Yes good point, I see exactly what you mean. It is getting so good that I can’t stand it. I’m thinking something must be wrong with it instead of letting it rip as @Vineeto said. I did step out from control once when I started howling. The howling started on its’ own and kept going on its’ own. LOL.
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I’ve got sensuousness and perfection. I’m still lacking pure intent and I really don’t understand why. I could be letting the pain interfere with it.
I added naivete today to go along with e&a, sensuousness and perfection. I am quite confident that pure intent is coming soon.
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James: I’ve got sensuousness and perfection. I’m still lacking pure intent and I really don’t understand why. I could be letting the pain interfere with it.
James: I added naiveté today to go along with e&a (enjoying and appreciating), sensuousness and perfection. I am quite confident that pure intent is coming soon.
Hi James,
Just to spell it out more fully what you are intending to do –
Richard: Being ‘alive’ is to be paying attention – exclusive attention – to this moment in time and this place in space. This attention becomes fascination … and fascination leads to reflective contemplation. Then – and only then – apperception can occur.
Apperceptive awareness can be evoked by paying exclusive attention to being fully alive right now. This moment is your only moment of being alive … one is never alive at any other time than now. And, wherever you are, one is always here … even if you start walking over to ‘there’, along the way to ‘there’ you are always here … and when you arrive ‘there’, it too is here. Thus attention becomes a fascination with the fact that one is always here … and it is already now.
Fascination leads to reflective contemplation. As one is already here, and it is always now … then one has arrived before one starts. The potent combination of attention, fascination, reflection and contemplation produces apperception, which happens when the mind becomes aware of itself. Apperception is an awareness of consciousness. It is not ‘I’ being aware of ‘me’ being conscious; it is the mind’s awareness of itself. Apperception – a way of seeing that is arrived at by reflective and fascinating contemplative thought – is when ‘I’ cease thinking and thinking takes place of its own accord … and ‘me’ disappears along with all the feelings. Such a mind, being free of the thinker and the feeler – ‘I’ as ego and ‘me’ as soul – is capable of immense clarity and purity … as a sensate body only, one is automatically benevolent and benign. […]
You need to have a keen sense of humour. This business of becoming free is not – contrary to popular opinion – a serious business at all. Be totally sincere … most definitely utterly sincere, as genuineness is essential. But serious … no way. An actual freedom is all about having fun; about enjoying being here; about delighting in being alive. All that ‘being serious’ stuff actively works against peace-on-earth. One has to want to be here on this planet … most people resent being here and wish to escape. This method will bring one into being more fully here than anyone has ever been before. If you do not want to be here, then forget it.
One will never become free by sitting in a deck-chair on the patio waiting for the ‘Grace Of God’ to descend. One has to reach out – extend oneself – like one has never done before.
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.
Treat unhappiness and harmfulness as if it were a terminal illness that one has to rid the body of. And one does it for a two-fold purpose: for the good of oneself in particular and for one’s fellow humans in general. After all, a happy and harmless person is a pleasure to be with … if you are not good company for yourself, then what are you for others? [emphasis added]. (Richard, List B, No. 17, 9 July 1998).
With all this in mind, James, pure intent is bound to be “coming soon”.
Cheers Vineeto
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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.
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