James: My latest and current experience is: It is what it is.
This is a good thing. There is really nothing else to say.
Hi James,
When you write – “it is what it is” and “this is a good thing” – are you saying you enjoy “what it is”? Are you also fully appreciating “what it is”? I ask because appreciation is the key to multiplying the enjoyment and lead to further enjoyment and thus appreciation.
James: This experience came out of Vineeto’s latest reply to me directly above (link). I want to archive it when I figure out how. (link).
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Respondent: I have some questions and comments based on some of your remarks I found on that forum:
• [Richard]: ‘What one does is that one dedicates oneself to the challenge of being here as the universe’s experience of itself … now.’ [endquote]. (Richard, List C, No. 2a, 13 March 2000).
That is my experience almost exactly except I don’t think I ‘dedicate’ myself to this. It is just clearly obvious to me that this body that I refer to as me is simply the universe experiencing itself from this particular viewpoint. No particular method to the madness, other than attention or the willingness to be attentive.
Richard: The dedication depends upon how far one wishes to go … I tapped into the purity and perfection of the infinitude of this physical universe during a pure consciousness experience (PCE) in 1980. It gave rise to a ‘pure intent’ which I experienced as a palpable life-force; as 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 was no longer a matter of choice: it was an irresistible pull. Thus nineteen years ago ‘I’, the persona that I was, looked at the physical world and just knew that this enormous construct called the universe was not ‘set up’ for us humans to be forever forlorn in with only scant moments of reprieve. ‘I’ the persona realised there and then that it was not and could not ever be some ‘sick cosmic joke’ that humans all had to endure and ‘make the best of’. ‘I’ the persona felt foolish that ‘I’ had believed for thirty two years that the wisdom of the ‘real-world’ that ‘I’ had inherited – the world that ‘I’ was born into – was set in stone. This foolish feeling allowed ‘me’ to get in touch with ‘my’ dormant naiveté, which is the closest thing one has that resembles actual innocence, and activate it with a naive enthusiasm to undo all the conditioning and brainwashing that ‘I’ had been subject to. Then when ‘I’ looked into ‘myself’ and at all the people around and saw the sorrow and malice in every one of us, ‘I’ could not stop. ‘I’ knew that ‘I’ had just devoted myself to the task of setting ‘myself’ and ‘humanity’ free … ‘I’ willingly dedicated ‘my’ life to this most worthy cause. (Richard, General Correspondence, Page 9, 31 Mar 2000).
Cheers Vineeto