Detachment Flashcards
Where there is seeking and grasping for results, there is an ulterior motive. This action can never bear fruition in the way you’d like it to.
The only way to gain something is to first let it go.
All boys are just “quenching of thirst with salt water”
- When you try too hard to woo anyone, you’re blocking them through the chase.
There is unwisdom in pursuing things
Striving for the permanence of things is always going to be in vain.
If there is someone you’re infatuated with, it is but the ghost of them in your mind that keeps you hooked. Not them. It is maya. Just like the image stays on a screen for a while..it endures. Such is your desire.
The problem on a more fundamental level lies in literally trying to grab it too hard.
We’re always trying so hard to force things to bend to our will. Our body is fully functional without our having to interfere too much, right?
Calmness and non grasping ness of everything.
When you’re trying to let go, you’re not actually letting go
To try not to grasp does the exact same amount of damage as trying to grasp. The motivation is the same, to bend something to your will. The only thing you can do is not desire to let go more than you actually can.
Not desiring to be desireless
Anything that seems intentional. Like the quest for desirelessness can never be natural. So it’s therefore unattainable. Make it natural by accepting your own limitations in not knowing all the details required.
You have to know, like in your bones that there’s nothing to be grasped
The real person cannot be grasped by your desire, for it cannot be conceived. The desire only exists in the worst form of energy, lust. Not unconditonal love. Not friendship. Other gradations are possible. Not this one.
Your true soulmate, if there is one is not someone you have to find. You’re seeking yourself
Your self is not something you have to go looking for. IT it the journey to you.
Maya: Three blades of a fan seeming like a circle, the point object appearing like a lighted circle.
Illusory nature of simple patterns in nature. Observe the pattern and tag it as nothing more than a pattern. DO not get involved or absobed into the pattern. Know that it’s a hologram or whatever. It exists in these limited parameters.
The human mind has the tendency to want impulsively, without direction or regulation
Magnify the effects in the past of how not listening to your voice of reason has turned out bad
Mind can get agitated and inflamed when even a very small reaction distrupts the trajectory
Ask yourself, is it serious?
When MC twerked the whole world thought it was seriously offensive and miley just found it funny.
Complete abstinence will only lead to frustration
Relish the progress, gain more knowledge, wait slowdown for if you push down on knowledge pedal, the abtinence pedal will come up for you. Its like two pedals in a wheel
When you have a continued streak of self control, you gain peace
This does not mean direct abstainance, it just means following the middle path with everything. DOUBT.
If you want something and don’t get it
Cut the desire at it’s roots
If you wanted it, and you’re getting it, refuse it.
Rajasasthu phalam dhukham.
