Looking at it this way there is the contrast between being and coveting.
Almost between pleasure and fetish. Looked at from this dimension, scheming for pleasure or gratification would be a fetish, that is a course of action to which one has an excessive attachment.
Yes, I think this is it. This would be only being. Open, present and involved in the moment. Only yes or no.
This statement, Cedar, captures the essence of being, the treasure that comes from presence and the respect for self and other. In the moment and nothing more.
If we fetishize pleasure or even love, we forsake it. It will never, ever be there. Because the attachment will dominate.
Because doing so makes the pursuit of pleasure into something else: aberration, battle, debasement, yearning, lack; these inconsistent with sweetness, which is pleasure at its root.
