Dearest Master
What is the meaning of demand, and the demand one needs to meet? How is that related to one's growth, evolution, refinement, flowering and dissolution? What is the meaning of alchemy?
Thank you.
Student
One of the things that humanity has missed with the idea of free will and freedom, is this word demand. The fact is there is no self, no I, there is only a demand. It's like a seed, it's hard to say if there is a self, a soul, but all that can be said is there is a demand for it to grow.
This is what you are and all are ... a demand, and the escaping of this demand is the suffering, or thinking there is choice is the suffering. All the demand you feel in life as how you have asked in this question is the outward demand, and this exists because the inner demand was not met. The demand as you was not lived.
Life has no demand but conditions, condition to survive, a condition to create new life, that is all. The demand is you. The you is the demand, and it has no choice in it. The day humanity sees this, and knows this, then we will be left to live out what is that we have to live out. No one asks a tree not to be a tree, but for humanity this has been asked. They have been asked to be many things, and ideas that they can be this and that is given. These ideas that are given is the pain, it's what misleads.
Remember you are the demand, not that you have a demand. It's like what I was speaking to a student yesterday, and what came up was that every time she fails to be love, she suffers, she pays a price for it. So the demand in her as her, is to rise in love, to be love. This is just one of the demands that I can see. Again let me say, life is not demanding this, it's her demand, it's her as the demand to be love.
But this is just one thing, there is more as you as this demand, but most can't see it, they only see the demand life places on them for survival and sex, but they can't see it's what they are. Life is just reflecting what is that they need to be for themselves and by the time life reflects it, it has fallen to the lowest state possible.
Like when you are struggling to breathe, know the demand to be alive has reached the lowest point. Our inability be aware of this and the inability to recognise this is the error. This is the lie life has placed on all. We have to do what we have to do ... there is no choice.
So to understand this question, understand there are things and facts which are beyond our choice, and that is the you, the real you, the real demand.
Dhyan Vimal