Mindless Pleasures

[David Morris]

As you noticed, I edited that line out. It was a late night muddle before
sleep took me away.

The default state is our waste groove which predates sentience: fear of
annihilation:  That base fear experienced by birth-ejection from that soft
smooth original palace of womb to death threatening traumatic convulsions
of birth.  Original Fear.

The default state is fear, and rightly so.  So it is no wonder that all of
history is an escape attempt from that origin.  Life starts with fear of
death.  Learning to relax in the midst of such fear is the goal, because
there is no escape from it. That is Zen.  And, no, I don't have it.  Just a
novice.

David Morris


On Monday, March 24, 2014, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Gotta love " waste groove of sentience" esp in our context...
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:20 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> Mindful Pleasure.
> The default state of all beings, and the waste groove of sentience in
> those thus capable, but few are capable.
>
> In V. Pynchon contrast Benny versus Stencil.  Neither is mindful.
> Benny is all  Earthiness, pleasure, here and now.
> Stencil is all theory, mentality, fear of experience.
> Neither is mindful, but they are opposites.
>
> So what is mindful pleasure?
>
> Not Benny nor Stencil.
> It is elusive in Pynchon's writing.
>
> On Sunday, March 23, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
>> Mindless:
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mindless
>> 1
>> *a* *:*  marked by a lack of mind or consciousness <a *mindless*sleep>
>> *b **(1)* *:*  marked by or displaying no use of the powers of the
>> intellect <*mindless* violence> *(2)* *:*  requiring little attention or
>> thought; *especially* *:*  not intellectually challenging or stimulating
>> <*mindless* work> <a *mindless* movie>
>>
>> Pleasures:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure<*mindless* of the consequences>
>> *Pleasure* describes the broad class of mental states that humans<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans> and
>> other animals <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals>experience as
>> positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking. It includes more specific mental
>> states such as happiness <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness>,
>> entertainment <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment>, enjoyment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjoyment>
>> , ecstasy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_(emotion)>, and euphoria<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_(emotion)>.
>> Inpsychology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology>, the pleasure
>> principle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_principle_(psychology)> describes
>> pleasure as a positive feedback<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback> mechanism,
>> motivating the organism to recreate in the future the situation which it
>> has just found pleasurable. According to this theory, organisms are
>> similarly motivated to avoid situations that have caused pain<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering> in
>> the past.[*citation needed
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]
>>
>
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