“Everywhere I look I see my desires.” Hari Dass Baba
“Acceptance is neither apathy or submission. It is simply
detached acknowledgement”
A desire is a wish, a longing, or a
craving for something we do not have or something we would want to see
changed. We can desire many things, sometimes things we need and most
often things we don’t. Since this is such a powerful force, should we not
examine what we desire and why we desire it?
To the extent that desire becomes the lens
through which we view the world around us, we sacrifice our ability to live in
the moment. Everything we see potentially becomes something we lust
after, is linked to someone or something we are not happy with, or something we
judge as beneath us or un-obtainable. We end up living life chasing
phantoms. Those phantoms are our own
unrealistic expectations and our delusions that we are living life to measure
up to some imaginary standard we fancy we must live up to. Neither one of these pursuits will every
bring satisfaction – they are both inextricably linked with the mental disease
of “desire for more.”
Conversely, acceptance of ourselves, our place
in life and gratitude for the people, places and things that we share it with
puts us mode that allows us to be present in the moment. We can thus maximize the potential of what we
do have, and when opportunities arise we are much less likely to abuse them out
of selfish desires.
When we learn to want what we have we are
much less likely to crave what we do not have. And when we become aware
of what our true needs are, we realize that freedom lies in a minimum of
possession.
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David
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