Action, Instinct and Awareness

Post date: Aug 5, 2011 1:18:23 PM

Thought (essentially through verbalization) and instinct (actual arising in the body and brain) are always in fighting mode.

Thought wants to win the fight by suppression or indulgence.

Understanding dawns when this attempt is spontaneously aborted. There arises a fused compromise between thought and instinct.

“I want to eat sugar. Thought comes in and stops that it is not good for health. Now if I eat sugar, there is friction in the mind. If I do not eat it, I am satisfied that I have controlled my senses. To overcome the friction of not eating, I want to convert it into my satisfaction of winning over my senses. This satisfaction is also a friction as it involves sacrificing the taste of sugar.

Can I watch that whatever side I choose, it will cause friction? Can I ignore this game of the mind, which wants to allure me, satisfy me in some thing or some idea? Can you watch the futility of selecting any side?

Just see one thing is sure to happen, you will eat sugar or you will not.

Can you step back and see the workings of your mind?

Can you ignore the satisfaction given by eating sugar or leaving sugar? The factual taste of sugar, which your senses sense has little to do with this game of the mind. The game of the mind is to drag you towards some satisfaction continuously.

Can you be aware of this mechanism?

The satisfaction enjoyed by you whether by eating or leaving sugar is sure to boomerang. It is always partial as the friction is looming side by side this satisfaction. The awareness of this mechanism is an invitation to ‘wholeness’ to operate. It will not matter whether the result is eating sugar or leaving sugar. You enjoy a sense of freeness by ignoring the satisfaction. This freedom is not dependent upon results.”- From You are Trapped.