What Peter Ralston Gets Wrong

[VeganAwake]

He is describing authentic awakening details.

Meaning purpose and value are clearly seen through 

I don't understand his motivation to teach. I think that body must like it!

[Leo Gura]

@James123 @Mellowmarsh

You two are spreading confusion and falsehood.

[James123]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@James123 @Mellowmarsh

You two are spreading confusion and falsehood.

Experience belongs to body, not you. 

Therefore, Ralston says that experience are not reliable. 

Peace.

[Mellowmarsh]

23 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@James123 @Mellowmarsh

You two are spreading confusion and falsehood.

Ralston is a concept known. 
 

Known by the only knowing there is. Is this”one knowing”confused or a falsehood? Can this one not know a concept it knows. Can this one experience the absence of its own knowing, and know its own absent knowing ?

What would an absent knowing know, exactly?

 

 

[Mellowmarsh]

2 hours ago, VeganAwake said:

I don't understand his motivation to teach.

That’s the nature of business. 
 

 No one’s business. 
 

Parrot droppings will drop. It’s the gravity of love. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

It is a shame there isn't more willingness to explore each others worldviews, instead there is insistence on our own.

[Mellowmarsh]

5 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

It is a shame there isn't more willingness to explore each others worldviews, instead there is insistence on our own.

All world views are sourced from the same place.

 

A seer can’t view everywhere. A seer can only view what’s in its own viewfinder. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Just now, Mellowmarsh said:

All world views are sourced from the same place.

 

A seer can’t view everywhere. A seer can only view what’s in its own viewfinder. 

That's a pity.

[Mellowmarsh]

Just now, Natasha Tori Maru said:

That's a pity.

Have you looked everywhere? If you have then there’s nowhere else for you to look. 

[Davino]

4 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

Your What is Perception video explains this eloquently. 

It's the only video I dislike very much, I find it to be potentially very very misleading. It's mostly word choice and framing, but to me adds unnecessary complexity and confusion; at the same time deconstructs that weird definition presented as perception but then doesn't explain existential "base" reality, therefore lacking the philosophical depth necessary for resolving those mental gymnastics into metaphysical truth, imo.

Or to simplify: Experience is truth and it's absolute. It may be absolute bullshit with the ego or absolute clarity, but experience is the absolute truth no fucking matter what. There's nothing but experience, perception, phenomena, sensations which is one and the same as consciousness. Leo of course knows this. That video may have been influenced by Ralston style at that time, I'm sure he would shoot quite differently that episode now.

Probably this video gets across better the point that Ralston is trying to make or what I feel was the message of perception:

 

And this one scratches better the existential itch:

 

Edited 47 minutes ago by Davino

[gettoefl]

Does the anger experience exist?

No.

It is me pretending to be God and claiming you have sinned and are bad

as if that could be true.

No such situation exists.

It seems to exist - because yours truly enjoys cosplaying God and smacking down other separate selves.

It's an obstacle to Truth.

Truth allows this but knows nothing of false stuff.

Anger doesn't exist save in silly dreams.

Your anger is why you didn't awaken.

Edited 44 minutes ago by gettoefl