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You've said delusion is always bad. But you've also set up your position so that nothing could ever count as evidence against it. if Coyote acts, he's real; if he doesn't, he just hasn't yet.
That's not the absence of delusion, that's the definition of an unfalsifiable belief.
I'm not asking you to abandon your practice. I'm asking: what would it take to convince you that you were wrong? If the answer is "nothing," then by your own standard, you're in moha.
There's descriptions & methods in religions that can be tested; schools to learn & try these things. You would have to ignore the e.g. hundreds of thousands of scriptures available to say there isn't any evidence that can be tested. You have to know what something is before being able to falsify it. It can be taken just on a story-level too, and still be effective.
I would like better opportunity to practice.
You still haven't answered the question. I didn't ask what evidence exists for your position, I asked what evidence would count against it.
Those are different questions.
There's plenty of information & methods available that can be tested or scrutinized. If they fail or are contradictory, that can be disconfirming.
so what would a failed test look like, specifically? If someone follows the methods sincerely and doesnt experience a deity, does that count? or would you say they didn't try hard enough?
Pardon, the context for me is too forced currently to respond to this.