Shashank: There is one more thing I’ve found in this regard – If I were to get some pill to take and get actually free in 3 seconds, will I take it?
My answer is yes … which tells me that I won’t be thinking about irrevocability or maybe a bit perhaps … so the desire to be free is present but I’m not sure how to become free too … or the fact that l’m thinking of getting a pill to be free just indicates that I want freedom to easily fall into my lap instead of making that effort hehe (link)
Hi Shashank,
It seems that you are fooling yourself. If such a pill did exist and other people’s report would have given the guarantee that it results in your ‘being’ going extinct, instantly, upon you taking it, you would not even propose or contemplate to take it. It’s a safe fantasy because you know for a fact you will never be called upon to make your promise an actuality.
In fact, such a ‘pill’ does exist. You can right now, in this instant, with sincere intent “voluntarily and intentionally (cheerfully and blessedly), [is] press the button which precipitates a, oft-times alarming but always thrilling, momentum which will result in ‘my’ irrevocable ‘self’-immolation in toto. What one does is that one dedicates oneself to the challenge of being just here, right now, as the universe’s experience of itself … peace-on-earth is the inevitable result because it is already always existing (‘I’ was merely standing in the way of it being apparent). The act of initiating this ‘process’ is altruism, pure and simple.” (Richard, Abditorium, Altruism)
It is as simple as that. No effort required. In fact it is not effort (sudorific undertaking) which is required but the sincere intent to become blithe and benign, to enjoy and appreciate (and remove the obstacles which stand in the way).
Is your answer still “yes”?
Cheers Vineeto