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October 2009 – Sunset Through Great Room (by Josh)

Intention and desire is kind of like one’s goals.  I used to write a list of my intentions and desires and after so many months and/or years, I’d go back to my list to see if they happened.  Most the time they did.  When they didn’t it was because my intentions weren’t really there.  Maybe it was someone else’s intention that I wanted but not purely one of my own.

I remember after college and working odd jobs, I was getting very frustrated with everything.  I didn’t feel like I fit in anywhere job wise.  One day, I decided to write in a handwritten journal about my dream job.  Not a pipe dream job but a realistic one.  I jotted down the things I wanted.  They were still general ideas because I didn’t have a strong feeling as to what I wanted to be doing.  So I wrote down something along these lines:  “…to work on a computer and with people I enjoy working with for a long time.”  Yeah, I know. It’s general but at least it was something along the lines of what I wanted to do daily.  Well, that dream came true.  I was hired by a college where at first I did administrative work.  Most days, I was preoccupied with computer work, mostly data entry.  Then as I moved up the ladder, I began to work more with the user end of databases.  At some point, I logged between 4 to 7 (maybe even more) databases pulling reports to advise students with and also submitted data into these reports.   I spent about 90% of my time (and some days even 100%) on a computer. The group of co-workers I worked with where wonderful too.  One day, I looked back at my journal and re-read my dream job description and I was shocked.  I was doing exactly what I had intended to do.  I was truly amazed !

The law of intention and desire does work.  Getting the job I wanted as mentioned above was only one incident.  There were many before and there were many while I was working.  The intention and desire has to be wholesome to the individual though.  Like I mentioned earlier, some goals weren’t accomplished because they were not my goals.  The outcome was more to show off than to grow into who I would become.  That’s why it was difficult for me to actually write down specifically the career I wanted because I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do.  So I wrote down a general idea of what I would like to do and it took me to a job that I was excited to do.

The law of intention and desire also led me to find my husband but I’ll share that another time.  This was of course, before I even knew such a law existed.

The Law of Intention and Desire: Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. Intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite organizing power. When we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.

I will put the Law of Intention and Desire into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1. I will make a list of all my desires. I will carry this list with me wherever I go. I will look at this list before I go into my silence and meditation. I will look at it before I go to sleep at night. I will look at it when I wake up in the morning.
2. I will release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don’t seem to go my way, there is a reason, and that the cosmic plan has designs for me much grander than even those I have conceived.
3. I will remind myself to practice present-moment awareness in all my actions. I will refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the quality of my attention in the present moment. I will accept the present as it is, and manifest the future through my deepest, most cherished intentions and desires.

Reference: Deepak Chopra – Daily Devotion

Denver Botanical Gardens – July 2008

I was watching “Latino in America” on CNN last night and I can relate to the culture issue.  I grew up with parents who wanted their children to be immersed in the Hmong Culture.  Their beliefs and family values were those of a third world farm country, tending to rice crops a few miles from their bamboo straw homes of dirt floors and weaved straw beds. Growing up in America, the land of opportunity, where one has the freedom to achieve the American Dream, it was easier said than done.  With one foot in the American culture and one in the Hmong culture, it was like a balancing act and the goal was to never fall too far in one direction.  To be too American, the culture would be completely lost.  To be too Hmong, reaching the American dream may never happen.

As I grew into adulthood, I realized that I didn’t have to be either.  I didn’t have to chose.  I could be who I really am without culture defining me.  This is not to say that I am no longer Hmong.  I think I am more Hmong than I ever was and I respect the culture more than I would have if I’d of lived it.  Looking from the outside in I appreciate the culture more but not only that, I have a greater respect for my parents and how they grew up having to adjust to a different cultural environment.

Detachment to me is like an inner peace.  It’s another form of forgiving and accepting.  It allows me to grow and allows those around me to grow.

The Law of Detachment: In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty . . . in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

I will put the Law of Detachment into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1. Today I will commit myself to detachment. I will allow myself and those around me the freedom to be as they are. I will not rigidly impose my idea of how things should be. I will not force solutions on problems, thereby creating new problems. I will participate in everything with detached involvement.
2. Today I will factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of my experience. In my willingness to accept uncertainty, solutions will spontaneously emerge out of the problem, out of the confusion, order and chaos. The more uncertain things seem to be, the more secure I will feel, because uncertainty is my path to freedom. Through the wisdom of uncertainty, I will find my security.
3. I will step into the field of all possibilities and anticipate the excitement that can occur when I remain open to an infinity of choices. When I step into the field of all possibilities, I will experience all the fun, adventure, magic and mystery of life.

Reference: Deepak Chopra – Daily Devotion