How does intersubjective interaction work in Mahayana Buddhism?

[Cool-team]

All Mahayana Buddhism believes that all phenomena, including other persons, are made of mind.
Each mindstream experiences reality constructed by mind itself.
For example, I watch a movie with a friend. Do I and my friend see the same movie? But if this movie was created by my mind, how can my friend see the same movie? He can't read my mind, can he?

[PadmaVonSamba]

All Mahayana Buddhism believes that all phenomena, including other persons, are made of mind.
Each mindstream experiences reality constructed by mind itself.
For example, I watch a movie with a friend. Do I and my friend see the same movie? But if this movie was created by my mind, how can my friend see the same movie? He can't read my mind, can he?

The movie is created by the movie director.
Your friend sees the best film ever made,
and you see the worst waste of time you ever sat through.
Did you both watch the same movie?

The fact that you both see a motion picture
is relative truth.

The absolute truth is that what you see is actually a series of still images shown in such rapid succession (24 per second) so as to create the illusion of movement. There isn’t any actual motion in a motion picture.

Likewise, you and your friend see each other as individual beings, rather than as millions of cells, or kazillions of molecules, which is funny when you consider that everything about our bodies happens on the microscopic level.

That experience of 2 upright meat beings watching a movie, and that person is your friend and you are their friend, that is the total creation of your mind.

[Malcolm]

All Mahayana Buddhism believes that all phenomena, including other persons, are made of mind.
Each mindstream experiences reality constructed by mind itself.

Ummmm, no.

[Cool-team]

All Mahayana Buddhism believes that all phenomena, including other persons, are made of mind.
Each mindstream experiences reality constructed by mind itself.
For example, I watch a movie with a friend. Do I and my friend see the same movie? But if this movie was created by my mind, how can my friend see the same movie? He can't read my mind, can he?

The movie is created by the movie director.
Your friend sees the best film ever made,
and you see the worst waste of time you ever sat through.
Did you both watch the same movie?

The fact that you both see a motion picture
is relative truth.

The absolute truth is that what you see is actually a series of still images shown in such rapid succession (24 per second) so as to create the illusion of movement. There isn’t any actual motion in a motion picture.

Likewise, you and your friend see each other as individual beings, rather than as millions of cells, or kazillions of molecules, which is funny when you consider that everything about our bodies happens on the microscopic level.

That experience of 2 upright meat beings watching a movie, and that person is your friend and you are their friend, that is the total creation of your mind.

Friend I see in front of me also has an individual mindstream, but his individual mindstream is not created by my mind?

[PadmaVonSamba]

This is like, the third time in a month or less someone has mentioned this mistaken understanding.
Was it ‘Solipsism Week’ on the Discovery Channel or something?

[SilenceMonkey]

This guy again...

He sends me some weird messages trying to get me to confess Mahayana is solipsistic. He's not trying to learn anything, he's just putting words in the mouth of buddhism and wants some random buddhists on the internet to validate his nonsense.

[Johnny Dangerous]

enough.