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Originally Posted by Vicariously Yours  If I recall, one of the main tenets of Buddhism is that "Life is suffering." And the cause of this suffering is desire. Even if your desires are fulfilled, they inevitably give rise to more desires, which perpetuates the cycle. Hence, to eliminate suffering requires detaching from all desire. I don't think I am misunderstanding this. It is true that the enlightened Masters on this planet do not generally "run around manifesting stuff." They do not because they ostensibly do not have (or, at least, should not have) any desires. That's ANY desires. Period.
This seems diametrically opposed to the teachings of the LoA, and virtually everything proposed by the Abraham-Hicks material, all of which state that it is impossible to NOT have desires, and, in fact, it is our desires (stemming from the development of preferences, which, in turn, stem from the various contrasts and variety that exist on our plane) that are the basis for the very expansion of the All That Is. Ergo: no desires = no expansion of the Universe. Period. |
I agree with your conclusions.
I couldn't understand why people who said they were working on their personal development were cultivating their desires by applying I-M.
My mistake: I confused personal development with spiritual development.
