THE NATURAL RESPONSES
Before we examine the natural unstained responses, we will examine the experiences of Suffering that are so debilitating for each person in varying degrees.
THE CYCLE OF THE UNPLEASURABLE EXPERIENCES OF SUFFERING
UNNATURAL DEMANDS OF IDENTITIES
INCORRECT ATTITUDE of:
CRAVING AND CLINGING
accompanied by
IDENTITY EXPECTATION. PLEASURABLE ANTICIPATION
RESULTANT INCORRECT INTENTION
UNNATURAL INTERNAL CONDITIONS
UNNATURAL STRESS
as a result there is:
INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR
NEGATIVE OUTCOME
UNNATURAL MENTAL STATE
CRAVING INCREASE
COMMON SUFFERING
INCREMENTS THE STRENGTH OF THE UNNATURAL DEMANDS
If there is a POSITIVE OUTCOME for the Idenity in question
UNNATURAL MENTAL STATE
PLEASURE OF ATTACHMENT
CLINGING INCREASE
COMMON SUFFERING
Yet it still
INCREMENTS THE STRENGTH OF THE UNATURAL DEMANDS
CLINGING INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR
ACTIVE CLINGING
INCREMENTS THE STRENGTH OF THE UNATURAL DEMANDS
IN CONSTRUCTION
THE POSITIVE CYCLE OF THE NATURAL CONFIRMING EXPERIENCES
CORRECT ATTITUDE
RISE OF POTENTIAL GLADNESS
CORRECT INTENTION
NATURAL EMPATHY (COMPASSION)
NATURAL INTERNAL CONDITIONS
NATURAL POSITIVE STRESS
BENEVOLENT AFFECT
CORRECT APPROACH BEHAVIOUR
NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE OUTCOME
NATURAL MENTAL STATE of EQUANIMITY
WELL BEING reinforcing CORRECT ATTITUDES
In the lists, although it is difficult to determine because of the cyclic nature of both the UNNATURAL and NATURAL conditions, you will see that the EXPERIENCES of GLADNESS, COMPASSION, and BENEVOLENT LOVE are CONFIRMING CONSEQUENCES of CORRECT ATTITUDES, CORRECT INTENTIONS, and CORRECT ACTIONS.
This means that in the natural state, the human creature promotes ATTITUDES, INTENTIONS, and ACTIONS in CONSCIOUS AWARENESS and then attains related experiences, while in the unnatural state it is the importance of IDENTITY EXPERIENCES which dictate ATTITUDES, INTENTIONS, and ACTIONS which lead to ATTACHEMENT.
In the former natural state it is the natural WISDOM which directs the human creature, while in the latter it is the IGNORANCE of the IDENTITIES.
THE RAW EXPERIENCE
Look at diagrams which show the model of THE CORRELATED MIND EXPERIENCES OF SUFFERING and you will find a most important element which we have not discussed. It is the RAW EXPERIENCE. Actually this RAW EXPERIENCE is in itself a neutral event. It is the MIND once more that either interprets the state CORRECTLY without the presence of AFFLICTION or INCORRECTLY if the mind is AFFLICTED.
That RAW EXPERIENCE signals either EQUILIBRIUM, which promotes a state of tranquil neutrality, or DISEQUILIBRIUM, which dictates either an avoidance or approach response. In a healthy individual the state of EQUILIBRIUM results in an experience of WELL BEING, and in the case of a state of DISEQUILIBRIUM an experience of CONFLICT and UNEASINESS which is a NATURAL MOTIVATING FORCE, a driving force to restore EQUILIBRIUM.
In a person afflicted by IDENTITY DEMANDS the state of EQUILIBRIUM results in the IDENTITY PLEASURE of ATTACHMENT with its attached CLINGING, while DISEQUILIBRIUM results in a generalized experience of IDENTITY DISTRESS which is an unnatural motivational state which promotes activity to satisfy the IDENTITIES.
Think of that RAW EXPERIENCE as a glass of water which can change its colour. it turns blue when all is in equilibruium and red when there is disequilibrium. In the healthy individual there is a correct experiencing of REDNESS and BLUENESS. If the IDENTITIES get in on the act it is a condition in which a glass rod (IDENTITIES) stirs the water in the glass to a state of complete agitation. The BLUENESS and REDNESS remain the same, but there is no longer a correct perception of that BLUENESS or REDNESS. All that is experienced is the AGITATION. Remember this analogy, for it will be very important later.
ALTERNATIVE CYCLES OF RAW EXPERIENCE INTERPRETATIONS
NATURAL SYSTEM UNNATURAL DEMAND SYSTEM
RAW EXPERIENCE
EQUILIBRIUM DISEQUILIBRIUM EQUILIBRIUM DISEQUILIBRIUM
WELL BEING CONFLICT PLEASURE DISTRESS
UNEASINESS (ATTACHMENT)
CORRECT ATTITUDES DRIVE
CORRECT INTENTIONS ANTICIPATION
CORRECT ACTIONS ATTACHMENT
CONFIRMING BUDDHA NATURE
GLADNESS CRAVING
COMPASSION EXPECTATION
BENEVOLENT LOVE COMMON SUFFERING
EQUANIMITY CLINGING
DELIGHT
INCORRECT ATTITUDES
INCORRECT INTENTIONS
INCORRECT ACTIONS
REINFORCES IDENTITY DEMANDS
In all waking conditions, the human creature is in a state of EQUILIBRIUM or DISEQUILIBRIUM which has the RAW EXPERIENCE projected to the SCREEN OF CONSCIOUSNESS, the character of which depends upon the presence of a NATURAL STATE or an IDENTITY-AFFLICTED STATE.
Remember that THE IDENTITY DEMAND which is experienced as CRAVING creates the conditions which promote DRIVING PLEASURE; THE IDENTITY EXPECTATION promotes PLEASURABLE ANTICIPATION; and the IDENTITY-dominated MENTAL STATES which promote MENTAL SUFFERING provide the PLEASURE OF ATTACHMENT and CLINGING.
When CORRECT ATTITUDES, CORRECT INTENTIONS, and CORRECT ACTIONS are activated in response to the MOTIVATION induced by DISEQUILIBRIUM, then WELL BEING is experienced. Remember also that the experienced states of WELL BEING and CONFLICT UNEASINESS are the CONSEQUENCES of EQUILIBRIUM and DISEQUILIBRIUM, while GLADNESS, COMPASSION, and BENEVOLENT LOVE are the CONSEQUENCES of CORRECT ATTITUDES, CORRECT INTENTIONS, and CORRECT ACTIONS.
These concepts may be confusing if you are not used to looking into intricate details, but read everything very slowly and carefully. It is important to really understand that STRESS and SUFFERING issue from the UNNATURAL DEMANDS of the SYSTEM. If you understand this, then you will see that if the DEMANDS are set aside and are allowed to fall away, there will be a release from UNNATURAL MENTAL STATES, COMMON SUFFERING and all UNNATURAL STRESS.