Im becoming aware of my desire for spiritual pleasure, knowledge, love, peace etc

[skydog]

If seeking sexual, sensual, financial things is supposebly unwise.

Then so is seeking joy, bliss, wisdom, spiritual pleasure. (to an extent, paradoxical that you need a drive too)

 

If your constantly seeking spiritual pleasure then your in the trap of time,your clinging and running away from..

 

Observe without the observer, without time and without clinging or running away from things.

[Informer]

If seeking sexual, sensual, financial things is supposebly unwise.

Then so is seeking joy, bliss, wisdom, spiritual pleasure. (to an extent, paradoxical that you need a drive too)

 

If your constantly seeking spiritual pleasure then your in the trap of time,your clinging and running away from..

 

Observe without the observer, without time and without clinging or running away from things.

 

Is feeling love observing without the observer?

[konchog uma]

i think attachment is the crux of the issue, meaning that as long as we have a physical body we will experience pleasure and pain, so we will like pleasure and dislike pain. In that sense, its just a toward/away response that many people have tried to sublimate, but most just frustrate themselves into neurosis of some sort.

 

but if you seek bliss without attachment to bliss, what is the harm of bliss? perhaps there is nothing so wrong with accepting bliss and the practices which bring it. As long as one does not become unbalanced or think that their bliss is not interconnected with suffering, who cares? it is inevitable that we seek spiritual truth and the happiness it brings. Life is not static, we have to do something. The ideal of just sitting in stillness until you die is not a healthy one according to many schools of spirituality.