SAND 2013 Conference Interview: Tony Parson
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Tony Parsons in conversation with Zaya Benazzo from SAND 2013 Conference
"All there is is nothing apparently happening"
On the face of it this is a simple but paradoxical proposal. It is also radical in that it recognises that the concept of self is illusory, together with any belief in free will and choice. As there is nothing happening, there would be nothing to seek or to become.
And how can there be a meaning or a purpose in this apparent existence if there is nothing apparently happening? This proposal dispels any idea of there being a story or an agenda of any kind leading to anything better or worse.
So, if there is nothing really happening, then the nothing that is unknowable, and often feared, is also the very fullness and freedom that is longed for."
-Tony Parsons, January 2021
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My favourite pointer:
Nothing needs to change in order to Be.
You don't have to know or do anything in order to Be. It's a freebie 😇
Hi Tony - fortunately you are not a therapist thank goodness. I met you years ago and met nobody - glorious !
F****ing amazing for no one! Thank you tony !!#
This is what I like about Tony Parsons. The straight goods without the romanticizing, without the pomp, ceremony and ritual. This is the truth. If the truth is not to your liking, by all means, find yourself a nice and comfortable belief system to waste away the rest of your life with. Chasing rainbows you lucky fool!
"He's" the best!
😉 The best is Joey Lott !
wonderful...
This is hilarious in the best way 😂🙏
Toney made "me" cry.
"Me", too.:-)
I want to cry too㊗️❤️❤️
Love this ! 😂
Me too
Life is an spontaneously happening mystery. The only teaching one will ever found is how to not be spontaneous which creates the illusion of a me seeking security and control. That’s an deterministic way of seeing life , is dualistic, and creates an appearance which we call “the world”. It is illusory because the “me” is nothing else but a memory of patterns which is looking from a separate point of view at everything. Once that memory collapses, what remains? :)) “I” is always the past or future , which is an abstract process. What is present has no identity and no meaning and once the memory empties content, what remains is an infinite point of “attention” or so called “awareness”.
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Very nice 👍🕉️🕉️🇮🇳🇮🇳
It is love and it is hope!
Turn the longing around.
There is nothing to get.
The apparent seeker is really the seeker. It's just a language thing.
This is basically no difference from a Catholic priest saying God did it and his ways are inscrutable.
What is different from that?
Buddhism is a practice of scrutiny. You can find out for yourself through the practice.@@pandawandas
Where does the love comes from, it is love and hope!
You’ll see it when the body dies if you can’t let go now.
A bit silly dismissing therapy this way. Saying that it's based on the idea that you need to change or something's "wrong". Therapy can remove distractions, pain points, be about acceptance or recognition or understanding, rather than "change" so much. Imagine being a victim of child abuse. War scars. Those things interfere with one's ability to relax into oneness and self-transcend. Why pretend the work of untying spiritual knots, healing confusions and wrong attachments, wrong thought, all of which could fall under "therapy", is so "separate" from anything good/valuable. It's like saying bandages and blood transfusions are pointless because there's nothing to fix. Why should he even be talking? This is clearly beyond concept. If you try to distill it and reason with it, you get just some blunt instrument that just cancels and denies everything. It's very separative oddly. Separating out things that seem separative (by some prejudice). Believing something is wrong with you is a wound... that doesnt mean recognizing and healing the wound is somehow perpetuating the wound, or reinforcing the idea of "something wrong".
What he ought to say is that the apparent seperate individual benefits greatly by eliminating severe distractions such as deep trauma, wounds, etc etc, which is actually a huge hindrance to making the seperate individual more ripe to dissolve. In fact, those things often times are the catalysts for people to begin a spiritual path. For eckhart tolle, deep unhappiness actually was the catalyst for his realization.
@@hootless7631 bullshit
If therapy is something you think might help you, by all means go . But what he’s talking about is classic Buddhism … ie, separateness, you are already what you seek etc. ….. update: 8-8-23 although there’s a “tiny sliver” of similarity with Buddhism, Tony’s message diverges greatly from Buddhist teachings , is simpler and to the point. There is no one who is enlightened. There’s no “you” to be enlightened.
And you don't actually exist, so how can there be an issue? Beyond existence and non-existence is.... this... this... no words or concepts... emotions appear to arise, in the body... beyond knowing... it is what it is❤❤❤
I think you’ve missed the point !
The mythos of therapy is a big business and the idea of an abreaction by sharing seems rather silly
An example of what tooo much nonduality can do to a persons psyche, making them alienated from themSelves, other people, and reality. Noone has bothered to tell this poor man. Well, maybe they have, but it's not going to help him.
i do not understand his laughing, him laughing.
'Something' seems to enjoy the "I know something you don't know" ...
Bullshit
Funny, I never had any desire to listen to this guy.
Two minutes into this talk, I can see why.
The “absolute,” without corresponding compassion for the grittiness of our humanity, just seems barren and cold.
I can see how it could work for some, but not here, thank you…