Why has sexuality become important in our life?
Sex is required for reproduction but other than that, sensual demand for repetition is Desire. All desires are thoughts arising from past memories of sensations, pleasures,
excitement, entertainment. We all are driven by desires. We want fulfillment of desires.
Seeing beautiful object arouses sensation, which is a normal biological reaction. But when sensation goes to the brain, the brain creates images, response in the form of thought creates desire.
Can we delink Sensations, images, thoughts, demand for repetitions? This requires tremendous attention. It's natural to observe Beauty but never identifying with any of them, requires inward discipline. Just observe and forget. Do not link them with past images or future dreams. Attention means just observe, be in present only.
What we perceive is not the external world around us but our brain’s interpretation of it !
Experiences and awareness do not come directly from sensory receptors. We can sense things without being aware of them.
We have no direct access to the external reality around us. We only ever experience our brain’s internal representation of the outside world, which is limiting in two main ways:
Firstly, we only pick up a very small range of things. For example, we can only see a very narrow band of electromagnetic radiation—what we call visible light. X-rays, radio-waves, or even microwaves are essentially the same as light, but they all have frequencies that are outside of what we can perceive.
Secondly, as we discovered earlier, our brains filter, correct, and interpret the overwhelming amount of sensory data we encounter.
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