Beyond desire.

When we first embark upon our spiritual journey we do it often because we want to change many things about ourselves. We want to be calmer, more peaceful, less controlling, less stressed, happier, more confident, etc. So many desires, so much ambition, so much self identity. However, when we practice in the right way we will begin to recognise intuitively the futility of trying to satisfy these endless desires, and realise that one simply leads to the next. Now comes the deepest and most difficult Dhamma teaching - just relax a little bit. Stop trying to become something you feel that you’re not and let go of spiritual imagination, that there is something wonderful to get, and it’s just over there... The highest practice is to sit without ambition, to allow all the fantasy of ‘self’ to fall away. All desire comes from ‘self’ and so the less of you there is the happier life becomes. Desire cannot lead to the end of desire, it’s like trying to walk to the horizon, no matter how much effort you make you never can arrive. So do your practice without goals and simply be, everything follows from there.

May all beings be happy.