Joseph Maynor

This sounds like the no separate self insight.

I don't think anyone enjoys being homeless. That's a little bit of a stretch IMO.

Clarity tends to zero in whereas wisdom tends to zoom out IMO. They're not entirely separate paradoxically.

I don't see much agreement happening between points of view on this topic.

Is it difficult to get enlightened or to stay enlightened?

I point to that with Truth or Absolute Truth, so I think we just have different words for the same thing, maybe. God to me has too many religious connotations, so I avoid the word. But what it points to is what matters most, I think.

This is a good point. But we need to be careful about reductionism here where we reduce direct experience to a deeper sort of analysis such as quantum physics.

Okay.

I see what people are pointing to with the word God although it's not a word that really resonates with me. But that shouldn't matter to anyone either. It's just my preference or bias or whatever.

This gets into what we attribute thing status to, which has to do with ontology. We seem to attribute thing or this status by an assumption that goes beyond sensation, perception, or even thought. E.g., we assume we exist even though maya is moving, or that the Moon exists despite the same.

That sounds like a kind of solipsism, but only if applied to one.

But that seems to go away from how I think of solipsism. Is that still solipsism in your view? Curious.

That would be the only logical way solipsism makes sense.

Sure. From my perspective, there are no solipsists.

Very true. This is also one reason I don't believe anyone is a solipsist for real. I don't make that assumption!

It's cool. I'm not as sensitive as I used to be. I'm open to criticism.

Naw, I know who you are.

Haha. Nobody knows who anyone is.

And I think this insight is what supports a solipsism argument. Very true. I'm not saying I agree with solipsism, but I understand.

Is the finite perspective of me (from one's own perspective) also an NPC? This is hard to point to, and it might not register.

It's paradoxical because we half-live in this "dream" too.

I tried to listen to Peter Ralston the other day and got thru maybe 5 mins of the video. No offense to anyone who gets value from his work.

I can't even listen to most spiritual teachers anymore. I only listen to my friends now.

I agree with this too.

I feel like once you transcend teachers you got enlightenment.