Andrew: I remind myself often of this “no preconditions” assertion, for obvious reasons. It would be a decisive blow to all doubts if the mystery woman of the subcontinent had anything to say about her experience. (link)
Vineeto to Andrew: You can also look at it thisaway – you want to be actually free because you don’t like being here –
Kuba: Ah this makes sense now, if ‘I’ am treating actual freedom as a desperate escape plan for ‘me’ then it is merely a self-centred involvement borne of ‘my’ resentment to being here, its selfism driving the attempt and so it is bound to go round in circles.
As Richard wrote – “Only altruism – self-sacrificial humanitarianism – will provide the enormous energy necessary for ‘self’-immolation”.
When gloomy and grumpy ‘I’ am certainly not concerned with much else other than ‘me’. I find that ongoing felicity and innocuity does naturally engage dedication to peace on earth, it broadens the scope of ‘my’ caring and it demonstrates/ reminds ‘me’ just how precious the end of suffering – for all – is. (link)
Hi Andrew, hi Kuba,
I like to expand on this topic of Richard saying “when the conditions are ripe, magic happens” (Richard, List D, No. 6, 19 Dec 2011) and when he said to Dona and Alan “there are no conditions to become actually free”. (Dona and Alan Report, 30 Oct 2017).
Richard expanded on the “no condition” elsewhere –
Richard: The words and writings promulgated and promoted by The Actual Freedom Trust explicate the workings of an actual freedom from the human condition and a virtual freedom in practice in the market place. There is no meditating in silence or living in a monastery shut away from the world. There are no celibacy or obedience requirements. There are no dietary demands or daily regimes of exercise. No one is excluded by age or racial or gender origins. There are no prescribed books to study … upwards of maybe two million words are available [in the year 2000] for free on The Actual Freedom Web Page. There are no courses to follow or therapies to undergo or workshops to endure. There are no fees to pay or any clique to join … there are no rules at all’. (Richard, AF List, No. 12d, 23 Nov 2000).
So why does not everyone become actually free instantly as has apparently happened for “the mystery woman of the subcontinent”?
It is simple – the actual world is already here, has always been and will always be. It becomes apparent when ‘I’/ ‘me’ go temporarily in abeyance. Ergo – ‘I’/ ‘me’, the passionate, imaginary identity needs to disappear/ voluntarily go extinct for the Terra Actualis to become apparent permanently.
However, when you wonder why it ‘you’ don’t disappear/ voluntarily go extinct tomorrow or the day after because it is such a good idea, consider what, of your own free will, you are intending to leave behind – all your hopes and doubts and fears, your hostile feelings as well as your loving and trusting feelings, all of your beliefs and trusted concepts, your grand castles made of imagination, your (borrowed) standards of right and wrong, good and bad and your sense of ‘being’ someone. Recognizing the scope, be friendly and kind towards yourself, and enjoy and appreciate every instant when your intelligence and your intent to be more felicitous and more innocuous gives you a greater range of freedom to do so and be so. And be aware that you are not alone in this grandest of adventures in your life –
Richard: ‘I’ am not alone in this endeavour because ‘I’ can tap into the purity and perfection of the infinitude of this physical universe with a pure intent born out of the PCE that one has during a peak experience. Pure intent is a palpable life-force; an actually occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the vast and utter stillness that is the essential character of the universe itself. Once set in motion, it is no longer a matter of choice: it is an irresistible pull. It is the adventure of a lifetime to embark upon a voyage of exploration and discovery; to not only seek but to find. And once found, it is here for the term of one’s natural life … it is an irreversible mutation in consciousness. Once launched it is impossible to turn back and resume one’s normal life … one has to be absolutely sure that this is what one truly wants. (Richard, This Moment of Being Alive)
The “the enormous energy necessary for ‘self’-immolation”, provided by altruism “when the conditions are ripe” is required because of the powerful passionate energy of the self-survival instinct.
Richard: … the instinct for individual survival is only exceeded by the instinct for group survival. It takes a powerful instinct to overcome a powerful instinct. (Richard, List B, James3, 28 Oct 2002a).
There are no conditions how to bring this about, how slowly or instantly, it is entirely in ‘your’ hands. Everyone is a pioneer in this exhilarating, sometimes thrilling adventure of engendering this new epoch in human consciousness.
Richard also commented during Dona and Alan’s visit –
Richard: “there’s nothing you can do to become actually free, and there’s nothing you can’t do”. (Dona and Alan Report, 9 Nov 2017).
And here is what you can do in the meantime, because –
Richard: The way to an actual freedom from the human condition is the same as an actual freedom from the human condition – the means to the end are not different from the end – inasmuch that where one is happy and harmless as an on-going modus operandi benevolence operates of its own accord. (Richard, AF List, No. 27d, 6 Dec 2002).
Cheers Vineeto