another bob
18th December 2011, 18:23
Greetings, Friends!
Perhaps this might be an appropriate time for a bit of self-inquiry. For example, if we were to honestly examine our deepest personal motives behind the compelling interest in these various types of dramatic scenarios, we might recognize that we are always seeking to quell an internal sense of boredom, doubt, and discomfort by identifying ourselves with the plotline, in the same manner we use movies and related entetainments as a distraction from our personal sense of life-level dissatisfaction.
We are always stimulating the motor and thinking mechanisms to overcome boredom, doubt, and discomfort and achieve well-being and pleasure. But those very mechanisms, by being constantly stimulated and brought to a point of achieving some sort of enjoyment, become insatiable. We require more and more remarkable stimulations of body and mind to achieve a relative degree of pleasure. The more we think, for example, the more extraordinary our thinking must become to satisfy us. We become addicted to the pursuits we can engage through motor activity and thought, and we are constantly agitated by this motivation. We feel always haunted by our limitations, our difficulties, or boredom, doubt, and discomfort.
When we feel uncomfortable, we generally employ some physical means for achieving release or a sense of pleasure. Social life, sexuality, all kinds of physical activities are used as means for overcoming chronic discomfort. Likewise, because boredom is an emotional state, we are always seeking emotional stimulation through entertainments, the play of our relationships, aesthetic enjoyments. And we always seek to overcome doubt through activities of the mind, through reading, pursuing conventional knowledge, participating in speculative internet forums, and so on.
In the typical setting of the usual life, these means, physical, emotional, and mental, are constantly, chronically, in every moment, used in pursuit of a sense of pleasure, well-being, and release from these chronic difficulties. Fascination with space operas, world endings, alien involvements, conspiracy rumors, ascencion schemes, etc. all serve to distract us from the fundamental condition of boredom, doubt, and discomfort at the core of our experience.
We keep hoping that something will hapen externally to change this sense of dissatisfaction with existence, but it never does, because nothing that has happened, is happening, or will happen in the external world has the power to touch and heal the internal conflict and sense of separation from source we perceive at the heart of our being. In other words, we are always attempting to modify our experience by placing our bets on external changes, but this strategy is bound to fail, since only an internal revolution at the heart will break the spell of our self-imposed bondage.
Blessings!
Perhaps this might be an appropriate time for a bit of self-inquiry. For example, if we were to honestly examine our deepest personal motives behind the compelling interest in these various types of dramatic scenarios, we might recognize that we are always seeking to quell an internal sense of boredom, doubt, and discomfort by identifying ourselves with the plotline, in the same manner we use movies and related entetainments as a distraction from our personal sense of life-level dissatisfaction.
We are always stimulating the motor and thinking mechanisms to overcome boredom, doubt, and discomfort and achieve well-being and pleasure. But those very mechanisms, by being constantly stimulated and brought to a point of achieving some sort of enjoyment, become insatiable. We require more and more remarkable stimulations of body and mind to achieve a relative degree of pleasure. The more we think, for example, the more extraordinary our thinking must become to satisfy us. We become addicted to the pursuits we can engage through motor activity and thought, and we are constantly agitated by this motivation. We feel always haunted by our limitations, our difficulties, or boredom, doubt, and discomfort.
When we feel uncomfortable, we generally employ some physical means for achieving release or a sense of pleasure. Social life, sexuality, all kinds of physical activities are used as means for overcoming chronic discomfort. Likewise, because boredom is an emotional state, we are always seeking emotional stimulation through entertainments, the play of our relationships, aesthetic enjoyments. And we always seek to overcome doubt through activities of the mind, through reading, pursuing conventional knowledge, participating in speculative internet forums, and so on.
In the typical setting of the usual life, these means, physical, emotional, and mental, are constantly, chronically, in every moment, used in pursuit of a sense of pleasure, well-being, and release from these chronic difficulties. Fascination with space operas, world endings, alien involvements, conspiracy rumors, ascencion schemes, etc. all serve to distract us from the fundamental condition of boredom, doubt, and discomfort at the core of our experience.
We keep hoping that something will hapen externally to change this sense of dissatisfaction with existence, but it never does, because nothing that has happened, is happening, or will happen in the external world has the power to touch and heal the internal conflict and sense of separation from source we perceive at the heart of our being. In other words, we are always attempting to modify our experience by placing our bets on external changes, but this strategy is bound to fail, since only an internal revolution at the heart will break the spell of our self-imposed bondage.
Blessings!