Desires block our healing path directly. They sidetrack us from being present and healing. Let us see how many desires we can let go.
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Desire for approval would be a good start. Needing anything to much exposes us to loss. How can we find peace when we need to serve all these desires?
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Examine every judgment (desire) that we serve today. Do we need it? Try following the breath, letting the desire alone. Feel the body sensation activated. Know the body mechanism without the ego involved to view it without bias.
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Mindfulness ( breathing track) is just self discovery through acceptance. Practice with every breath’!!!!!!!!
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Posted by jeffssong on July 4, 2012 at 10:36 pm
True. The lack of desire is the start to happiness. Unless you are starving, of course. (wry smile). Which is a reminder what led me on this path to ‘seek happiness’ . . . a picture of an old man in ragged attire, I think he was a Hindu somewhere in India I’d seen in a photograph (National Geographic, doubtlessly) – and had this big gaped tooth smile and a begging bowl in front of him – and just looked as happy as could be! And I said to myself: If this man can do it, with little to nothing before him – then why can’t we?
And I set out on that goal ever since . . . it’s not in possessions and toys; it’s not in love’s desire – it’s not in anything. Just you. A warm and comfortable fire.
Posted by Marty on July 4, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Well said
Posted by Maria on February 21, 2013 at 4:41 pm
I’m studying for my BA in scaoil work right now. One of my current subjects is about theory and method in scaoil work and I was pleasantly surprised to read take one . It is pretty much exactly how an educated scaoil worker should, by ethical and professional standards, relate to hir clients. Radically accepting your client, all their life choices (mistakes?), not assigning value judgments. Of course, on a personal level, it is also okay and necessary to recognize when you are incapable of this acceptance or just can’t help the person because of your beliefs and principles. In that case, referral to another scaoil worker is what’s ideal. (e.g. working with a child rapist in a prison environment I know I couldn’t do it; for some, less extreme examples are the limit, like gay or trans folks I *do* assign value judgments to other scaoil workers who can’t overcome their societal conditioning to interact with a gay or trans person like another everyday client)I apologize if this is kind of off-topic I’m simply glad to read your thoughts on this. I don’t know that I can call scaoil work principles exactly radical acceptance, but there is some considerable overlap. I’ll tell you more once I’ve become more educated on the subject