I haven’t been into philosophy for years, tbh. Its all been meditation lately. I figured this particular subject out a while ago.
There’s nothing negative about it, except when I try to talk to other people about it lol. It doesn’t cause me stress. The only part that causes me stress is trying to explain it. I have to enter the thicket of views, while this knowledge was entered into outside such a thicket. I stopped intellection about it and just looked at the world as it is. This was what happened when I left views, when I stopped projecting the mind into what I perceive, and instead just looked. To describe it I had to use some intellection again, but it still doesn’t require projecting preconceptions and beliefs onto perceptions.
It’s just a recognition that “physical objects” and “self” are mental projections. I don’t believe the projections anymore. It’s not a belief or view, it’s the abandoning of a belief in objects being “out there” and a self. And the root delusion of them both: the delusion of continuity. It’s clear as day and with focus these beliefs are just seen through (not saying they’re not still deeply ingrained in my unconscious mind though!).
There’s the appearance of forms and there’s a cognitive discernment of their properties (perception). But unlike the color red or the smoothness of a surface, “physical object independent of consciousness” is a sankhara projected onto the object. That’s the difference.
There’s nothing unhealthy about this and it’s the view most consistent with Abhidhamma as I understand it. I’m not as well read and cannot readily quote things like many of the people on this forum though. For me that’s not a problem: scriptures and commentaries are super useful in that they can point to something I’m missing but ultimately I’m committed to looking, directly, for myself. And that’s what I understand to be the Buddha’s way. He’ll point you in the right direction but you’re going to have to look for yourself. And only by seeing for yourself will you fully understand. This seems to be the path of those “liberated by wisdom” anyways.
Yogacara and Mahayana are idealists, which I also reject. Honestly, I think you’re mistaking this as idealism, since it’s not realism, and not understanding fully. And again, this isn’t really a “view.” It’s direct seeing. You only need to look at experience without bias…look directly…don’t project ideas onto the world…notice the ideas you’re projecting onto the world. I notice “physical object,” “self and other,” and “continuity” are all ideas I project.