Ask yourself if you are NOT getting what you want. If this is true for you, do NOT cater to yourself in this way. STOP being the center of desire. Desire, along with greed, hatred and delusion will NOT make things “just right” for you.”

Drop this self-centered madness.

It is like a child that does not know better.

When we DROP our desires we get closer to having a chance to know our TRUE SELF.

When we get caught in our desires we complicate our life. It is an unexpected situation that brings misery. Are YOU able to trust what comes into your life without entanglement? Acceptance of what arrives is the Way of the Dharma. This acceptance requires a realization of THAT which is known by many names. God. Buddha. Beloved. Master. That. 

The path to awakening is a transcendent path. It requires that we study ourselves in such a way that we experience the things & thoughts that blind & block our TRUE REALITY.

For those of us who think & believe that the conditioned life is the BEST way to live. This view strongly suggests that this practice is unknown. The conditioned life is temporary.

• The Way asks each of us, whether we know it or not, to reveal our TRUE NATURE to ourselves.

This task is not something we can manipulate & control. Thinking we have got a hold of the wheel of life leads to one attempt after another. The attempts to be in control needs to be studied for ourselves. Attempts are often attempts to fufill our desires of mind, intellect & ego. 

Mind, intellect & ego desires are roadblocks. They often result in ignorance & not freedom. We get bound to our longstanding conditioning. Irritability and anger follow ignorance. When this occurs we have lost the path.

What helps?

Be like water. Water takes the shape of the container. Study the container to such a degree that YOU realize YOU have been stuck in a box that hinders your ability to awaken. Be more like water that flows.

I suspect that those reading this piece benefit from the realization that we are free when we free ourselves from the conditioned world and head for the ocean of freedom.

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Don’t Give Up! Keep Going.