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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  • @claudelebel49
    @claudelebel49 Жыл бұрын

    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 😇

  • @markman950
    @markman950 Жыл бұрын

    "He's" the best!

  • @karma333345

    @karma333345

    11 ай бұрын

    😉 The best is Joey Lott !

  • @getnetalemu4427
    @getnetalemu44275 ай бұрын

    F****ing amazing for no one! Thank you tony !!#

  • @magohom
    @magohom Жыл бұрын

    Hi Tony - fortunately you are not a therapist thank goodness. I met you years ago and met nobody - glorious !

  • @tn21108
    @tn21108 Жыл бұрын

    This is hilarious in the best way 😂🙏

  • @life13525
    @life13525 Жыл бұрын

    wonderful...

  • @christopherh9897
    @christopherh9897 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @timelessdreams5281
    @timelessdreams5281 Жыл бұрын

    Toney made "me" cry.

  • @gabyinoz3868

    @gabyinoz3868

    Жыл бұрын

    "Me", too.:-)

  • @cherrychang7

    @cherrychang7

    Ай бұрын

    I want to cry too㊗️❤️❤️

  • @ManU-go8np
    @ManU-go8np Жыл бұрын

    Love this ! 😂

  • @life13525

    @life13525

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @NondualityChannel
    @NondualityChannel Жыл бұрын

    🙏

  • @Artezia
    @Artezia Жыл бұрын

    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”.

  • @ingelaikagunnarsson6610
    @ingelaikagunnarsson6610 Жыл бұрын

    It is love and it is hope!

  • @mahendramina916
    @mahendramina916 Жыл бұрын

    Very nice 👍🕉️🕉️🇮🇳🇮🇳

  • @ingelaikagunnarsson6610
    @ingelaikagunnarsson6610 Жыл бұрын

    Where does the love comes from, it is love and hope!

  • @bjsmith5444
    @bjsmith5444 Жыл бұрын

    The apparent seeker is really the seeker. It's just a language thing.

  • @claudelebel49
    @claudelebel49 Жыл бұрын

    Turn the longing around. There is nothing to get.

  • @johnnylovessheki
    @johnnylovessheki9 ай бұрын

    You’ll see it when the body dies if you can’t let go now.

  • @albundy9597
    @albundy9597 Жыл бұрын

    This is basically no difference from a Catholic priest saying God did it and his ways are inscrutable.

  • @pandawandas

    @pandawandas

    Жыл бұрын

    What is different from that?

  • @kerrfoot

    @kerrfoot

    3 ай бұрын

    Buddhism is a practice of scrutiny. You can find out for yourself through the practice.@@pandawandas

  • @kafkawilde4604
    @kafkawilde46042 ай бұрын

    The mythos of therapy is a big business and the idea of an abreaction by sharing seems rather silly

  • @maljamin
    @maljamin Жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @hootless7631

    @hootless7631

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Daniel_TransformationCoach

    @Daniel_TransformationCoach

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@hootless7631 bullshit

  • @lordbyron3603

    @lordbyron3603

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @directdemocracy133

    @directdemocracy133

    Жыл бұрын

    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❤❤❤

  • @zenacorke-oz5mp

    @zenacorke-oz5mp

    11 ай бұрын

    I think you’ve missed the point !

  • @oderblock
    @oderblock Жыл бұрын

    i do not understand his laughing, him laughing.

  • @phracture

    @phracture

    Жыл бұрын

    'Something' seems to enjoy the "I know something you don't know" ...

  • @markartist8646
    @markartist8646 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @chrisbusby4395
    @chrisbusby43952 ай бұрын

    Bullshit

  • @macparker3549
    @macparker3549 Жыл бұрын

    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…