How to let go of desire?

Originally Posted by sky123

It's excellent.

It's subjective. Excellent to you, meaningless to someone else.

[sky]

Originally Posted by AbodhiSky

It's subjective. Excellent to you, meaningless to someone else.

Exactly

First go beyond the mind...

Beyond the mind is action, awakening.
One does not walk around worrying about 4 things, 3 things, 5 things....

However I would name three to remember.

1. Let go of the past. Right now, take the attention fully off anything of the past.

2. Let go of the future. This is an instant ego killer. The ego seeks in time, in the future. With the future dropped as a part of the now, ego has no footing.

3. Let go of anything you are concerned or thinking about now. Be like you are someone standing next to you who says to you, " I have zero interest in anything you are thinking about!"

One is then free of mind. "First go beyond the mind.." No "first"... that is it, all. Though it takes time to deepen it. For more of reality or the "what is" to manifest to awareness. To be free of mind takes time. Practice.

To be nothing and nobody, to be empty, takes time as we are fully invested in, and conditioned to be somebody and someone. Strong habits to focus on mind.

Desires for the highest truths and realities are not bad or to be put away. Desires from our highest or truest self. From consciousness itself. But desires from mind, from ego, from the drives of this animal body in which we are placed, they can lead to suffering and conflicts of various kinds.

How to be free of them? They are of mind. To be free of them, just be free of mind. If one becomes mind, the desires of mind come with that.

Buddhism is based on the desire to be free of suffering.

The dog that bites at ones heals is always on the same street. Zen saying.

[sky]

just be free of mind

Isn't that Mooji talk definitely not The Buddha's...... Buddha taught to 'Free the mind' not be free of mind.

[sky]

Originally Posted by CosmicWonder

I try to recognize again: what is the actual issue? What can I do about it? Sort the desires out,

Much kindness

Sounds like your doing really well CW, sorting them desires out
The Wholesome from the Unwholesome........

Originally Posted by sky123

Buddha taught to 'Free the mind'

Doubt that. Have a source?

[sky]

Originally Posted by AbodhiSky

Doubt that. Have a source?

Yes Buddhism...... it offers methods to ' Free the mind ' from delusion and harmful mental states.
You could start with Eightfold Path.

[CosmicWonder]

Originally Posted by sky123

Sounds like your doing really well CW, sorting them desires out
The Wholesome from the Unwholesome........

Thanks sky123 :)

Yes doing well. Making progress. Even though it’s tough material to dissect.

Much kindness

[sky]

Buddha has stated five clear objectives in Bhavana:

1. Purification of the mind - Free The Mind of defilements greed, hatred and delusion. 2.Overcome sorrow and lamentation, 3. Overcome pain and suffering, 4. Following the Noble Eightfold Path, 5. Realisation of Nibbana.