Desire

It’s the desire that drives one to act. As the desire becomes stronger, do we get the focus and impact. In one of the Zen stories i read,  the message was clear. Unless you desire God like a man gasping for breadth when drowning in water, you will not get HIM.

There are two challenges here. The first being the direction for this desire. What do we desire? Our beliefs, values and totality of our self defines that. We become what we have been doing for years and the mind then starts desiring things that lie within the ecosystem of the thoughts we have created.

The second challenge is how to invoke the desire. We remain in a state of inertia unless jolted by the circumstances. Read a very good story of a frog in boiling water. As the temperature rises, it battles to adjust, by the time the water is too hot for him to survive, he does not have enough energy to jump, having spent most of the energy in adjusting. Don’t we do that. We do not act and soon our ability to act vanishes even if we desire . Then no matter how strong our desire be, we cannot act and the inertia of non action takes over and we give in.

It’s the every minute battle between keeping the desire on and inertia of non activity that  one has to focus on perhaps!