Wanting Bugs (Part 2)
Wanting Bugs have been with us ever since we were so tiny that nobody could even see us. And some Wanting Bugs are bigger than others. The smaller ones only want a little food and a roof over their heads, but then there are the bigger ones that want lots and lots of food, and bigger and bigger houses. Sometimes these big Wanting Bugs want better food than their neighbors, and a bigger house as well, and they usually get what they want, and then they have many babies. But the problem is; these babies are special because if they don't get what they want, they turn into Angry Baby Wanting Bugs.
When these Angry Baby Wanting Bugs become full-grown, there is trouble! And since Angry Baby Wanting Bugs grow very quickly, much faster than Regular Baby Wanting Bugs, they can soon become Gigantic Angry Wanting Bugs that can overwhelm the nicest of people and cause them to do awful things, like thirsting for fame, power, and making other people do their bidding and think the way they do!
Well, this is a terrible state of affairs, because any poor soul infected by a Gigantic Angry Wanting Bug rapidly becomes bewildered to the point of confusing his Wanting bugs with himself (or herself!) and soon becomes a bundle of wants and anger instead of a person.
Thank goodness we all don't have Big Wanting Bugs! Imagine everybody running around angry at each other. It's bad enough when those with small Wanting Bugs have to be afraid of those who have big Wanting Bugs. It takes so many more of the little Wanting Bugs to hold off just a few of the big ones. This is because the big ones are very aggressive and the small ones are meek and peaceful. The small ones can never understand why any bug would want to control other bugs, or take away their stuff either, so it is always a problem to get the small bugs riled up enough to look after themselves!
Wanting bugs can't live by themselves. They get lonely. They have to be surrounded by people all the time, and if people ignore them, they pester the poor people in countless ways, like making us itchy, and the more we scratch, the worse it gets until we seem to be scratching most all of the time! So when it comes down to it, we really seem to have no choice but to satisfy our Wanting Bugs, every minute of the day.
Copyright © E. Raymond Rock 2007. All rights reserved.
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E. Raymond Rock of Fort Myers, Florida is cofounder and principal teacher at the Southwest Florida Insight Center (SouthwestFloridaInsightCenter.com). His twenty-eight years of meditation experience has taken him across four continents, including two stopovers in Thailand where he practiced in the remote northeast forests as an ordained Theravada Buddhist monk. His book, A Year to Enlightenment (Career Press/New Page Books) is now available at major bookstores and online retailers (AYearToEnlightenment.com).
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