28 Aug 2007 @ 16:21, by Trent Crace
“Yes, sire.” One may be familiar with this form of address, which usually took place when a servant interacted with English royalty. Implicit within the address is an acknowledgment of the supposed divine nature of the royal personage, as the word “sire” means heavenly body or star. It’s in this way that the word “desire” means, at least etymologically, ‘away from heaven.’ If one posited that heaven was some vague refuge of pleasure, then this etymological ‘discovery’ offers little insight. However, posit that heaven is this case signifies Wholeness and the word “desire” becomes a key that unlocks truths about life and the pursuit of happiness.
Games are created through desire. One has to want the goal; one has to want to win for there to be a game. If one did not care in the least, no game would ever be created or played. And one cares because there is a lack. One has to be in some sort of a state of unwholesomeness to conjure the concern or desire that a game demands. Geoffrey Filbert once told me that with anything there is the positive and the negative…and then there is how much one really cares. In other words, there is the goal, the anti-goal and desire.
Is one innately deficient? To put it another way, does one have no choice but to care? One idea that may prove otherwise is the notion that a restricted state can only originate from a state of greater freedom. Ibn ‘Arabi, a Spanish Sufi, spoke much about the fact that determined things can only originate from non-determination. With this in mind, it could be said that one is actually innately Whole and that one creates deficits for oneself in some effort to participate in game play. From a certain perspective then, any belief that one is in any way deficient, and that one is need of anything, would amount to a LIE. This may explain the recent findings that Max Sandor published on his blog at sandorian.us. Max writes: “In short, ANY ATTACHMENT to a desired object will result in that object to go AWAY, and NOT to be attracted.” Perhaps this is because one’s Higher Self will not tolerate such a lie, the lie that one needs anything. Max goes on to mention a “winning strategy.” He writes: “Relinquish attachment to the positive pole and resistance to the negative and ACT as if the result wouldn't matter!” One ‘acts’ as if the result wouldn’t matter because the result really doesn’t matter! At least, it doesn’t matter as far as one’s eternal happiness is concerned.
It’s been my experience that whenever I find myself attached to something, there appears a Voice that demands my flight from it. It’s as if this Voice will not tolerate such a substandard condition as being in need; it seems it cannot stand my harboring such a false belief in the face of Reality, the reality that I am Whole. Hate may begin to come into play as hate becomes a propellant. One may begin to hate that to which one is attached, as a means to better achieve a “freedom from” and thus ultimately a “freedom to.”
It seems everyone is engaged in the pursuit of Wholeness but it’s this wrong belief, the belief that it’s what’s “out there” that will bring one wholeness, that prevents them from truly achieving what they ultimately already have and ultimately already are. Deciding that heroin, sex, procreation, wealth, etc., will bring them everlasting happiness, they pursue these things of the world with uncontrollable fervor. Yet the most they can hope to achieve is temporary wholeness, a brief pleasurable union as they fall back and as the chase begins once again. In the Pali Canon, someone once asked Siddhartha Gotama why anyone would want to achieve Nirvana. He said essentially it’s because people shun woe and embrace weal. So once a person comes to fully understand that it’s no object of the world that will bring them true weal, and that there is a path that bears the potential to do so, they can shed their false ideas and look to that which may actually bring them eternal wholeness. But there is no reason why they couldn’t enjoy the temporary pleasures of the earth in the meantime!
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