Three P's

The theme for today is the Three P's.

I'll try to be brief this time
to allow us more time for free talk
because I think we have plenty of experience by now
with holding questions in a disciplined way
and turning them back to the realm of personal or direct experience.

(also, I'm trying to limit my keyboard use for health purposes)

What do I mean by "Three P's"?
Put on your mindsight hat
to start noticing where we go
when I give them Names:

Pleasure, Pain, and Play.
Three things that we've touched on a lot lately.

There may be an immediate "attractor" notion
to this combination of words
so we might mention it in passing

Beyond the initial, sort of automatic associations
we might review the idea
that these words refer to principles
with a lot of philosophical inquiry
in many systems:
Attachment, Aversion,
Something like "Lila" for Play.

And note there are a lot of confused understandings
and mixed metaphors
in common folk psychology
as well as neuropsychological ideas
with a presence of "economic" thinking
like "dopamine" and "reward center".

But I'd like to turn it back again
and consider the constant presence
of these three items
in personal experience
in everyday life
in the present moment.

By present moment
I mean whatever you consider is going on for you
"now" or "recently" enough
that it hasn't receded into the script book
of what's called "discursive memory".

And in setting this up
I want to make a suggestion:
"Trust the Images"
(and we can talk more about that in the future, too)

So let's consider these three principles
in our personal experience:
When do they show up?
What's the relationship between them?
What are you learning, or struggling with, lately?