Many People Who Are Fighting Absolute Solipsism Do Not Even Know What It Is

[Carl-Richard]

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Here’s a concise list of well-known spiritual teachers who have explicitly pushed back on solipsism (“only my mind exists”), with a pointer to where they say so:

• Sri Ramana Maharshi — distinguishes Advaita from solipsism (the Self isn’t a private mind).
  Where: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi; short essay Who Am I?

• Rupert Spira — “non-duality is not solipsism”: there is one infinite awareness, not “only my personal mind.”
  Where: essay/Q&A titled “Is Non-Duality a Form of Solipsism?”; book Being Aware of Being Aware

• Alan Watts — jokes about a “society of solipsists” to make the point that the insight is the One Self through many viewpoints, not “only me.”
  Where: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are; talks like “World as Self, Self as Play”

• Swami Sarvapriyananda — contrasts Advaita Vedānta with solipsism explicitly, showing why eka-jīva-vāda ≠ “I alone exist.”
  Where: public lecture “Pantheism vs. Panpsychism vs. Solipsism vs. Advaita Vedanta” (Vedanta Society of New York)

• Alexander Berzin (Study Buddhism) — explains why Yogācāra/Mind-Only isn’t solipsism and rejects “I’m the only one who exists.”
  Where: essays and lectures on Mind-Only vs. solipsism; Study Buddhism materials

• Sam Harris — dismisses solipsism while teaching non-dual mindfulness; treats it as an unworkable view in practice.
  Where: book Waking Up; podcast/app Q&A segments on “Isn’t nonduality just solipsism?”

• Bernardo Kastrup — defends analytic idealism and argues expressly that idealism ≠ solipsism.
  Where: books Why Materialism Is Baloney and The Idea of the World (chapters addressing the charge of solipsism)

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68adfb3c0a788191922bf02764080b78

[Carl-Richard]

5 minutes ago, Razard86 said:

Oh really now Carl? Please explain which part was gaslighting and which part is narcissm because all I see right now is projection. Why so emotional? Why are you hurling insults left and right? Why are you playing a victim. Using a calm rationale please explain how I am gaslighting. I would love to see how your mind made that trip to that destination. Because I noticed the topic of Solipsism triggers you, and yet you cannot help but keep returning to comment on it. This is called unconscious behavior because if you find this topic so unsettling and me so unsettling you could ya know, block or ignore me.

"You just need to awaken" is condescending. "You're just imagining that it's condescending" is gaslighting. 

[James123]

20 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68adfb3c0a788191922bf02764080b78

Moreover,

Ramana Maharshi

“The mind says ‘I am,’ and thinks the world is separate. But when the ‘I’ is known as the Self, the world is not separate; it is the same Self appearing in many forms.”

Papaji

“There is no ‘other’ and no ‘me’ in reality. The mind imagines duality. When you see this, all solipsism disappears—it is only a mental play.”

Krishnamurti

“Solipsism is the ego pretending the world exists only as its idea. Freedom is to see life as it is, not as a projection of the self.”

Osho

“Solipsism is the last trick of the ego: ‘Only I exist.’ When ego dies, only existence remains, and life flows through all forms. Then you are neither alone nor separate.”

Rumi

“Who thinks ‘I alone am’? All is God’s play. The soul is the witness; the self is the drop in the ocean. Solipsism is forgetting the ocean.”

Ibn Arabi

“All that appears as ‘I’ and ‘other’ is the manifestation of the One. Those who cling to ‘I’ alone see only a shadow. Reality is the One revealing itself in multiplicity.”

Imam Ghazali

“Whoever thinks only of his own existence ignores the signs of Allah in creation. True knowledge is witnessing the unity of all being in God.”

Prophet Muhammad 

“None of you lives for himself alone; and none dies for himself alone.” (Qur’an 4:78, 6:164)

Jesus

“Apart from me you can do nothing, and I am not alone; the Father is with me and in you.” (John 15:5, 14:10)

Yunus Emre

“I am nothing, You are all. Whoever sees only ‘I’ has closed the door. Open it with Love.”

 

Solipsism (Ego Illusion)

Mind says: “I alone exist.”

Feeling: Separate, isolated, controlling, fearful or superior.

Manifestation: Life is a projection of “my” thoughts.

Teachers’ warnings:

Ramana: world appears separate.

Papaji: duality is imagined.

Krishnamurti: ego creates a false private world.

Osho: “Only I exist” is the last trick of ego.

Rumi: forgetting the ocean; seeing only the drop.

Ibn Arabi: cling to “I,” see only shadow.

Imam Ghazali: ignoring the signs of God in creation.

Muhammad ﷺ: none lives for himself alone.

Jesus: apart from me, you can do nothing.

Yunus Emre: seeing only “I” closes the door.

Realized Awareness / Dissolution of Solipsism

Nothing needs to be claimed; all flows.

Feeling: Unity, openness, peace, effortless presence.

Manifestation: Life flows through you naturally; you are witness and Self simultaneously.

Teachers’ guidance:

Ramana: world is same Self in many forms.

Papaji: no “other,” no “me”; duality disappears.

Krishnamurti: see life as it is, not as your projection.

Osho: life flows through all forms; you are not alone.

Rumi: the self is a drop in the ocean; God’s play is everything.

Ibn Arabi: the One manifests in multiplicity.

Imam Ghazali: witness unity in God.

Muhammad ﷺ: live and die not for self alone.

Jesus: the Father is with me and in you.

Yunus Emre: open the heart; see beyond “I.”

This shows the shift from ego centered solipsism to witnessing unity as described consistently across all masters.

Best Regards,

With Love,

Edited August 26 by James123

[Razard86]

18 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

"You just need to awaken" is condescending. "You're just imagining that it's condescending" is gaslighting. 

Carl you literally think someone telling you that you need to awaken is condescending? Dude you are literally creating that. When Leo has stated multiple times that people needed to awaken to experience certain things I never took it as condescending. I did my own investigation. You know what is condescending when you referred to me as "people like you" and you know what I could have taken offense to that, but I didn't!!

You know why? Because all offense is EGO!!! Anytime you have a problem with anything that happens in life that is self-bias and that=DEVILRY. The only reason you have a problem right now is because you are projecting your own devilry onto me. When you referred to me as "people like you" I had no reaction whatsoever because I understood the SPIRIT from which you were communicating from. I knew you were coming from a place of good intention.

What you have failed to do Carl and you have been on the forums for years, is rid yourself of self-bias. Notice how you project ill intentions onto me. You really think I'm a Narcissist and I'm here for some validation? LOL that is the funniest shit ever!!! I could care less how someone feels about me because I have complete acceptance of what I am. The ONLY reason I post here is to facilitate the spiritual path of those on the forum. I studied Leo's content and many others with an open mind even when I thought they were off their rocker and I discovered they were actually telling the TRUTH.

Solipsism is a realization into the TRUE NATURE OF NOTHINGNESS. This can only be realized through a STATE CHANGE. Anytime anybody argues about anything in Spirituality they are always arguing from a position of STATE. To reach a new state requires an AWAKENING that is how state changes occur. For example Leo claims to have become aware of ALIEN LOVE, I have not had that awakening so it would be accurate for Leo to tell me I have not had that awakening because I am not awake to that particular state. 

This isn't condescension its whats true. HELL CANCER, DIABETES is a state!!! You could say I haven't awaken to cancer and diabetes. Sure I know it conceptually, but I do not know it experientially. Being=Experience. So instead of assuming ill intentions on my part you could realize I am acting from good intentions as I know you are. Because I know you really think I'm some flaming Narcissist who gets his kicks off on coming here claiming someone isn't awake. But the truth is, you are just creating that. After all. I am just your mirror. How you choose to interpret me, that's your business. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Eskilon

My earlier posts rap a bit more - unfulsafiable, philosophical dead end and... Look at the current shitfight that happens with this topic. I strategically tap out because it's a waste of time. 

It's just my personal preference at play. 

[Eskilon]

26 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

@Eskilon

My earlier posts rap a bit more - unfulsafiable, philosophical dead end and... Look at the current shitfight that happens with this topic. I strategically tap out because it's a waste of time. 

It's just my personal preference at play. 

I see, and it`s all good. Agree with you here

This topic is way too sensitive for it to have a meaningful conversation in public -- hence Leo deleted his video.

This one is best to contemplate alone and preferably at high states of consciousness.

Edited August 26 by Eskilon

[Razard86]

8 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

I see, and it`s all good. Agree with you here

This topic is way too sensitive for it to have a meaningful conversation in public -- hence Leo deleted his video.

This one is best to contemplate alone and preferably at high states of consciousness.

You are so correct, without that shift into a high state of consciousness (which anyone on this forum can reach through various methods) they won't know it. Oneness truly is Absolute. 

[UnbornTao]

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes

Mark Twain

 

Edited August 26 by UnbornTao

[Carl-Richard]

3 hours ago, Razard86 said:

Carl you literally think someone telling you that you need to awaken is condescending? Dude you are literally creating that. When Leo has stated multiple times that people needed to awaken to experience certain things I never took it as condescending.

It's uncalled condescension (not in a teacher-student dynamic). But that's not the real issue. It's that your condescension is irrelevant. You're making a logical case, and logic is not awakening. I have a problem with your logic.

 

3 hours ago, Razard86 said:

You know why? Because all offense is EGO!!! Anytime you have a problem with anything that happens in life that is self-bias and that=DEVILRY. The only reason you have a problem right now is because you are projecting your own devilry onto me. When you referred to me as "people like you" I had no reaction whatsoever because I understood the SPIRIT from which you were communicating from. I knew you were coming from a place of good intention.

I didn't ask for how egoless you are.

 

3 hours ago, Razard86 said:

What you have failed to do Carl and you have been on the forums for years, is rid yourself of self-bias. Notice how you project ill intentions onto me.

It's definitely possible to be condescending without intending to be.

And thanks for saying my name, it's the coolest name in the world.

 

3 hours ago, Razard86 said:

What you have failed to do Carl and you have been on the forums for years, is rid yourself of self-bias. Notice how you project ill intentions onto me. You really think I'm a Narcissist and I'm here for some validation? LOL that is the funniest shit ever!!! I could care less how someone feels about me because I have complete acceptance of what I am. The ONLY reason I post here is to facilitate the spiritual path of those on the forum. I studied Leo's content and many others with an open mind even when I thought they were off their rocker and I discovered they were actually telling the TRUTH.

Narcissist gaslighting is a very specific term.

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[...]. When they are gaslighting someone, narcissists might say things like, “You’re imagining things,” [...]

https://www.charliehealth.com/post/things-narcissists-say-in-an-argument-and-what-they-really-mean

 

3 hours ago, Razard86 said:

Solipsism is a realization into the TRUE NATURE OF NOTHINGNESS. This can only be realized through a STATE CHANGE. Anytime anybody argues about anything in Spirituality they are always arguing from a position of STATE. To reach a new state requires an AWAKENING that is how state changes occur.

Anytime you're arguing for solipsism, you're arguing from a position of logic.

 

3 hours ago, Razard86 said:

This isn't condescension its whats true. 

It can be condescension even if it's true.

 

3 hours ago, Razard86 said:

HELL CANCER, DIABETES is a state!!! You could say I haven't awaken to cancer and diabetes. Sure I know it conceptually, but I do not know it experientially. Being=Experience. So instead of assuming ill intentions on my part you could realize I am acting from good intentions as I know you are. Because I know you really think I'm some flaming Narcissist who gets his kicks off on coming here claiming someone isn't awake. But the truth is, you are just creating that. After all. I am just your mirror. How you choose to interpret me, that's your business. 

Ok ok ok ok, we get it, you are not a narcissist. Thanks for reassuring us.

Edited August 26 by Carl-Richard

[Razard86]

4 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68adfb3c0a788191922bf02764080b78

Watch this video and realize, that so called private minds is just a state. 

 

[Jowblob]

@Razard86 the thing with carl you're also creating it, after all those years you still think he is in his material and psychologist paradigm using labels. You have to think of others highly that they even have a higher state of consciousness then you have. If you will think of others like they are gods and perfect intelligence like you are, you will create heaven on earth.

There are no private minds indeed, every happening or instance that happend by the so called others is within you. I'm accessing it all the time in meditation, but i also know that im getting so powerfull that it might only be subjective and that im creating it with my mind.

[Salariatu]

I think you got caught in the spiritual pipe dream, what you are detailing in the beginning of the post is just the conclusion of what the society's mass ego consciousness revealed to you, not here to contradict something, just exposing the truth for what it is. 

 

Just to give you some exemples, you are not awareness, nor the entire consciousness, you are not God in other words, you just adopted the idea of spirituality, another level in ''the matrix''. You think like anyone else in spirituality that you are part of something greater and you think you are that great thing but you are not, you are confusing the source of things with you, you think like everyone else that once you realize you are the source you get enlightened, reality does not work that way, only the religion of spirituality and self realization. There is the self and enlightenment and there is the source but thinking you are the source is where the collective ego deceives every spiritual pipe dreamer. The source or God is not the matter around, nor the living in the universe, no the universal consciousness, the source is something else. 

 

Edited August 27 by Salariatu

[Razard86]

 

[Mellowmarsh]

11 hours ago, James123 said:

This shows the shift from ego centered solipsism to witnessing unity as described consistently across all masters.

If it’s a shift from ego centred solipsism to a shift of witnessing unity, both are shifts.

All sounds rather shifty.

 

Solipsism simply means there’s nothing outside of everything, except more everything. This basic understanding doesn’t need to be made complicated. You either understand the concept or you don’t, and nothing will change. Solipsism will still be the case. It can’t be proven or disproven either, solipsism simply is. Just this ever present eternal now, in full flow, without beginning, or end, going nowhere. All alone, all one, without a second.

 

This has nothing to do with ownership. Nothing can own everything, except everything.

 

 

[Mellowmarsh]

Also, solipsism doesn’t deny an external world of otherness and multiplicity, the external world exists, except there’s zero access to it, the external world is simply being “Looked Upon” through the lens of an invisible seer. 
 

Seeing, I am “Looked Upon” 

 

See! 👀 Two eyes, seemingly looking, but only one reality seen. Only one I am looking and being seen.

[Mellowmarsh]

12 hours ago, James123 said:

This shows the shift from ego centered solipsism to witnessing unity as described consistently across all masters.

These so called masters you appear to revere are masters of their own delusion. They are simply puppets of their own deceptive script writing, playing out their own self scripted character, the very character they deny exists. 

Listen, and then laugh at yourself so long and hard that you burst open into a zillion atoms and live out the rest of your life with expansive infinity of invisibility.
It’s really fun being invisible, there’s nothing more delightful than no one giving you any more attention. 
 

 

 

[Carl-Richard]

17 hours ago, Razard86 said:

Watch this video and realize, that so called private minds is just a state. 

 

This is not a state issue. You're making statements. It's a statement issue. Sri Ramana Maharshi did not have a problem with state. Rupert Spira does not have a problem with state. Yet they disagree with your statements.

 

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The solipsist says the mind is real, that everything, including the world and thoughts, that proceed from it is a phantom or shadow. He does not question the reality of the mind itself. I am asking you to go even further. I say that the mind itself is a shadow or phantom proceeding from the Self.

You will discover this as a matter of direct experience – if only you will probe into the source of the mind.

https://tomdas.com/2024/03/30/aham-sphurana-book-excerpt-solipsism-and-the-shock-of-hearing-the-ajata-teachings-sri-ramana-maharshi-advaita-vedanta/

Edited August 27 by Carl-Richard

[UnbornTao]

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@UnbornTao

Was going to link this myself but you beat me to it - interested in the counter argument 

[Razard86]

2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

 

He's just not aware that Consciousness is a mind that imagines everything.  Everything is a state of being, which is the same as saying everything is what it is because it maintains a certain consistency. Your body maintains a certain consistency its not some flimsy form that doesn't maintain its integrity but its still a state of imagination nonetheless. 

So all that has happened is he is not aware of what state is. He hasn't investigated into how deep state goes. It's fine not every part of God is equally aware of what it is.