What Is Authentic Teaching?

You are the authority who authorises whether something is true or not. 
Your mind.

This authorisation has no special words, but it comes in two parts. 
Essence and contents. 

Essence is the empty cognisant space that observes, where there is no observer. No observer?! In direct perception or spontaneous presence, there is no time to relate; relating comes a moment later when consciousness calls on memories, which obscures direct perception.

And that is the second part – the contents in the mind acquired through socialisation. 🙂 When people start elaborating about the mind, that only makes it more interesting, turning it into a philosophy or religion or political oneupmanship.

When the Buddha said, “Do not take my words for the truth; test them for yourself,” he meant authenticate them.

Collecting words is for hobbyists; 
enthusiastic aficionados who pursue an activity 
in their spare time for pleasure.
😀

When we’re busy with our collection of word for our library, 
we only see through designations which distract from pure essence.