LIKE - DISLIKE

Like and dislike are the two main currents of minds conditioning and together with desire the
root of our suffering.

Ego operates constantly through the current of like and dislike. Every moment we like or dislike
something, we feel attraction or repulsion for something.

These two currents keep us attached to the senses, body and sensory mind.

Identification with the body, senses and mind and attachment to sense objects is strengthened by
the continuous manifestation in our psyche of the like and dislike currents and desire as well.
According my enquiries like and dislike are only children of desire.

The ego is developed and strengthened in our psyche by the constant operation of these two
currents in the mind.

Our ego likes what seems pleasant and favorable to its pleasure, happiness, comfort, self-image,
etc. (in relation to the senses, the body and vital energy, -things, persons, situations, condition of
body) and dislikes what seems unpleasant or unfavorable to it.
In the mind the 'like' is expressed by thoughts like: 'I like this or that', 'I would like to possess it
or experience it' etc..

At the outer heart level as an attraction and a pleasant sensation.

The 'dislike' in the mind appears by thoughts like: 'I don't like him or it', 'This is awful', etc.

At the outer heart level as aversion, repulsion or some kind unpleasant sensation.

Our ego almost constantly tries to avoid what dislikes and get what it likes. Our ego thinks that
will be happy and fulfilled if gets what is pleasant and avoid what is unpleasant. But this is the
root of our delusion and suffering.

Our ego cannot see that the effort to find fulfillment and happiness by avoiding what dislikes and
by getting what likes is the very cause of misery and suffering.

Our ego cannot also see that happiness, fulfillment and plenitude have nothing to do with
pleasant experiences through the senses.

Pleasant experiences can give only some momentary vital-satisfaction but are always
accompanied by anxiety, agony, uneasiness, impatience, fear, anger, resentment, disappointment
and depression. We cannot avoid all these side effects while we are seeking pleasurable
experiences and we are operating in the like-dislike mode.

The ego cannot rest peacefully even for a second. The ego is seeking compulsively (almost
constantly) some interested, pleasurable, pleasant or exhilarating experience. No indulgence with
some sensory experience is like death for the ego. Since it is impossible, for various reasons, to
experience continuously pleasure or pleasant sensations and situations, our ego assumes the form
of discontentment, insatisfaction, boredom, incompleteness, a sense of lack. One or more of
these emotions are almost present in our psych.

Moreover our ego becomes angry against what impedes it to get what is favorable to it, or causes
the loss of its favorable object. Ego is afraid of not to get or to lose its favorable object (object
can be a thing, a person, a situation etc.).
The constant indulgence with the senses and sense experiences keeps our psychology and vital
energy in a state of anxiety and stress. Stress and anxiety are inevitable if we dwell always in the
senses, reacting to every situation and object with attraction, repulsion, like and dislike.

If at the end our ego doesn't get or loses its favorable object then becomes disappointed,
depressed and sad.

Since all objects as well as all the sensory experiences, are finite, have many conditionings and
limitations, have a beginning and an end, we cannot find through them real happiness,
fulfillment, completeness, and a deep, permanent satisfaction.

Limited, finite things cannot promote us unlimited, unconditioned happiness and fulfillment. By
default is impossible.

Only something infinite, unconditional, ever full and complete can give us infinite and unlimited
happiness and fullness.

This is our divine nature, the Atman or Consciousness, which is ever present, unchanged,
immortal, and of the nature of unalloyed Peace, Bliss and Freedom.

Eliminate the currents of like-dislike and their mother desire, meditate on the silent space of
Consciousness within and live the peace, bliss and freedom eternal.