Andrew

[Josef]

@claudiu

If Andrew goes ahead with his unilateral command to effectively do whatever he (self-centrically) wants without regards to any consequences and without the capacity for anybody else to do anything whatsoever to change his mind about any of it, without pure intent in place… the effect will most likely be for that “wayward self” to… go wayward .

I don’t think that’s what he said at all. He said he would give himself permission to feel good, happy & harmless unilaterally. I don’t see any mention of doing whatever he wants (self-centrically) without consideration for anyone else.

And even in practice, I have found that the actualism feeling good (not good feelings), is so blithesome and benign in its nature that it is always accompanied by harmlessness. If its not, usually there is some good feeling (like greed, or power, or pride) that is tainting the feeling good.

@claudiu

Pure intent will ensure that sensibility will prevail when faced with choices, decisions, consequences, etc. The way forward is not one of completely ignoring everybody other person on the planet. Anytime more than one person (ie you yourself) is involved, sensibility dictates that everyone be taken into account. And it does not come with a moralistic ‘having to’ cater to other people’s unreasonable whims, either… with that sensibility comes the sensibility of knowing when not to do that.

Again, the feeling good come what may that I’ve been having success with recently has a lack of malice as a quality, so consideration for others is also a part of it.

@claudiu

I don’t think this is really a very high bar, as in a difficult thing to do. One just has to know that one has to do it and then make the commitment to actually try. Why wait and delay by trying something else (something inferior) first?

This is why I called it gatekeeping. I don’t have pure intent if the strict definition is that is has to be born of a PCE. I don’t have a good memory of a PCE. But I do have the intent that I don’t ever want to feel miserable again. That I want to be in a good mood each and every moment again. I’ve seen how beneficial it is for myself and others when I am feeling good. But should I not start on this path unless I meet the strict definition of having pure intent?