Understanding Desire and Detachment

Many resolutions to end a certain indulgence tend to end up in failure! That one last peg of alcohol, one last sweet or even one last gossip… will never be the last one! Another occasion comes and one goes through the same cycle. Sometimes one will over indulge in a particular desire hoping that will be the end of it. No it does not end there… the more one indulges the senses the stronger they become.

Those who are on the path to self improvement will find desire is insatiable; nothing seems to douse the flames of desire! All practice of austerity only acts like adding fuel to fire!

It is a constant awareness of one's mind and continuous effort to divert one's attention from the mundane to the subliminal that one can get away from the vicious cycle of desire and indulgence.