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GRASPING IS SUFFERING
Usually we equate suffering with feeling, but feeling is not suffering. It is the grasping of desire that is suffering. Desire does not cause suffering; the cause of suffering is the grasping of desire. This statement is for reflection and contemplation in terms of your individual experience.
You really have to investigate desire and know it for what it is. You have to know what is natural and necessary for survival and what is not necessary for survival. We can be very idealistic in thinking that even the need for food is some kind of desire we should not have. One can be quite ridiculous about it. But the Buddha was not an idealist and he was not a moralist. He was not trying to condemn anything. He was trying to awaken us to truth so that we could see things clearly.
Once there is that clarity and seeing in the right way, then there is no suffering. You can still feel hunger. You can still need food without it becoming a desire. Food is a natural need of the body. The body is not self; it needs food otherwise it will get very weak and die. That is the nature of the body - there is nothing wrong with that. If we get very moralistic and high-minded and believe that we are our bodies, that hunger is our own problem, and that we should not even eat - that is not wisdom; it is foolishness.
When you really see the origin of suffering, you realise that the problem is the grasping of desire not the desire itself. Grasping means being deluded by it, thinking it’s really ‘me’ and ‘mine’: ‘These desires are me and there is something wrong with me for having them’; or, ‘I don’t like the way I am now. I have to become something else’; or, ‘I have to get rid of something before I can become what I want to be.’ All this is desire. So you listen to it with bare attention, not saying it’s good or bad, but merely recognising it for what it is.
LETTING GO
If we contemplate desires and listen to them, we are actually no longer attaching to them; we are just allowing them to be the way they are. Then we come to the realisation that the origin of suffering, desire, can be laid aside and let go of.
How do you let go of things? This means you leave them as they are; it does not mean you annihilate them or throw them away. It is more like setting down and letting them be. Through the practice of letting go we realise that there is the origin of suffering, which is the attachment to desire, and we realise that we should let go of these three kinds of desire. Then we realise that we have let go of these desires; there is no longer any attachment to them.
When you find yourself attached, remember that ‘letting go’ is not ‘getting rid of’ or ‘throwing away’. If I’m holding onto this clock and you say, ‘Let go of it!’, that doesn’t mean ‘throw it out’. I might think that I have to throw it away because I’m attached to it, but that would just be the desire to get rid of it. We tend to think that getting rid of the object is a way of getting rid of attachment. But if I can contemplate attachment, this grasping of the clock, I realise that there is no point in getting rid of it - it’s a good clock; it keeps good time and is not heavy to carry around. The clock is not the problem. The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.
You can apply this insight into ‘letting go’ to the desire for sense pleasures. Maybe you want to have a lot of fun. How would you lay aside that desire without any aversion? Simply recognise the desire without judging it. You can contemplate wanting to get rid of it - because you feel guilty about having such a foolish desire - but just lay it aside. Then, when you see it as it is, recognising that it’s just desire, you are no longer attached to it.
So the way is always working with the moments of daily life. When you are feeling depressed and negative, just the moment that you refuse to indulge in that feeling is an enlightenment experience. When you see that, you need not sink into the sea of depression and despair and wallow in it. You can actually stop by learning not to give things a second thought.
You have to find this out through practice so that you will know for yourself how to let go of the origin of suffering. Can you let go of desire by wanting to let go of it? What is it that is really letting go in a given moment? You have to contemplate the experience of letting go and really examine and investigate until the insight comes. Keep with it until that insight comes: ‘Ah, letting go, yes, now I understand. Desire is being let go of.’ This does not mean that you are going to let go of desire forever but, at that one moment, you actually have let go and you have done it in full conscious awareness. There is an insight then. This is what we call insight knowledge. In Pali, we call it nanadassana or profound understanding.
I had my first insight into letting go in my first year of meditation. I figured out intellectually that you had to let go of everything and then I thought: ‘How do you let go?’ It seemed impossible to let go of anything. I kept on contemplating: ‘How do you let go?’ Then I would say, ‘You let go by letting go.’ ‘Well then, let go!’ Then I would say:
‘But have I let go yet?’ and, ‘How do you let go?’ ‘Well just let go!’ I went on like that, getting more frustrated. But eventually it became obvious what was happening. If you try to analyse letting go in detail, you get caught up in making it very complicated. It was not something that you could figure out in words any more, but something you actually did. So I just let go for a moment, just like that.
Now with personal problems and obsessions, to let go of them is just that much. It is not a matter of analysing and endlessly making more of a problem about them, but of practising that state of leaving things alone, letting go of them. At first, you let go but then you pick them up again because the habit of grasping is so strong. But at least you have the idea. Even when I had that insight into letting go, I let go for a moment but then I started grasping by thinking: ‘I can’t do it, I have so many bad habits!’ But don’t trust that kind of nagging, disparaging thing in yourself. It is totally untrustworthy. It is just a matter of practising letting go. The more you begin to see how to do it, then the more you are able to sustain the state of non-attachment.
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I started this thread a while back and I want to bring it back. Its alot of fun and its kind of cool because you get to know everyone and talk about more fun, lighter subjects.
Ill start by asking a question. The next poster will answer my question then ask another question. The poster after that will answer their question and ask another one ect ect
So....
What is the genre of music you listen to most often?
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Hey everyone! ok so I havent told anyone this. It happened 2 days ago and I have just been keeping it to myself. But I wanted to share with my forum LOA family because well I am just too damn excited ! So I have been seeing a guy, we are NOT in a relationship or anything, its mutual, we are just hanging out. I met him when I decided that I no longer want a relationship. The day I said to myself "I just want a guy to have fun with, nothing serious", wow the universe moves so fast! A couple days later I met this guy and like I said weve been hanging out ever since. Now I began to have strong feelings for him and realized hey I DO want a relationship. He is not in that kind of place though, he loves me dearly but I know and he knows, at this time a relationship is not whats best for him. So I worked on coming into alignment and said to myself "Its ok that he doesnt want a relationship and its ok that I havent met 'the one' If I meet the 'the one' when Im 30 I will be ok with that too because Im enjoying just being and Im enjoying my solitude". We still talk and hangout and I love him unconditionally because he will always have a special place in my heart and I know he loves me so much as well but I decided to make peace with the whole thing and got to place where I was really good regardless of the relationship happening : ) I came to that conclusion and I was being grateful and just loving and being so so sos so so sos happy! 2 days ago I was watching "The Office" eating soup and just having a great time before going to work. SOMETHING CAME OVER ME I got this INTENSE feeling to go onto this social website I used a long time ago. I didnt exactly know why but I knew it was for a reason. I turned off my show and logged in my old account and just started browsing through friends accounts and people they know and just browsing. I wasnt finding anything that caught my interest but I knew to keep going. THEN I FOUND IT! It was the account of this GORGEOUS person, this man. As soon as I saw him I felt like my breath was taken away, I started giggling and I had to light a ciggarette I was so overwhelmed with this crazy feeling flowing through me! It was such a powerful feeling and I cant describe it. It was love and bliss and excitement and amazement and just very intense. I literally felt it within me. At first I thought, maybe Im feeling this way just because of how hot he is! but Ive seen beautiful actors and hot guys before and I NEVER had a reaction like this.... So I messaged him. We exchanged numbers and we have been texting ever since and I talked to him on the phone yesterday after work. He is traveling right now making a movie with his friend but will be back in town in a couple weeks and he told me he wants to take me out when he gets back! I am posting this in the lounge because nothing is set in stone and nothing is conclusive. I am just letting it be whatever its going to be and I am grateful no matter what happens. Im grateful someone like him exists in the world. In my opinion, I think I just met the man Im going to marry. I think I just met my husband. I know this is BOLD to say but I think I really just did.... Idk we will see. We will see what happens. Anything could happen. But whatever does happen. I think life is pretty damn amazing. I love it. Im in love with life. Im in love with being. SO DONT QUOTE ME ON THIS! BUT I THINK I JUST MET THE MAN IM GOING TO MARRY! hahahaha. but dont quote me on that 
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3 of my favorite inspiring people. Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer
Reclaiming Your True Identity by Anthony Robbins (VERY POWERFUL, GRAB SOME TISSUES!)
No Accident is Accidental by Abraham Hicks
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I first learned about the LOA around June. I saw it as a philosophy that is very true, it resonated with me.
When I found out about it, I was single, just got dumped by the love of my life. It was hard and scary. I got this amazing idea, if I create my desires through the contrast I live and I then attract what I recieve based on my thoughts then I could totally re-create then attract my relationship with Bundy. If I destroyed that relationship with my thoughts, I can totally create a beautiful one with my thoughts.
When you ask, it is Given. So I know it is done. For a long time though, I kept thinking to myself "So where is it? Where is it? Whens it gonna happen? Why hasnt it happened yet?". That is never going to get me to where I want to be. You cant be aware of its absence and then experience its presence.
I read alot, I listed alot, I thought alot, I appreciated alot, I smiled alot and I have fallen in love with myself for the first time in my life.
Lately, I have been feeling relaxed, excited and content. I feel excited about my future when it comes to love and I am content with my present singledom haha. Truly. I love this man unconditionally, I love myself unconditionally and it took me a long time to get to this point but what matters is that I feel this way now and I will keep updating on this thread throughout my journey in allowing this love to manifest physically. I tend to focus alot on it's absence because I have a strong focus in general and you gotta admit reality can get pretty compelling. Its something I work on everyday, shifting my focus to what feels good. I get better everyday. I feel amazing and I feel him loving me just as much. I know he still loves me actually and not just because he said so but because I feel it within myself.
I didnt get to this point in one day or one week or one month, it took alot of meditating, thinking and loving myself for me to get to the peace I feel today. I know my journey is not over, and thats ok because I am really enjoying the solitude and other important things that are going on in my life. My work, the holidays, getting my new car, building my turtle a new habitat, new friends. Lots of things going on right now which Im enjoying, but the most important thing I am enjoying is being by myself thinking and just loving and just being.
Ill keep posting about my amazing journey and experience when it comes to having my gorgeous amazing beautiful man in my life. I dont think much about letting go because its such a relative term. I understand detattchment. I understand it's concept but its not something I focus on too much, I figure it will come on its own if it hasnt already. I feel good. I love myself. I know things are always working out for me and Im excited to see where this journey takes me.
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Here is another one I found that I think would bring some more fun and be nice because you get to know everyone alot better.
Ok so I'll start by asking a question, any random question. The poster below me answers and asks a question as well. Who ever posts after that person answers and asks a question too. And so on and so on.
For example:
poster 1: How many pets do you have?
poster 2: 2 dogs, 2 birds. What's your favorite color?
poster 3: Blue, How tall are you?
poster 4: 5'8, Where were you born?
I'll start, my question is :
What's your all time favorite movie ?
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Mariposa KnJ came up with an amazing idea to get a bunch of people together, make lists of our desires and on the date 11/11/11 We all collectively meditate on feeling those desires not only for our own personal lists but every other list posted from every one else as well. Let's see what happens? If you have any questions or would like to discuss it, or have more information about this originating please go and post here : http://www.powerlawofattraction.com/forum/what-are-you-attracting-today-10/collective-intentions-on-111111-a-group-exercise-let's-all-join-in!!/This thread is for the lists only, so we have them all in one place and it is easy to go through. ***** I recommend we keep our desires in present tense and when we meditate on them, we meditate on the FEELING and focus as much as we can to feel and believe it is really true.**** I personally am going to make time to meditate 15mins per list. I am going to imagine the name of the person posting it and imagine and FEEL that they have everything they just listed. I am going to do that for everyone. I am really excited to see where this leads to. Our minds and intentions are so powerful and to have others feeling this for you and you feeling it as well? Wow, imagine the energy and love this is going to send all over the world? Please feel free to join everyone, the more of us, the stronger the power and energy of our intent becomes.
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so I have been making ALOT more money at work. Im getting more repeat clients, Ive been getting more clients paying full price. Ive been selling more services. I have had bills though that are backed up that I have been catching up on. So this payperiod, after doing all that and leaving groceries for the last of my spending. I was left with 20$. To last me til next Monday.
That 20$ haha is whats left over for gas and food, (the only groceries I bought was pasta and cereal which was all I had enough for, honestly I find it hilarious, sometimes the contrast gets so ridiculous, really all you can do is laugh). So I told myself
"I believe everything will work out, things are always working out for me and I know somehow money will show up and I will be good for the rest of the week. "
Well I guess my grandma won 1800.00 playing the lottery and sent me 150.00. Hahah thats more than enough to last me the rest of the week. Yay!
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So I have been following alot of the teaching of A.Hicks. She says that when it really hurts to want or not have what you want it is because your desires are so powerful and the energy is moving really fast. So when you hit a tree (resistance/negative thoughts/feelings) that its a bigger impact compared to if your desires where weaker. She says that thought by thought and little by little removing resistance and feeling better, that its the perfect place for allowing the universe to deliver your desires. In other words getting happier. But there are instances where you are not sure where the resistance in your vibration is coming from, she says to not worry about it because it will just get bigger and bigger and then youll discover it and be able to work through it, and that sometimes by just figuring it out, you find relief. I have been getting happier and have had some of the most amazing moments and manifestations but now Ive gone all the way back to powerlessness. I dont know where it is coming from. In so many subjects, I feel powerless. That is unacceptable to me. I want to feel good, its most important. And you cant go from feeling powerless/grief to happy on the same subject in one instance. Because the LOA doesnt give you access to those happy thoughts. So you move up the emotional scale thought by thought and little by little. Powerless to anger to frustration to hope to belief to knowing. Well Im angry, Im furious, Im so mad at so many things. I dont want to go back to powerlessness and at times its hard because the anger slips back down to self blame. And tehre I go feeling sad and powerless again. I know I am attracting not so good things right now by staying angry. Its been proven to me all day, me stubbing my leg on a glass table, not selling products at work, coworkers/family saying annoying comments, the store being out of my favorite cereal, songs about heartbreak that I cant stand being the only thing playing on the radio, getting my texts ignored by a friend. Just ugh, I know Im doing it because Im angry. But I dont want to go back to misery so Im doing my best to stay angry and honestly its not that hard thinking about how stupid everything seems to me right now... I hope I can make it to frustration soon and I guess its agood sign that Im already hoping for something. My question is, should I stick with this? And do my best to move up to better feelings? Do I have to? I guess is the question. This whole allowing manifestations to come, do I just ignore the bad feeling thoughts? I feel like if I ignore them then the next time they come up the vibrations are where they were left. Ugh Im so frustrated and I know that I have a good amount of resistance due to some feelings I have on a number of subjects where I feel miserable because I feel powerless. So Im making an effort to move to anger now but I dont know whats next, I dont even know if I should be trying to resolve this or just eat some fatty foods and just zone out on television and ignore everything. I dont think that helps manifestation either, I think thats just like getting drunk or smoking weed and even meditation, you just kind of take a time out but nothing gets resolved when it comes to yoru resistance, UGH I havent felt this in so long its making me feel sick and Im just so pissed and feel myself slipping back to powerlessness and sadness. : ( I wish my focus was stronger. but Im pissed that I automatically think of blaming myself. See? Grrrrrr!  Do I keep at it and kind of get secure in the anger then reach for frustration? Or just say Screw it and take a bath or something? I feel so sick and so angry and sad and I dont know why! I dont know where my feelings of powerlessness come from, on way too many subjects, I dont know why I feel that way. I guess Im thinking if I could just figure all this out it would feel better or resolve or something. . .
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I have been doing some thinking about this, and personally I came to the conlusion that you cant have a desire without being attatched to it. Of course you are attatched to it, that is why you desire it. And of course you are attatched to its outcome, its your desire! I also believe you cant stop a desire, once you have it, you either align with it or dont. There is no giving up on a desire, your desire doesnt just go away or stop. I dont believe its possible or even likely. It either changes to something similar or related or you avoid and repress it and go into a state of not believing it can or will happen which never feels good.
However I do believe you can give up on the struggle of trying to make it happen, giving up on the need of it for your wellbeing, which totally leads to manifestation. And many have had successes with doing so. But thats not giving up on your desire.
You want a car, you are aware you dont have a car. Which is why you want it. You dont have it and you believe in having it, you will feel better/be happier. And there is nothing wrong with that, that is the reason ALL of us desire what we do, because we believe in having it, we will ultimately feel better/feel good/be happy/be happier. BUT if you are in a mindset of "I want this car, if only I had this car I would be so much better off, everything would be perfect, I really really want this car I would be really really happy, why cant I have this car so I can be happy, If only I had this car I would be so happy, all my pain would just go away if only I had this car, I have to have this car" then you are attatching your happiness to its manifestation. Being dependant on it, needy and desperate for it to happen. That never leads to manifestation. Just more yearning and suffering and waiting. Attatching your ability to be happy on the manifestation itself is NOT the same thing as being attatched to the desire of whatever outcome you want.
Now with the mindset of "Ok I know what its like to not have a car, I didnt like that, now I realize I want a car and currently I dont have it but I can enjoy it now and be happy now and experience it now then not having it wont matter" and the vibrations that you so lovingly give out while you enjoy it, feel it, imagine it, pretend it, think about it, draw it, look at photos of it, write about it, talk about it, believing and knowing its already yours because you can feel it already and you giving off the vibrations (thoughts/feelings) that you would as if you already had it is TOTALLY being attatched to your desire and its outcome, how is it not? and it really does lead to manifestation.
The whole "detatch from the outcome" thing. NEVER made sense to me, still doesnt. I know its all semantics but, anything and everything about that statement I find illogical and personally not having anything to do with the process of manifesting something on purpose. I mean its not even a full statment either. Detatch what from what outcome?
I truly believe the detatchment is about your CURRENT outcome, detatch from your "reality" of not having it, detatch from its absence, detatch from making your happiness depend on the manifestation itself, detatch from feeling/thinking you dont have it, so you can enjoy it now. Because you really can enjoy it and feel it now and your focus on not having it is the only thing that keeps it from coming so detatch from THAT, not from wanting it to happen, of course you want it to happen. Of course you want it, thats why its a desire.
I always wondered how people could make sense of that term, because I just couldnt. I asked a couple different people that had success stories "how did you detatch from the outcome?/In your opinion what does that mean?/What does it mean for you?/What did it feel like?" And every answer I got was different, everyone had a different opinion on what it meant and how it was for them. I already had my suspicions about this statement being bogus but what really did it for me was when I asked Katie about it, she had stated on a thread that she wasnt really "detatched from the outcome" which we talked about further in PM. But she has one of the most inspiring success stories when it comes to this forum. So how is that possible? Well it is and once I started having pretty major mainfestations I just knew "detatching from the desired outcome" had nothing to do with it. It had to do with detatching your need of the manifestation to happen in order to be happy/enjoy it.
Just my thoughts
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I was watching OWN and watching the story about Tyler Perry and how he was homeless and abused and how he always dreamed and believed of a better life and achieved it. Then I took a bath and just sat there thinking all these amazing inspiring stories of people in the world and how I dont need manifestation to feel better and I can feel good now and feel and live in my dreams. I got out and started listening to Hicks and I just picked a random video and she started talking to this lady about how dreams should feel good and how that is what matters and that is where its all at and all about and that when you dream it is real and its vibrations make its way into manifestation but its besides the point because it is about "dreaming" and believing and feeeeeling it. So Im lying back just listening painting my nails and Im smiling because everything she says makes sense and I love it and I started just going wild in my mind about all the things I love of my "dream" life and I look up and I see a wrapper on my glass coffee table and it says in capital letters "DREAM BIG" I started laughing so loud and for a good 5 minutes Im still smiling. This is a wrapper that covers a pack of ciggarettes. Typically they are clear and earlier I bought a new pack, noticed this one had some kind of banner going across but I totally ignored it because I was too busy thinking about the ciggarette I was taking out and I just threw the wrapper on the table and here I am having a moment and I look up and for the first time realize what it says and it says "DREAM BIG" hahahahahah hahahah Im laughing again.
Wow life is amazing, so many things like this have been happening to me. I met a millionairess the other day that told me I was deserving of everything and tipped me 30$ and told me her life story about how she made it big and came from having to support 6 kids, a sick husband who couldnt work and her widowed elderly mom, she started working 2-3 jobs then became the best salesperson for her company in 3 states and now had just come back from her 47th trip to Europe. She gave me a hug and kiss and told me I was amazing.
I have also been changing my books(schedule at work) just by imagining it differently everyday Im completely booked with at least one repeat client a day and I even made a meeting disappear in under an hour! I was scheduled to meet with 2 directors for half an hour, naturally I got nervous and then I thought well my desire is for that to go away and even if it doesnt Im sure it will be fine because things are always working out for me and my directors are kind and loving people, like an hour later I checked my books again and it was gone! hhahaha I saw a car with a license that said "SUCCEED" I decided to get an ultrasonic toothbrush but its like 200$ and I decided to just not think about the price and imagined how nice it would be to buy something of such good quality for myself and how nice it feels to do nice things for myself then I got an email that was a groupon for ultrasonic toothbrushes for 70% off! thats just a few things theres so much I could go on and on but this moment I had with the "DREAM BIG" and just the mood of today about the shows and stories i was watching about dreaming and believing have been I think one of my favorite moments so far. I cant stop laughing : ) This plastic wrapper straight up said DREAM BIG on it! hahah a ciggerette wrapper! hahahah
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"You cant look backwards and look forwards at the same time"
I heard this from A.Hicks and it hit me so hard. When we drive we look forward and look backwards through our rearview mirror but we cant do it at the same time, its one or the other. What she meant was that looking at your physical "reality" is looking backwards. Because all that currently is manifestation wise or lack of, is the product of old thoughts. Its old news. Because everything is a thought first. What is true reality is what we are currently imagining and feeling and thinking because that is what is producing and defining the manifestations that are to come next. You cant focus on your "reality" while getting your desires to manifest at the same time. Looking at your physical reality is looking backwards and focusing on the thoughts and feelings of your desires is looking forward and you cant look backwards and forwards at the same time. : ) I love this quote so much. its a small quote but with so much meaning, hope you guys like it.
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