Desirelessness

Me - I can't recall the guy. Some hazy images of a slight, short bearded guy surface... Lost with time I guess.
Arun - You ARE a lucky guy, I must say. Not actually lost in time but IN time! All of us are never in time, always in past or future.
Me - I guess its about ones perspective. Ones frame of reference decides ones perspective which then is dependent on ones focus. And focus comes from what you seek or what gets your attention. And that is the seed of desire.
If one wants nothing, then the frame of reference is always here and now. If ones attention focus is in a domain outside the realm of ones present activity.....Wishes.
Arun - The age old mantra - desirelessness. Sounds so easy and yet one is not able to achieve it. I was reading a Chinese guy, says, wisdom and virtue is possible only by living out of society....Sometimes I feel its true.
To achieve desirelessness is bloody another desire!
Me - I think that a common misconception is to see desirelessness as a positively achieved attribute. I see it as an outcome of the perception of ones worth in the context of society. I see it as an acceptance of ones inability to imbibe the virtues n garner the wisdom and skills requisite to belong. Hence, any further attempt can only come to naught...So why desire!
Arun - Do you mean to say one has to feel worthless to become desire-less?
Me - No. But it facilitates that lack, in a societal context. The worth we attribute to ourselves in society defines our sense of individuality. An added source of desires that distract the search for meaning. Worthlessness is closer to a clean slate because desire has realised nothing but a battered self. The only catch, is a desire for answers.