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Expectations
- Thread starter zenzero
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Brahman
Paramatman
zenzero you are 100% correct about desire. thats why you can desire enlightenment. enlightenment can only happen now, not in the future. if you always desire it, you will always be a step away from it.
many people will ask though, how does one with no desires move. they have different motivators. they are motivated by desire. they are motivated by compassion, needs, and other qualities.
many people will ask though, how does one with no desires move. they have different motivators. they are motivated by desire. they are motivated by compassion, needs, and other qualities.
zenzero
Its only a Label
Friend Brahman,
No, it is not that at all Nothing is different.
Desireless people move or act because it necessitates them to act at the moment they do. They do as it is not their OWN will but existence itself makes them act at such moments as existence at all times is balancing itself and desireless people become a vehicle for existence to put this balancing act in place.
Love & rgds
No, it is not that at all Nothing is different.
Desireless people move or act because it necessitates them to act at the moment they do. They do as it is not their OWN will but existence itself makes them act at such moments as existence at all times is balancing itself and desireless people become a vehicle for existence to put this balancing act in place.
Love & rgds
Ben Dhyan
Veteran Member
While it is my understanding that expectations need to dropped to live in the HERE and NOW, it has also been my experience that the momentum of a life lived in constant expectation is impossible to bring to a stop through any act of will.
What has happened however, is that through maintaining a state of mind 'watchfulness', one has witnessed that the actual events occurring in my life have never exactly match my expectations. After many years, it is now my natural expectation that my expectations will never be congruent with reality as it happens. As a result, without effort, though there still may arise a preferred expectation as a result of my life's activity, the actual realized NOW result is more readily accepted without comparing it to any prior hope.
In other words, what happens is just 'what is', and in this state of acceptance, there appears nothing that needs to be changed as harmony is present with any and all changes taking place,....anything is possible!
What has happened however, is that through maintaining a state of mind 'watchfulness', one has witnessed that the actual events occurring in my life have never exactly match my expectations. After many years, it is now my natural expectation that my expectations will never be congruent with reality as it happens. As a result, without effort, though there still may arise a preferred expectation as a result of my life's activity, the actual realized NOW result is more readily accepted without comparing it to any prior hope.
In other words, what happens is just 'what is', and in this state of acceptance, there appears nothing that needs to be changed as harmony is present with any and all changes taking place,....anything is possible!
zenzero
Its only a Label
Friend ben,
Yes, absolutely right.
When we just keeping doing what needs to be done at any moment without expectation then the result is always a bonus which is greater fulfillment.
Life has already given us what is necessary and besides that whatever else that we get is indeed a bonus which when shared completes the circle.
Love & rgds
Yes, absolutely right.
When we just keeping doing what needs to be done at any moment without expectation then the result is always a bonus which is greater fulfillment.
Life has already given us what is necessary and besides that whatever else that we get is indeed a bonus which when shared completes the circle.
Love & rgds