Kuba: Vineeto I would be interested to hear how you see this kind of activity with regards to applying the method? Is there benefit in “meandering through” all the various corners of the psyche, whether that is thought, belief, emotion, passion etc So long as this is not done whilst one is feeling bad. (link)
Vineeto: You are not asking me if you could/should rummage around in the “various corners of the psyche” a bit longer, or do you?
Kuba: Oh dear … Looks like I was indeed wanting to rummage around some more . Perhaps I thought on the 1000th scan of the area I will find the missing key, somewhere buried in the rubble.
Thank you for the reminder, I did have a good laugh at myself when I read your response, because it exposed what I was doing completely.
Hi @Kuba,
It was easy to spot, you had said yourself that solving problems is one of your favourite past-times and that you like inventing some more just to enjoy solving them.
It was funny that you asked my for assessment of Richard’s advice how to think, how to be kind to oneself and how to apply silly or sensible. ‘Vineeto’ was one of the participants of those audio-taped conversations (Q(2)) at the time and these were the ‘her’ first new ‘directions’ how to think in a different manner to the spiritually indoctrinated practice of “leave your mind at the door”. It was incredible refreshing and encouraging to be allowed to use ‘her’ brain again!
Kuba: But at the same time I recognise that I cannot continue doing this forever – creeping up, hanging back, buying time, looking for reassurance etc.
Something useful has come from this actually, which is that I can see now that I always hoped that I could resolve the human condition. That actualism was the tool to accomplish this. That if I rummage around enough eventually the puzzle will click and the human condition will be fixed.
But now I can see that no matter how well I outline that which is rotten to its very core, it will still remain rotten!
There was some kind of a hidden assumption there that understanding would automatically lead to resolution, which is simply incorrect. I can understand the human condition thoroughly but it will still remain in existence, just as rotten as always.
It’s like if I was to go and study the various atrocities that happen throughout the globe, I could compile the most exquisite information about the victims, the perpetrators, the conditions etc. And by the end of the day those atrocities would still continue happening, there would still be no end to it. I would know the problem but there would be no solution. (link)
There is indeed no other way to solve the core of the human condition but to dissolve it, i.e. to leave it behind. It can be a sobering realisation but it is also a very liberating one – you can clean it up until the moon turns blue to no avail – in the final analysis it has no redeeming features given the perfect alternative now available.
In other words you can drop it, right here, right now.
Cheers Vineeto