That hurts, because you lied about being interested in learning, giving me a little expectation about you – and you also don't admit the truth because of your pride. I need to find only a small handful of people from your life in order for everyone else to realize your true color.
Obviously, you're used to hearing similar words to what I said from those who don't know a thing. However, in order for you, yourself, to avoid become a hypocrite, you need to not make the mistake you accuse me of doing. So, perhaps you could present proof that what I shared is unsubstantiated. It's to your detriment to treat it badly without confirmation.
For one, because it's a single source. It's very elaborate literature, to be sure, but so is the Book of Mormon.
I am indeed interested in learning, but only if the thing to be learned is the truth. The burden of proof is not on me to disprove a collection of writings that boil down to "X and Y and Z are true because this guy said so".
So let me rephrase the original question, then: what sorts of things can an ordinary person such as myself independently observe to come to the same conclusions as your source material and thus "admit the truth" in which you seem to believe?
In order to confirm truths, you absolutely need to formulate concrete, realistic (factual) problems/questions. And then you need to put those questions on the principle and check their result in reality.
That there is something I learned from that man and is the answer to your question. The question now is whether you can understand, accept, and practice it.
If you can practice the above fact and you are able to ask real questions, you will realize every truth and obtain everything you want.
If you cannot, you will quickly change into a worse person as your decision there causes you to form a relationship in your consciousness with having discarded the most important opportunity in your life despite believing the lie that you did the right thing – and that relationship which comes to stay within your consciousness will continue to affect your life, causing you to repeat the same thing continuously.
By the way, everything he teaches indicates "don't believe what people say. don't believe your own thoughts. don't believe what you think you understood from me. confirm everything for yourself and don't believe it until after confirmation." He even says that very clearly in a few places.
Regardless of the fact that he was one man observing the things he observed, the source of his truth is facts, not his own words, thoughts, or ideas – which he never told others. If you checked before believing your thoughts about him, you would have been able to notice that.
As you said you are interested in truth, rather than wanting something else out of him like how to be successful, I will tell you one thing. If you have a lie in your consciousness – which you invariably believe without your realization – you will not be able to understand his words correctly at all. The reason is that things which lie latent in your consciousness combined with your ignorance of the matter will interfere with your ability to perceive the definitions of the words and cause you to reject what you didn't understand before you can confirm. So it's not possible to be able to learn things just by your own thoughts. It requires that you first abandon your existing knowledge and secondly confirm the facts.
So if you are actually interested (and you can confirm that you are interested instead of it being the narrative that you feel best telling yourself) and you put in a little effort you can confirm everything he says. He taught that when we tell others something that we haven't confirmed and which they can't realize/confirm, it becomes lying. And I challenge you to find even a single lie in anything he said. If you can I will give you everything of mine, including my head, if you would like, and I will not follow him anymore.
He traveled over 50 countries and met thousands upon thousands of extremely smart, top intellectuals, politicians, scientists, religious/spiritual leaders, etc. He confirmed his truth through his encounters with them and through their own knowledge and information. No one could answer his 10 questions but he was never unable to answer even a single person's questions. It would be a very silly mistake for you to think you know that there's just "one source" there.
Besides, I learned from him and I'm a great proof that I have obtained enough ability to not be defeated in debate by anyone alive today. Go ahead and ask me the hardest questions you want to – I will give you the correct, verifiable answer. Meanwhile I can ask you any number of questions and I know you won't be able to answer them. Like I said above, I am willing to bet my life. So I would advise you to re-check before you let yourself accept your initial assumption that you understood the situation correctly.
It may be ridiculous that I claim to be able to answer anything you could throw my way. But it is more ridiculous that a self proclaimed learner and truthseeker doesnt attempt to verify someone who claims to be able to see the way to fulfill their wishes. Anyway, you can and will have whatever you want.
It's not ridiculous to not want to chase yet another spiritualist rabbit-hole. These sorts of "teachers" in whom you seem to believe are a dime a dozen.
I don't "attempt to verify" this someone because there's nothing to verify, and because even if there was something to verify, there's very little tangible reason to do so compared to the hundreds of other extant (let alone extinct) spiritual belief systems in the world today.
So unless you can - in all your wisdom - tell me what I had for lunch today, I reckon our conversation here to not be worth continuing. Nothing against you specifically - I'm sure your belief in this particular prophet is sincere - but rather the notion that any sane person would follow a road that is clearly a dead-end.
> I don't "attempt to verify" this someone because there's nothing to verify, and because even if there was something to verify, there's very little tangible reason to do so compared to the hundreds of other extant (let alone extinct) spiritual belief systems in the world today.
Useless words and obviously self-contradictory. How do you know the benefit until you have verified the content? This is just getting silly...
