November 17 2025

ED: Thank you for the response, it’s afforded me a lot of clarification.

VINEETO: Hi Ed,

You are welcome and I am pleased a lot became clearer to you.

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VINEETO: If your arbiter (your feelings) consider it good enough when you merely feel harmless no matter if this is factually the case, that you are practically being harmless, then a lot of harmfulness flies under the radar, so to speak.

ED: Yes I agree. What tends to fly under the radar are all those minor feelings of upset-ness that can be managed and overlooked by the arbiter. Instances of honest mistakes which lead to harm are one thing, but those cases are few-and-far between (hard to remember any!). At the centre of the majority of memories of being harmful is how I felt – no matter how it was managed or rationalized, or how beautiful or righteous it may have seemed.

VINEETO: Ok, you already gave indications where you can direct your affective attention regarding being harmless – whenever you ‘manage’ or ‘rationalize’ a negative feeling, the feeling is still there (including the vibes) and the cause of the particular feeling is not addressed and therefore will surface again at the next opportunity.

The other give-away are your words “how beautiful or righteous it may have seemed”. Neither “beautiful” nor “righteous” are felicitous/ innocuous feelings. Beauty is one of the qualities of godliness, stemming from the core philosophical/ religious concept of Hinduism and via trickle-down effect all religions –

Satyam Shivam Sundaram is a Sanskrit phrase meaning “Truth, Godliness, and Beauty” and is a core philosophical concept in Hinduism. It suggests that truth is divine, and divinity is beautiful, representing ultimate values and a path to spiritual enlightenment. It is a way of describing the nature of the Supreme Being and the ideal path of human existence, emphasizing authenticity, goodness, and the appreciation of beauty. (…)

Sundaram (Beauty): This represents excellence and all that is beautiful, not just physically, but also the inner beauty of a virtuous soul and the natural world. It is the manifestation of truth and goodness in its most alluring form. (Google: satyam shivam sundaram religion).

And:

Richard: As you can see Mr. Jiddu Krishnamurti specifically says [quote] ‘do not think’ [endquote] which indicates there being no thinker when the outside is the inside ... meaning that there is no thinker when the observer is the observed.

Thus the ‘observer’ being referred to is the feeler, not the thinker ... for example (also from the same e-mail):

‘It is essential to appreciate beauty. The beauty of the sky, the beauty of the sun upon the hill, the beauty of a smile, a face, a gesture, the beauty of the moonlight on the water, of the fading clouds, the song of the bird, it is essential to look at it, *to feel it*, to be with it, this is the very first requirement for a man who would seek truth. (...) So it is essential to have this sense of beauty, for *the feeling of beauty is the feeling of love*’. [emphases added]. (‘Fifth Public Talk at Poona’ by J. Krishnamurti; 21 September 1958).

(Richard, List B, No. 42c, 30 December 2002).

As such the feeling of being beautiful can be quite misleading regards being harmless, for some people it is a tag for sexual attraction. Richard’s selected correspondence on Beauty will give you an overall understanding why the feeling of beauty is not a felicitous feeling.

As to “righteous” – the terms righteous anger and righteous indignation should give you a clue. It is one’s reliance on what one considers right or wrong, according to the real-world moral and ethical codes, which then gives one the ‘right’ to feel or act in a particular way.

Whereas when your aim of being harmless is informed by the PCE then it would not be backed up by being ‘right’ but rather in line with pure intent – an actually occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the vast and utter stillness that is the essential character of the universe itself.

ED: The method and its facilitatory practice are so effective because it puts each and every blip of malice and sorrow on the radar such that they can no longer be ignored. And calibrating oneself towards the absence of malice and sorrow is an excellent way to avoid the pitfalls of personally determining what happiness and harmlessness is (i.e. based on my pre-existing standards rooted in the instinctual passions and accompanying morals).

Cheers, it’s a wonderful journey.

VINEETO: This is excellent – when it gets to fine-tuning it is truly fun.

Cheers Vineeto (Actualism, Actualvineeto, Ed, 17 November 2025).