Subtle things


Almost all of our life is spent chasing or avoiding subtle things. What are these subtle things.

These are things that you experience yourself and cannot be seen by others.
For example Joy, Pain, Happiness, Pleasure, Excitement, Enjoyment, Satisfaction, Love, belonginess, Security.

How about other things such as money, relationships etc, in essence they boil down to the pursuit of subtle things.

Who is the one that knows subtle objects, it is you as attention.

Why do we pursue subtle things? We want to get pleasure and avoid pain. 

This is because we are missing the knowledge that we are attention, and do not know the clarity and peace of the state wherein we do not attend to subtle things.

For almost all of us, life is a game of aversion to certain subtle things and attraction or pursuit of other subtle things, in either case whether we have an aversion or attraction to a subtle thing, attention is grabbed by it. Since I am attention, another way to put is that I get stuck to this subtle object.

This manner of living is like a tedious game, with nothing to show for the enormous effort spent in it. Ultimately subtle things keep arising and disappearing by themselves and are not in our control. We keep getting stuck onto them and they keep throwing us off center.

Through meditation the habitual grooves through where attention flows to subtle things become weaker, and over time you will only attach to subtle things, if absolutely necessary otherwise you will remain free of attachment. You will experience yourself as attention and the clarity and peace which is your inherent state when you are not attached to subtle things.


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