A quick comment that I posted on another forum. Edited :


Folks, there's a bit of confusion that comes from taking the Buddhist statement "Desire is the cause of suffering" that at face value without going a little deeper into the substrate of consciousness.

In Buddhism, Advaita, and several others the point is not that the solution is to get rid of all desires. There is nothing wrong with having desires, setting goals, and striving to achieve them. The problem comes when you invest your emotional energy (your heart) in them. Then if you don't get what you want to have or achieve, you allow that to damage your self esteem--actually "self valuation" would be the better term. That's suffering. Once you understand that, any "failure" does not make you have less value. Once you see that, your "value" can go infinite, because you're the only one that can set it.

Anybody Home in this Body? Light Humor

Letting go more and more.
Now notice pretty quickly when I go off track.

Found an enormous ball of fear identity.
It was in storage.
Its story was that, "There is never enough!  What if the whole thing crashes and burns? That could happen any second!"  Etc., etc.  Seeing it like that I was happy to let it go, to allow it to dis-create

But the thing is, it was pretty central to the personality, so seeing it as "Not I" was pretty significant.

Big Surprise! Big Insight! Big Realization!

"Hey! I can relax now."  And I did!  Really did.  Really!

The (now-blob-like and somewhat comic) fear floated off into the sky.  And there were no regrets!

So here I am. Now.
Poised for another thought to bubble up.
I mean one that has somewhere to go.
Not like these dead ends.
So far....

Wait.  Not every idea has to be significant, world-shattering, new dimensions blooming every second!
Some can be ordinary.  Like "We're out of toilet paper!"
But the Sheer Improbability of There Being Anything At All overwhelms even that!

Then it's like the World has sprung an Improbability Leak!  Gallons of Improbability pouring into our Safe and Predictable World!  This could change everything!

Externally I'm having some balance issues and competence in some areas appears to be starting to drift away....

Done.