Others ~ Selected Correspondence

Delight

I think I may be looking for the chemical highs when ordinary life begins to look too dull and boring. But why does life look dull and boring at times? Just observing the creep of the feeling of boredom, an interesting emotion (?), into one’s life and routine provides plenty of opportunity for exploration. I think I may seek the chemical highs as a means of assuring myself that there actually is a ‘me’ there, because when things get too ordinary or comfortable ‘I’ am afraid there is no ‘me’ left. So, ‘I’ want the excitement of ‘plumbing the depths’, rather than settling for the more durable sensory pleasures and delights of everyday life which are always apparent: the scrumptious feel of the wind on my face on a late fall day, the hearty and pleasing smell of wood-smoke, the exquisite pleasures of a piping hot cup of coffee on a cold morn, etc. One becomes inured to the pathos and emotional turmoil of life and simply overlooks or misses all the simple satisfactions of a life freed from the emotional ups and downs. So this business of seeking to ‘plumb the depths’ has its’ drawbacks.

There is a time for that when the opportunity presents itself but there is also a time (any time actually) to savour the rewards of typical everyday life. One, I think, becomes more practiced in living life as a sensory experience rather than living life from an emotionally-charged, affective orientation. Gary to Peter

This actual world is chocked full of eye candy – to use the current web jargon – full of smell candy, air candy, people candy, touch candy, taste candy, skin candy, sound candy. This planet is a literal cornucopia of sensual delight and we human beings have the most sophisticated brain that is wired via its proliferate sensory receptors to be a receptor, an appreciator, able to think, reflect and contemplate ... and to be aware it is doing it!

What it is to be a human being is to be the universe experiencing itself as a human being.

This is the quality of experiencing available only in a pure consciousness experience.

Yes. There are so many things to observe and notice around you in the actual physical world. Everything is fascinating in its’ own right and imbued with a vibrancy and aliveness that is truly startling. It is amazing that we are able to see all this, hear all this, touch all this. When one focuses on the senses, all objects become alive, almost as if there is as much life in that chair as in that human being sitting right in front of you. The most mundane things become wonderfully vibrant and alive with colour and texture. The visual sense is tremendously heightened, I find. All senses are heightened really. Gary to Peter

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