The more detached we are from the pleasure of sex, the more pleasure can build. Attachment to the pleasure contracts the mind and body and does not allow the experience to grow and deepen. I wonder where else this applies.

I often try to make an experience better than it is by projecting imagination onto it. I see it in others too. The most common example is caring about the achievement of some meaningless position, like high schoolers caring about high school club leadership positions. They seem to be living in a narrative. This is good if it is aligned with what is actually natural (seeing the positive in things or attuning to the beauty in nature). It seems bad if it is misaligned. The measuring device for what is aligned and misaligned is likely the feeling for truth.

"For more than fifteen years, he struggled with demonic attacks during prayer until he was almost in despair. At this point Christ spoke to him in a vision, saying “The proud always suffer from demons.” Silouan answered, “Lord, teach me what I must do so that my soul may become humble.” To this he received the reply, “Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not.” St. Silouan made this his discipline in every moment of his life with joy and thanksgiving and was granted the grace of pure prayer. He said that if he ever let his mind wander from the fire of hell, disruptive thoughts would once again plague him. In his humiliation, he was filled with a pervasive love for all — he said many times that the final criterion of true Christian faith is unfeigned love for enemies, and that “to pray for others is to shed blood.”"

shinzen young - Don't Know Mind: Not Needing to Have Answers & the Wisdom Function

I can get out of or solve situations without fully understanding them. And sometimes that's what's needed (the arrow parable). The same applies for uncomfortable sensations in the body. Sometimes its helpful to observe and understand, sometimes its better to self-cue with: "how do I get out of this?"

From Sam: the symbol of an aeolian harp. The wind sounds the harp. It's a metaphor for inspiration.