Remembering Pleasure

Understanding the phenomenon of remembering is very important in breaking the chains of bondage because it’s the attachment to I that makes one only remember what’s pleasurable.

The phenomenon of how we remember things and constantly bringing them into the present is simply that, a phenomenon. Although this happens without it being realized, when it is realized it changes the way one views existence. Remembering how things truly are gets distorted in a way because they are viewed through the conditioning that’s in place. This conditioning mostly manifest in constantly seeking pleasure. Think of this, when someone dies no one gets up and says the person was a SOB, what’s usually said, borders on making the individual a saint and that’s regardless even if when alive the person was a SOB. This is the phenomenon that’s in place and until it is realized, one’s life is spent constantly seeking to make up pleasurable memories. The mind doesn’t like unpleasant memories so it makes up one’s to remember things pleasurable, regardless if they really were or even happened or not. This is part of the survival instinct engrained in us. Even those who remember painful events, they’re still used to find something pleasurable, even if to just push them away, hence this is why one reaches outside themselves for comfort.

Nobody reaches for anything for any other reason but to provide themselves comfort, but in this comfort seeking is so much unconscious suffering. Comfort pleasure, pleasure comfort, these two go hand in hand and until this is understood they’ll continue to cause one to suffer unconsciously. Understanding the phenomenon of remembering is very important in breaking the chains of bondage because it’s the attachment to I that makes one only remember what’s pleasurable. Even to the points of its own destruction I seeks pleasure, just look in any rehab or detox, every drug or drink of alcohol taken had the lure of pleasure associated with it or it wouldn’t have be taken, by understand this isn’t limited to just those things substances, this goes for anything that’s reached for. The mind defaults to what’s familiar and it uses pleasure as it’s lure and until it’s realized and remembered that this happens, one will continue to remember everyone as being a saint, at least that’s what’s said when they die.