If you fantasise committing an unskillful action, such as violence towards someone, imagine enjoying the action and feel satisfied that it has been enjoyable, then you have patterned your perception - Illusory Advice

 

If you fantasise committing an unskillful action, such as violence towards someone, imagine enjoying the action and feel satisfied that it has been enjoyable, then you have patterned your perception to some extent though not as strongly as if you had actually committed the act. It may be that you are not aware of deciding to have the fantasy because it is too fast – phhhtt! You are just in there. Try to engage with the energy of the fantasy, rather than the conceptual content of the fantasy – stare at it in the same way that you would stare at an emotion. Then interesting things may start to happen, and the compulsion of fantasy creation will begin to lose its power. As with dreams, the content is ultimately irrelevant. It is the energy of the experience, and what we do with that energy that is pertinent.

page 97, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6