something that separates us from reality? Or an abstraction? 

I've been stuck on the above for a bit in my contemplations. Might be too elementary for Ralston  

Edited 9 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[enchanted]

That's awesome @BlessedLioncan't wait to watch it 

[Someone here]

Question about suffering.  I do know(at least I believe i discovered ) how to overcome suffering..just by zoning out of the changing world and focusing on my own inner void. That's also how I overcame fear of non-existence and fear of sleeping and never awakening again ..that the void is not something to be feared but it's the ultimate truth and nature of myself ..reality and god .

The question is this delusional or escapism or what is missing in this approach? 

Thank you.

[AtmanIsBrahman]

 Why do anything at all if you are 100% complete? For example, why eat food— if you are complete then why survive at all? Doing anything aside from just being seems to require some sense of being incomplete, even if it is very minimal.

[theleelajoker]

Why do you think the world is set up the way it is? Is it because it is choice, because it is the only possible way to exist, or some other reason?