DESIRE - Keys to the Ultimate Freedom

星空

A desire is a disturbance of one's natural, inherent peace and joy. Desires keep one involved in trying to satiate the desires, consequently detracting one from his constant, natural, inherent happiness. In short, desire is the enemy of happiness and the source of misery.

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The more desire is let go of, the less disturbed the mind becomes allowing it to become concentrated. The more concentrated the mind, the more capable one becomes of discerning or r realizing his Self.

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Silence silences the noisy demands of ego desires and allows your Self to be seen.

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Solitude is the absence of desire.

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The absence of desire is serenity.

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Every time one tries to satisfy a desire he creates a greater intensity of that desire. This comes about because the momentary pleasure, which is inhering more in the Self due to momentary stilling of thoughts, is attributed to the object of the desire and therefore, one wants the object more and more, vainly attempting to satiate the desire, which is satiable only in being constantly quiet from thoughts. i.e., constantly inhering in the Self.

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The simultaneous fulfillment of all desires is in the finding of your real Self.

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Desire is a bottomless pit that can never be filled up.

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Desire constitutes the world and desirelessness constitutes the Self, God.

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Desire is seeking the joy of being our Self through objects and people. The mind originally creates the thought of need, or lack, which agitates the mind and covers the Self. When the object is attained, the mind stills, the joy of your Self shines forth and this joy is attributed to the object, and the mind then goes on seeking the object as the source of the joy. But the joy being not obtainable from the object, the mind seeks it more and more from the object and is never satisfied.

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Desire is the mother of all motion, the disturber of all peace.

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The basic mechanism of desire is, first, we create a lack and then desire whatever is necessary to fill that lack. The desire creates thoughts. The thoughts cover the Self and this makes us unhappy. Then we look to relieve that unhappiness by fulfilling the desire which momentarily stills the thoughts. The stilling of thoughts removes a bit of the cover of the Self and it's the feeling of a bit more of the Self that we call pleasure. We wrongly attribute that joy or pleasure to the thing or person that was used to fulfil the desire to relieve the agony of the thoughts of desire that were covering the Self. Because of this wrong attributing of the joy to the person or thing, the desire will never be satiated because the joy is not in the person or thing. The only possibility of satiety is to remain in your Self.

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Fulfilling desire is momentarily letting go of the agony of the feelings of being limited by lack. This understanding should help you let go of the frustrating drive of seeking happiness where it isn't, in the world!

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Desire is mind disquieted.

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Recognizing who and what you are instantly satisfies all desires.

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We should desire only God.

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Desire leads only to misery and death.

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Any desire upsets and disturbs the natural inherent tranquility and peace.

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If one will stop thinking of something, his desire for it will disappear.

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After you discover that desires are undesirable, you discover that there is a joy and peace that is ever-constant and more profound than any joy you have experienced before.

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Desire is the start of all agitation.

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A desire is an artificially created lack.

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Ignorance creates the universe, desire sustains it, and enlightenment dissolves it!

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If there were no desire there would be no world or universe of limitation.

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Desire is the source of all trouble.

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If desire overwhelms us it is because we want it to. Who turns on the desire? If it's in your power to turn it on, it's in your power to turn it off. The more it is turned off, the weaker it becomes.

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Desire only growth. Everyone makes the Goal eventually, but the intensity of the desire determines when and how soon. If your desire is strong, you think only of that. The doubts then drop a way.

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Don't suppress desire, actually let go of it. If you create the desire in you, you can uncreate it.

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The worst thing to do is to suppress a desire, any desire. When it is suppressed, from that moment on it will try to express itself. Recognizing it does not mean we must try to satisfy it, but does prevent suppressing it.

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Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you will know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It's not necessary to understand the negative. It's far better to be the positive. Be your Self.

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Seeking any ego fulfillment is seeking the letting go of the agony of the concept of lack. Any lack is necessarily an ego concept.

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In order to be infinite beings, we must have no desires because any desire is a limiting action upon -ourselves. If we think we need something, we think of ourselves as being limited. If you have everything, if you are everything, how could you want something? You know you don't need anything and you go through life knowing all the time that you need nothing. Your attitude is different. With this attitude, should there be a need of the body, it's immediately fulfilled. You don't have to think about it, it's taken care of immediately.

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The only thing that creates thought is desire. As long as there is one single desire there will be disturbance and lack of complete contentedness.

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Any desire satisfied disappears forever.

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There's an easy way to realization, just get rid of all desires.

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One way to overcome desire is to have a very strong desire for God. And, in the end, you have to get rid of your desire for God. Then you are It!

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Every little ego wish is a clamp down on your freedom which is tantamount to saying every desire is a clamp down on your freedom.

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Desire creates thoughts; desire to have or not to have. Before desire is ego. So ego is the starting point. I'm an individual separate from the All so I've got to desire to get the All.

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The only thing that disturbs peace is desire.

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Internal pressure is caused by desire.

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When things are approached with pure love there is no more desire.

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Desire plants seeds for the future.

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Decrease desire for the world, increase desire for the Self.

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You must get rid of all desire. You can enjoy without desire. In fact, if you really want to enjoy things, you can enjoy far more without desire.

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Desire is the cause of everything. Any time you have any problem there I s desire behind it.

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Any desire except desire for liberation is causing misery.

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The odd thing about desire is that the more you try to satisfy it, the stronger it becomes. The more people try to satisfy their desire by having things, the stronger that desire becomes. People have more things today than they have ever ad and they are unhappier than they have ever been.

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Desire just cuts off happiness.

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You should have only one desire, a desire for complete liberation, complete realization. Any other desire will keep you in trouble. We should try to let go of all desires. We should not try to fulfill desires. Every time we fulfill a desire, we strengthen that desire rather than weaken it. I believe that is obvious to all of us, that we never satiate desires. The more we try to satisfy them, the more we want of them. So it's better to not satisfy desires and by doing so the mind gets quieter. When the mind is quieter, we have a better chance to see the Truth. When we see the Truth we scorch the desire, and this is the better way, actually the only really effectual way of getting rid of desire.

When you see the Truth, desires are scorched because a desire is really trying to be your own real Self through some in direct means, through some thing, through some person. When you see this you let go of these silly desires because why struggle through an indirect means to be that which you are? The indirect means cannot make you what you are, so it's fruitless and extremely frustrating. Consequently, we have this frustrated world. We're all trying to satisfy desire; it's absolutely impossible to do it, and we go on and on lifetime in, lifetime out, until we recognize that desires are our enemy.

Desire is an admission of lack. If I am the infinite One I desire nothing; I am the All. We must get back to that state by behaving as one would in that state. The greatest behavior, the greatest ritual that we can perform, is living as a fully realized Being would live. Try to attain the state of dispassion, no attachments, no aversions. Try to attain a state of equanimity, a feeling of equal mindedness toward every thing, everyone. Try to attain the desirelessness state. Then you will see that you are the All, that you are That!

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