Look at life not as one permanent Desire, but as a series of fleeting desires always in opposition to each other

For most of us, desire is quite problem the desire for property, for position, for power, for comfort, for immortality, for continuity, the desire to be loved, to have something permanent, satisfying, lasting, something which is beyond time. Now, what is desire? what is this thing that is urging, compelling us? I’m not suggesting that we should be satisfied with what we have or what we are, which is merely the opposite of what we want we are trying to see what desire is an if we can go into tentatively, hesitantly, I think we shall bring about a transformation which is not a mere substitution of one object of desire for another object of desire this is generally what we mean by change is it not being this is this satisfied with one particular object of desire. find the substitute for it were ever asking the moving from one object or desire to another which you consider to be higher nobler more refined but however refined desire is still desire and in this moment of desire there is endless struggle the conflict of the opposites.

Is it not there for important to find out what is desire and weather it can be transformed? What is desire? Is it not the symbol and its sensation? Desire is the sensation with the object of its attainment.

Is there a Desire without a symbol and its sensation? Obviously not. The symbol maybe a picture, a person, a word, a name, an image, an idea which gives me sensation, which makes me feel that I like or dislike it; if the sensation is pleasure, I want to attain, to possess, to hold on to its symbol and continue in that pleasure. From time to time, according to my inclinations and intensities, I change the picture, the image, the object.

With one form of pleasure I am fed up, tired, bored, so I seek a new sensation, a new idea, and new symbol. I reject the old sensation and take on a new one, with new words, new significances, new experience. I resist the old and yield to the new which I consider to be higher, nobler, more satisfying. Thus in desire there is a resistance and yielding, which involves temptation; and of course in yielding to a particular symbol of desire there is always the fear of frustration.

When you see this process, you are really aware of it without opposition, without a sense of temptation without resistance, without justifying or judging it then you will discover that the mind is capable of receiving the new and that the new is never a sensation; therefore it can never be recognised, re-experienced. It is a state of being in which creativeness comes without invitation, without memory and that is reality.