Dealing with Desires

Our desires is the main mechanism that ego uses to build and develop itself. They probably play the most important role in generating karma. We need to be aware of them. Try to see how desires appear, how they absorb us, how we begin to follow them. Recall how you followed your desires in the past and observe how you do it in the present. You will see that we follow our desires like in sleep without any will to resist them. That's called to be a slave of our desires. Someone can be a slave only partially but it doesn't matter slavery is slavery.

If you tried to work with your desires you know that it is useless. The more your resist your desires the stronger they become. Sometimes you can manage to suppress the desire but it won't help since it will escape into the subconscious mind and will continue it's destructive work.

What it looks like? First, you need strength; you have to stay in constant tension, to keep it there. And it drains you, and, ultimately, can lead to disease. Secondly, there is growing sense of dissatisfaction within. If you do not want to face him, you begin to further strain. On the one hand, it contributes to the fact that you can develop stiffness; on the other hand, it could become a source of neurotic illnesses.

There are only two ways to deal with the desires. The first is the most ambitious way to satisfy the desire. You then, of course, smile. This shows that you think people. Keep smiling and at the same time try to remember the next thing - satisfying the desire, you should let him go.

The second way is it is not to be attached to the desire. You can be not attached to the thought; likewise, can become independent of the desires. Learn let them learn to give them away. They arise and immediately dissolved. Every major doctrine has given a lot of places and wishes of their role. Read and learn. I do not reply. My task is to draw your attention to this subject and to show the link with the desires of the ego.

Now here are a few examples.

One woman wanted to lose weight is. She lost ten kilograms, but since then it has gone monthly. The situation is indeed very common among those who quickly determined effort drops weight. Monthly it was not the year. Unknown, what would all this is over, if it did not find the man who helped her restore them. At a minimum, it would be a hormonal shift and a strong neurosis generated fear obscurity, pregnant or not.

One man a few years ago a friend of the foreign invited to give a Mercedes. He traveled by car to his guests, and he was pleased to do so luxurious gift to his Russian friend. This man is like a new car, but he refused to accept it, because it considered that it would be too much trouble. A year later, the situation repeated itself - he again offered exactly the same gift, but other friends, but also from abroad. And he again refused.

There are desires that are of the mind, but there is a desire, which leads you along your path.