Aversion
What is meant by ‘aversion’?
When a hand is inadvertently placed on a hot stove, the guidance of pain is felt.
In accordance with feeling, intelligence & guidance; the hand is removed from the stove.
Feeling, intelligence & guidance aren’t conceptualized, philosophized, believed to be existential, complex, known, understood, debatable, definable, justifiable or labelled in any way. Feeling, intelligence & guidance are simply listened to as it were.
Just as pain is guidance, emotion is guidance.
To mentally avert away from the guidance of emotion is to conceptualize & label, emotion.
Aversion sounds like me, my, mine, I’m, I know, I understand, you, you don’t know, you don’t understand, you’re lacking this or that, etc.
Aversion is a game of shuffling three cups while there is no peanut. It’s believing arising justifications & rationalizations to believe emotions aren’t experienced, or that emotions have a cause or are caused.
If & when aversion occurs, it’s in spite of the discord or suffering felt, and the point is true liberation of suffering.
Aversion is the mental activity of labelling, conceptualizing, defending, arguing, justifying & rationalizing - in an attempt to feel better, while the mental activity is the aversion from feeling, and is what’s felt.
Perpetuation of aversion is continuing to hold attention on discordant outlooks, thoughts, beliefs & interpretations, in spite of the fact discord, or, suffering - is felt.
Aversion is suppressive & opposite to the relief & clarity of expression, inspection & self-discovery.
As attention is withdrawn from the activity of thinking, the body naturally de-contracts of the tension & stress of aversion.
As attention is placed on feeling breathing in the stomach, the mind clears, and therein so too does the discord as well. This is ‘taking your hand off the stove’, or listening to the inherent, intrinsic guidance.
In the absence of aversion… the true nature arises, ‘fills you up’ - as naturally & effortlessly as helium.
Un-obscured & unfettered; you float.