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Awakening the extremely intense desire for Liberation is the
most important first step that can be taken towards being liberated
here and now in this lifetime.
The extremely intense desire for liberation is (3 - 7):
The extremely intense desire for the realization of the absolute
Truth.
The extremely intense longing for the ending of sorrow and the
experience of Eternal-Love-Joy.
The extremely intense desire to experience who or what you really
are at your core and to live eternally as your true Self.
The extremely intense desire for freedom from all illusion and
delusion and freedom from the ego that is the source of all
illusion and delusion.
The extremely intense desire to awaken from the human
nightmare.
The extremely intense desire for liberation is the foundation of
all true spirituality.
Of all of the factors that determine whether you will or will not
be free, the intensity or lack of intensity of your desire for
liberation is the most essential factor.
Therefore, whatever you can do to most effectively increase your
desire for liberation should be done.
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All obstacles that appear in your journey to freedom are caused by
too little desire for freedom.
Even a little increase in your desire for freedom is helpful.
As your desire for freedom grows in intensity the ego creates fewer
obstacles.
When your desire for freedom becomes very intense, your desire for
freedom demands that you take no detours.
When your desire for freedom becomes very intense, for the first
time you can see what is essential for freedom and what is not
essential.
When the desire for freedom is weak, the ego will not allow you to
see the ego’s preservation strategies.
When the desire for freedom is stronger, you can begin to see the
ego’s preservation strategies.
When the desire for freedom becomes even stronger, the desire for
freedom itself will bring you everything you need to succeed in
your quest for liberation including the answer to all your
questions, finding the Direct Path teachings, the solution to all
obstacles, etc.
You will also be able to see how, before the awakening of the
extremely intense desire for liberation, the ego was selecting
spiritual teachings that would help to preserve it.
When the desire for freedom becomes even more intense, you can see
all of the ego’s preservation strategies.
When the extremely intense desire for liberation is awakened, you
will marvel at how it was possible that you did not see the ego’s
preservation strategies before.
When the extremely intense desire for liberation is awakened, you
will be able to see how the ego distorted even the Direct Path
teachings.
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When the extremely intense desire for liberation is awakened, you
will see the endless maze of concepts the ego has created to trap
your attention.
When the desire for freedom becomes even more intense, the ego will
no longer create preservation strategies.
The extremely intense desire for the Direct Experience of the
absolute Truth will guide you to your inner Teacher.
The extremely intense desire for Truth will guide you to the
practice that gives the Direct Experience of eternal life.
The intensity of the desire for the realization of the Truth is the
key.
Increasing your desire for the absolute Truth is the most important
step.
Increasing the desire for freedom must be the first step.
Without an increase in your desire for freedom, all of your
attempts at awakening will fail to produce eternal
experience.
Without an increase in your desire for freedom, the ego will
distort all your spiritual studies, including what you read in the
book you are now reading.
Without an increase in your desire for freedom, the ego will never
allow you to see the Truth.
Another great key is self-honesty.
Self-honesty will help in all aspects of the quest for
liberation.
Self-honesty will help you to increase your desire for
liberation.
Self-honesty means to be as honest as you can be.
Self-honesty means to be 100% honest with your self, all of the
time.
Catch your ego using preservation strategies.
See your ego creating arguments that lead you away from the Direct
Path.
What if your desire for liberation were to double from its present
level?
If your desire for liberation were to double from its present
level, that would be a huge help.
If your desire for liberation were to double from its present
level, immediately you would begin to see what you have never been
able to see before.
What if your desire for liberation were a million times greater and
more intense than it is now?
Really, even if your desire for liberation doubles or triples,
great changes will occur in what the ego allows you to see.
When your desire for liberation increases greatly, every moment of
your life will be dedicated to your liberation.
That great intense desire for liberation itself will demand that
you do not waste even one moment of time, and it will demand that
you stop the ego lies, and that you drop that which is not
essential.
The wonderful thing is, it is that same extreme desire for
liberation that brings you the knowledge of what is essential and
what is not essential and allows you to see for the first time in
your life.
Before the extremely intense desire for freedom arises, you think
you can see, but you are really blind.
After the extremely intense desire for freedom arises, all is made
clear and you have no doubts!
After the extremely intense desire for freedom arises, for the
first time you can see!
If the extremely intense desire for liberation does not arise in
you (58 - 62):
None of the words in this book will be of any benefit to you.
The ego will interpret what is written here in the book you are now
reading.
The ego will create arguments against what is written here.
Instead of seeing what you read literally, without any
interpretation, the ego will begin to interpret.
The ego will change the teachings into something that preserves the
ego instead of something that brings the ego to its final
end.
Therefore, the key to everything is to awaken the extremely intense
desire for liberation and to make that desire for freedom grow
everyday.
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If the desire for freedom is not great enough in you, the ego will
always find a way to occupy your time with something other than
spiritual practice.
Thus the key to bringing the ego to an end is the intensity of the
desire for freedom.
Eagerness for liberation must be equal to the eagerness someone who
is being held underwater has for trying to rise to the
surface.
Reflect on #71 above.
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Eagerness is another word for the desire for freedom.
How great, how intense is the desire of someone being held
underwater trying to rise to the surface.
He would like to rise to the surface, but he is being held
underwater.
See how intense his desire is to rise to the surface.
Every second his desire to rise to the surface is becoming more and
more intense.
After one minute, how the intensity of his desire has
increased.
After two minutes underwater, the desire for oxygen and therefore
his desire to rise to the surface, is ten times greater.
After three minutes underwater, his desire to rise to the surface
is one hundred times greater.
After four minutes underwater, his desire to rise to the surface is
one thousand times greater.
How great, how intense is his desire?
That is how intense your desire for liberation must become, if you
are going to succeed in your quest for Eternal
Freedom.
If the extremely intense desire for freedom is not there, you can
always find a way to avoid spiritual practice.
If the extremely intense desire for Freedom is not present, there
is almost no limit to the ego’s capacity to distort.
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What if your present desire for freedom were to become a
million times more intense than it is now? (110 -
114):
Then there would not be time for all these games, detours
and distractions.
Then you would stop listening to teachers who are
supposedly liberated but who are not liberated.
Then you would not pretend thinking about spirituality is
Spirituality.
Then you would not pretend an intellectual journey is a
spiritual journey.
Then the only means you would accept would be the most
direct means.
Then you would be just like the man who is being kept
underwater trying to rise up for air (116 - 127):
He does not have time for discussion.
He does not have time for games.
He does not have time for false teachers.
He does not have time for methods that are not the most
rapid and direct means.
He does not have time for endless reading.
He does not have time for television.
He does not have time for projecting an imagined meaning
unto the teachings.
He does not have time for entertainment.
He does not have time for pretending to want to be
free.
He does not have time for any dishonesty with
himself.
He does not have time for pretending he has risen to the
surface.
He does not have time for any debate or
argument.
What he has time for is only to focus all of his attention
on rising to the surface.
That is why the entire key lies in the intensity of the
desire for freedom.
The only problem an aspirant ever has is too weak a desire
for liberation.
An extremely intense desire for liberation will solve all
the other problems.