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**Phouepou** · 06-03-2010, 01:17 PM

My point is that sexual urges - whether psychological or biological or whatever you care to say - are just another sensual pursuit, and once seen for what it is the struggle involving sexual urges becomes a non-struggle.

They are just one sort among the many ways we crave sensual desires. Sexual urges are sensual cravings.

I generally agree, but I think its useful to bring a lot of attention to and carefully distinguish between urge and pursuit.

Sexual urges are often the result of "external" factors. For example, weather fluctuation, seasons tides, lunar tides, circadian rhythms, etc... Our bodies and the natural world are deeply and intimately interfacing with each other right under our noses, and usually under our awareness. Also, we often eat foods that can unknowingly trigger sexual urges, and we're bombarded with sexual imagery in our "external" landscape that triggers sexual urges at a very primal visceral "internal" depth.

How we engage with these urges that result from this body/natural world interface and external imagery _can_ result in sensual pursuit, but it doesn't need to...it depends on our level of attentiveness - which determines whether we relate to urges with conscious intention or unconscious reactivity.

The more attention we bring to the interaction between the body and the natural world/external environment, the more clearly we recognize sexual urges for what they are and aren't. We begin to distinguish between urge and attachment (mental pursuit of the urge). We can stop mentally grabbing at urges and when we do this we're no longer dragged around by them, and we stop building stories of hunger or aversion on them. We just observe them as they rise and dissolve, like observing the breathe. They're just passing through.

06-03-2010, 01:17 PM	#22
Phouepou Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 546 Senior Member	My point is that sexual urges - whether psychological or biological or whatever you care to say - are just another sensual pursuit, and once seen for what it is the struggle involving sexual urges becomes a non-struggle. They are just one sort among the many ways we crave sensual desires. Sexual urges are sensual cravings. I generally agree, but I think its useful to bring a lot of attention to and carefully distinguish between urge and pursuit. Sexual urges are often the result of "external" factors. For example, weather fluctuation, seasons tides, lunar tides, circadian rhythms, etc... Our bodies and the natural world are deeply and intimately interfacing with each other right under our noses, and usually under our awareness. Also, we often eat foods that can unknowingly trigger sexual urges, and we're bombarded with sexual imagery in our "external" landscape that triggers sexual urges at a very primal visceral "internal" depth. How we engage with these urges that result from this body/natural world interface and external imagery _can_ result in sensual pursuit, but it doesn't need to...it depends on our level of attentiveness - which determines whether we relate to urges with conscious intention or unconscious reactivity. The more attention we bring to the interaction between the body and the natural world/external environment, the more clearly we recognize sexual urges for what they are and aren't. We begin to distinguish between urge and attachment (mental pursuit of the urge). We can stop mentally grabbing at urges and when we do this we're no longer dragged around by them, and we stop building stories of hunger or aversion on them. We just observe them as they rise and dissolve, like observing the breathe. They're just passing through.
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