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.

 

[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 

[Hojo]

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

Edited May 5 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.