Lust is a Mirror

[Monster Energy]

Starting to see that lust isn’t really about the other person.

It feels like they have something, beauty, energy, aliveness, but the actual experience is happening within me.

So what I’m really chasing isn’t the form, but a state of consciousness that gets triggered through the form.

This explains obsession

you think the source is “out there,” so you keep chasing it.

But if you look directly, the feeling is self-generated.

At the same time, it’s not like the other person is irrelevant. The form still matters as a trigger.

So it’s like

the experience is internal

the trigger is external

Still trying to see clearly where projection ends and actual connection begins.

 

[No1Here2c]

Perfect. 

Apply this principle to all of experience that you know.

Due to the nature of human mind, it seems to create 'artifacts' which appear to exist 'out there' but really originate within the mind itself. It is almost like a glitch in the mind. Mind cannot recognize mind due to self-reinforcement.

Mind cannot precisely recognize where it is being reflected back into itself due to a recursive feedback like nature, which leaves blindspots in it's wake on due part of it's very own functioning. If the mind begins to recognize where the feedback is occuring, consciousness may be able to sneak in & better consciously direct it.

Perceptual experience is a deep reflection of oneself.

Oneself is a deep reflection of all of existence.

Something like that anyways. Don't take my word for it. Go find it yourself. Launch a personal investigation into the Nature of your own Mind.

Words begin to fail here. Words as an aspect of the mind, cannot seem to get around and capture the entire whole of how mind experientially functions.

Awareness must become involved if you wish to grasp what is said here. Conscious insight must be had, rather than more feedback loop thought patterning.

Edited 7 hours ago by No1Here2c

[No1Here2c]

World shapes mind, mind shapes world, world shapes mind, mind shapes world.

This is a fundamental challenge to understand & consciously direct.

[Monster Energy]

@No1Here2c Great comments 

[enchanted]

1 hour ago, Monster Energy said:

Starting to see that lust isn’t really about the other person.

It feels like they have something, beauty, energy, aliveness, but the actual experience is happening within me.

So what I’m really chasing isn’t the form, but a state of consciousness that gets triggered through the form.

This explains obsession

you think the source is “out there,” so you keep chasing it.

But if you look directly, the feeling is self-generated.

At the same time, it’s not like the other person is irrelevant. The form still matters as a trigger.

So it’s like

the experience is internal

the trigger is external

Still trying to see clearly where projection ends and actual connection begins.

 

Insightful thanks for sharing 

[No1Here2c]

45 minutes ago, Monster Energy said:

@No1Here2c Great comments 

Only so if it sparks true awareness of the circumstance at hand.

I recommend a commitment to mindfulness & self observation.

A steadfast determination to contemplation & contemplative journaling is important too!

Edited 6 hours ago by No1Here2c
Question question question & then question your questions

[Hojo]

God is showing you objects, these objects are showing you emotions you have.

Edited 6 hours ago by Hojo

[Monster Energy]

1 hour ago, No1Here2c said:

Only so if it sparks true awareness of the circumstance at hand.

I recommend a commitment to mindfulness & self observation.

A steadfast determination to contemplation & contemplative journaling is important too!

Mindfulness and journaling can help, sure.

But I wonder if there’s a point where observation turns into over-analysis, and you end up watching life instead of fully engaging with it

 

[Monster Energy]

2 hours ago, enchanted said:

Insightful thanks for sharing 

Thank you! 

[Monster Energy]

1 hour ago, Hojo said:

God is showing you objects, these objects are showing you emotions you have.

I agree with that perspective.

 

[LastThursday]

4 hours ago, Monster Energy said:

It feels like they have something, beauty, energy, aliveness, but the actual experience is happening within me.

This is true, and it continues to be true no matter how close you get. But if you give it the benefit of the doubt, then you have a mutual synchronicity of experience, two mirrors looking into each other infinitely reflecting.