It’s A Reflective Day…

It’s one of those days where you take a check of all the things you learned or ticked off your list. It’s been a crazy few months, as you can tell from the blog.

One of the biggest topics has been Desire and how one deals with it from a Buddhist perspective, this I call my greatest breakthrough to date but as we all know, it will go away and come back and stay and sit but will I deal with it differently? My guess is Desire will never go and now I can say I’m glad for that. For what I have learned is it’s in these tough times where the mind takes over that we are in the best spot for study and application of the Dharma.

In this first post on Desire, you can read into how much I was, still am, struggling with Desire. What I have learned as of late is that Desire is a crazy little bugger, it not only leads to suffering (i.e. having false expectations and such) but it brings out a ton of other emotions. All fertile ground for the mind to beat the crap out of us. Desire seeps into meditation, sleep, waking thinking and tries to rip apart mindful moments. See I was creating an aspect of suffering by thinking and trying to get rid of Desire, which is impossible. And not what Buddha taught.

With luck and practice I have been able, for at least the time being, to put Desire in a space right in front of me and I can say Hello to it if I want but I now know what it is and what it does. Allowing me to see how it works, which has given me permission to see what emotions it pulls out.

Now, this is very hard to do, to be able to sit and just observe the emotions or the Desire. It’s painful but what you are left with is a sense of calm and a lack of movement to cling to it, define yourself by it. It becomes just like anything else, that which will pass, only to come back. The world did not end.

I have to share something that really hit me and helped to ease the suffering of Desire. I posted that I needed help to my Sangha about Desire and this is what another community member sent to me, a quote from our Dharma teacher. heheh

“Oh Kris, I’m sure you are the only one dealing with Desire in this room”.

Kinda puts things in perspective and keep you from feeling isolated.

Hands down I have to say my study of Buddhism and the support of my Sangha have been a huge part of my life in trying to soften the ego.

Namaste everyone

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