The pleasures of the world take on many forms, but it’s the craving of the mind that makes one seek them. This craving can only be satisfied in stillness because when the mind is still there is no craving…
One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it’s in pleasure seeking mode most of the time. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse form of pleasure. The mind craves to keep all the pleasure thoughts and discard the unpleasurable ones; it spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s hurrying in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars you just passed pull up along side you, or doing something and asking yourself why did you do it, the reason for doing this is strictly from the craving to seek some form of pleasure. That your own mind craves to question why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of the way the mind has been conditioned to crave.
The pleasure seeking crave 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 craving pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle and it loses its grip you see the fallacy of this. True pleasure is in stillness not in things, but the pleasure of stillness is not the same pleasure the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. Craving is the self-seeking pleasure of the world, this is what the world creates, but it cannot be satisfied. It’s only in stillness that this craving is satisfied, not because it’s given something to satisfy it, but because in stillness cravings never materialize so there is no pleasure to seek…
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