Unwanting Expectations

Unwanting expectations are noticed when things aren’t as they are thought to be needed, but even when things are in your favor, the unwanting mind still controls because of how it clings…

Let go and be free or hold on and suffer, those are the choices. Wanting things a certain way and when they not, produces the next step in the process to react to the results of unwanting expectations. When there’s expectations there’s labeling, and when there’s attached labels, there’s clinging; this is how an unwanting mind is developed. The more you label the more there’s expectations which make you cling. Even when things work out the way they’re thought to be needed, there’s still clinging, but it’s not noticed as a problem because the situation is as it’s wanted. The unwanting mind clings to everything that’s labeled, and it labels everything so there’s clinging to everything, but it’s not noticed because of the focus on the things unwanted.

Life is one continuous expectation; it’s the disappointing ones that most think their mind clings to. Most people are unaware of the moment by moment labeling process. When the mind quiets enough to understand this, the labeling process of everything as this or that lessens and so do the unwanting expectations. This results in a mind that is free of clinging to the effects of unwanting expectations; without these unwanting expectations it’s impossible to suffer…