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it's not possible live without desires and Buddha never said or meant that when he said what he said......
His words have been misinterpreted by buddhoos (ignorant)....the old time camp leaders...hahaha.......like the modern times camp leaders are busy giving a different interpretations to Osho's words....
It's not possible to live without desires because desires are not in ur hands........
They just come from beyond, the unknown........that is why it is called "prabhu ichcha".....the god's will or god's desire......it is like that and you can see it for yourself...you cannot think about a desire....its always new and fresh and from the unknown ...while about lust one is always thinking ,it's just impossible to withdraw your energies from lust and that is why your mind is continuously thinking without any break...that's why your thoughts never leave you....because you are continuously possessed by something or the other.Just observe yourself in silence and you will see a pattern of thoughts leading exactly to your point of lust...to the thing you want to control or possess...and it can be anything...one may be possessed by money or sex or children or career or whatever......lust enslaves you.....desire turns you into an artist, lust creates a monster out of you......
When you begin to settle down inside.........and the witness or watching grows, this is the first thing u will realize........."the desire comes on its own.....from nowhere or from somewhere or from anywhere."
What Buddha talked about was "vaasna" and not "ichcha"...
He talked about "lust" and not "desire" when he said those words.
Now the funny thing is that "ichcha" or "desire" turns into lust all the times...
"lust " never comes directly"....its the desire which gets perverted into lust if one is not aware..
And please understand that "lust " is not a sexual word...or vaasna is not necessarily sexual...........
"Ichcha or desire" is something which is attracting your energies..........
The desire gives direction to your life energies ...that's how life happens and continues...........
But when the innocence of desire gets clouded by possessiveness it turns into "lust or vaasna".....vaasna or lust means u are possessed by that...by that something...by that desire....now u r residing in that desire.....now u have become so close to that desire or obsessed by it that u are in it..."vaasna means bas-na...means to reside..." ..now you are blinded by it.
Don't you see in your daily life as to how somebody threw acid on some girl or how jilted lover killed the woman he desired or loved.....it's happening all the time......what's the reason....the reason is simple...the desire to get associated with somebody turns into the lust to possess and when that possession is met by resistance the ego gets hurt....the rejection wounds the false pride...and lovers end up becoming killers....so a simple desire turns into a lust and into a suffering .
Krishna said " don't worry about the end result...phal kee chinta mat kar..."...that's exactly what Buddha meant....don't be obsessed by your desire or else it will become lust and that is going to be the root cause of all pain and agony.
Ashtavakra said "that your karma is not your karma....." and that is exactly what he meant when he said so..........that all your karma begins with a desire and the desire comes from some source , so its not your karma, don't be associated with that, just flow with your karma with honesty, that's it.....and when u r not associated with your karma you won't be associated with the end result...and when you are not associated with the end result you will never lust for anything.
Osho used to say "u r not the doer.....tum karta nahi ho.......".........he also meant the same as Ashtavakra , Krishna, Buddha and everybody who has ever experienced the truth....so when u r not the doer where is the question of "lust or vaasna"....and since there is no lust or vaasna...there is no success and there is no failure...and when there is no success and no failure... where is the ego....it doesn't get formed....and no ego means no pain...no suffering.....simple......
So don't be afraid of desires....but don't be possessed by them.......don't try to possess anything u desire....don't try to rule it or get it by this way or that way, by tact or act.......work towards it,make it into creativity and not into some target that needs to be reached....a goal to be achieved , don't do that or else you will never be at ease...........
Desire is absolutely wonderful, don't try to kill it just because some unintelligent parrot has said that........see and witness in your own life.....see as to how when a desire comes, it breathes a life into you...it enhances your creativity and all creativity ultimately blossoms into love.........not love towards somebody but the quality of "love" with no subject or object........
Prem Kamal
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