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RESTORING OUR BALANCE
a general principle that when we meditate closing our eyes, the room should be lit so that significant amount of light passes through our eyelids.
The prayer of our system is very vast in scope and needs to be understood carefully. Surely seeking desires and wants is a part of family life. There is always the primary need to exist so that we can do our duty. To feel our existence and assure ourselves of our identity we want to survive, create, procreate and build our families and wealth and develop our ideas and ideals. Thus keeping in view the ideal of preserving human race on this planet seeking or wanting is prima facie a good thing. Therefore the sentence “we are yet but slaves of our wishes putting bar to our advancement” in the prayer needs careful examination. If our sadhana is directed to being an awakened Buddha the sentence would make sense, in the manner in which the recluses think. But then we are committed to realise in the family life itself and have no desire (is that a desire?) to become a recluse even if it were to be an enlightened recluse.
Desire creates duality- the person who desires and the object of desire. Buddhism taught that desire is a root cause of suffering and advocated the abolition of wanting mechanism
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