OBSESSIONS, ATTACHMENTS AND LIBERATION
It may seem cliché and common sense to mention this, but the reason we are humans are attracted to each other is simply because no matter how you look at it, someone has something that we want. We are fascinated by what others have as opposed to the things we don’t ourselves have, whether it is career, money, fame, a fit body, a beautiful face or a perfect pair of tits. Everyone is amazed and desirous of something on the level of form, the level of physicality.
In the field of sex, it is no big secret that we all want what the other sex has, the body parts on the level of form that we don’t possess ourselves. It is a funny argument to contemplate, but nevertheless true. If we each had the body parts of the other sex, would we be so fascinated by them anymore? If men had tits, would they be so fascinated by them? If women had penises, would they still want one inside their bodies? If men had vaginas would they spend all day screwing themselves? (that’s a joke, I think…) I am sure you get the idea by now.
This kind of wanting or desiring is just another trick of in the arsenal of illusions belonging to Maya, another tool in her never-ending quest to keep us tied to the world instead of returning to the Infinite Spirit from which we came.
Obsession, compulsion and even indulgences all serve a grand purpose. They serve to lessen the hold Maya has on us. By totally immersing oneself into that which fascinates us, we lessen its grip on us thru the grace of boredom (for lack of a better word). Boredom with what fascinates us can come at a high price though. Sometimes we obsess over something for a lifetime before finally realizing it wasn’t so important and was a grand waste of time. Liberation in this manner comes from complete union with a thing that in the end proves to not possess the great value we attached to it in the first place. Of course this is the costly and coarse way to attain liberation from that which imprisons our souls. But it works.
The lofty way to liberation is thru Spirit-born wisdom acquired from some form of Divine Communion. Meditation certainly serves this function. When meditating on the Divine, it can be said that we are obsessing or indulging in that which we truly are, no matter how abstract or distant it seems to us at first. But as with the costly obsession over forms of Maya, obsession with Divinity ends with us realizing for all time that we are One with God (and have always been), and soul-fulfillment is a natural result. In union with God, we realize that all things are in us and we therefore have no true need of anything in delusive material forms of Maya.
Chose your obsessions carefully.
One choice leads to fulfillment in that tiny bit of knowledge that the one thing we obsessed over is not that fulfilling in the first place.
The other choice leads to the fulfillment that we are all things inside and have never truly had any need for anything outside of ourselves in the first place.
Choose what you will focus on, for it will become a part of you in the end. If you choose correctly, you will see that you have been a part of all things at all times.
