A Modus Operandi of Lust - (550)

Introduction

With lust we think that we have to experience in some way another person and there seems to be no way out of it. We just have to come into some sort of experience with another person and that is it, or if not, we just have to entirely sacrifice lust and that seems really hard, so we end up in a real fix.

However, as you may suspect that is a state brought about due to a lack of understanding, and therefore with understanding it can be remedied.

Modus Operandi

What is going on inside of ourselves is a projection of pleasure and that projection actually creates pleasurable sensations in our centres especially the sexual centre. So then that projection only appears given some triggers and there are two triggers. One trigger is some sort of contact with another person, and the second trigger is our imagining or thinking about that contact.

Tricked

So then we get fooled into thinking that we need the other person to provide this pleasure which is really the pleasure that we give ourselves by that projection of our mind creating those pleasurable sensations and feelings. What we really want is the pleasure that we give to ourselves which comes from that projection or exaggeration. Because we think that to have that pleasure we need that physical trigger we desire the other person.

The trick is to undo the projection or exaggeration or swell of emotions and thoughts that are the pleasure that we create for ourselves. If we do that then the desire for the physical trigger will automatically dissolve.

Proof

The proof of this is that when a person comes into contact with another person with a totally blank mind then the real sensations or thoughts and emotions will be felt. The result is to see what is real and one sees that there is really not much or there is not such a big deal there. Certainly, not too much to obsess over and fall head over heels in desire for.

So then what we lust over is our own mental inflation or exaggeration of sensation, emotion and thoughts that lead to the out of control excitement of the emotional and sexual centres.

Conclusion

A silent mind reveals to us what is real and allows us to see our own illusion. The key is to dissolve our own illusion which we have come to desire. If we break that illusion the desire for it will diminish and then our state of affairs in relation to desire toward the opposite sex will be modified. There will be a more real, balanced perception that allows us to be in control of our centres and allows us to remember the Being.

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