Kuba: Hi Vineeto,
Thank you, reading and contemplating these recent posts is getting right to the nitty gritty of ‘me’, it’s like I am looking under this and that piece of rubble with this sense that the next thing I lift to look under might well result in the whole thing collapsing. And there is like a stillness that has descended all over whilst contemplating all this. Reading your recent reply has shifted my attention to the fact that it is ‘me’ in ‘my’ totality which is the “precious thing”, ‘I’ am the thing ‘I’ hold most dear, ‘I’ agree to give up ‘my’ very ‘self’ for an actual freedom to eventuate. It is certainly exhilarating and destinal to know that this is precisely what is to happen next. (link)
James: This has helped me to understand what is meant by ‘my precious’. It is the ‘I/me’ itself which we make so precious and it is nothing but a figment which is all made up of feelings and beliefs. (link)
Kuba to James: The thing is that this “figment” is all that ‘I’ have ever known and all that ‘I’ have ever ‘been’, it is the entirety of ‘me’ and of ‘my’ life.
Your assessment reduces the enormity of what is at stake for ‘me’ into something between hopeful intellectualisation and dissociation. As in let ‘me’ first create some distance from ‘myself’ and then reduce this ‘self’ placed ‘over there’ into a collection of feelings and beliefs, kept alive only because “we make it so precious”. The end result of this exercise is that ‘I’ will then try to end this mere “figment” by some kind of ‘seeing through’ etc. I know this because I have done this countless times!
But the key question here is just how on earth could the above ever trigger altruism? A self-sacrificial instinct. (link)
James to Kuba: Good points, I see what you mean. I have taken something with enormous consequences and made it sound like nothing.
To make it trigger altruism I would have to put my all into it which I obviously haven’t done. Thank you for confronting me with that.
I now want to dismiss it which is what I have always done but you have inspired me to look deeper.
By looking deeper I see why it is called ‘my precious’ which makes it untouchable. It would indeed take altruism to undo it as you said.
It is the very thing ‘I am’.
It seems that altruism must come from within. No one else can do it for me.
Want is coming up. I need to want it like I have never wanted anything.
I see that I have to do it for this body, that body and everybody.
I want to do it for you.
Can you do it? (link)
Hi Kuba, Hi James,
This has been a very enjoyable conversation to read.
This very intimacy (“I want to do it for you”) combined with the active experiencing of pure intent – the infinitely magnificent purity and perfection of the universe – can indeed lead to and invoke ‘your’ sacrificial acquiescence for the benefit of this body, that body and every body.
Here is something Richard explained to Rick, which may be of use for inspiration and delightful vivifying contemplation (I am aware that I have sent a quote on the same topic to Kuba in May this year (link) –
Rick: Hi, Richard! You wrote below:
>[Richard]: As the ‘above quoted material’ was written prior to the direct route being opened by Peter and Richard on Dec 29, 2009, via a personified pure intent becoming immanently accessible (i.e., not via a PCE), it is no longer necessary to even contemplate any such invocation of a rapid (and sudden) way with all its attendant ‘too much, too fast, too soon’ dangers. (Richard, List D, No. 25a, 25 May 2013).
The part where you said, ‘the direct route being opened by Peter and Richard … *via a personified pure intent becoming immanently accessible*’: Would you mind re-wording that last bit?
Richard: G’day Rick, Sure … first and foremost, as I am using the word immanently in its ‘existing or operating within; inherent’ meaning, then what I am indicating is that pure intent is no longer only accessible outside of the human condition (via a PCE) but nowadays also from within it (i.e., as a feeling ‘being’).
(The feeling-being inhabiting this flesh-and-blood body all those years ago – prior to late October/ early November 1992 – could only be existentially aware of pure intent via the direct/ immediate/ unmediated experiencing of the immaculate purity of the vast stillness of this actual universe’s physical infinitude (the ‘everywhere all at once’ source of everything apparent) because there had not previously been someone of sufficient naïveté to have enabled that pristine perfection into becoming purity personified).
Thus where I wrote, in an earlier post, that what the feeling-being inhabiting this flesh-and-blood body all those years ago directly experienced as an ‘over-arching benevolence and benignity’ was immanently experienced by feeling-being ‘Peter’, on the 29th of December 2009, as [quote] ‘a sweetness that was palpable’ [endquote] – plus how ‘he’ was [quote] ‘literally being bathed in this sweetness’ [endquote] – it was because of that purity personified having recently become available to some select associates then living within the human condition (albeit out-from-control and/or in a different-way-of-being).
(Those quotes are from Peter’s report on the original ‘A Long-Awaited Public Announcement’ web-page).
And it was when feeling-being ‘Peter’, tenderly feeling the utmost caring possible via thereby being the near-innocence of naïveté, gained tactile confirmation of a flesh and blood body actually existing through a compliantly temporaneous rent in the veil – that flimsiest of films enclosing the real-world’s reality (which Peter spoke of the next night, regarding my physical presence, ‘as if behind a veil, i.e. not actually existing’) – that the direct route became opened-up.
(See the 2nd java script ‘Tool-Tip’ pop-up – a little yellow rectangle with a capital ‘R’ on it – in Peter’s report on the original ‘A Long-Awaited Public Announcement’ webpage for the full version of the above ‘tactile confirmation of a flesh and blood body actually existing’ account). (Richard, List D, Rick, 28 May 2013).
I wish you both profound enjoyment in the “exhilarating and destinal” adventure you have embarked on.
Cheers Vineeto