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.
Yes, Richard and I are not talking about the same intention. For him, willpower was not necessary… These differences are natural since I discovered the path without resistance by applying my own method and my own definitions.
Richard’s descriptions and definitions of “pure” intent, which have become dogma and one of the sacred cows of his actualism, are poetic metaphors: “stream of benevolence and benignity” are some examples.
But this is all too obvious and fortunately, once again, I did not believe everything I read from Richard. I recommend the same to everyone here.
Claudus wrote: “…and then we can all be talking about the same thing finally.”
Only if you are speaking from an actually free and anonymous condition (without an ego and psyche to be recreated by others). But from your zeal to quote Richard instead of thinking for yourself, we are still different species. So I need to come down to your level to try to help you take the next step. And I can assure you, it is very easy, you just need to have intellectually resolved all your resistances (or objections, if you prefer).
ANTHROPOCENTRISM, ESSENTIALISM AND OTHER ISMS
The word “universe” is an insidious term. Be careful.
Swap this word for a more common one (God, for example), and you will have another religion, even without the material and/or spiritual underpinnings associated with it.
The universe is the totality of what exists and of phenomena that are constantly occurring. Only objects exist. To exist is to have shape and location, as defined in my suprarational methodology. Borrowing and applying a Taoist or Aristotelian view of the concept of the objective universe is a common and harmful practice. This is the food of the “I”: irrational definitions lead to irrational conclusions and actions.
Human beings follows an essentialist view of the world. Mix this ism with any other and you will get the explosive byproducts that cause a trail of destruction and afflictions.
An example inspired by the controversial Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiments:
Divide people into two groups, prisoners and jailers, using a dogmatic criterion borrowed from a book or website, it doesn’t matter. You will be favored by the side of those who obey orders and claim some advantage. Jump forward a few years and, mutatis mutandis, we have a sophomoric fundamentalist wing ready to engineer the next holocaust.
In the book “How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain” (2017), by the professor of psychology Lisa Feldman Barrett, anger, happiness, fear and sadness are constructed emotions. There are no universal feelings, but predictions manifested according to the culture in which we have been conditioned. That is, emotional reactions are concepts learned by imitation and transmitted through education. On the other hand, instincts are reflexes genetically conditioned and encoded in the nervous system and boil down to two: aversion and appetite. Fighting, paralyzing, running away, intending, procreating, breastfeeding are innate survival instincts, we were born with them. To satisfy instincts by self-fulfilling emotions, even those considered “good”, is to feed the ego and supply the psyche. And the ego, like that mythological beast, needs this emotional maze to hide in. This conceptual labyrinth is a band of permanent conflict between thoughts and instincts, with minotaurs remembering and recreating the same old emotions in a vicious and degrading loop cycle for the organism.
That is why practices derived from mindfulness are like polishing glass to fake diamond: it will shine, but it will never resist the pressure of everyday use. And the side effects of stoning will be pathological narcissism, violent pride, and messianic complex. The recipe for disaster.
Dedicating every precious moment of life in a frantic search for happiness as the body fades away was irrational to me. I preferred to experience every opportunity to be alive by uniting the sensory systems and allowing the body’s native intelligence to be guided by them. A spontaneous altruism derived from this attitude without depending on pure intent and mantras, exceeded my expectations!
The seed of the path without resistance germinated.
To be continued…