How can we have desires but also be detached from them?.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
“How do I desire something and at the same time not get attached to the outcome?”
Response:
Wisdom traditions tell us that the way to manifest our desires is to desire and then let go of it and be detached from it.
This seems confusing and contradictory because the essential part of this formula is usually omitted.
This only works when you have the desire arising from the stillness of your true self.
That means you are desiring from the state of pure fulfillment, and wholeness.
So the desire isn’t coming from a sense of lack or neediness, so it isn’t a desire in the usual sense of the word.
That’s why the wisdom traditions will often call this thought impulse an intention rather than a desire.
The state of fulfillment of the true self is also the state of perfect detachment.
It is complete and doesn’t need anything, so it doesn’t hold onto the intention and it isn’t attached to the outcome.
It is allowed to move freely like a ripple on a pond.
This desire-detachment process is really just one unified experience of thinking in that state of free, expanded self-awareness.
Love,
Deepak
