Stop Trying to Get Rid of Your Desires. Here's Why.

2 days ago

You need not get rid of longing. You are not the one who longs. Longing, desire, attachment — these happen to the character, not to you. You are the self-aware reality on which the person who longs even exists. The wave cannot get rid of its wetness. The fire cannot escape its heat. Wanting to suppress your emotions is the same mistake spirituality has been teaching for centuries: that your natural human experience is the problem. It is not. You are not the emotion. You are not the desire. You are not the confusion. You are the awareness in which all of it appears. And that awareness needs no effort to maintain itself. This is not a teaching to believe. It is a fact to recognize. Chapters: 0:00 — The mistake about longing 0:28 — You are not the one who longs 0:55 — The wave and its we