Day One Hundred and Fifty One

Pleasant experience has a seed of liberation in it, because it is liberation. It is becoming free from a particularly less biologically well state to a more well one. For instance, warmth is comfortable only in its movement from cool. Too much warmth is unhealthy and unpleasant, and then cool is pleasant. We can work with pleasant states by watching our enjoyment of them while letting go of the desire to hold on to them. They deepen toward ecstasy, until at last they change.

Our attitude toward unpleasant states can be a sharp letting go, which can move us toward ecstasy also.

Unfortunately, many states that are temporarily pleasant are not in the long run biologically good for us, such as the use of certain drugs, or adrenaline-producing activities which are harmful. But those mimic healthy states.

Then there is the problem of stasis. States need to change in order to be healthy. The eagle's eyes are sharp because it is hungry. We lose our healthy response to natural rhythms of hunger and eating, dark and light, moisture and dry, cold and warm because of our craving for things to stay as they are or to be different than they are (which is just about the same craving).

Concentration is the one place to stay that does not latch, does not need to move. It is outside of biology, it bounds it temporaly and spatialy.