You Can Learn Not To Want What

You Can't Ever Get Everything You Want. It Is Impossible. Luckily, There Is Another Option: You Can Learn To Control Your Mind, To Step Outside Of The Endless Cycle Of Desire And Aversion.

The Present Moment Is Changing So Fast That We Often Do Not Notice Its Existence At All. Every Moment Of Mind Is Like A Series Of Pictures Passing Through A Projector. Some Of The Pictures Come From Sense Impressions. Others Come From Memories Of Past Experiences Or From Fantasies Of The Future.

You Can Learn Not To Want What You Want, To Recognize Desires But Not Be Controlled By Them.

Discipline Is A Difficult Word For Most Of Us. It Conjures Up Images Of Somebody Standing Over You With A Stick, Telling You That You're Wrong. But Self-discipline Is Different. It's The Skill Of Seeing Through The Hollow Shouting Of Your Own Impulses And Piercing Their Secret.

We Usually Do Not Look Into What Is Really There In Front Of Us. We See Life Through A Screen Of Thoughts And Concepts, And We Mistake Those Mental Objects For Reality. We Get So Caught Up In This Endless Thought-stream That Reality Flows By Unnoticed. We Spend Our Time Engrossed In Activity, Caught Up In An Eternal Flight From Pain And Unpleasantness. We Spend Our Energies Trying To Make Ourselves Feel Better, Trying To Bury Our Fears. We Are Endlessly Seeking Security. Meanwhile, The World Of Real Experience Flows By Untouched And Untasted.