2002-10-02 Desire 59:51
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The useful point he brought out is that it's not particular things we are attached to, it's how they make us feel.
So when we find ourselves thinking "I'm not attached to X (drinking a cup of tea was one of his examples)..." it can be helpful to look at what feelings are generated by the object or action.
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Then in him who enjoys sensual happiness, an underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feelings comes to underlie (his mind). He does not know, according to facts, the arising and ending of these feelings, nor the gratification, the danger and the escape, connected with these feelings.
Mike