Tag:  Pain

• So long as the animal is petted he reacts nicely, but the moment he is antagonized the whole violence of his nature comes out. April 12, 2010

  You will be able to see for yourself how you are conditioned only when there is a conflict in the continuity of pleasure or the avoidance of pain. If everything is perfectly happy around you, your...

• Questioner: Why must the I process be eliminated? December 11, 2013

  Questioner: Is the fact of this constant flux not enough to make us identify? It seems to me that we cling to something called the me, the self, for it is a pleasant habit of sound. We know a river...

• Our whole social, economic and psychological structure is based on the desire for profit and gain, on pleasure and pain; that which is pleasurable we accept and that which is not pleasurable we reject. July 22, 2014

  Our whole social, economic and psychological structure is based on the desire for profit and gain, on pleasure and pain; that which is pleasurable we accept and that which is not pleasurable we rej...

• As long as the mind is seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, there cannot be love. July 23, 2014

  As long as the mind is seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, there cannot be love. We misuse the word love when we call this love. We do not really know what love means.