Guest guest Posted June 4, 2001 Report Share Posted June 4, 2001 At 08:14 PM 6/4/01, you wrote: >What you seek is pleasure and not an object. So do not make the >mistake of thinking that your mind wants this or that object. You do >not want anything, only pleasure. And if you think that a particular >object can give pleasure you go near it, but if it does not give >satisfaction you will leave it alone and go to another place for >another object. > >In this way, your life is spent looking for pleasure and not for a >particular object which you really cannot find. And nowhere you will >find this pleasure you are seeking - nowhere. Because it is not a >commodity of this world. It belongs to some other realm altogether. > >- Swami Krishnananda And what realm would that be? --Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2001 Report Share Posted June 5, 2001 Hello Dan, << berkowd (Daniel Berkow) < snip > A well-articulated point, Krishnananda. As Malcolm X said: " You've been bamboozled, hoodwinked, conned " ... You've come to believe that you are a bag of skin that needs to get things, experiences, food, contacts that give it something, pleasure, security, fulfillment, attention ... Believing this, you are repeatedly disappointed, and each disappointment is fuel for further seeking ... The pleasure you are seeking doesn't even belong to " some other realm altogether " ... Sri Krishnananda, why get them further hoodwinked into looking for some other realm? No -- the pleasure you are seeking doesn't exist. The one who seeks it, being a function of the search, dissolves when the search stops. Simply stop being bamboozled. Finally, the only one fooling you is you, yourself. KKT: Well said, Dan (as always :-)) But you'd better stop here because ... ------------------ As there are no objects, there is no object that can give pleasure, and no object that can have pleasure. As there are no objects, any apparent object is itself the infinity that has no limits. It is not that you are what you seek. It is that with no seeking, no question about who one is or is not arises. Love, Dan >> KKT: Because all affirmative statements are the beginning of illusion ;-)) Peace, KKT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2001 Report Share Posted June 5, 2001 Well said, Dan. ~ tomas What you seek is pleasure and not an object. So do not make the mistake of thinking that your mind wants this or that object. You do not want anything, only pleasure. And if you think that a particular object can give pleasure you go near it, but if it does not give satisfaction you will leave it alone and go to another place for another object. In this way, your life is spent looking for pleasure and not for a particular object which you really cannot find. And nowhere you will find this pleasure you are seeking - nowhere. Because it is not a commodity of this world. It belongs to some other realm altogether. - Swami KrishnanandaA well-articulated point, Krishnananda.As Malcolm X said: "You've been bamboozled, hoodwinked, conned"... You've come to believe that you are a bag of skin that needs to get things, experiences, food, contacts that give it something, pleasure, security, fulfillment, attention ...Believing this, you are repeatedly disappointed, and each disappointment is fuel for further seeking ...The pleasure you are seeking doesn't even belong to "some other realm altogether" ... Sri Krishnananda, why get them further hoodwinked into looking for some other realm?No -- the pleasure you are seeking doesn't exist. The one who seeks it, being a function of the search, dissolves when the search stops.Simply stop being bamboozled.Finally, the only one fooling you is you, yourself.As there are no objects, there is no object that can give pleasure, and no object that can have pleasure.As there are no objects, any apparent object is itself the infinity that has no limits.It is not that you are what you seek.It is that with no seeking, no question about who one is or is not arises.Love,Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2001 Report Share Posted June 5, 2001 mightn't Krishnaanada be referring to the realm of the heart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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