lusts and longings.
The value of sense-objects is great or small according to the intensity or urgency with which they are desired. If these lusts and longings increase, the corresponding objects assume greater importance. False values derivative and relative If they subside in their intensity or urgency, the objects also lose much of their importance. If the lusts and longings appear intermittently, those objects retain possible value when the lusts and longings are latent, and actual value when they are manifested. All these are false values because they are not inherent in the objects themselves. When in the light of true knowledge all the lusts and longings disappear completely, objects vested with importance through the working of these lusts and longings immediately lose all their borrowed importance and appear meaningless.
Now just as a coin which is not in current use is treated as false, though it has a kind of existence, so the objects of lusts and longings when seen in their emptiness are treated as false, though these objects might continue to have some kind of recognition. Emptiness of sense-objects They are all there, and they may be known and seen, but they no longer mean the same thing. They hold false promise of fulfillment to an imagination which is perverted by lusts and longings, but to the tranquil and steady perception they are seen to have no importance when they are considered separate from the soul.
Taking as important that which is unimportant When a beloved one dies there is sorrow and loneliness, but this sense of loss is rooted in attachment to the form independently of the soul. It is the form which has vanished, not the soul. The soul is not dead; in its true
