Continuing the exploration regarding harmlessness here.
Vineeto: I appreciate that you more and more can understand the role that being harmless plays in the overall pursuit of whittling down ‘me’ as in becoming less and less ‘self’-centric which is the instinctive norm of being.
I was just contemplating this and something interesting popped up. Which is that as ‘I’ become more sincere ie more in line with facticity, it is harder for self-centricity to be maintained. Self-centricity is the instinctive norm of being, it is how human beings come pre-wired into the world, but the ‘self’ is not a fact, meaning that for self-centricity to operate it requires continued deception. The way I observe self-centricity to operate in my psyche is that ‘I’ as ‘self’ am like a gravitational centre point, and around ‘me’ the entire world is warped, the very end product of this deception would be that ‘I’ am god. But this action of warping the world around ‘me’ requires continued effort from ‘me’, it requires that ‘I’ continually disregard the facts and instead interpret every situation in a self-centric manner, that is the “story of ‘my’ life”. And although this is the instinctive norm of being ‘I’ find that it is painful, not only for ‘me’ but also for others. But I saw a chink in the armour of self-centricity, which is that it requires deception in the first place. And actually it is a double deception! The first deception is that the world revolves around ‘me’, the second deception is that there is a ‘me’ of any substance to begin with. ‘My’ self centricity is how ‘I’ maintain ‘myself’, as ‘I’ am not a fact either.
I guess the correct way to phrase the above is that ‘I’ as ‘self’ am that very self-centric warping, there is no substance other than then one ‘I’ continually maintain via that very self-centricity in operation.