Richard: It is, of course, a bold step to
forsake lofty thoughts, profound feelings and psychic adumbrations and enter into the actuality of life as a sensate experience.
It requires a startling audacity to devote oneself to the task of causing a mutation of consciousness to occur. To have the
requisite determination to apply oneself, with the diligence and perseverance born out of pure intent, to start off with the
patient dismantling of one’s accrued social identity preparatory to evoking the mutation, indicates a strength of purpose
unequalled in the annals of history. It is no little thing that one does ... and it has enormous consequences, not only for one’s
own well-being, but for humankind as a whole. With freedom from the Human Condition spreading like a chain-letter, in the due
course of time, global freedom would revolutionize the concept of ‘humanity’.
It would be a free association of peoples
world-wide; a utopian-like loose-knit affiliation of like-minded individuals. One would be a citizen of the world, not of a
sovereign state. Countries, with their artificial borders would vanish along with the need for the military. As nationalism would
expire, so too would patriotism with all its heroic evils. No police force would be needed anywhere on earth; no locks on the
doors, no bars on the windows. Gaols, judges and juries would become a thing of the dreadful past. People would live together in
peace and harmony, happiness and delight. Pollution and its cause – over-population – would be set to rights without effort,
as competition would be replaced by cooperation. It would be the stuff of all the pipe-dreams come true.
But none of this matters much when one is
already living freely in the actual world. When one is free from the Human Condition, life is experienced as being perfect
as-it-is ... and here on earth in this life-time. One knows that one is living in a beneficent and benevolent universe ... and
that is what actually counts. The self-imposed iniquities that ail the people who stubbornly wish to remain denizens of the real
world – the ‘Land of Lament’ – fail to impinge upon the blitheness and benignity of one who lives in the vast scheme of
things.
The universe does not force anyone to be happy
and harmless, to live in peace and ease, to be free of sorrow and malice. It is a matter of personal choice as to which way one
will travel. Most human beings, being contumelious as they are, will probably continue to tread the ‘tried and true’ paths,
little realizing that they are the tried and failed ways. There is none so contumacious as a self-righteous soul who is convinced
that they know the way to live ... as revealed in their revered scriptures or in their cherished secular philosophy.
I live in peace and tranquillity, beholden to
none. With no loyalty to bind me, I have nothing to defend. With nothing to defend I have no need to attack. I have no sense of
mission to ‘change the world’. I am not driven by mystical forces to evangelize, to proselytize, and to convert.
If anyone is genuinely interested in finding out what the reason
for their existence is, I am only too happy to participate in their enquiry. Nevertheless, I can only help those who wish to be
helped in the only way that I can help. I am free to be here now in the world as-it-is. Unadorned and unencumbered, I can stand on
my own two feet, owing allegiance to no one and nothing at all. I am supremely content with life as-it-is, for perfection can be
found in what others call imperfection ... and I have no desire to change anything. To be here now, intimately here in this moment
in time, where this actual world is such a marvellous place to be alive in, is a satisfaction and fulfillment unparalleled in the
chronicles of antiquity.
