Vineeto: Remember, ‘you’ don’t have to become innocent – you said yourself “‘I’/‘me’ and innocence are incompatible” – it may look sincere on the surface but it’s merely a trick to procrastinate.
Kuba: Yes I can see this, the “conflict” that I mentioned driving to train BJJ was because it is ‘me’ that can never be innocent, so ‘I’ can deflect by projecting it out into various social issues.
Hi Kuba,
You can also say that your near-actual-caring is reminding you of your deep desire to be innocence personified, and experiencing the stark discrepancy of ‘me’ and actuality the result of your experience of pure intent working its magic.
Kuba: It is exactly what Richard described in one of the articles in his journal when he was being urged to get involved with protesting against the pollution of a local river:
Richard: I am that stillness experiencing itself … I am pristine, through and through. By daring to be here now, by being me as-I-am, I have already “cleaned up” all the pollution … by not being polluted at all in the first place. (Richard’s Journal, Article Twenty-Five, ©2004)
It’s a wonderful quote, thank you.
Cheers Vineeto