 |
PM |  | |
Quote | | |
Reply | | |
Full Topic | |
| Joined: | Mon Nov 21st, 2005 |
| Location: | California USA |
| Posts: | 6399 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
| Mana: |    |
A consideration of feeling and desire introduces one of the most important and far reaching subjects put forth in this book. It's significance and value cannot be overestimated. The understanding and use of feeling and desire may mean the turning point in the progress of the individual and of Humanity; it can liberate doers from false thinking, false beliefs, false goals, by which they have kept themselves in darkness. It disproves a false belief that has long been blindly accepted; a belief that is now so deeply rooted in the thinking of human beings that apparently no one has thought of questioning it.
It is this: Everybody has been taught to believe that the senses of the body are five in number; and that feeling is one of the senses. The sense, as stated in this book, are units of nature, elemental beings, conscious as their functions but unintelligent. There are only four senses: sight, hearing, taste, and smell; and for each sense there is a special organ; but there is no special organ for feeling because feeling - thought it feels though the body - is not of the body, not of nature. It is one of the two aspects of the doer: Animals also have feeling and desire, but animals are modifications from the human, as explained alter on.