WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT? You don’t really want what you think you want You only want your wanting to end To no longer want for anything To be existentially full and complete But isn’t that just another want? Perhaps the biggest want of all? Do you really want your way out of wants? What do you really want? “Want” actually means “lack” So now the question changes: What do you really LACK? Do you really lack anything in this moment? Thought says YES Thought lists all the things that are missing Thought advises that certain objects, people, experiences would complete this moment Thought is always a seeker It is always comparing Thought says: If you get what you want The lack will disappear permanently And this moment will be completed Get what you want! No more lack! Do you see the trick here? A mechanism perfectly designed to keep you away from what you really want What is true abundance? It’s not about getting what you want It’s not about filling a lack It’s about realising that the present moment never lacks anything It’s already full to the brim with sights and sounds and smells With thoughts and feelings With colours and shapes beyond imagination A thought or feeling of lack A sense of ‘something missing’ Is actually part of this moment’s completeness Not a threat to it Part of the richness of Now Not an enemy A welcome visitor in the vast open space that you are An old friend, come for tea Space lacks nothing For it is full with everything Pregnant with possibility Rich with potential The mind confuses peace with ‘absence’ Space with ‘emptiness’ And unlimited capacity with ‘lack’ And the game is on The search for opposites The longing for goals You don’t really want what you think you want And that’s why getting what you want Doesn’t satisfy ‘you’ for long Who you really are does not ‘want’ It has never heard of ‘lack’ It is already satisfied with this moment For it is this moment Exactly as it is This is true abundance: Remembering who you really are Prior to time and change These are the unparalleled riches of the universe: A breath The simple feeling of being alive Getting what you thought you wanted Acquiring all the material and spiritual riches of the universe Doesn’t even come close This moment is a strange and unexpected jackpot And when nothing belongs to you Everything is yours Jeff was voted #51 in Watkins Mind Body Spirit’s 2012 list of the world’s 100 most spiritually influential living people. Through his spiritual enlightenment query and awakened thoughts, he helps people discover who they really are. He has published four books in over six languages. His latest book The Deepest Acceptance was published in 2012 by Sounds True. Printed with permission from the author, Jeff Foster, lifewithoutacentre
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