#1: The Practice of NOT WANTING (Contentment)

How do you not want what you want? On top of being a tongue twister, it also seems like an impossible task. Living in a culture that fuels itself on envy, greed, selfishness, and gluttony, we rarely consider the need to pay attention to our desires. Instead, we allow our wants to remain unchecked and, by default, we live at the mercy of what we feel. The push to feed our desires leaves us relentlessly chasing after a satisfaction and peace that always seems just out of reach. We can’t connect with others when we’re in competition with them or coveting what they have. When is enough...enough? This practice aims to be aggressive in testing our desires by stopping and not wanting anything else or anything more. By saying NO MORE, we feel our restlessness begin to dissipate as our ambition takes a break, and in this place, we find contentment.