Observation: for Enlightenment

Is desiring not a necessary evil? AND Is observing/ seeing sufficient without further actions?


Example 1: Consider a rope lying on a street. The mind fears it if the mind assumes this rope to be a snake. (This is a conventional example for illusion / Maya) Will it be sufficient to go closer to the object and observe if it is rope or snake? Once observed and understood that it is a rope, will any action be required for realisation?


Example 2: When I hit someone, does the action consume a part of my energy? (me, as a physical being in this body-mind) Yes it does, the action is nothing but a part of my energy.

Subtler: Before hitting someone, the anger that takes me over also should be a part of my own energy, cannot be something induced from outside. A part of my energy has afterall been used for anger. Is it the same case with 'Fear' as well? Is my fear also a part of me? It is all me and my energy in different forms.

Even Subtler: I am asleep and am dreaming. Where does the energy to make up the dream come from? The dream is being played in my mind (probably unconcious mind) but it is still a part of me. I supply energy to it.
When in dream we are so involved in the dream that we consider it to be a matter of life and death. We sometimes get scared in the dream - the effect of which is also seen on the body (say, sweating) ! All the dreams have features that, if observed while dreaming, hint us towards understanding that it is a dream. [Many of us have been through this experience. It is now also possible, using cognitive science methods, to identify reality and dream state :).. these methods involve continuous observation !]

Is 'knowing that this is a dream' sufficient to come out of it? Or would we still need some action?In other words, Once we are awake do we still need to take any action to get rid of the desires that we had in the dream?

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