Mind Craving

The pleasures of the world take on many forms, but it’s the craving of the mind that makes one seek them. This craving can only be satisfied in stillness because when the mind is still there’s nothing to crave…

One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it craves pleasure most of the time. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse crave for pleasure. The mind wants to keep all the pleasure thoughts and discard the unpleasant ones. It spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s weaving in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars that you just passed pull up along side you, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it. The reason for doing this is strictly to satisfy the mind crave for pleasure. That your own mind questions why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of the way it has been conditioned to crave.

Pleasure seeking craving is not in our best interest, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes you think craving pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle and it loses its grip on you, you will see the fallacy of this. True pleasure is in stillness not in things; craving stillness is not the same craving for what the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. It’s only in stillness that cravings are truly satisfied, not because it’s given something, but because in stillness cravings don’t materialize so there’s nothing that needs to be satisfied…