Chasing Satisfaction for Someone Who Does Not Exist | Aswin Sundharam | Romancelovesophy

Описание: The interesting thing is most of our life revolves around desire, right? People wake up in the morning because of desires. They work because of desire. They struggle, compete, love, and suffer because of desires, right? It appears to be the central engine of human existence, right? But here's the thing.
You see, most people never question the most basic assumption behind desires: the belief that there is a real owner of it. We all believe there is someone within us controlling the desires and managing it. Are you understanding? We say, "I want this." We say, "I should not want that." We say, "I must control my desires." But the thing is that the one who claims ownership of desire is itself only a mental story. Are you getting it? And this is very true. The entire drama of human life begins to look very differently the moment you look at desires as they are.

You see, let me explain. The thing is that imagine a prison guard standing outside a cell day and night. What happens? He checks the locks. He walks back and forth with discipline. He makes sure the prisoner never escapes, right? But one day, he opens the door and discovers entirely opposite. His belief system entirely crashes because the cell has always been empty. This is very similar to how human beings live with desires. Actually, how we all revolve our life around desires.

We spend our lives building systems to control ourselves. Like, we create rules, guilt, moral systems, discipline routines, productivity systems, self-improvement programs and things like that, and endless mental strategies to control the desires of the self, right? We all do all these things. But the truth is that the "I" who claims these desires is only a mental image.
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