raveness1
03.10.06, 12:56
Oto jeden z watkow z forum o spirytualizmie i rozwoju duchowym mowiacy o
mechanizmie zaspakajania niekonczacych sie potrzeb :
What is one of the most important factors in keeping us diverted from
meditation in the here and now? Look inside your mind and find the wanting
mechanism. The wanting mechanism continuously constructs images of new
experiences the mind desires, derived from memories of the past. The mind
becomes enamored with these new fantasy images and is diverted from what
actually is, here and now. The eternal cosmic consciousness exists here and
now, never in the future, and never in the past. Future and past are illusory
and do not exist in any real physical form outside of projections of the
mind. What exists now is everything, and you already have it. You only need
to become conscious of your own wealth.
Wanting is part of life, creativity, family building, wealth creation, and
the survival instinct. In the sense of preserving the human race on planet
earth, wanting is a very good thing. In the sense of an individual becoming
an awakened Buddha, wanting is a hindrance. Wanting creates duality, the
wanter and that which is desired. The essay, Call For a New Buddhism, touches
on this issue. Siddhartha Gautama taught that desire is a root cause of
suffering. But who was he speaking to and who can actually take the last
steps to enlightenment by dropping the wanting mechanism totally?
Not wanting means not wanting anything, not just dropping the desire for
whoopy, money, and power, but also dropping the desire for truth, justice,
family, and nation. It is not what you want that matters, it is the wanting
mechanism itself that is the barrier. Deep meditation is a giant leap beyond
logic and the norms of society. It is dissolving into infinity and oblivion
and not coming back. Very few humans have been able to manage that radical
transformation totally and that is why enlightenment will always be an
extremely rare phenomena.
If everyone in the world suddenly became enlightened, in my opinion, the
human race would come to an end. There would be a lack of sufficient desire
to keep people motivated enough to have families, raise children, grow crops,
and protect society from all the natural threats, from disease to ecological
disaster. That said, I certainly believe that enlightenment is a desirable
goal for those who really want it. But you can see the impossibility of the
situation. When you "want" enlightenment your wanting mechanism is still
active and enlightenment will not happen to you. So we can breathe easy that
everyone in the world will not become enlightened, all at the same time,
anytime soon.
Any suggestions?
