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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 12, 2023 12:39:32 GMT -5
This is an excerpt of an interview with Peter Ralston. I've known about him and have been reading his stuff for about ten years. I've read about him on enlightenment before, but I'd never seen this interview until this morning. If you have five minutes I'd like an opinion. (Scroll down a little, in link). Is this what you mean by...? Getting up to the answer is good, but he gets there at about 4:25. Same territory, Ralston expands a little. This may be slightly better, decided to leave both. Also short, about four minutes. |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 12, 2023 13:06:57 GMT -5
Another segment of the Peter Ralston Very short, 2 minutes. The Substance of Enlightenment Part 8 |
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Post by zendancer on Jan 12, 2023 14:00:24 GMT -5
Essentially, Ralston is correct--becoming aware of what you are, and abiding as what you are is everything in a nutshell.
In the recent TAT newsletter/forum many different people (both seekers and finders) expressed their understanding or belief about what the word "enlightenment" is pointing to. This is what I wrote:
There are at least four fundamental realizations that seem minimally necessary for someone to be considered Self-realized or enlightened: (1) seeing through the illusion of separate things and realizing that all apparent boundaries are imaginary (Zen calls this realization "passing through the gateless gate"); (2) seeing through the illusion of selfhood and realizing that there is no separate volitional entity (no "me") at the center of whatever is happening; (3) realizing that everything and everyone is one-with the Infinite, and that the Infinite, alone, is all there is; and (4) realizing the limits of the intellect and attaining non-abidance in mind. The result of seeing through the illusion of twoness and becoming free from the dominance of mind, is freedom, equanimity, acceptance, humility, gratitude, clarity, and unshakability.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 12, 2023 14:42:49 GMT -5
This is for Gopal, Is Objective Reality Real? Maybe Ralston can get somewhere with Gopal, he shows us how to make distinctions between what we can perceive and what's apart from subjective perception, but the last sentence is important.
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Post by inavalan on Jan 12, 2023 19:00:16 GMT -5
This is for Gopal, Is Objective Reality Real? Maybe Ralston can get somewhere with Gopal, he shows us how to make distinctions between what we can perceive and what's apart from subjective perception, but the last sentence is important. 6:35 here yeah so I guess we're just gonna 6:43 have to set out experience what an 6:44 object is and settle the matter yeah 6:51 unless it turns out an object is only in
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Post by inavalan on Jan 12, 2023 19:18:23 GMT -5
 This is how rumors (and dogmas) start ... Context! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2023 0:19:53 GMT -5
This is an excerpt of an interview with Peter Ralston. I've known about him and have been reading his stuff for about ten years. I've read about him on enlightenment before, but I'd never seen this interview until this morning. If you have five minutes I'd like an opinion. (Scroll down a little, in link). Is this what you mean by...? Getting up to the answer is good, but he gets there at about 4:25. Same territory, Ralston expands a little. This may be slightly better, decided to leave both. Also short, about four minutes. He is talking about having Enlightenment "experiences". |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 13, 2023 8:17:00 GMT -5
This is an excerpt of an interview with Peter Ralston. I've known about him and have been reading his stuff for about ten years. I've read about him on enlightenment before, but I'd never seen this interview until this morning. If you have five minutes I'd like an opinion. (Scroll down a little, in link). Is this what you mean by...? Getting up to the answer is good, but he gets there at about 4:25. Same territory, Ralston expands a little. This may be slightly better, decided to leave both. Also short, about four minutes. He is talking about having Enlightenment "experiences". He has kind of made up his own language. In at least one video, not sure it's one I posted, he used the word Kensho interchangeably with enlightenment "experiences". If you listen enough, he clarifies what he "experienced" has nothing to do with the ordinary mind. |
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