Your Desires Are Shouting Aloud So You Grow Through Them; Just Don't Run Away Yet

Funny That The Buddha Denounced Desires

The Birth Of Desire Is Inevitable

The Buddha said desire is the root cause of misery.He was  right because we always desire.Because of this our desires remain unfulfilled for a finite duration.And in this waiting period ,while our desires are awaiting manifestation we make ourselves unhappy.We make ourselves miserable due to temporarily unfulfilled desires..

For some people the temporary stage of non fulfillment lasts a very long time.It even starts to appear permanent.Because of this impression our misery becomes a loyal companion of the state of non fulfillment.But we need to stop here and question.

Do we necessarily need to join ranks with misery because of our non fulfilled desires?

Your Own Growth Depends On Desires

As long as we live desires will arise,aspirations will come before us.Aspirations will inevitably line up along the sidewalk of our minds space.They are also a necessary facet of our material  and spiritual evolution.Essentially aspiration is a potential force,which is action based.It is desire in birthing.

One alternative to desires is to delete them the moment they are born.To stop aspiring.The resultant state of non-desire will lead to no non–fulfilled desire.Hence this will set the stage for circumventing agitation,emotional upheaval,and also long term dissonance and disease.Agitation ,here means many things.For instance impatience,irritation,anger,envy,lethargy ,procrastination(yes procrastination is agitation as well),disdain,comparisons and judgement(I’m better than them) etc.etc.

Question Your Stupid Loyalty To Misery

Yet there is  a strong need to examine closely this commonly accepted truism of  desire leading to misery.Does the birth of desire always have to result in an end state of misery?Can the human mind not coexist with desire and happiness at the same  time?Is there a stricture to be followed here,an obedience to a code of unhappiness?Can the human mind not question its undying devotion to misery the moment a desire raises it’s head?Does the birth of desire always have to agitate and disturb only ?Why?Why does it agitate the mind when a desire is born?

Big Deal, You Are MORTAL 

Desire agitates because of impatience ?Why the impatience?Because we have very little time with us as humans. Why do we have less time?Because at the very root of our being is the deep,subtle,subconscious knowledge that we are mortal.Yes we are mortal.MORTAL.That’s right M-O-R-T-A-L.

This is the deep rooted wellspring of our impatience with every desire.The basis of agitation and dissonance.That is “misery” in the Buddha’s words.”Stress” in the uber-modern world.

Nonetheless ,here we must remind ourselves that desires will always arrive as milestones on the highway of life.And these milestones,these desires will arise in multifarious forms.They will come as inspirations,they will come as actions to be initiated ,as performance to be displayed before others,as approval to be gained from others,.In fact every action of our life is desire in motion.

Each Action Is Rooted In Desire

When we breathe it is action based in the desire to live on.When we sleep it is action with the desire to gain rest.When we digest food it is again involuntary action with the desire to nourish our bodies.All sensuality is an action camouflaging the primal desire to  procreate.Take a closer look at all your voluntary and in voluntary activities of mind and body ,and you’ll recognize a common thread running right through.The thread of desires.

Desires will simply never leave our side as long as we breathe.What do you do with them?You need to develop a strategy to manage your emotional response to them.