The Buddha taught that the beings in the world – which means the world in our own minds – are constantly situated in the realm of sensual desire. We experience sensuality carrying us away. We constantly are traveling around in the realm of desires, based on desirable objects.
Desirable objects actually refer to this very “self” and the material things that relate to it. They make us feel obsessed, infatuated and captured. That’s why the Buddha taught us to make an effort to see these processes in the world and ourselves with insight. If we focus on these processes in accordance with their true nature, we’ll recognize them as experiences which are not fully perfect and evidently deficient.
One needs to realize that infatuation with the world is a state of imperfection which leads us to experience discomfort and all kinds of sorrow and bereavement. Both pain and pleasure, good and evil eventually cause us to feel imprisoned in a state of suffering that burns us up.
We need to make an effort to see this in order to react to it and change our attitudes towards it, seeing the danger in the round of existence. We become one who is alert and careful when he relates to the world, becoming someone who sees worldliness as something to get rid of, along with all the associated infatuations, involvements, and entanglements. In turn we aspire for liberation and escape from our identity and self.
(The Teachings of Luang Por Liem)
(The Teachings of Luang Por Liem)
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