Greetings to all (The Path Without Resistance)

[claudiu]

@PWR

Pure intent (as defined by Richard as “a palpable life-force”) and willpower are not the same. Without willpower, pure intent vanishes, and without pure intent, willpower has no purpose. Two sides of the same coin. I won’t complicate things. I’ll just explain

You are not using the term “pure intent” in the same way Richard does.

Here is one depiction of it that Richard has made:

RICHARD: Pure intent is a manifest life-force; a genuinely occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the perfect and vast stillness that is the essential character of the infinitude of the universe. [link]

He is not being metaphorical here! He is not describing some aspect of ‘me’ (ie particular to this feeling-being or that feeling-being) as being what this stream is. He is depicting it literally. If I were to break it down:

• The universe is infinite.
• This infinitude is characterized by a stillness, which is perfect and vast.
• This perfect and vast stillness is the origin of an actually-occurring stream of benevolence and benignity.
  • N.B.: “actually-occurring” means having the same quality of existence as any other thing which exists in the universe, such as the rivers and the trees and all the life bursting forth on the planet.
• This genuinely-existing stream is what the term “pure intent” refers to.

From the above, the following should be obvious:

• Pure intent does not require anyone’s “willpower” to sustain it.
• Pure intent exists outside of any human being conscious to perceive it.
• Pure intent has nothing to do with any feeling-being or humanity or the human condition – it exists outside of it.

I would suggest, for clarity of communication, that you use a different term for what you are describing when you currently use this term, as it is muddying matters. Perhaps “wilful intent”?

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This is not a matter of semantics. If you were genuinely actually free, you would know what is being talked about here, you would recognize it, from your own experience, and already have said “oh, that! oh I have been using the word ‘X and Y’ to describe that, but I know what you are talking about, yes of course this is essential, this is what I am” etc. etc.

But instead you put it on the same plane as “willpower” which is something totally different. N.B.: “Pure intent produces total dedication […]” – it is not that dedication in and of itself.

Have you really never experienced anything like it? Not once in your life? Nothing rings a bell? If you dedicate and read these words (and more likely, Richard’s) with all your ‘being’ then it will be possible for you to get a whiff of it, and then you can follow it towards actuality, and then we can all be talking about the same thing finally.

Cheers,
Claudiu