Grand Rising, guys. Today is the fifth episode of the doka-do, the principles of the do-kido.

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Principle number five is be detached from desire your whole lifelong.

Desire clouds judgment when it owns you.

Detachment does not mean indifference.

It means choice instead of compulsion.

It's a big one for me, guys.

So the word desire is going to come up a lot, obviously. A clear

definition of the word is a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something

to happen. This is going to be the principle that we go through that I personally struggle with

the most because I have wants. And I don't just set my wants and my desires

aside. I chase them. And it has allowed me to have the life that I want to have and it has allowed

me to have the relationship that I want to have. And, you know, we get to do a bunch of dope shit

because I do chase my desires. I'm not going to wait for the universe or God to give me something. I'm going to go out there and I'm going to try to make it happen for myself. And I believe that while I'm trying to make it happen, the universe or God is going to get out of my way or give it to me and it's going to allow me to have those things because I'm taking the steps to get it. So this principle is often misunderstood as indifference or emotional suppression.

That's not what it's talking about. It's a warning about being owned by desire rather than choosing it.

Desire itself is not the problem. Attachment is. Desire says, I want this. Attachment says,

I need this to be okay. See, I don't do that. I'm already okay. I want this.

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