RE : Pleasure And Pain

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--- Pete S <pedsie5 a écrit :

 

 

 

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all

intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in

the mind. Change your scale of values and all will

change. Pleasure and pain are mere disturbances

of the senses; treat them equally and there will be

only

bliss. And the world is, what you make it; by all

means make it happy. Only contentment can make you

happy -- desires fulfilled breed more desires.

Keeping

away from all desires and contentment in what comes by

itself is a very fruitful state-- a precondition to

the state

of bliss. Don't distrust its apparent sterility and

emptiness. Believe me, it is the satisfaction of

desires

that breeds misery. Freedom from desires is bliss.

 

Q: How am I to fight desire? There is nothing

stronger.

 

M: The waters of life are thundering over the rocks

of

objects -- desirable or hateful. Remove the rocks by

insight and detachment and the same waters will flow

deep

and silent and swift, in greater volume and with

greater

power. Don't be theoretical about it, give time to

thought and consideration; if you desire to be free,

neglect not the nearest step to freedom. It is like

climbing a mountain; not a step can be missed. One

step

less -- and the summit is not reached.

 

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

So fulfilled desires are pleasurable yet binding,

When to not identifie with desires brings deep

contentment.

 

Patricia

 

 

 

 

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