Lately, I’ve been thinking about desire. And how desire is an awareness of separateness.
To desire something, to say, “I want this,” is to drive a wedge between you and it. It’s an acknowledgement of and power transfer to the idea that you are separate from the object of your desire.
To say, “I want a million dollars,” is to say to yourself that you personally lack a certain activating & sustaining energy which this symbolic external thing would afford you. Maybe being rich is actually an energy already existant within people who become rich in a worldly sense. Maybe this energy is potentially existant in all of us, and once we unlock it within ourselves, it will become manifest in our external reality as well.
Imagine you sat around saying to yourself “I wish I had legs.” Having legs, you would never think about this. You would just take it for granted that you had legs and you would use them as part of the whole that is your body (Unless, of course, you really don’t have any legs, literally… but I’m trying to be metaphorical here). If anything, you would exercise them, and maybe decorate them with pants and shoes. But you don’t spend time wishing for what you already have. Unless you’ve forgotten that you have it…
Maybe a worthwhile exercise would be to make a big long list of every little thing that you wish for in the world. A list of all your “I wants.” Then, when you’re done, you go through and change all the “I wants” to “I haves” or “I ams“. When you say “I am” with confidence, the universe hears and responds, re-inforcing reality with realities.
I think the things that we truly desire are the things that, in fact, we truly are. But we’re scared or uncertain about how to connect with or express these parts of ourselves.” So, in our fear and uncertainty, we build a protective layer of abstraction between us and them by saying “I want.”
Maybe thats what is meant by the Buddhist axiom: “Desire is the root of all suffering.” Re-worded according to this understanding, that might become: “Awareness of separation is the root of all suffering.”
Figuring out how to cut out this layer of abstraction, desire, would allow us to be what we already are and use what we already have. It’s not that we have to “make our dreams come true.” Our dreams are already true. What we need then is not more desiring, but perhaps better dreaming. Better imagination from which to bring into being all the many facets and energies which make up ourselves. And the strength to stand up and say “I am” and then have the universe ring out in resonance, supporting you and showering you with the richest of realities.
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