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Attachment to Desires Leads To Suffering

Buddha said that the cause of suffering is desire or craving! However I’ve realized that desire and craving is not the cause, but rather the agreement, attachment and identification with that desire and craving is the cause of suffering.

The Bible says, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.”

I remember being a Christian that was trying to balance the need for money, but trying not to desire and love it. However, when we ask “who is loving the money and why?” We discover it’s not our True Spiritual Self, but rather the egotistical mind that dwells in lack and believes when it is wealthy it will be happy, therefore the desire and craving for money is born.

Seeing this life as a video game and this human character we are playing, is merely an Avatar with desires and cravings, protects us from suffering. However, when we identify as this Avatar, believing we are just a human with a spirit, we will tend to believe our Avatar’s desires are our own. Then we will spend this life chasing empty desires, believing if we fulfill them we will be happy.

Theses desires lead to suffering because they produce: Attachments, Expectations, Judgements, and Resistance. The key to being set free from them, is to be aware of them, don’t identify with them, and instead follow the Inner Guidance.

As a result we progress through three stages: Unconscious – Conscious -Sub-Conscious!

1. First we are unconscious of the Avatar’s egotistical desires, believing they are our own, which is tormenting, and it puts us into a state of stressing and striving!
2. Second is when we are conscious of the Avatar being a separate mindset from our True Self and we can accept or reject it’s desires. However, this is a process and we tend to occasionally still hope, want, and desire.
3. Finally we change the state of desiring to a sub-conscious state of knowing and of faith, where we can say; “it is finished,” “it is done,” then it will materialize in this reality. When we are in a state of knowing, we become aware, that things are no longer a coincidence, but rather a response to what we are believing.

As the Course In Miracles says, “Freedom must be impossible as long as you perceive a body as yourself. The body is a limit. Who would seek for freedom in a body looks for it where it can not be found. The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence. If this were the truth, the mind were vulnerable indeed!”

Lets walk in peace, knowing; I am not a body, I am free, I am as God created me, a spiritual being of light/love and what this Spiritual Being knows will be!

Gypsy Spirit (aka: Rhonda Ferguson)

Guiding people out of the darkness of the egotistical mind and into the light of what they truly are as a spiritual being of light/love!