A Buddha
aphorism reads: " Every desire is a pain, a thousand desires one thousand pains." It 'clear and logical that after reading and the subsequent meditation upon the truth so obvious, is born the urge to get rid of any desire to follow the path of surrender as did the Buddhist monks in their time: "I reach for perfection and I'm happy when I can dominate any attachment to the physical world and the world of desires, so they thought and acted the followers of the Buddha (in general, without considering the merits of the Buddhist doctrine).
But things are not exactly so in our western world, where we are continually challenged to desire what is outside of us, if not, we would not be normal people that is related to the world around us and able to create everything that exists around us.
E 'unthinkable desires aside, it would be like killing the drive for creativity in the individual, the society of consumerism, productive life above all spiritual progress, because if we move into the path of awareness and achievements in the scientific and spiritual, that open the mind to new horizons, we owe it to the desire to understand, comprehend and advance our second choice, that animates the will to act and implement.
So what has the maximum value of the Buddha, I should add, in our day?
us into a very deep problem and determining our balance, harmony and prosperity for our physical, mental and spiritual.
begin immediately from the relationship with the desire in him by asking if the desire is cultivated or not: desire to be cultivated because it is the engine of our existence, physiological and spiritual conscious and unconscious, in the sense that all such our vital functions such as feeding, sleeping, waking etc .... are satisfied because stimulated by unconscious desires: when I am hungry, I say: I want to eat or I feel like eating (the next step to the desire, the will), so it is with all the necessities of life.
But when it comes to psycho-spiritual activities, the desire to carry out its function, starts off the willingness to realize ideas and concepts, this is the process: when I plan to achieve something, was born in my mind and psyche that its image at the same time stimulates the corresponding desire and will to achieve it.
E 'a process natural that you can not escape or surrender, on pain of non-life, dry up every aspect of psycho-physical a negative impact, would be the behavior of the ascetics, hermits of the Christian and Islamic religions, Buddhist and others martyred in their bodies, thousands years ago, repressing desires to reach the asceticism, the vision and mystical contemplation in harmony with the religious ideals of the time.
Nowadays, such behavior can no longer be so drastic, because the evidence of our character training, the achievement of awareness and balance fisicospirituale pass through the familiar and the shape the energy of the desires that beset, surround and distort the normal man during his daily existence.
So is the case once and for all clarify the meaning of desire, first making an initial identification (it is not right to make distinctions, but in this case is very useful): There are basic needs related desires, as we seen above, the necessities of life, and functional unconscious desires, which, if not satisfied with all right, cause pain and suffering: eating enough, sleeping or insomnia in difficult conditions, not be able to dress appropriately, staying physically ill ...
But when you enter the world of the psyche, then things get complicated and must consciously understand the specific nature of all desire and suffering in this world is really a pain, and often unacceptable due to existential suffering.
Take, for example, status of non-acceptance of oneself very common in all ages and sexes, it creates a continuous pain and suffering is difficult to overcome except by will. Why? Why the desire for well-being is undermined by lack of confidence, non-esteem and not self-respect, lack of love (perhaps due to lack of affection in childhood and adolescence); we feel the sense of not being up to the situations, the inability to put forward their views, to attract positive attention for their actions, fear to confront and master his shyness, lack of courage and determination in certain situations. ... The list of negative aspects may still continue, but the effect is unique, existential pain, why? For those who do not accept is separated, it is divided against himself and from himself.
This is the crux of the matter: the person experiences a painful situation, you see split into two, one part of himself carrying the defect of non-acceptance detached with the other party instead of all the positive aspects that would like to make: trust, respect, dignity, power, security .... The greater the distance of this separation, that is, more defects are unbridgeable, the greater the suffering, the pain.
Then along comes what should be the way to overcome the pain: to unite the two parties, the real negative with the positive ideals.
In this operation desire plays an important role, but the desire rightly understood, that is, when will it pervaded.
This means that when I want something, psycho-spiritual level, I realize creating situations, circumstances and events using concrete will do.
Example: If you accept, develop confidence than security ..., then I have to choose between those everyday situations that give me the opportunity to practice what I desire and so I want to. The boss orders me to do a 'hard action, perhaps in relation to one or more other people, myself I take to flight-test challenge and I strive with all my energy to make the best of me, which means at the time of cha' acceptance test, I am imbued in my desire to overcome it and use the will to run with presence of mind, security and trust in me.
fact, if we compare the two states of mind before and during the test run, there is a substantial difference in the first stage, I feel pain because they are separate from those feelings and ideals that, in the second phase , I strive to achieve, but when I apply myself to the test, are imbued with the desire and will-I feel united myself to the fullest.
From what we understand the pain that comes from separation from themselves and from things, quantum psychology, derived from quantum mechanics, which attempts to explain the inner workings of our psyche and our mind starting from the reality that surrounds us, says that all things are linked together, the events to people, taking up the fundamental essence of all philosophies-Eastern religions (Taoism, Buddhism, the doctrine of the Logos, etc. ..) that is awareness of the unity and interrelatedness of all things.
born a dual equation in psychospiritual:
a) = union balance, harmony,
b) separation = misery, pain and conflict.
Now we need to understand how to behave in everyday life among the waves sweeping sea \u200b\u200bof \u200b\u200bdesires. First use of knowledge to understand what you want to deserve a commitment from the will to be made, and use of energy ... .. what does this mean? That not all desires that cross the mind or psyche are likely to be cultivated and developed: those desires that are not achieving a goal that is consciously working for some time, those who want to travel in the air, as an expression of non-collective consciousness: I want to win the game, change her life, husband / wife, work, family etc ... that are clearly symptoms of mental illness, those desires that depend on external situations and not directly by individual choice and in general that are far the reach of personal energy, while there are other desires, aspirations that belong to the intimate sphere and can be cultivated with freedom and creative effort on which you have greater chance of realization: those aspirations to cultivate self-knowledge and culture in general, inner life change, create new skills, attitudes and develop those deemed positive and above all a most rewarding and the total intake: acceptance, esteem, self-respect and love for self and creation.
If you are traveling on that wave energy, the return is continuous and very satisfying, the desire to create balance, harmony and unity with themselves.
