Kuba: So what you are asking is – Can ‘I’ guarantee that if ‘I’ was to wave a magic wand right now and resolve this latest objection (to ‘my’ satisfaction) that ‘I’ would allow ‘my’ self-immolation right now?
Hi Kuba,
Basically yes, that is what I am asking. It is a rhetorical question because both you and I know that this guarantee can never be given.
I asked in order for you to experientially see the cunningness of ‘me’, and perhaps by fully comprehending the seemingly inexhaustible cunning of ‘me’, creating doubt and confusion and preventing to allowing naiveté and pure intent to live your life to the full extent possible.
Kuba: OK so the only solution worth entertaining is that which comes from a deeply passionate and caring involvement? (link)
Yes, this is what your naïve inquiry into a cause worth sacrificing your ‘self’ for has produced. I keep thinking of Richard’s quote –
Richard: No, I am more making the point that only altruism – self-sacrificial humanitarianism – will provide the enormous energy necessary for ‘self’-immolation … the instinct for individual survival is only exceeded by the instinct for group survival.
It takes a powerful instinct to overcome a powerful instinct. (Richard, List B, James3, 28 Oct 2002a)
In case you discover a passionate doubt or fear or any other deeply felt obstacle to your desired aim, then you can harness the passionate energy by staying with the thrill whilst allowing pure intent to bring you closer and closer to your aim – “to offer (and demonstrate) a solid alternative to the “hypocrisy, the lack of equity, the ignorant irresponsibility and the harm that was being done by all”. (link)
The solution, as I can only surmise at this point, is accumulating and fostering this “enormous energy” required, which is a passionate energy (without frittering it away by doubt and confusion).
I have seen it happen with the woman of Indian birth (link). During the intense interaction which preceded her moment of becoming actually free she first talked about her deeply felt universal sorrow for all feeling beings including animals and her urgent question why that was so, and after Richard and I explained the nature of universal sorrow, her feelings turned to doubt, which was then followed by fear. As the conversation went on, she arrived back at her question of ‘why’ there is universal sorrow, only to be followed again by doubt and then fear once more, followed then by cycling back to her question of ‘why’. This pattern went on several times until I was able to point out how she was going round and round in a circle with the same question and the same feelings. She went another round, and was able to recognize the pattern herself … and her mind became very quiet.
Richard was then able to talk to her about actual time – that it is always now and that the person who arrived at the airport no longer existed, even the person who walked through the door a couple of hours ago no longer existed. She agreed and as she agreed she experienced time standing still … and the rest is history.
I am not sure if that made things clearer for you.
Cheers Vineeto
PS:
Kuba: Yes I see this and I wonder perhaps do you (and others) see ‘me’ doing this very thing too? (link)
Kuba, it is the nature of the identity to prevaricate and procrastinate. There is no point blaming yourself as all you can do is recognize it when it is happening.