Desire is craving is compulsion is lack is dissatisfaction is suffering
WILL is choice is consciousness is insight
And joy is joy, and pleasure is pleasure
DESIRE
You are suffering therefore you desire
You desire therefore you’re suffering
It’s a circle
Desiring brings you suffering, dissatisfaction
And it distracts you from addressing true causes of your innate suffering,
And suffering causes you to desire, as fallacious means of curing itself, really at best distracting you from that suffering, ultimately bringing more of it
You know it’s true
Have you ever craved something so much that you couldn’t stop?
It wasn’t even that pleasant. It wasn’t even that satisfying.
And yet you couldn’t stop
This is craving, this is desire,
It’s not complicated,
It’s that unpleasant sense of COMPULSION
COMPULSIVE POWERLESSNESS
It’s not a pleasant feeling
WILL
Will is choice is consciousness is insight
You SEE, you have insight
You are conscious
You are conscious and now make a conscious choice
There’s no desire involved
When you’re conscious — desire ceases being the driving force
Whatever desire promises is insignificant to you, it’s pathetically small, is ILLUSIONARY, really
You don’t fight desire. It doesn’t even arise
It doesn’t arise because it doesn’t even have effect on you
You see — and you see how empty desire is, and it’s promise,
You are conscious and have been conscious and truth became the sweetest reward
Peace became the sweetest reward
“Right action” became the sweetest reward
And joy, and pleasure, they came naturally, en passant
You don’t pursuit them. You LIVE RIGHT — and they are a side effect.
So what could stupid desire promise you now?
You already have all the joy in the world
What can desire promise you now?
JOY, PLEASURE
Joy is the default state. And pleasure is a side-effect of living.
Desire may at best bring faint, fleeting pleasure.
Desire is rather likely to take away from joy.
When you desire and don’t have — you’re dissatisfied. Kills joy.
When you desire and get it for a moment — you’re also dissatisfied. It proves disappointing. You got a little pleasure and hardly any joy.
When you understand it — you cease pursuing pleasure
When you understand it better — you cease taking desire so seriously
And when you discover the joy of living the right way, the rapture of having this FIRE within you, the joy of becoming more yet less, of becoming more than yourself and less yourself, of enhancing yourself but also disappearing yourself into the ocean of the whole — when you discover this joy — desire really ceases
Can’t fake it
You can’t fake it
I said suffering brings desire and desire brings suffering
If you’re suffering — you can’t pretend you don’t want the suffering to end
All I can advice you is to do something different — then examine with extreme diligence how you feel.
Was it just a fleeting pleasure? Was it someone else’s dream? Was it symbol instead of the thing?
Or was it something greater, and perhaps bringing a little true joy.
You must examine it yourself.
Likewise you can’t fake being beyond desire, not until the cost of desiring becomes higher than it’s rewards. Which is not until you are so dedicated to self-betterment, to love, to giving, to LIVING YOUR BEST EVERY DAY — that vain desire strikes you as detrimental to those goals and ruining their purity.
You can’t fake it,
Therefore no “spiritual truth” is true until you are ready to receive it
“Don’t desire” is easier said then done
DO desire
Do desire and realize your desires and get disappointed,
And in the same time do grow and do explore and do change yourself and do seek to help the world and do seek to help your brother,
And decide for yourself what was better
THAT IS when you know the “spiritual truth”. Not because you read it in some sacred fucking scroll