To save the Mods a job, I've taken myself to the dungeon, feel free to pull up crate and watch out for the rats...
Initially I was attracted to AF practice, in theory; happy and harmless seemed to be an excellent goal. I was happy to go along with that in my devil may care trusting way...until I reacted very strongly to Richard and Co, and basically got very hostile.
Then after a lot of patient replies from DhO members, I realised that there was no harm looking into to it properly. It's not heroin after all.
Lately though, pure intent has been hard to come by; I just can't seem to 'want' freedom enough anymore. I've learnt how to suffer without complaining so much, just let it burn I say...
But, there is still a world out there that is in real bad shape. There has to be something that can be done. I've found a source of intent that i can relate too (christian conditioning); unselfishness.
So i want to save the world again, but not on my own...
Reading this article really sparked something:
http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm
I was impressed with how much it lines up with the world I live in, basically if you look through enough of the site it comes down to this; the human society (and hence identity) is created by psychopathic people, for psychopathic people and is increasingly becoming a breeding ground for more. The articles on the site basically say that we are wired to play their game. If we aren't a clinical psychopath, we are sub-clinical, or just wired to be stooges.
The first thing that came to mind was Richard's statements about the cunning entity that is the 'human adult'.
Do i have a point?
Well, yes I do.
What is the quickest way to get this done for all of us.
Some discussion points-
I remember End in Sight saying that PCE is achievable without felicity, is this an isolated thing?
Is there a proximetry transmission effect?
What part of vipassana practice is the most effective lead into PCE?, I remember Jill mentioning that avoiding altered states part of her practice. Are altered states actually increasing the time from zero to hero?
Is anyone working on putting together resources in a way that can bring together the various discovery s made on the DhO in a book or the like, similar to MTCB?
i know that is a lot of questions / comments, but again I don't have the answers i need for the particular conditioning I'm from and where will I get them if not here?
i am aware that my conditioning is behind alot of these questions, if only I was raised a buddhist then most of these worries would be irrelevant, I could sort it out over a couple of life times...
