| Everybody throughout the world has a common bond, | | | | 'Conditions' just so we all understand the context in |
| the craving for happiness derived from meaning or | | | | which I am using this term, are the tiny programs in |
| purpose. This purpose is sometimes disguised as the | | | | which we identify with everything in the world around |
| simple satisfaction of desires. | | | | us. |
| These desires can be as simple as being noticed or | | | | For example the chairs you are all sitting on are only |
| received as a separate part of a functional whole | | | | chairs because of a process that started as a child. |
| such as one of societies lonely rejects, or as | | | | When you first start learning how to talk you may |
| complicated as the leader of an entire nation directing | | | | point at a chair and say 'what's that' to which your |
| the masses in such a way that moves the world. | | | | mother may reply 'that is a chair' then you will identify |
| These desires although they may appear to be quite | | | | each object in the environment that has similar |
| different have one thing in common; when the desire | | | | characteristics as the same, everything that is sat |
| has been fulfilled the satisfaction only lasts for a | | | | upon will then be a chair. |
| moment, the desire still remains only to change its | | | | You then walk up to the couch and say 'chair' to which |
| appearance. | | | | your mother will reply 'no darling that is a couch' where |
| Once you achieve your goal what next? | | | | you will then enter what differences you observe into |
| The game of life becomes a dance between the | | | | your memory through establishing emotional markers. |
| desire to satisfy desire (future) such as getting that | | | | Then a chair is divided infinitely into sub groups such as |
| promotion or buying a house, and the desire to rid | | | | dining chairs, arm chairs, wingback chairs etc... and the |
| oneself of desire (past) such as a drug addict trying to | | | | sub categories do the same; a couch becomes a |
| escape the clutches of defeat. Desire seems to | | | | chesterfield, a love seat, you get the idea. |
| always appear as points of focus. | | | | This becomes a network of infinite division that |
| Without the focus or direction facilitated by the desire, | | | | includes fabric, colour, texture, smell, feeling, whatever |
| life seems to lose its purpose once more so we simply | | | | variation or combination of empirical evidence is |
| focus our desire in another direction or point with the | | | | available |
| hopes that this time it creates a hole that can be filled. | | | | Science is this very process, taking something and |
| Desire itself has addicting properties that are worth | | | | dividing it into smaller and smaller pieces labeling each |
| observing. | | | | piece in an attempt to understand how the tiny pieces |
| Desire fundamentally is to want something you do not | | | | function as a whole. |
| have or to become something you are not. | | | | You will notice if you observe the growth of a child |
| Most spiritual practices are geared toward riding | | | | that they do not learn very often the first time you tell |
| ourselves of the illusion of separateness and find the | | | | them something, as if they do not believe you. |
| oneness and unity of ourselves and the world around | | | | You must tell them over and over again until they |
| us. | | | | finally receive the program, often rewarding them with |
| We then ask ourselves if we are already everything | | | | positive affirmation when they finally get it correct |
| then what is there left to be desired? | | | | (such as clapping or screaming with glee) and punishing |
| Desire is the driving force that inspires all movement, | | | | them with negative emotions (such as frustration or |
| and movement is how we identify with the world so it | | | | anger) when they do not. It is important to observe |
| was worth examining all its components. | | | | that both are equal variations of emotional intensities. |
| Let us examine shall we the concept of desire in an | | | | This is conditioning and the end result is a condition. |
| attempt to find a correlation between all forms of | | | | The point to recognize is that the motivation to move |
| desire and come up with a theory that could be | | | | depends solely on the position that is being moved |
| generalizable to all of its appearances. | | | | toward being a more desirable position than the |
| Desire is the motivation to move amidst a large | | | | position one is currently in. Thus the position you |
| network of points that are the conditions through which | | | | currently refer to as "I" is never satisfactory. |
| we see the world. | | | | I am reminded of a mathematical concept that is of |
| Sometimes these points appear as goals that we | | | | great importance to this idea; one cannot double itself |
| move towards, people we are in relationship with etc... | | | | out of nothing but can divide itself infinitely. |
| our focus then remains on that point until we are close | | | | One day we realize that this process of division is us |
| enough, and just as we are about to arrive, the point | | | | using what we call our memory to group the |
| itself shatters into infinite possibilities whereas we pick | | | | information we create through this conditioning, and |
| one of these possibilities discard the rest and continue | | | | storing it in the environment only to forget that we are |
| the dance. | | | | the ones that put it there to lure ourselves out so that |
| The points themselves are conditions created through | | | | we can feel the movement or current that is Love. |
| conditioning. | | | | |