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andrew macnab wrote:

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> andrew macnab <a.macnab

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> Tony O'Clery wrote:

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> > Tony O'Clery <aoclery

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> > Namaste All,

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> > Second query: Where do people on these list feel

> > desires come into the equation?

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> <snip>

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> Food for thought Tony.

> I don't aspire to be rid of desire. Desire is as strong as ever, but not

compelling

> in the same way as it once was. Enlightenment or the approach of middle age?

Desire

> rises and falls as an event in the

> bodymind. I can watch and feel this without needing to act. It doesn't flood

my whole

> being as it once did though it still burns just as bright and hot. I think

> Nisargadatta once said "Give the poor body what it wants" but I don't always

do that.

> These aren't conclusions only observations.

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> andrew

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Or it does flood the whole being and there's no more trying to dam it up... and

inevitable breaking of the dam, so no more destructive surge.

 

andrew

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andrew:

Desire rises and falls as an event in the bodymind. I can watch and feel

this without needing to act. It doesn't flood my whole being as it once did

though it still burns just as bright and hot. I think Nisargadatta once said

"Give the poor body what it wants" but I don't always do that.

> Or it does flood the whole being and there's no more trying to dam it

up... and inevitable breaking of the dam, so no more destructive surge.

 

I sympathize with this observation andrew. In refusing to experience ones

own hell of unmet desires, one is still refusing reality. Likewise, in

refusing the experience of fulfillment of ones desires, one is trying to

escape from reality too, misled by ones own judgements about what desire is.

 

 

Love,

Mira