If You Want to Get It Done, Drop the Desire
Desire is the starting point. It is the birth. Don’t be pregnant the very next moment with the same desire. It is worthless. You had already conceived the desire once. Now, bringing it up again adds no progress to your purpose. You are simply postponing action.
Procrastination
If you are a habitual procrastinator, then check — do you have a lot of desires? Or, do you fancy the same idea over and over again with new tweaks, add-ons, toppings, colors & flavors?
If yes, then that could be one of the biggest reason you are a procrastinator.
Drop your desires and you will become a man or woman of action.
A Delay Tactic
Desire is a delay in action. It is a delay tactic conjured up by your mind. In the few seconds that you had spent desiring, you could have done something.
Why do you keep on harboring the same desire? Why does your mind indulge in this delay tactic?
May be you are not confident. Or, may be the desire is so big that right now your mind knows there are no means of accomplishing it. Another reason could be that you really don’t want it, whatever you are desiring. So, your mind keeps your actions at bay by continuing to desire.
There are just two ways out of this situation. One, drop the desire and get back to what you were doing. Two, drop the desire and start acting on what you desire. In either case to accomplish something, you have to drop the desire.
The Fever
Suppose you chose to act on your desire. You started the project or art work or whatever that you have to do to get started.
Now, if you keep on desiring for the results, again you are delaying the results. It is again the delay tactic at work.
Have you ever wondered, having started the work, what is the need for the desire to pop its head again? Essentially, the only thing that you need at this moment is continuous focus on what you are doing. That is it. But, no the desire wants to cling on.
Don’t think by desiring again you are keeping the fire alive. No, you are simply creating anxiety. You are reducing or postponing your chances of achieving the result.
Fulfillment
If you have desired something, and it truly reflects your purpose, then you don’t need to munch on it, anyways. The desire is part of you. It is part of your temperament. Your mind doesn’t need to conjure it up as a desire.
But if the desire does not reflect your true purpose, then what good is it anyways. You should bid it farewell with same enthusiasm as you had let it in.
A desire that fails to bring fulfillment is bad luck. It corrupts your heart giving you no joy in return. Most desires don’t result in fulfillment. They make you unhappy. They foster anxiety. And if you keeping harboring desires in you heart, they will only bring you a feeling of lack and postponement of action.
Yet, the only purpose of a desire is to bring fulfillment. It can only reach its purpose when you drop it. A dropped desire results in fulfillment.
Easily Said Than Done
But how do you drop a desire? It is easily said than done.
I desire about many things. And these desires cling to my heart dictating most of my actions during the day. But everyday when I meditate, the hold of the desires starts to loosen up. Sometime before leaving the cave of my heart they swell up like bats. But then they fly away, disappearing in darkness.
As I continue to meditate, my heart becomes clear. I am able to drop any new rising desire. This brings clarity in my action.
From my experience I can say, meditation is a practical & painless way to drop desires. Desires tend to return. So, I tend to meditate everyday.
Now, do you have a desire to meditate? Drop it.
