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Recieved: 2003/08/09 13:36
Subject: [K-list] Fighting desire
From: Rick Mayweather
On 2003/08/09 13:36, Rick Mayweather posted thus to the K-list:
Desire is the greatest obstacle on the path to enlightenment.
I've been noticing how desire controls people. Those who give into desire
are
led by it's horns on a leash and chain. Unfortunately this chain has a
tight
grip on 99% of society which is strangling them, yet they just don't know
it.
When society is not on the chain, then they are on the leash, there would
appear
to be no escape for them because they are unconscious of this bonding. The
bonding
is so great that they assume it's always been that way, and so always will
be.
The beast needs to be tamed, and yet the temptation not to give it up is
great.
Surrender to the Self yes, but not desire, desire is part of the ego, part
of
our false sense of Self. Surrendering to the ego is what society does,
surrender
to the Self is what the mystic is.
I would say the ego is fed and built upon desire so those who give into it
suffer
the most because they've built up re-inforced ego's.
The only way to tame and eventually defeat the beast is by becoming
conscious
of it, see how it sneakily weaves it's way through your consciousness,
changing
your thoughts and emotions in the process. It has been said seriousness is
a disease, so too is desire.
Why is it so deep rooted? Because people unconsciously believe that desire
is the source that leads to happiness, it will cure their pain, it will take
away
their ills. Desire is the illness. Desire is the source of unhappiness.
Desire and attachment are like mother and son in eternal unison. Desire
gives
birth to attachment. Attachment gives birth to desire. The cycle
strengthens
and becomes harder to break.
Awaken from this slumber and step forth in awakened consciouness. Throw
away
the chain and live free. Free in soul, free in mind, free in body.
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