We all feel desires and we feel them change but we do not really pay attention to this system that is place in us by nature well enough, so that we can understand what its doing for us. We all understand that, our first sort of grasp of what pleasure is is just survival type pleasures.
The first category, we see pleasure as and require sex, food, and shelter. All of our efforts or work, what we perceive around us, the whole goal of our lives has to do with finding and getting these things and this is a desire that we have in common with animals. It does not require other people. We just need this to survive. And once we have this filled, we realized that life is about much more than and we cannot be satisfied with it.
And the second category of desires appears this is a desire for wealth. Wealth is the accumulation of the first category so that I will never have to worry about it again. I will be able to control it. And once we fill this desire for wealth, we come to the feeling that is that all there is? Something else grows in us. Now, notice that it is not simply that it is another desire that is growing, but is a greater desire. One did encompass the one before it. In other words, here we have a small desire and a small feeling. And here we have, a desire that is grown and it requires a greater feeling, and this one is incorporated in this one.
So now, if I cannot be filled by wealth, there is a new desire that arises in me and that is a desire for power. This does not happen only to the individual in there lives but it has happened to humanity as a whole through out history. The whole scope of history has been the evolution of these desires.
Power is the ability to control both this and this, all systems that would bring me the greatest collection of that. Now, this is political power, this is empire, this is a control in my job and once I have that I can no longer be satisfied with it. I have become empty. I feel a lack and the fourth desire is placed inside of me. A greater expanded desire for something that encompasses all of that, and that is knowledge. Knowledge is the barrier in a sense of what it is that we define as the physical world. These desires, one, two, three and four, all have to do with what we perceive as pleasure that is, what we are being filled with and what we want, what will satisfy us. Well knowledge, is science. It is religion, it is art. It is the pinnacle of what we consider to be what humanity could possibly achieve, and yet anybody who seriously delves into this very great desire and attempts to fill it, eventually discovers that this is empty as well, that there are no answers in science for the real causes of things, because there is no answer to purpose. There is only mechanical answer and the answers only have to do with these desires.
Religion though it gives us beliefs, cannot give us access to what it is that we really want a direct knowledge. And so, once the person has becomes empty as a result of having this fulfilled, something very different and very special happens. A new desire arises, but this desire is not a desire from this world. It is a desire place within our heart which is the sum of all desires that we have, both for this world and for what is beyond it.
A desire is place in us from a completely other level of development from the greater reality, and what appears inside of our heart is a point in the heart, that is what the couple has call it. This point is a part of the greater reality. It has an aspect of spirituality which if this desire becomes fulfilled unlike this, it grows continually until it fills our entire experience, our entire existence and can bring us into the spiritual world.
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