Although the pleasures of the world take on many forms, it’s the annoyances of the mind that makes one seek them. These annoyances can only be satisfied in stillness because when the mind is still there are no annoyances…
One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it’s in a state of annoyance most of the time. The annoyed mind likes to keep all the pleasant 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 the annoyed 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 state of annoyance.
The annoyed mind in 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 and it 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 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 annoyances of the mind subside. Not because it gets what it wants, but because in stillness the annoyances never materialize so there’s no satisfaction that’s needed…
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