MY THREE STATEMENTS

 

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I need nothing

I am grateful for everything

I desire more

 

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These three statements represent me at my best. They are equal to each other, in the way that any truth is equal to any other truth.

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I NEED NOTHING. I am complete. I always have been. I always will be. Wholeness isn’t a mythical dream that awaits me in a non-existent future. I am complete now. I am always complete, complete but never finished.



I AM GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING. My experience as a human being is governed by, and made possible by, the relative, dualistic material cosmos I am a part of. The mystery of existence lies beyond my human understanding. To be at peace with that is to be grateful. To fight it would be to be at war with myself. I love the mystery. I say Yes to the mystery!



I DESIRE MORE. I don’t have a problem with being human. I don’t have a problem with desire. A Buddhist might caution me against desire, for desire leads to attachment, which will prevent me from ever being freed from the wheel of return, and that is the goal most desired by a Buddhist. I make the distinction between desire and need. I am a human being here in space-time, where one thing happens after another. For me, it is not enough to achieve a small measure of peace, for example, and then say I don’t desire more. I don’t need peace at all (see the frist statement), but I am happy to desire it and I am happy to enjoy my desire for it, and I am happy to continue to move towards it. One might desire to feed a hungry person, achieve that desire, only to find one desires to feed even more. As a spiritual being I am complete and need nothing. As a human being in the causal rollercoaster of space-time I am always expanding, evolving. This is natural and I enjoy it. Desire leads me from one moment to the next and fuels the growth of my self-awareness.

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I love my needlessness. I love my gratitude. I love my desire. These three statements are not at odds with each other, they make perfect sense to each other.



It’s when one is missing that I feel unbalanced.