The Evolution of How Pleasure Leads To Suffering.
Let's go deeper!
Hello beautiful people, and welcome to today's meditation. Today, let us discuss everyone's favourite thing. That is pleasure; what is pleasure? Does pleasure have anything to do with joy? What's the difference between one another? And most importantly, does pleasure lead to suffering?
Let us find out together in today's meditation. Let us go deeper. As you all know, the meditative inquiry is nothing if you do not practise it yourself. If I tell you an answer, that doesn't mean anything, and if you're listening without giving yourself in it 100 per cent, then there is nothing into it.
Everything that anyone says to you is just a nice story, but only if you do it yourself. If you watch, if you observe, that is when it means something. You have to try it for yourself, see, observe. In our previous meditation, we have talked about how to observe.
Now, let us inquire deeper into the meaning of pleasure. What is pleasure?
To understand pleasure, first, we have to understand how and why do we feel pleasure or experience it.
Let us say you observe something beautiful at that moment with a pure observation. While you are just watching that beautiful object that catches your attention, that object has absorbed you. What do I mean by that? I mean to say that object has observed your ego. There is only pure awareness watching, observing, and you feel that beautiful joy.
Now, what is joy? Joy is a natural state for you. It feels free and unpressured. To feel joy is our natural state, the state of joy and pure awareness. Pure existence is pure joy, and you have felt it so many times, but you were not aware that you were enjoying it.
As soon as your attention breaks away from the object that has absorbed you, there is a thought that says, wow, this was beautiful. I have to do this again. You now being caught in an unfree state. You are caught in a pressured state.
As soon as you start to think I am enjoying this, you are not enjoying this anymore. You have stepped away from that pure awareness, and as I talked in my previous meditations, you have divided yourself into observer and the observed. The observed was the object, and now you have created the observer who says it was beautiful. It is beautiful. But you are not anymore present in this presence.
It is not just enough to be now in the inner presence. You have to be aware and completely aware. You have to understand how your mind works, and you have to operate and be in control but without being controlled.
So, you have to work spontaneously, which is done when you are in a pure presence now. You have experienced joy, and it has passed. The observer says one thing, he says I have to do this again, I have to watch this again, and I have to have more experience like this.
The pressure to have pleasure is building up when you pursue happiness. That pressure robs you of the joyful moments of the presence. Being joyful is your natural state, but happiness is your unnatural created state. Be joyful instead of being happy.
We have to understand what experience is. If you are walking, for example, and you see something that you have never seen before. You are just watching that you are just present. You are entirely in a presence. And as soon as it comes, the brain has stored that information.
Now your mind can access it. What does a mind do if it says it was a pleasant experience and it was joyful. You will want more, and that is a pleasure. So, pleasure is something that we have already seen or experienced, and you want to see and experience more of it. You want to enjoy it again.
So, in pleasure, there is nothing new. There is only that which is already seen, already that's what is and already recognized. The mind wants to put in a category so that you can say I'm having a lot of pleasure. It was pleasurable, and I want more happiness by pressurising your feelings.
What has happened there? You have seen it. You have storied it in your mind. You have created the experience. Now, your mind wants more of that experience. It wants to see that again.
You can only experience that which you have already seen, and that is a pressure of pleasure. On the other hand, joy is constant. When you are in that joyful state, it is your natural state but without thinking. When you use your brain, or when your brain uses you, then you have a problem. You are no longer in a joyful state, but you have now broken down the joyful state into a pleasurable state with your mind. That leads to a problem. Being joyful is a natural state which comes naturally to you. But being happy is unnatural if it is created by your mind because the mind can quickly turn that happiness into unhappiness and sadness unexpectedly.
Now, as you all know and see, pleasure leads to suffering. Have you have seen something beautiful and experience it. Immediately after you have stored it in your mind, that is called pleasurable. Now, you want more of that pleasure. Your mind wants more, and what does it do?
The mind blocks all your joy of the now. You deprive yourself of enjoying right now, of being right now. Instead, your mind says I will be happy when I have more of that. I will be glad when I experience something beautiful again.
The moment you follow your mind expectations, you are caught in the loop, unaware. The mind catches up the loop when you are chasing that happiness which is the duality of it. The duality loop says I will be happy when my expectation is met. However, what if the expected happiness is not met. The unhappiness hook kicks in. You find yourself trapped in a sad state. The mind wins over you. You are unknowingly being controlled by your mind instead of you being in control of it.
On the other hand, pleasure is always there, continuously in the present state. However, it can never be experienced while you are caught by the mind dualities. Now, while you are waiting for that pleasure to happen again, you are experiencing problems. You are not happy; you are not joyful; you are only experiencing bad things.
So, mind record that's also, it records your bad experiences and feelings, and then it says I don't want this, I want only pleasure, and it goes even more profound. In that, it divides itself even more. It spreads like a multiplying sadness virus in your brain.
So you see, it's a wheel like a snowball, becoming bigger and bigger and bigger. And the only way to stop it is to release it. You can only remove it when you observe why it is happening, why is it there in the first place. Watch it with all your attention and be completely aware of why do you want the pleasure and why does it happen in the first place.
After knowing this understanding, please, do not think about it. Please do not say, oh yes, it was like this and that, oh, I understand it now. No, watch it, do it now, watch it completely. See in your mind, see your mind and your outside everything. You will have that aha moment when you recognize and be aware of it.
When you realize without thinking, you know pure intelligence is operating inside you. That is the highest intelligence. However, knowledge can be so close to that high intelligence. Understand that knowledge is limited. Every knowledge is limited in this world. No matter how much do you know, it is always limited, but pure intelligence is alive and is now. Always stay in your inner presence, your now moments.
You can only access it by letting all the knowledge go. You can only be in a presence. Please, as always, try it for yourself. Test it, do it now with me or later on. It doesn't matter. It will always be now, but if you do it and test it. You will see that it works in your life. Do not just say yeah, it was nice, yes, I will do it, but never do it.
Observe, watch without wanting anything to change, and you will observe a complete transformation inside you.
Thank you once more for being with me on today's meditation session. Until next time, stay healthy and infinite love to all of you people. And don't forget that you are your infinite I's and eyes.
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