Message #17391

[Jitendra Hydonus]

RipLord

I am curious as to why you took such an interest in this topic of desire. You mentioned that without desire we would not have productivity. However there are beings on this planet who are affecting this planet not by conventional poroductivity... that is doing something... but rather being something. So in this sense i do not believe it is necessary to be productive as many people believe. We have found here in the United States especially that the more we do or produce the more we also destroy. This is tied in with the law of entropy.

You speak of clarity and the desire for clarity. Clarity is a by product of meditation. Do we desire clarity? I believe it is a practice. It is as you have said- a process. Something that takes place as a result of meditation and spiritual practice. We are limited by our use of language here. To some degree we desire because it is part of our human characteristic. Yet our desire nature becomes more and more transformed as our clarity increases.We become more and more motivated by joy and love. This is not boring as you have mentioned but rather increases our expanded awareness and motivates us by factors other than desire. Those terms are love, understanding joy and compassion.

My hope is that you see my response as a hope to connect with your thought waves here and that I have not misunderstood you too much in the process. You have mentioned clarity several times in your response. Clarity is an ability to understand what we are experiencing with our lives and with those who come into our life. If we have no clarity, we are in a dark room, fumbling around, reaching out for objects and trying to make sense of them. Meditation and spiritual practices take a dimmer lite we found on the wall and brighten the whole room so we are able to have clarity as to what we percieve. Time and experience also  add clarity but through a much denser and slower medium.

It is as you have said desire is definately a compass that has taken us to our present circumstances. Yet we also have a higher calling which is the compass of our souls needs.