Desire Must Be Understood As The Movement Of Thoughts

**Note: Truth does not always sound pleasant. If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, one has to be aware of the emotions or reactions that can block one from listening attentively and with humility.

This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, not agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

Transcript

When the mind is living in abstraction, Thoughts, Ideas, The mind is trapped in all kinds of desires which are all the consequence, The product of the concept abstraction. What is desire? What's the relation between the desire and the thoughts? If there are no thoughts, If the mind is not trapped in thoughts, Is there still a place for desire? Let me touch something, Like touch a desk with fingers. This brings about the sensation because the neurons are responding to the environment at each second. Then those sensations trigger some images, Thoughts, And direction to the thoughts, Maybe disliking, Maybe lacking, Then the desire arrives. So the desire is a part of the activities of the consciousness, The abstraction part of the life. For most people, They haven't taken time to turn inward to observe this. So the moment the hand touches the desk, The desire appears immediately. It is happening too fast to notice. And most people are carried away by the content of the desire. And all this ignorance creates numerous issues. When the mind is confused, To inquire into the mind is to have this full awareness, To be aware of the movement of thoughts. In that observance, The mind becomes low, And in that slowness, The mind could observe better itself. And only in that state, The mind can learn, Can observe, Understand how the disorder is formed, Created by this ignorance, When the mind is purely carried away by thoughts, By the content of the desire.

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this is one of the most powerful talks on this app.

desire is the movement of thought!