Vineeto: Remember that it is an active dynamic connection to pure intent, where you experience “a genuinely occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the perfect and vast stillness that is the essential character of the infinitude of the universe”. It is so delicious to experience it that you will be drawn to experience it again and again. Besides, nothing less will do the trick.
James: I have two takeaways from your reply: 1. Pure intent is dynamic and ongoing happening again and again.
Hi James,
Pure intent, an uninterrupted “genuinely occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the perfect and vast stillness that is the essential character of the infinitude of the universe” and as such not “happening again and again”. It may appear so to you when you switch on and off the connection to pure intent but it is always happening, that’s why Richard described it as “stream”. What is dynamic (i.e. presently active), or not, is your connection to pure intent.
Perhaps for you these are mere words rather than the rememoration of an experience for you?
James: 2. Altruism has two aspects. I am wondering if the one-time altruistic act could happen upon my impending physical death? If so, this could be something to look forward to. (link)
I repeat part of Richard’s quote from the previous message for your elucidation because it looks like you have glossed over it –
Richard: It [altruism] has … everything to do with wanting, with all of one’s being, to bring to an end, once and for all, the inherent suffering which epitomises human nature. Viz.:
• [Richard]: ‘… one has to want to be free from the human condition like one has never wanted anything before. Because unless one is vitally interested in peace on earth one will never even begin to free the crippled intelligence from the debilitating passions bestowed by blind nature. Yet becoming vitally interested is but the preliminary stage, because until one becomes curious as to whether what is being written here about genetic inheritance can be applied to themselves, only then does the first step begin. For it is only when one becomes curious about the workings of oneself – what makes one tick – is that person participating in their search for freedom for the first time in their life. This is because people mostly look to rearranging their beliefs and truths as being sufficient effort … ‘I’ am willing to be free as long as ‘I’ can remain ‘me’. In other words: their notion of freedom is a ‘clip-on’. (…) [Emphasis added]. (Richard, List B, No. 45, 14 Nov 1999).
Now you say your “takeaway” is your “wondering” if you could postpone the altruistic act upon your “impending physical death?” Quite demonstrably, you do not yet experience that you “want to be free from the human condition like one has never wanted anything before”, else why ask for reprieve until you physically die. Of course, you can wait as long as you like – after all, it is your life you are living and you are reaping the rewards or paying the consequences of the choices you make. Yet all you get by waiting is more waiting, as now is the moment where it all happens; everything which happens only ever happens now.
Did you take notice that you did exactly what I warned you about –
James: “You are right that I have a life-time habit of sitting back and bowing out”. (link)
There is another reason why it is not only counterproductive but impossible to do what you are wondering about –
Richard: With the absolute certainty/ total absence of choice of the PCE the invocation of destiny (oblivion/ extinction) is the deadly simple and fascinated contemplation of the fact that, as physical death is the end of ‘being’ anyway, it might as well happen sooner rather than later. (The oblivion/ extinction of ‘being’ at physical death is entirely without benefit in regards peace-on-earth whereas the oblivion/ extinction of ‘being’ at this moment in time is entirely beneficial to the host body and of a facilitatory benefit to all other bodies).
The fascinated contemplation – ‘fascinated’ as in a moth to a flame – morphs into a pure contemplation (as in an apperceptivity) upon it becoming startlingly apparent as an experiential actuality that this moment in time has no duration.
What this means, to an identity for whom time moves (as in past/ present/ future), is that the keep-it-safe extinction of ‘being’ (cunningly projected into some future moment) will be happening now when it does take place. (Time has no duration in actuality; now, being eternal, is already always dynamic in that everything happens now; nothing ever happens in past/ present/ future time).
As now is the way, then now is the means; as now is the means, then now is the end … !Bingo! … it is no longer possible to distinguish between life being lived and life doing the living as any such cause and effect has vanished without a trace (it never was anyway as time, as in past/ present/ future, has no existence in actuality).
This is ‘my’ moment of glory; this is ‘my’ crowning achievement; this makes ‘my’ petty life all worthwhile; this is ‘my’ most noble sacrifice[1] for ‘I’ am what ‘I’ hold most dear; this is ‘my’ legacy for all humankind; ‘my’ reward is to go blessedly into the oblivion ‘I’ have secretly craved all along.
‘My’ extinction made all this possible.
Regards, Richard.
P.S.: The key-word is: inevitability. [Emphases added]. (Richard, List D, Rick, 3 Dec 2009).Footnote: Most noble sacrifice [1]: ‘Voluntary ‘self’-sacrifice means an altruistic offering, a philanthropic contribution, a generous gift, a charitable donation, a magnanimous present; to devote and give over one’s being as a humane gratuity, an open-handed endowment, a munificent bequest, a kind-hearted benefaction.
A sacrifice is the relinquishment of something valued or desired for the sake of something more important or worthy … it is the deliberate abandonment, relinquishment, forfeiture or loss for the sake of something illustrious, brilliant, extraordinary and excellent.
It means to forgo, quit, vacate, discontinue, stop, cease or immolate so that one’s guerdon is to be able to be unrepressed, unconstrained, unselfconscious, uninhibited, unrestrained, unrestricted, uncontrolled, uncurbed, unchecked, unbridled, candid, outspoken, spontaneous, relaxed, informal, open, free and easy.
As I have remarked before, ‘I’ go out in a blaze of glory’. [Emphasis added]. (Richard, List B, No. 33c, 26 June 2000).
When you read all these carefully chosen expressions for being generous, philanthropic and magnanimous regarding the “most noble sacrifice”, what would be the word for someone who wants to withhold/ postpone such possible generosity, which they at first considered the perfect act to allow to happen, until just shortly before they die so as to hold onto their ‘precious’ until the last moment of real-world time (because “this could be something to look forward to”) but then ask if they would still reap the benefit of the allegedly altruistic experience?
My mind still reels of the cunning ways identities invent to stay in existence and thus avoid paying the price.
Practically speaking, do you find it feasible that after months or years of “sitting back and bowing out” you suddenly can revitalise your connection to pure intent sufficiently to allow to happen what you have postponed all your life?
Besides, this imaginary plan is not viable simply because there would be no benefit whatsoever for this body (which is about to die) nor for that body nor for anybody, and therefore no altruistic motive. It would not be a generous offering for anybody. Viz.:
Richard: The oblivion/ extinction of ‘being’ at physical death is entirely without benefit in regards peace-on-earth …
Here is something for you to consider to do in the meantime –
RESPONDENT: Does it rule out the possibility of man one day finding the elixir of life?
RICHARD: There is no need to even search for an elixir vitae – the very stuff each and every body is comprised of (and each and every thing for that matter) is already always existent – let alone find one.
If you were to hold a hand up before the eyes, palm towards the face, and rotate it slowly through space – all the while considering that the very stuff the hand is comprised of is as old as the universe – whilst looking from the front of the eyes, as it were (and not through the eyes), what is being discussed may very well become apparent as an experiential understanding.
One experience is worth a thousand words. (Richard, AF List, No. 66, 19 May 2005).
Cheers Vineeto