The Reason Why

Nothing is done or held onto without a reason why and if the reason why isn't understood, you will unconsciously be controlled by what is done as if you were a puppet on a string…

When some feeling or emotion arises there a reason for it. Learn to see the reason why the emotions arise and the feelings that go along with it. Whatever arises has a reason why it does, and the sensation of it needs to be understood if your aren’t going to be blindly drawn in and controlled by it. Nothing is held onto without a reason why and if that isn't understood, you will unconsciously succumb to it as if you were a puppet on a string. Why people don't see how this holds them in captivity is because many of the things that are being held onto are used to make your identity and also the holding is done because your conditioning tells you what you are holding onto is needed. When the reason behind what arises is understood or at least noticed, there arises an awareness of what you are thinking. When this occurs there's the possibility it will fall away and in the process your made up stories fall away.

As stated before, why it's so difficult to see this is because what's being held onto is thought to be bringing you a pleasure of some kind, and it may be in some way, but it's not true pleasure because no object has the capability of providing true pleasure; one is easily deluded by this. Regardless of reason as to why you to think you need something to feel good (pleasure) the object becomes your prison regardless of what's used. So if the reason why something arises and is held onto isn't understood, you might as well just give in to your puppeteer because when your conditioning says it's time to do something you will have to do it because the conditioning in place isn’t understood…