Keep in mind, these are notes.
We do not suffer as a result of clinging in the sense that there is a self that clings to intentions, i.e., desire. Those habits of clinging, or better, the habits that are clinging generate and configure conventional experience carrying the narratives and accompanying feelings that are the self-sense. Do we really believe that we wish to cling to feelings of frustration when circumstances either obstruct our intentional path or cling to the pleasure that arises when there is an apparent fulfillment of desires so that in future the frustration noted here is also fostered? Do you really believe that we consciously enter into such a bargain with experience?
At any given moment the self--as the movement of a circumstantially and meaningfully situated self-sense inclusive of narrative and feeling-motion (kinestheses)--fosters other narratives that again say an ephemeral sense of a self into existence along with its correlative ephemeral circumstance. This motion may carry on for some time instituting itself as a habit doomed to eventual difficulty. This is a feedback loop that moves along with such ephemeral rapidity that it mostly goes unattended. Once open and simple attention is pointed in its direction the process may collapse and a pregnant pause may ensue that may open a door to actually witness this elusive and often tragic program. We humans are mere programming. We do, however, have one ace in the hole, awareness. Awareness, whether we conceptualize it as consciousness or some other sort of reality, is of no consequence. It is simply a living and breathing movement of witnessing what is going on. It has little to say about itself, in fact, it says nothing about itself. It is what it is whatever that is.
There are habits of clinging, or shall we say, habits the ephemeral movement of which are themselves the carriers of who, what, when, where, why, how, and so on and on and on.
We do not suffer as a result of clinging in the sense that there is a self that clings to intentions, i.e., desire. Those habits of clinging, or better, the habits that are clinging generate and configure conventional experience carrying the narratives and accompanying feelings that are the self-sense. Do we really believe that we wish to cling to feelings of frustration when circumstances either obstruct our intentional path or cling to the pleasure that arises when there is an apparent fulfillment of desires so that in future the frustration noted here is also fostered? Do you really believe that we consciously enter into such a bargain with experience?
At any given moment the self--as the movement of a circumstantially and meaningfully situated self-sense inclusive of narrative and feeling-motion (kinestheses)--fosters other narratives that again say an ephemeral sense of a self into existence along with its correlative ephemeral circumstance. This motion may carry on for some time instituting itself as a habit doomed to eventual difficulty. This is a feedback loop that moves along with such ephemeral rapidity that it mostly goes unattended. Once open and simple attention is pointed in its direction the process may collapse and a pregnant pause may ensue that may open a door to actually witness this elusive and often tragic program. We humans are mere programming. We do, however, have one ace in the hole, awareness. Awareness, whether we conceptualize it as consciousness or some other sort of reality, is of no consequence. It is simply a living and breathing movement of witnessing what is going on. It has little to say about itself, in fact, it says nothing about itself. It is what it is whatever that is.
There are habits of clinging, or shall we say, habits the ephemeral movement of which are themselves the carriers of who, what, when, where, why, how, and so on and on and on.
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