James: Thanks for the tip Vineeto.
No, my situation hasn’t changed. I didn’t mean to imply that I was dying now.
Thanks again, your participation in this forum has helped me immensely.
Yes, you can use my name freely on my correspondences.
Looking forward to many more discussions with you. (link)
James: I can see the fact of physical death. I have no control over it. I can’t stop it so there is no problem.
However, I don’t see the fact of self-immolation in the same way. What is seeing the fact of self-immolation that brings it about?
Richard said: “In the freedom of seeing the fact there is only action.” What is the fact? (link)
Hi James,
Only you can find out what are the facts which stand in the way of your self-immolation.
However, you recently wrote –
James: Thanks Vineeto, I am having fun. I am still lacking in the part where I have always been lacking: “One has to want peace-on-earth as the number one priority in one’s life. One has to desire freedom from the Human Condition to the point of obsession and beyond … it is that urgent and essential.”
I understand this intellectually but not experientially. It seems like there is a key ingredient that I don’t get about it.
After rereading your post I need to start with paying attention to this moment and allow apperception to happen and not just talk about it. (link)
You “can see the fact of physical death” and you have taken great care that everything is prepared. But you do not see the fact that ‘self’-immolation, if it is to happen, is “urgent and essential” because, if it is to happen at all, it will have to happen before your physical death. You have not taken the same care to prepare for that.
The best place to look for you is to find out why – in the face of approaching physical death – you do not “want peace-on-earth as the number one priority in one’s life”.
What is it that you, ‘you’ the identity, want to save? What is so precious that you have not taken the opportunity to sincerely contemplate how to become free from the human condition, how to allow it to happen. Why is it not important to you, why is it not essential, why is it not urgent? Why do you give up so easily?
These are a few questions for you to sincerely contemplate, to pay fascinated attention to, to naively inquire into and to genuinely look for an experiential answer … in order to discover “what is the fact” for allowing the ending of ‘me’ to happen.
Cheers Vineeto