James: I saw the fact of self-immolation is that the ‘me’ is in the way and that I was headed down the known path to try and unseat it and the known path hasn’t worked and so I just stopped.
I’ve been told I need to connect to pure intent to proceed and I am not connected so I assumed that I can’t proceed without it. I don’t know what to do that is not the known path and, as I said, the known path hasn’t worked. (link)
Hi James,
No, the known path hasn’t worked – it did not enable you “to connect to pure intent”. Perhaps this quote from Richard can help you to be interested enough, vitally interested, in order to start changing in a direction which it not “the known path”?
RESPONDENT: You are not listening, Richard. I said that your fairy-tale-like ambience doesn’t touch me. […] It doesn’t touch the miserable human hordes and this God-forsaken planet either.
RICHARD: I am well aware that it does not touch people … whilst people stay as they are, that is. You want to be free without having to change yourself … and change yourself radically, fundamentally. Reach out … extend yourself … dare to do it.
As for not touching this planet … this planet is swimming in it.
RESPONDENT: Your infinite, borderless universe is therefore real unto yourself.
RICHARD: It is my actual, on-going experience twenty four hours a day … and has been for the last five years. Would you want it to be real unto you too? By which I mean: are you vitally interested in peace-on-earth? And ‘vitally interested’ means that it is the number one priority in your life inasmuch that it amounts to a fascinated obsession with your very being. Is your intention to become free of the Human Condition, in this life-time and as this body, the over-riding factor in all of your day-to-day dealings? If this is not the case, then what are you doing with your life? Why settle for second best when all this while the perfect purity of being alive at this moment in time and this place in space is just sitting here – right under your nose – freely available for anyone with the gumption to proceed on into their destiny.
RESPONDENT: What daring does it need to exist as the body only?
RICHARD: It needs the most startling daring and audacity possible, coupled with nerves of steel … it is most definitely not for the faint of heart or the weak of knee. You see, ‘you’, as an identity – any identity whatsoever – will be become extirpated, extinguished, eliminated, annihilated … in other words: extinct.
Speaking personally, there is no ‘being’ … no ‘presence’ at all. There is simply this flesh and blood body bereft of any identity whatsoever. (Richard, List B, No. 23, 7 Mar 1998).
Richard emphasizes again and again, that unless you are interested, vitally interested, nothing will happen.
The question is what is it that will spark your interest in peace-on-earth in your life-time, so much so that you are willing to “change yourself radically, fundamentally”, to “reach out … extend yourself … dare to do it”?
Perhaps reaching down inside of you to uncover your long-lost naiveté can do the trick – being like a child again but with adult sensibilities?
Cheers Vineeto