Talking with Tony Parsons

[lahiri1728]

Great! Tony is the most clear and awakened Teacher Today! I experience truth listening to Tony.

Walter108

[Fishpigg]

frustrating as hell ,all there is is sitting on a fucking chair

[sumitraji]

@Fishpigg when you was a child you tasted life completely 100%, what ever was (sitting, sleeping, swiming,playing). was it frustrating? was life frustrating? No. was every little simple thing exiting? yes. that's it.

[kofianonym]

Tony says it in one of books in the most wonderful way "I don't even have to wait for grace to descend. For I am, you are, it is already that abiding grace"

[kofianonym]

in a way it could happen at any moment, but the thing is when it happens it is seen that nothing has happened, and thus there are no prerequisites or conditions. does that make sense? it could happen in the case of a zen buddhist or a seeker, but also in the case of a someone who works at McDonalds or George Bush jr, well forget i said George Bush, he's the exception hahaha

it can't be induced but the construct that is the mind or individuality could collapse and then there is Oneness

[muphart]

You can't induce non-duality because the word "induce" is saying something is inducing and something is being induced, so that's two things involved. Really the thing trying to do the inducing and the thing it's trying to induce are one and the same, so any sense of duality is confusion caused by trying to induce something.

[Love2GoHiking]

@muphart ~Yeah but is it possible that there can be induction going on and once it happens it makes the whole sense of induction meaningless. In other words, practices can bring you to something that actually destroys you in the end?

[muphart]

@Love2GoHiking I think that can happen if you get so fed up with practicing that you just give it up - but if you are practicing you are doing so to build up some part of you. If you practice with the purpose of self-destruction then you are giving life to that purpose and so will not be destroyed. There's nothing there to be destroyed anyway. In practices I think you just temporarily stop giving life to that false sense of self, but then you bring it back so that you can try to destroy it =p

[Love2GoHiking]

@muphart Well it's all just whats happening anyway, including the comments made here.

[Love2GoHiking]

He says it can't be induced by anything but before that he said it could happen during extreme activities.

[brittonnd07]

@Love2GoHiking The purity that's covered up by mental concept doesn't require induction, only revelation by the exhausted ceasing of the obscuring process

[Love2GoHiking]

@brittonnd07 He said it 'cannot' be induced, not that it doesn't require induction. But clearly it can be induced by engaging in extreme activities such as extreme sports.

[brittonnd07]

@Love2GoHiking Okay.

[michaelroberts100]

The great thing about Tony is that he sees you as not being out there, but at the same time you can talk to him. Or not lieten, and see it as it is.

[bethlahteedah]

for a person who isn't there, he's hilarious.

[sumitraji]

my faforite too. No compromising at all...

[kasuskasus]

Thanks for uploading this. Mr Parsons is one of my favourite western spiritual teachers.

[GeorgeGogle]

its a teaching of the Buddha as well. but put in modern way. very smart.

[vikohad]

great !!! thank you very much!!

[reycafe]

More of Tony's videos please??? Thank you so much!

[reycafe]

Hi! Thank you so much for Tony's new videos. I hunger for them! I hope that more of Tony's free videos are coming! More Power!

[Rhea303]

Hey Patrick K. -- thanks for this very nice interview with Tony. Love it!

[Ponferrada22]

great stuff, any more of the interview?

[KickenDJ]

@Ponferrada22 especially for you I will edit the other 2 parts of the interview back to 10 minutes, first one will be up late this evening

[Ponferrada22]

@KickenDJ

Wow thanks so much for that.

[nizigar]

Wonderful! I've never seen Tony at breakfast;I only know that he enjoys drinking coffee...