Anger & Desire

[Guest guest]

My friend Bob is writing a book, so i thought I'd share his thoughts

on this topic. Bob LOVES Ammachi!

 

love,

 

Col

~*~

 

Bob said:

 

Re: On Desire

 

As the two great suns set simultaneously on opposite horizons, the

playful breeze swirled languidly around the legs of the many greebs

gathered and reclining on all sides of the plush granthinium. In the

glow of that golden moment, Ixnay rose and spoke:

 

 

"It seems that what people want is to be satisfied. This search for

satisfaction runs

throughout their life and takes the form of desiring things. They

desire

material goods and answers to questions. To not satisfy desires is

something most human beings will not tolerate for long. If they

happen to

be around a Teacher they will often leave because the Teacher will not

accommodate them.

 

The desire for satisfaction is actually the desire for Peace. Desire

is an

excellent Teacher, a real gift if it is seen and gone into without

movement.

Desire can be approached the same as fear, jealousy,

anger, grief, etc. –

we can go into the core of it without movement.

 

When we go into the core of desire we find that it is bringing us

what we

Truly are searching for:

Peace.

 

But the way we usually approach desire is to satisfy it. This is such

a

given that we don't see any other possibilities. In fact, desire and

satisfaction are joined in the mind.

 

Yet what happens when we satisfy a desire? At the moment of

satisfaction,

at the moment we get what we wanted to get there is a release, there

is a

momentary stopping and in this momentary stopping is Peace.

 

We do not see that we desire things not for the things themselves but

for

the momentary Peace that is found when desire is not present. But

since we

do not See this we just immediately begin to desire something else.

 

When we begin to sit with desire without attempting to stop it or

satisfy

it, when we just be with it we discover the gift it brings.

 

Choices are the handmaiden of desire. Chocolate or vanilla? Turnips

or Cherries?

Blinsums or Chickles? and all the while the mind obscures what it is

afraid of: that you will See that desire is not about what you

thought it

was about, it is about freeing you from it. Desire wants to become

you and

it continues to knock at your door and you continue to follow it when

all

the while it wants you to absorb it, eat it up, let it become you and

therefore be annihilated."

 

Ixnay, from Her Book of Daisy Wisdom

[Guest guest]

Ammachi, Rick Archer <rickhome@c...> wrote:

> Dear Colette,

>

> My friend Vaju Moorthy from Fairfield is coming on the Australia

tour. Say

> hi to her if you see her. She'll probably be cooking samosas.

> --

> Rick

 

Rick am I looking for someone with pale or dark skin? My friend

Vimala (Linda) will be touring round Australia. We share a house. I

will just see Mother in Sydney. Linda was on Mother Divine some years

ago. I will keep an eye out for Vaju & say hi to her.

 

I guess that meeting Mother has been a good nourishing reflection for

balancing after learning about transcendence. I never sang a bhajan

before I met Mother. I find the movement at the same time as devotion

helps embody the silent aspect. I sat still for long enough, & am

very thankful for that message. Silence stillness, & sound & movement

are in relationship it seems. I also relate to masculine & feminine

in relationship.

 

Love,

 

Colette