Don’t let the different consequences of desire lull you into the sleep of unconsciousness because all desires lead to bondage in one form or another regardless of what’s desired…
If there is always something to desire, it’s because you don’t think you have enough and if you don’t think you have enough, you will always think there is something to desire. Desire isn’t something that’s inherently bad, why one desires is where issues arise and this is only because where there is desire it’s because you think something is missing. What is desired only matters to the degree in how the thing desired affects your life. Desiring to drink alcohol and do drugs have consequences much different then desiring to go to a program to stop using those things. But the desires core is the same and that’s what needs to be looked at. Don’t let the different consequences of desire lull you into the sleep of unconsciousness because all desire leads to bondage in one form or another and as stated this includes all desire.
You might say that’s not true, that desiring to better yourself is a good thing, but that would mean you need things to be different to accept yourself. Accepting life exactly how it is is the only place one will experience the peace of not desiring things different. I’m not saying don’t better yourself, but if it’s at the expense of your peace of mind, what good is it. I often say go for the gold, just understand even if it’s attained you will find it’s not providing the satisfaction you thought it would; shortly afterwards another desire will arise. Investigate this and see how desire causes needing, needing causes bondage, and bondage causes suffering. Break free from desire and inevitably you just may stop suffering…
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