KAMA HARANA🔗

MEDITATION AND INSTRUCTIONS

This is also a Stop! technique. But the difference here is, you will not be stopping suddenly, stopping in the middle of the action or the impulse. Here you will practise a slow, controlled stopping of impulses or desires.

When a desire arises, consider the desire well. Be deliberate. Face the desire in its full force.

Be aware that you are feeling this impulse, this desire. Then, suddenly, drop it. Just drop it.

Suppose you see a beautiful woman and desire arises in you. Examine your desire. Be attentive to what is happening to you at that moment. Be aware of how your body is feeling feverish, trembling. Be aware that your pulse is racing, that you cannot think clearly. Notice how the desire seems to have taken control over you.

Do not judge yourself or the desire; don't tell yourself, this is a bad desire. Don't have any opinion, simply witness it.

Then suddenly, drop the desire.

It is possible!

You can simply drop it.

Be very clear: you are not suppressing the desire! Do not suppress the desire. Suppression is the root cause of most of our psychological problems.

Don't think, How can I quit?

It is only when you fight with an impulse, suppress an impulse, that it becomes stronger.

When you have considered something fully, it becomes easy to quit.

The moment you say, I quit, you become separate, you become the watcher. You are watching your body filled with desire, your mind filled with desire – but they are not you. At that moment, you become aware

that none of these is you. Once again, you are thrown back upon your Being.

This meditation is excellent to rid yourself of addictions. We all hear about chain smokers, alcoholics, womanizers, who one day simply quit their addictions and never returned to them. They didn't try to quit – they simply quit, that's all!

With this meditation, not only the action, but the urge itself will drop. You don't have to struggle with your addiction because the desire itself will be no more.