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desireless.'
But the human problem is that we understand it as if they are saying, 'Make desirelessness your goal.'
We turn everything into a goal. Put anything into the mind; it immediately reduces it into a goal and the problem arises immediately. Then the mind asks 'how?' -- how to achieve this, how to get it, how to become it. Again you are on the track; again you have missed.
When buddhas say, 'Become desireless,' they are not trying to create a goal for you. They are simply saying, 'See, look into your desiring. Understand your desire and the futility of it. Look deep into it, penetrate deep into it, and that very penetration will help -- desire disappears.'
When you can see the total futility of desire, will you ask how to drop it? If you see the total futility of it, it drops by itself.
You go on asking how, because you still want to cling. You still want to postpone it. You still think there must be some thing in it. 'Maybe I am missing, maybe I am not making right efforts, maybe I am not moving in the right direction -- but there is something.' You are still hoping. When you look into the nature of desire, you will understand that it is like a horizon. It appears far away, there. Go, move -- it moves with you. When you reach the point where you were thinking that the earth meets the sky, it is not meeting there. Again, at the same far distance, the horizon exists. Again move -- the horizon moves with you. The distance between you and the horizon remains constantly the same.
If you look into desire, it is so simple to see. If you meditate on desire, this is a fact; this is not a theory about desire.
You have ten thousand rupees. The mind asks for twenty thousand rupees. The mind says, 'Unless you have twenty thousand rupees, how can you live happily? It is impossible.' You can get twenty thousand rupees. You will waste a long time for it; one day you will get it. By the time you have got twenty thousand rupees, the desire has gone further away. Now it asks for forty thousand rupees.
By the time you attain to twenty thousand rupees, you have become more addicted to comforts; now more comforts are needed.
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