Creative Guidance-IASbaba, Inspirational & Educative Articles
You are not your desire:
Sometimes our desires can be are biggest obstacles. Without the very process of desiring, you would not be able to ask fundamental questions. There’s got to be a desire inside you to know, to explore, to understand. That existential desire is a part of us; it’s already there, but we rarely acknowledge it. We rarely give it space, because the mind is so crowded already.
The conversations are set. The mind has already decided these are my priorities; these are the things that I want to think about. What is it based on? It’s not based on you; it’s based on what’s happening around you. Many of our desires are simply mental projections of the desires of others.
Think about it: Many times you cannot even make the distinction between your desire and a desire that is being imposed upon you; a desire that you just picked up subconsciously, unconsciously. In fact, the whole world is gripped by this collective desire to go somewhere. If you ask you – the individual, “Is this going somewhere accomplishing something?”
Becoming successful, striving for something that you’re not, is not a part of you, because there’s a part of you that knows that your happiness does not come from that; it’s just a mental projection. “If I’m not able to find my happiness here in this moment, with whatever my mind is capable of now, whatever my body is capable of now, by fully acknowledging my limitations, by fully realizing that this is my life, it doesn’t matter whether I’m rich or poor, successful or a failure, my happiness is independent. It is not connected to any of this.”
“This article is a part of the creative endeavor of Nirvana Foundation and IASBABA.”
