Do not fight with desire
If you can bring your entire consciousness to anything, it will become a transforming force. The transformation happens whenever you are entire in it – in anything. But that is difficult, because wherever we are, we are only there in part, never in entirety. You are here listening to me. This very listening can become a transformation. If you are entirely here, this very moment here and now, if listening is your entirety, that listening will become a meditation: you will enter a different realm of ecstasy, a separate reality. But you are not entire. That is the problem with the human mind, it is always partial. A part is listening. Other parts may be somewhere else, or may be asleep, or may be thinking about what is being said, or arguing inside. That creates a division and division is a dissipation of energy. So when doing anything bring your entire being to it
If a desire arises within you, don’t fight it, that is futile. No one can fight a desire. It is foolish also, because whenever you start fighting with something within you, you are fighting with yourself, you will become schizophrenic, your personality will be split. Everybody is split, everybody is divided and fighting with himself . When desire arises, be alert just at the beginning with your entirety. Look at it with your entirety. Become the look. Don’t leave the looker behind. Bring your total consciousness to this arising desire. Your total presence is needed. This is a very subtle method, but wonderful. Miraculous are its effects.
When desire has already arisen you cannot do anything. Then it will take its full course, it will complete its circle, and you cannot do anything. Just in the beginning something can be done – the seed should be burned then and there.
When the desire arises, just at the beginning, just at the first glimpse, the first flicker that a desire is arising, bring your total consciousness, the entirety of your being to look at it. Don’t do anything. Nothing else is needed. With the entire being the look is so fiery that the seed is burned, with no struggle, with no conflict, with no antagonism. Without any conflict without any fight, this is basic. Just a deep look with the entire being and the arriving desire disappears completely, just like smoke in the sky, you are left with tremendous energy – that very energy is bliss. That will give you a beauty of its own, a grace.