Although the pleasures of the world take on many forms, it’s the obsessive mind that makes one seek them. This obsession can only be quieted in stillness because when the mind is still no obsession exist…
The obsession aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it’s almost always in pleasure seeking mode. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse form of pleasure. The mind wants to obsessively keep all the pleasure thoughts even if this causes its own destruction; it spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s weaving in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars that you just passed pull up to the same light, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it, the reason for the doing is strictly to satisfy some obsessive form of pleasure. That your own mind questions why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of how the mind has been obsessively conditioned.
The obsessive pleasure seeking mode is not one which is in our best interest, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes you think seeking pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle, it loses its grip on you. True pleasure is in stillness not in things; the pleasure of stillness is not the same pleasure that the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in obsessive lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. There are many pointers that speak of quieting an obsessive mind that only stillness can satisfy. This obsession is the self seeking pleasure of the world. This is the obsession the world creates; it is never truly satisfied. It’s only in stillness that the obsessive mind is satisfied. Not because it’s given something, but because in stillness an obsession never materializes so there is no obsessive mind that needs to be satisfied…
