Hatonn on Our Buried Desire
The final excerpt from the July 19, 1979 session takes us back to the very first passages in the session. Here we revisit the subject of desire in a very direct and helpful form: the layers of distortion that “bury” our true desire. It is not simply for us to discover in meditation; we discover it in the daily events of our lives.
If we ask ourselves honestly what we have desired today, the n we must reckon with the answer, and often I think it’s that which we fear most. The magic occurs in that very response of the self, one that we are often shocked by, even though it’s our own response. In doing so, we let our natural, honest response to that reflection—be it one of shock and disapproval or one of attraction and wonder—impel us further down through these layers in an attempt to know ourselves. The alternative is to look away and distract ourselves, which is always a minor stalling tactic in a cosmic telos.
We ask you tonight, my friends, about treasure. We are aware that the treasure that is in your heart is sometimes buried. It has been written in your holy works, “Where your treasure is, there shall your heart be also.” And yet we say to you, my friends, that your heart may contain any treasure which you desire. Thus, the question of treasure is far more the question of your buried desire.
We wish to speak with you only for a very short time this evening, but we wish very much, very much to encourage you to desire, with the greatest intensity possible, that which you wish to desire. Have you desired? Have you desired, this day, well, my friends? Have you had small desires easily satisfied? Have you glanced up into the lovely imperium arches of your heavens during this day and sought and dreamt and hoped—those desires which make men into beings who are claiming their birthright? That is what lies between you and the birthright of love and light—which you brought into this illusion—your inability to remember to desire it. That is all that separates you from infinite love, infinite light, and the power of a consciousness which these understandings can coordinate and enable. What have you desired today, my friends? We ask you in the name of the Creator.