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EFTA00286476 | EFTA00286858 B. NATURE OF SORROW B./ Cause ofSorrow The problem of the untrained mind is that it tends to pick up indiscriminately on all the negative emotions of perceptions coming to us through the senses. The mind will not stay still but will constantly try to find some new perceptual food to feed the senses. However whatever sort of thing it senses, it will not stay with that thing for long, but will soon be on the move searching for something new. If you listen to some pleasant music, after only a few minutes you will become bored and start looking for something tasty to eat instead. Before you have eaten much, you think to yourself that you would rather lie down and take a sleep. Before you have been asleep for very long, you would rather go outside and take a walk. There is never any satisfaction with any particular sensation. Thus if anyone wants to live sorrowlessly in the world, they should avoid absent-mindedly falling in love and life will be that much easier. Possessive love doesn't just refer to people, but loving anything to the point you become attached — whether it be your house or your car. Anything that has anything to do with love is like a thorn that one day will produce sorrow. In spite of our common sense, and in full awareness of the perils of falling in love — however, circumstances sometimes get in the way of our better judgement. Many women decide they could better use their time devoting their time to their work or to their spiritual development, but they cannot stand be labeled an 'old maid' by their relatives so half-heartedly go looking for love. Some parents want to put an end to their responsibility for looking after their children so they There is only one sort of sensation with which the mind rush them to get married. never gets bored — and that is when one falls in love with someone or something. Such possessive love B.2 The Degree ofSorrow causes the mind to be fixated firmly with no more With relation to possessive love, Buddha taught: wandering. Once the mind has attached itself to pos"If you love a hundred (of them) you will have sessive love it can no longer get itself free. In such a a hundred measures of suffering; state of mind, any day you don't get a glimpse of your If you love 90 you will have 90 measures of suffering; lover, you feel that you have no appetite. Even to hear If you love 80 you will have 80 measures of suffering; their voice on the telephone, to see a glimpse of their If you love 70 you will have 70 measures of suffering; face, or to catch sight of their house can help to satisfy If you love 60 you will have 60 measures of suffering; you. If they love you in return, the suffering remains If you love 50 you will have 50 measures of suffering; within the limits of toleration — but what if they don't If you love 40 you will have 40 measures of suffering; love you in return? Or what if they start out by loving If you love 30 you will have 30 measures of suffering; you and later change their mind — or love someone If you love 20 you will have 20 measures of suffering; else — or die? It is at this point that the mind will If you love 10 you will have 10 measures of suffering; become so dry that it will feel like it will tear in two. If you love 5 you will have 5 measures of suffering; Now if you hear a love song, you would rather cry. If you love 4 - 3 - 2 -I of them, you will have 4 Now if someone invites you to go and see a romantic 3 - 2 -1 measure(s) of suffering. If you love noth movie, you would rather stay at home. From a mind ing and no-one when you will not have suffer that used to be interested in absorbing many different ing about anything. Such a person will be with stimuli, now it has had such an overload from the out suffering and without regrets as to their life. stimulus of falling in love that it no longer wants to In fact the existence of suffering, despair and absorb any stimuli at all. Thus, sorrow is like a withsorrow in the world is only brought about be drawal symptom from possessive love — in the words cause of the love we have for physical things. of the Buddha: When there is no further physical thing that we Piyatejhayate soko love (be it ow body, people, animals or posses Sorrow is caused by things that are dear to us sions) there will be no further suffering, despair and sorrow. Whosoever can put aside their love DhA.iii.277 EFTA00286858
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