Although the pleasures of the world take on many forms, it’s the unsettled mind that makes one seek them. This unsettling can only be satisfied in stillness because when the mind is still there is no unsettling…
One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it’s in an unsettled state most of the time. The unsettled mind likes to keep all the pleasure thoughts and discard the unpleasant ones; 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 you passed pull up to the same light, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it. The reason for doing this is to strictly satisfy your unsettled mind. 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 the way the mind has been conditioned to be in a constant unsettled state.
The unsettled mind in seeking mode is not one which has our best interest at heart, 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 and loses its grip on you, you will see the fallacy of this. 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 lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. It’s only in stillness that the unsettled mind will quiet. Not because it gets what it wants, but because in stillness the unsettling never materializes…
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