Human Desiring

Life is not made to be perfect where it has to be the way you think it should be. Whatever arises has to be accepted exactly as it is without the imperfect desire of wanting things different…

Being human means you will have desires and unless this is accepted exactly as it is without needing things to be a certain way, life will seem to always have some kind of struggle associated with it. One of the common traits I notice when I talk to people about the Conditioned Mind is not truly accepting themselves exactly as they are, with a self imposed label of imperfect being applied. There are so many conditioned desires engrained in each of us and if they’re not accepted as they arise, your existence will be a struggle; needing those desires to be different than what they are.

Accept yourself in each moment, desires and all and just watch as they arise. This isn’t a right or wrong thing, it’s just part of being human and it has to be accepted if there’s to be peace in your life. Tuesday was Election Day in the NJ and that means there’s opinionated energy all around which will cause much suffering as there will be desires for who’s voted for to play out the way it’s wanted. This wanting usually manifest as individual energy, but on election day it’s both individual and collective energy and if the results aren’t accepted as they are to some degree, it’s because your opinionated desires are in control and you want different results. Anything that happens has to be accepted as it is if there’s to be any semblance of peace. This is made difficult because of the things that occur and because as humans we apply attached labels to what arises as being unpleasant. This makes you want whatever arises to be different and as long as your energy doesn’t accept your humanness as it is peace will be fleeting at best; regardless of what happens on any given day…