Just feel good, bro

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pretty soon I intend to follow Srinath’s excellent advice in SIMPLE ACTUALISM - PCE because I do believe that allowing PCEs on a daily basis will be the next ‘upgrade’ point.

When I first returned to this forum I wrote:

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When I set out 3 days ago to just allow PCEs, and use that as lodestone going forward, I had also given up everything (including ‘actualism method’) I was doing in the name of ‘actualism’.

I had yet another realization yesterday which slightly changed my tracks from feeling good per se: since it is impractical to be allowing PCEs all the time for practical reasons, I asked myself: so what can I do during the times ‘in between’? Well, imitate them affectively to the best of my ability, of course. Which means enjoy & appreciate being here right now. The part I’ve bolded is the key; it is, after all, what’s evident in the PCE (the stillness of this eternal moment with no ‘outside’), which one immitates as a feeling-being.

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Richard: One of the main keys to success is a focus on time itself as a sensate experience. My oft-repeated refrain is this: ‘The first step to being free is the actual understanding that this moment in time is the only place where being alive happens. The past, although it was actual when it did happen, is not actual now. The future, although it will be actual when it does happen, is not actual now. Only now is actual and as it is always now then the purity of innocence is perpetually here alr…

And, this enjoyment & appreciation of being alive is basically all that matters, with the rest (techniques) being tangential and sometimes idiosyncratic:

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[Richard to Claudiu]: Pleased to read of you recollecting a childhood PCE, during a sunny carefree day in Romania, and the best way to maximise the benefit gained from this trip is, of course, none other than what has become known as the actualism method … to wit: enjoying and appreciating being alive, each moment again, come what may.
It really is that simple: all the rest – such as feeling as happy and as harmless as is humanly possible, each moment again, by minimising both those futile malicious/ sorrowful feelings plus their antidotal loving/ compassionate feelings (and, thereby, maximising the felicitous/ innocuous feelings via this sensible utilisation of the potency of affective energy), for instance, and by being as naïve as is humanly possible, in order to be naiveté (and, hence, be sensitive to and receptive of the overarching pure intent), via being sincere about achieving one’s goal (in order to, thus, be sincerity in action) of peace-on-earth in this lifetime, for example, concomitant to coming to one’s senses both literally and metaphorically – are the various ways and means of effecting that very enjoyment and appreciation of being alive, each moment again, regardless of the situation and the circumstances.
Put succinctly: the means to the end – enjoying and appreciating being alive – are, therefore, no different to that end (the very enjoyment and appreciation of being alive) other than the former is, of course, affective in its nature and the latter is, quite obviously, actual by its very disposition.
Lastly, the actualism method segues into what has become known as the actualism process when the actualism method has become so automatic, via habituation, that one is walking about in a state of wide-eyed wonder (naiveté) simply marvelling at being alive (sensuosity) and being amazed/delighted that all this – the world about/the universe itself – is occurring in the first place; the actualism process is when it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish the difference between one doing it (doing this business called being alive) and it happening of its own accord; when one becomes the experiencing of being alive/of it all occurring of its own accord one is then out-from-control (not “out of control” as in wayward) and a different-way-of-being has ensued.
It all becomes rather magical (“magical” as in prestidigitation) after that.