Behind the desire. Question: I find I am very selfish and have many desires. What shall I do? Answer: The first thing to do is not to be too hard on yourself. This is how it is to everyone. We all want to be happy and we attempt to realise that happiness through our desires. These desires manifest as wanting things we think will make us happy, and annihilating or getting rid of things we feel are making us unhappy. This is the usual way of living for most people. However, here we have begun to train ourselves. We have begun to see what lies behind the desire and what we can do about it. Having the desire is not the important part, desires come and go, what we can do about them is. For you, your training has started because you already notice this movement of mind. You are putting some space between your mental impulse of getting something and the act of doing it. You have begun to break the habit of blind reaction and develop the wisdom of response. Doing, whatever is appropriate in a given situation. What you can do about it is keep on practicing. Let go of ambition and simply keep on doing exactly what youre doing. If you see the biggest piece of cake on the plate and you want it, just notice that mental impulse and respond. Either take it or leave it as you like. The most important thing here is awareness and not making a problem out of our natural tendencies of mind. Just relax, observe them and do the right thing. May all beings be happy
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:48:09 +0000
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