SESSION 12 - DESIRE .......... 34 - By Lester Levenson
セッション12 - 要望..........34 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)
SESSION 12
DESIRE
A desire is a disturbance of one's natural, inherent
peace and joy. Desires keep one involved in trying to
satiate the desires, consequently detracting one from his
constant, natural, inherent happiness. In short, desire is
the enemy of happiness and the source of misery.
***
The more desire is let go of, the less disturbed the mind
becomes allowing it to become concentrated. The more
concentrated the mind, the more capable one becomes
of discerning or r realizing his Self.
***
Silence silences the noisy demands of ego desires and
allows your Self to be seen.
***
Solitude is the absence of desire.
***
The absence of desire is serenity.
***
Every time one tries to satisfy a desire he creates a
greater intensity of that desire. This comes about
because the momentary pleasure, which is inhering
more in the Self due to momentary stilling of thoughts, is
attributed to the object of the desire and therefore, one
wants the object more and more, vainly attempting to
satiate the desire, which is satiable only in being
constantly quiet from thoughts. i.e., constantly inhering
in the Self.
***
The simultaneous fulfillment of all desires is in the
finding of your real Self.
***
Desire is a bottomless pit that can never be filled up.
***
Desire constitutes the world and desirelessness constitutes the Self, God.
***
Desire is seeking the joy of being our Self through objects and people. The mind originally creates the thought
of need, or lack, which agitates the mind and covers the
Self. When the object is attained, the mind stills, the joy
of your Self shines forth and this joy is attributed to the
object, and the mind then goes on seeking the object as
the source of the joy. But the joy being not obtainable
from the object, the mind seeks it more and more from
the object and is never satisfied.
***
Desire is the mother of all motion, the disturber of all
peace.
***
The basic mechanism of desire is, first, we create a lack
and then desire whatever is necessary to fill that lack.
The desire creates thoughts. The thoughts cover the
Self and this makes us unhappy. Then we look to relieve
that unhappiness by fulfilling the desire which
momentarily stills the thoughts. The stilling of thoughts
removes a bit of the cover of the Self and it's the feeling
of a bit more of the Self that we call pleasure. We
wrongly attribute that joy or pleasure to the thing or
person that was used to fulfil the desire to relieve the
agony of the thoughts of desire that were covering the
Self. Because of this wrong attributing of the joy to the
person or thing, the desire will never be satiated
because the joy is not in the person or thing. The only
possibility of satiety is to remain in your Self.
***
Fulfilling desire is momentarily letting go of the agony of
the feelings of being limited by lack. This understanding
should help you let go of the frustrating drive of seeking
happiness where it isn't, in the world!
***
Desire is mind disquieted.
***
Recognizing who and what you are instantly satisfies all
desires.
***
We should desire only God.
***
Desire leads only to misery and death.
***
Any desire upsets and disturbs the natural inherent
tranquility and peace.
***
If one will stop thinking of something, his desire for it will
disappear.
***
After you discover that desires are undesirable, you
discover that there is a joy and peace that is everconstant and more profound than any joy you have
experienced before.
***
Desire is the start of all agitation.
***
A desire is an artificially created lack.
***
Ignorance creates the universe, desire sustains it, and
enlightenment dissolves it!
***
If there were no desire there would be no world or universe of limitation.
***
Desire is the source of all trouble.
***
If desire overwhelms us it is because we want it to. Who
turns on the desire? If it's in your power to turn it on, it's
in your power to turn it off. The more it is turned off, the
weaker it becomes.
***
Desire only growth. Everyone makes the Goal eventually, but the intensity of the desire determines when and
how soon. If your desire is strong, you think only of that.
The doubts then drop a way.
***
Don't suppress desire, actually let go of it. If you create
the desire in you, you can uncreate it.
***
The worst thing to do is to suppress a desire, any desire.
When it is suppressed, from that moment on it will try to
express itself. Recognizing it does not mean we must try
to satisfy it, but does prevent suppressing it.
***
Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things
at the same time, one consciously and the other
subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make
the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand,
if you will know what you are, there will be no conflicts.
You can do that through seeking. It's not necessary to
understand the negative. It's far better to be the positive.
Be your Self.
***
Seeking any ego fulfillment is seeking the letting go of
the agony of the concept of lack. Any lack is necessarily
an ego concept.
***
In order to be infinite beings, we must have no desires
because any desire is a limiting action upon -ourselves.
If we think we need something, we think of ourselves as
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being limited. If you have everything, if you are
everything, how could you want something? You know
you don't need anything and you go through life knowing
all the time that you need nothing. Your attitude is different. With this attitude, should there be a need of the
body, it's immediately fulfilled. You don't have to think
about it, it's taken care of immediately.
***
The only thing that creates thought is desire. As long as
there is one single desire there will be disturbance and
lack of complete contentedness.
***
Any desire satisfied disappears forever.
***
There's an easy way to realization, just get rid of all
desires.
***
One way to overcome desire is to have a very strong
desire for God. And, in the end, you have to get rid of
your desire for God. Then you are It!
***
Every little ego wish is a clamp down on your freedom
which is tantamount to saying every desire is a clamp
down on your freedom.
***
Desire creates thoughts; desire to have or not to have.
Before desire is ego. So ego is the starting point. I'm an
individual separate from the All so I've got to desire to
get the All.
***
The only thing that disturbs peace is desire.
***
Internal pressure is caused by desire.
***
When things are approached with pure love there is no
more desire.
***
Desire plants seeds for the future.
***
Decrease desire for the world, increase desire for the
Self.
***
You must get rid of all desire. You can enjoy without
desire. In fact, if you really want to enjoy things, you can
enjoy far more without desire.
***
Desire is the cause of everything. Any time you have
any problem there I s desire behind it.
***
Any desire except desire for liberation is causing misery.
***
The odd thing about desire is that the more you try to
satisfy it, the stronger it becomes. The more people try
to satisfy their desire by having things, the stronger that
desire becomes. People have more things today than
they have ever ad and they are unhappier than they
have ever been.
***
Desire just cuts off happiness.
***
You should have only one desire, a desire for complete
liberation, complete realization. Any other desire will
keep you in trouble. We should try to let go of all
desires. We should not try to fulfill desires. Every time
we fulfill a desire, we strengthen that desire rather than
weaken it. I believe that is obvious to all of us, that we
never satiate desires. The more we try to satisfy them,
the more we want of them. So it's better to not satisfy
desires and by doing so the mind gets quieter. When the
mind is quieter, we have a better chance to see the
Truth. When we see the Truth we scorch the desire, and
this is the better way, actually the only really effectual
way of getting rid of desire.
When you see the Truth, desires are scorched because
a desire is really trying to be your own real Self through
some in direct means, through some thing, through
some person. When you see this you let go of these silly
desires because why struggle through an indirect means
to be that which you are? The indirect means cannot
make you what you are, so it's fruitless and extremely
frustrating. Consequently, we have this frustrated world.
We're all trying to satisfy desire; it's absolutely
impossible to do it, and we go on and on lifetime in,
lifetime out, until we recognize that desires are our
enemy.
Desire is an admission of lack. If I am the infinite One I
desire nothing; I am the All. We must get back to that
state by behaving as one would in that state. The
greatest behavior, the greatest ritual that we can
perform, is living as a fully realized Being would live. Try
to attain the state of dispassion, no attachments, no
aversions. Try to attain a state of equanimity, a feeling of
equal mindedness toward every thing, everyone. Try to
attain the desirelessness state. Then you will see that
you are the All, that you are That!
***
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セッション12 - 要望..........34 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)
SESSION 12
DESIRE
A desire is a disturbance of one's natural, inherent
peace and joy. Desires keep one involved in trying to
satiate the desires, consequently detracting one from his
constant, natural, inherent happiness. In short, desire is
the enemy of happiness and the source of misery.
***
The more desire is let go of, the less disturbed the mind
becomes allowing it to become concentrated. The more
concentrated the mind, the more capable one becomes
of discerning or r realizing his Self.
***
Silence silences the noisy demands of ego desires and
allows your Self to be seen.
***
Solitude is the absence of desire.
***
The absence of desire is serenity.
***
Every time one tries to satisfy a desire he creates a
greater intensity of that desire. This comes about
because the momentary pleasure, which is inhering
more in the Self due to momentary stilling of thoughts, is
attributed to the object of the desire and therefore, one
wants the object more and more, vainly attempting to
satiate the desire, which is satiable only in being
constantly quiet from thoughts. i.e., constantly inhering
in the Self.
***
The simultaneous fulfillment of all desires is in the
finding of your real Self.
***
Desire is a bottomless pit that can never be filled up.
***
Desire constitutes the world and desirelessness constitutes the Self, God.
***
Desire is seeking the joy of being our Self through objects and people. The mind originally creates the thought
of need, or lack, which agitates the mind and covers the
Self. When the object is attained, the mind stills, the joy
of your Self shines forth and this joy is attributed to the
object, and the mind then goes on seeking the object as
the source of the joy. But the joy being not obtainable
from the object, the mind seeks it more and more from
the object and is never satisfied.
***
Desire is the mother of all motion, the disturber of all
peace.
***
The basic mechanism of desire is, first, we create a lack
and then desire whatever is necessary to fill that lack.
The desire creates thoughts. The thoughts cover the
Self and this makes us unhappy. Then we look to relieve
that unhappiness by fulfilling the desire which
momentarily stills the thoughts. The stilling of thoughts
removes a bit of the cover of the Self and it's the feeling
of a bit more of the Self that we call pleasure. We
wrongly attribute that joy or pleasure to the thing or
person that was used to fulfil the desire to relieve the
agony of the thoughts of desire that were covering the
Self. Because of this wrong attributing of the joy to the
person or thing, the desire will never be satiated
because the joy is not in the person or thing. The only
possibility of satiety is to remain in your Self.
***
Fulfilling desire is momentarily letting go of the agony of
the feelings of being limited by lack. This understanding
should help you let go of the frustrating drive of seeking
happiness where it isn't, in the world!
***
Desire is mind disquieted.
***
Recognizing who and what you are instantly satisfies all
desires.
***
We should desire only God.
***
Desire leads only to misery and death.
***
Any desire upsets and disturbs the natural inherent
tranquility and peace.
***
If one will stop thinking of something, his desire for it will
disappear.
***
After you discover that desires are undesirable, you
discover that there is a joy and peace that is everconstant and more profound than any joy you have
experienced before.
***
Desire is the start of all agitation.
***
A desire is an artificially created lack.
***
Ignorance creates the universe, desire sustains it, and
enlightenment dissolves it!
***
If there were no desire there would be no world or universe of limitation.
***
Desire is the source of all trouble.
***
If desire overwhelms us it is because we want it to. Who
turns on the desire? If it's in your power to turn it on, it's
in your power to turn it off. The more it is turned off, the
weaker it becomes.
***
Desire only growth. Everyone makes the Goal eventually, but the intensity of the desire determines when and
how soon. If your desire is strong, you think only of that.
The doubts then drop a way.
***
Don't suppress desire, actually let go of it. If you create
the desire in you, you can uncreate it.
***
The worst thing to do is to suppress a desire, any desire.
When it is suppressed, from that moment on it will try to
express itself. Recognizing it does not mean we must try
to satisfy it, but does prevent suppressing it.
***
Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things
at the same time, one consciously and the other
subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make
the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand,
if you will know what you are, there will be no conflicts.
You can do that through seeking. It's not necessary to
understand the negative. It's far better to be the positive.
Be your Self.
***
Seeking any ego fulfillment is seeking the letting go of
the agony of the concept of lack. Any lack is necessarily
an ego concept.
***
In order to be infinite beings, we must have no desires
because any desire is a limiting action upon -ourselves.
If we think we need something, we think of ourselves as
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being limited. If you have everything, if you are
everything, how could you want something? You know
you don't need anything and you go through life knowing
all the time that you need nothing. Your attitude is different. With this attitude, should there be a need of the
body, it's immediately fulfilled. You don't have to think
about it, it's taken care of immediately.
***
The only thing that creates thought is desire. As long as
there is one single desire there will be disturbance and
lack of complete contentedness.
***
Any desire satisfied disappears forever.
***
There's an easy way to realization, just get rid of all
desires.
***
One way to overcome desire is to have a very strong
desire for God. And, in the end, you have to get rid of
your desire for God. Then you are It!
***
Every little ego wish is a clamp down on your freedom
which is tantamount to saying every desire is a clamp
down on your freedom.
***
Desire creates thoughts; desire to have or not to have.
Before desire is ego. So ego is the starting point. I'm an
individual separate from the All so I've got to desire to
get the All.
***
The only thing that disturbs peace is desire.
***
Internal pressure is caused by desire.
***
When things are approached with pure love there is no
more desire.
***
Desire plants seeds for the future.
***
Decrease desire for the world, increase desire for the
Self.
***
You must get rid of all desire. You can enjoy without
desire. In fact, if you really want to enjoy things, you can
enjoy far more without desire.
***
Desire is the cause of everything. Any time you have
any problem there I s desire behind it.
***
Any desire except desire for liberation is causing misery.
***
The odd thing about desire is that the more you try to
satisfy it, the stronger it becomes. The more people try
to satisfy their desire by having things, the stronger that
desire becomes. People have more things today than
they have ever ad and they are unhappier than they
have ever been.
***
Desire just cuts off happiness.
***
You should have only one desire, a desire for complete
liberation, complete realization. Any other desire will
keep you in trouble. We should try to let go of all
desires. We should not try to fulfill desires. Every time
we fulfill a desire, we strengthen that desire rather than
weaken it. I believe that is obvious to all of us, that we
never satiate desires. The more we try to satisfy them,
the more we want of them. So it's better to not satisfy
desires and by doing so the mind gets quieter. When the
mind is quieter, we have a better chance to see the
Truth. When we see the Truth we scorch the desire, and
this is the better way, actually the only really effectual
way of getting rid of desire.
When you see the Truth, desires are scorched because
a desire is really trying to be your own real Self through
some in direct means, through some thing, through
some person. When you see this you let go of these silly
desires because why struggle through an indirect means
to be that which you are? The indirect means cannot
make you what you are, so it's fruitless and extremely
frustrating. Consequently, we have this frustrated world.
We're all trying to satisfy desire; it's absolutely
impossible to do it, and we go on and on lifetime in,
lifetime out, until we recognize that desires are our
enemy.
Desire is an admission of lack. If I am the infinite One I
desire nothing; I am the All. We must get back to that
state by behaving as one would in that state. The
greatest behavior, the greatest ritual that we can
perform, is living as a fully realized Being would live. Try
to attain the state of dispassion, no attachments, no
aversions. Try to attain a state of equanimity, a feeling of
equal mindedness toward every thing, everyone. Try to
attain the desirelessness state. Then you will see that
you are the All, that you are That!
***
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