January 17, 2011

I notice how there is a correlation between the type of thoughts I am thinking and the type of external experience I am undergoing; though I may not be aware of the external experience, it still influences my thoughts.

I think about detachment and desire may work something like this.  In a stupefied state of mind, you live your day. Your body is used to getting ice-cream every day since you were born, this is so habitual you don’t even think about it.

Once in a while you wake up to the flavor of ice-cream, but ince , the waking doesn’t last long, you don’t even notice why you began to think about ice-cream, and now you say, “I wish I had ice-cream”.  The dynamics of this work in such a way that if you just paid attention, you would realize that the only reason you are able to desire ice-cream, is because you already have it…  Have you ever had a deep desire to fly?  Have you ever wished you were in a better world?  Have you ever wished to be with someone? …  The only reason why you are able to desire it is because you do have access to it.  Desire as extensions of subtle realizations.