--- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is a desire without expectation? > > > **** > > A desire without expectation means dedication to work on the desire > without expectation of outcome.
Exactly. Work for the joy of working. The results take care of themselves and the desires just pass through like a stick through water, leaving no mark and no samskaras. If you had allowed the desires to turn into expect- ations, those expectations would have formed new samskaras, and perpetuated the cycle of karma. But if you just allow the desires to pass through with no more attachment ot the fruit of them or aversion to them not being fulfilled...no harm, no foul. The desire becomes Just Another Passing Thought. Plus, one gains the benefit of being in the moment, doing the work for the sheer joy of doing the work. It's a great high...much more fulfilling than doing the work in expectation of a result. > I have intense desire to heal myself, but less attachment to the > outcome. It is like enjoying the journey itself. One of my favorite quotes from the Tao Te Ching is: "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent upon arriving." The journey IS the destination. Anything else involves not living in the present. > Expectations are limiting because you cannot know the outcome. > Expecting certain kind of outcome disturbs your walking attentively > with open eyes. Your perception gets distorted and rigid. > Especially healing means opening of new pathways and perceptions. You > cannot know them in forward. > It is tiny experiences of healing and aliveness in the present moment > that gradually accumulates to results I don't know in forward. One benefit of dumping expectations is that you regain the ability to be pleasantly surprised by life. Think how incredibly BORING life would be if all that it offered you was what you expected of it. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
