Kuba: What I do not see yet, is quite how to make away with those persistently entrenched themes still. And I am not sure if it is that they are actually difficult to remove or more because I simply cannot and will not contemplate a life of ongoing and consistent happiness and harmlessness. It’s like I have planted a flag in a 60/40 arrangement and the 23h 59m a day arrangement seems too much to consider. (link)
Kuba: Hmm ok I see the bottom line of this is that I am not willing to change myself. This makes a lot of sense, why I would rather go on excursions, because then I get to remain intact as I am now and fool myself into an escape fantasy. (link)
Hi Kuba,
As recent experience has shown that after a rash comment you tend to amend or even retract you instant reaction, so I’ll wait for a more considered response.
Here is what Richard wrote to a correspondent who had been persistently unwilling to change himself –
Respondent: You assert it will bring ‘an end to all ills’ – have you done an experiment: have you cleared up the problems outside your own doorstep?
Richard: Yes … by neither creating nor perpetuating ‘the problems’ there are no ‘the problems’ either inside or outside my own doorstep. Other than a handful of people, of course all the others still stubbornly insist on doing life the hard way … but that is their business. In actual freedom, life is experienced as being perfect as-it-is here on earth. One knows that one is living in a beneficent and benevolent universe – and that is what actually counts. The self-imposed iniquities, that ail the people who stubbornly wish to remain denizens of the real world, fail to impinge upon the blitheness and benignity of one who lives in the vast scheme of things. The universe does not force anyone to be happy and harmless, to live in peace and ease, to be free of sorrow and malice. It is a matter of personal choice as to which way one will travel. Human beings, being as they are, will probably continue to tread the ‘tried and true’ paths, little realising that they are the tried and failed ways. There is none so contumacious [stubbornly perverse; of a disease: resistant to treatment. (Oxford Dictionary).] as a self-righteous soul who is convinced that they know the way to live as revealed in their ancient and revered scriptures … or in their much-prized secular philosophies and psychologies.
So be it. (Richard, List C, No. 4b, #choice)
Cheers Vineeto