Sunday, September 13, 2009

Interest

File Location:  My Words/Completion (What we know)\Achieving Awareness\Methodology\Interest/Interest


For one to make an effort to pay attention, and to wonder about something, first there needs to be interest, something that answers why they should do such a move,  something that catches your attention, but what does something need to have to get your attention? I have mentioned before that anything can be interesting but you must find the right way to look at it?  So the answer to become interested in something is to use your imagination to find a world, a world with such beliefs, a perspective in which a subject looks interesting... to find the right way to look at it.  But the question still remains, what is the right way to look at it? And what makes it the right way (other than achieving interest in an individual)? What is it that causes the interest? And what is interest exactly?
So what comes first, interest or attention?
When I give it my attention, I see that it is interesting, OR because it is in some way interesting, I give it my attention.
The interest comes from you, if you dont want to know, then you are not interested, that doesnt mean that the subject at hand is not interesting.  But sometimes a thing can catch your attention no matter how disinterested you are.  Its startling, no matter how dead you want to be.  This is because of the higher stimulation, (I wrote about situational stimulation and sensual stimulation before I took Davis’ class).  Remember that the more you feel the more it awakens you, it doesnt matter how much your desire is aiming for ignorance and death.  Out bodies are formed so that we cannot ignore the verb(? What about people that meditate and they like are completely out or something).  Anyways, I guess the fact that you cannot ignore higher forms of stimulation, and that it catches your attention, means that you still have some desire or element that  wants to live and feel.  But interest comes from within, when something cathes your attention it is because you are interested in living that much, that something of that magnitude, (classification of magnitude depends on yourself) awakens your senses, and makes you want to feel.  If you have more interest in living, then what ever you classify as  something that will make you live, you will be interested in.  But you can still reject when you fear something, even though it makes you feel, why is there rejection? Is rejection just another stimulation, or is it the result of classifying a subject as something that will not let you live?
So how would one make themself sensitive to smaller stimulations, so that they are interested in smaller stimulations (possibly everything).
The magnitude of the stimulation comes from the classification of the individual, so its not about making oneself sensitive, its about classifying things differently.  So you classify it into something that interests you, if you like harry potter than you see the harry potter version of it... no? Or you classify it as it is, but you try to understand the art in itself; you dont try to pick out what you like from it and make yourself the “herry potter” version of it in your mind.  But you make an effort to consume it as a whole, and you see the art in it, you see the good in it,  you try to understand it as it is, and you understand why to love it, what it makes you feel and in what state of mind you have to be in to enjoy it.
What it is that makes for you a state of mind can be checked in “worlds” file (..\..\..\..\Worlds\Subject Matter (worlds).docx)
:: for something to be interesting it has to have an unknown factor, for you to want to figure it out. But there are things that you dont know and you dont care about... so wats that all about? For something to be interesting, can it only be intricate but not unknown?  For something to be interesting, do I just have to classify it as something that spurs life, that catches my attention and that stimulates me so that I feel? Feel something... feel what?  What is that feeling that I search for when I have a dream to accomplish, that once I reach it, I realize that it is not how I pictured it, unless I look at it with the eyes of when I first dreamt about it, only then I feel as if I have reached a dream, am I still interested even though I am satisfied?
So from all this it seems that interest is not the primary goal. But to find ourselves in interest we must engage in perspectives, but to engage in perspectives we must be interested in living... and so we are forced to live, so we can choose.
So if to engage in perspectives we must be interested in living and vice versa, is there a way that this pattern is self-propelled once you give it a kickstart? Would that not mean that once we are given life we become eternal souls?
I feel something, I wonder what it is, so I am interested.. I wonder about it because I am interested, but where does interest come from? I am interested because I feel it, I feel its essential wonder, the things that I say to “I am not interested” it is because I do not feel its essential wonder, it is dead to me because I dont know it.  and this essential wonder keeps us in interest, until, we forget... but if we remember, we continue to love once again, like the first infatuation.
Does the incentive for interest come from the body?  How do you deal with hunger, if you are full, can you imagine and convince your mind that you are still craving? (no because when you lose the interest (you forget how you felt when you) of being hungry (and the art of eating), you realize other interests that you have forgotten as they were fogged down by hunger.
 Experiment – does the incentive for interest come from the body?  interest comes from an internal desire, a craving of anything, and you reflect it by respond to it in a wrong way, you dont know what you want so you express it in a wrong way, you can become interested in anything, because of the desire of being interested.  (if the incentive for interest comes from the body, that would be bad, because the body is corruptible and as we get old, we may lose that incentive... when we die, of course we will lose it, but how slow will it go away with age?  The more aware you are able to be with your body, the more you are able too feel the essential wonder.  Conclusion: There are things that lower your body’s ability  or desire to feel the essential wonder... (so far no experiment has been done) but the experiment should now answer a different question, does this such action, lower my ability to wonder.
Post conclusion, is there even such thing as lowering ability and desire to wonder? Or is it just that we misinterpret or do not know how to accept or receive the wonders from a particular source other than the things (those that “do not lower your ability to feel essential wonders”)
Essential wonder receptors – we all have them but as are raised to pay attention to only certain things our receptors are only tickled when we pay attention in the manner that we pay attention to those certain things.  But if we open our minds, then we will learn different ways to pay attention, if we are not raised to exclude, descriminate, if we are not taught prejudice, we would accept more ways to pay attention to something, and the wonders would be felt from every direction.  But still, we must consecrate ourselves to the Unknown, asking it for its blessing, to keep us safe as we practice our curiosity, as we avoid the inevitable. 

Now the more senses you have, the more ways you are able to feel essential wonders, you use your senses, you make an to pay attention, you observe the world and you use your imagination to interepret what it means.
Interpretation- because humans live by interpretations, they cannot see facts as they are, the interpretation comes from your mind.
You doont need to be interested in something to wonder about it, you can wonder why its suppose to be interesting, and as you give it your own interpretation, it may be one that initially interests you, if its not, then you should figure out what it really is. 
What it really is? Dont you just mean figure out an interprtation that interests you?
Uhh, yes. But you cant stop there for the sake of Life.
Even if you already found a way, it doesnt matter how best it may seem, you must look for others, whether they are better or worse.  Worse is good because now you know how to work in such conditions, or because now you learn more about the factors that make it go.  Better is good because... its better.
So the conclusion is... Listen
So ones job is to look for as many interpretations as possible, but what distinguishes, and is it correct to discriminate interpretations that are interesting from interpretations that are not? Does degrees in interest exist objectively?
The interpretation is something we make up on our own, the interest that we have in it is what we are able to feel from it.
And when something gets your interest, you must wonder about it and develop a world out of it, something useful, anything of anything.  When ever  we are interested in anything it is our duty to satisfy it, because it is a priviledge and an aadvantage that we must use. If we, as living beings are suppose to explore and rape this life as we love it, we are suppose to stuff ourselves with awareness of the things that interest us and the things that dont, but that still exist.  We are suppose to wonder about as much as we can, and it is just easier when we are interested, so dont let these interests fade.
Whatever you can give your attention to, do it for the sake of awareness.  Whenever you have a chance to observe, something look around

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