security blanket . . . .

Even if you don't believe in chakra's or kundalini or anything at all you have to surely see that the mind is yours to do with as you please, or not.

If you can see this you must also realise that he world is 'as we see it', it is more or less a subjective experience based on how we are seeing and feeling it at any given time.

If you can see this too, then maybe you can, if you try, bring your mind to a still point where there are no thoughts.

If you can do this then surely you may need to ask 'who are you'?

Are you the 'thinker' or the person being 'thought' ?

Hardware - Software.

Subject - Object.

In one of Satre's, or any of the existentialists worst nightmares there is nothing in and of itself, nothing, nothing, nothing all the way down to more nothing.

Once you see this what is there left to do apart from run to the security blanket of your own choosing?

A warm bath, a gin and tonic, a large dinner, a spliffy or two aaaaaaaaaaah peace and joy. :))

All of these are pleasures depending on where you are at in your personal evolution - BUT!

Once you have made peace with yourselves at the bottom of the 'well of thoughts' during meditation you no longer have a need for these things - peace lies within - doesn't it ?

Om Om Om