What is pleasure and what is pain? I have defined pain already as per stress on some part of the body system. This definition satisfies me for now (tehe). So what is pleasure? Superlative functioning of some part of the body system? Per niente, I don’t think so. Pleasure seems esatto me esatto be something distinct, like verso scopo-system that joins other systems to its own expression. Pleasure is probably coincident with ‘love’. Which is puro say that ‘love’ is a typeof distilled ‘pleasure’. And not preciso say that ‘pleasure’ can’t be directed down dark alleyways. IOW, I’m exploring the intenzione that, just as we are being told that if we don’t suppress the modifications of the mind we will remain assimilated with those modifications and will not be able to anchor ourselves sopra our True-self, we are being told that pleasure and pain are both ramifications of the mind and thus occlude the forest of being that is our True-self. Mediante fact, this is precisely what we are being told because this Sutra is classifying the modifications of the mind.
Continuing esatto track the trails of this meaning, we find that ‘pleasure’ is much like lifting an object. Doing so stores potential energy for its fall. That is why we had sicuro lift it. The very physiological reality of experiencing pleasure necessarily creates the conditions for tensione sopra the absence of appropriate stimuli to nourish the pleasure’s embodiment’s minimum maintenance.
If you build per house, which is an enclosed space protected against the elements, you will need to repair the roof and the walls, sooner or later, because the nature of the house, to remain verso house, must be maintained sopra the face of its decay over time. So too with any pleasure. Puro experience pleasure is puro consign your future sicuro either the esaurimento of its absence or the requirement to pursue its conditions. That’s pretty clear. The fantasy that pleasure can be pursued indefinitely without ever incurring the cost of the esaurimento of its absence is just that, verso fantasy. One way preciso reconcile oneself with verso deep realization of the unavoidability of this reality is preciso renunciate pleasure. But if you can renunciate pleasure, why can’t you renunciate pain? Renunciating pleasure is just another kind of pain. Then again, if you can renunciate pleasure and pain, why bother renunciating anything at all?
Nerve Impulses:
Like Oogway says con Kung Gia Panda: “Quit, don’t quit. Noodles, don’t noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be.”
- Pratyaya
- Klesas
- Raga
- Dvesa
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We are told that this is one of the most well known Sutras of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Naturally, so! It is the definition of Yoga. And it speaks esatto https://datingranking.net/it/oasis-active-review/ everyone at all levels at once (even the most basic level, although the average ab-tightening westerner may have esatto concentrate verso minute or two in order puro appreciate the advice esatto focus on the happenings within their muscles and joints and organs and whatnot puro the exclusion of ordinary (inner dialogish) thought patterns).
…it defines with the help of only 4 (yoga, citti, vrtti, nirodhah) words the essential nature of Yoga. There are excretion concepts mediante every science which are of a basic nature and which must be understood aright if the student is onesto get verso satisfactory grasp of the subject as verso whole. The ideas underlying all the four words mediante this Sutra are of such per fundamental nature and the student should try sicuro grasp through study and reflection their real meaning. Of course, the significance of these words will become sufficiently clear only when the book has been studied thoroughly and the various aspects of the subject considered sopra their relation onesto one another. (pg 6)