Desire And Marbles. By: Franco Yong

Desire. Everyone one has desires. Even having no desire, is still a desire. Desires can be short-term, mid-term and long-term.

“I want to eat a burger tonight” is a short-term desire.

“I wish to go for a holiday in the next 12 months” is a mid-term desire.

“I will want to make myself $1 million in time to come” could be a long-term desire.

Different people may look at desire differently. There are 2 schools for thought when we speak of desire.

One school would say desire can be fulfilled. Another school advocates that we surrender and renounce desire. It is easy to be in the former school and of the latter. To fulfilled is certainly much much easier than to renounce desire.

Desire can be either qualitative (subjective) or quantitative (objective). By the natural and structuer ofr qualitative desire it is very much to do with internal structure of a person and quantitative desire is external expression or having an attachment to an object.

Desire to have a car is quantitative. Desire to work hard is qualitative. In order to have, one has to be in a right frame of mind and to take action before being able to achieve the objective desire. The qualitative and the qualitative aspects have to be in congruent in order to attain the desire.

When the inner qualitative state of desire is in conflict with the qualitative, confusion and struggles tend to predominate leading to the widening gap of the qualitative and quantitative resulting in failure in attaining the desire. Therefore, for people who are able to fulfilled their desires and dreams, their well-being are very centered and balanced. Their “being” is very much in harmony with their projections of what they wish to fulfilled.

Let’s reflect on this -

In life there are 3 very important aspects. Health, Harmony And Prosperity. Health is well-being. Harmony is being in the present and being centered. Prosperity needs not mean monetary wealth; it could mean “not being in financially challenged”.

Imagine that you will need 5 marbles in each of these 3 areas. However, you are only given 5 marbles and you holds these 5 marbles in your hands. How would you allocated these marbles to these areas? And how would you further gain 10 more marbles to fully fulfilled the desires of these 3 areas?

One way is that you will have to elevate yourself above the threshold of attaining a sense of spirituality and release your hunger for attachment and fear of death to be able to come within grasp of the additional 10 marbles.