Living as Desire — The Wisdom of Your Desires examination

Eleven questions. Nine of eleven passes, and you can take it again as often as you like.

What threshold does this chapter explore?

Where firm discipline gradually replaces spontaneity Where desire is finally and completely transcended Where practice dissolves into your natural way of being Where the reader completes the curriculum and stops practising
How does integration happen, according to the chapter?

Through willpower and consistently disciplined effort Through gentle repetition, more like osmosis than achievement Through memorising each of the book's frameworks Through a single, dramatic breakthrough experience
Which comparison does the chapter use to show how practices become effortless?

Following a written recipe carefully step by step Learning to walk or to speak your native language Training steadily over many months for a marathon Studying intensively for an important examination
How does the chapter describe what is unfolding as practices integrate?

Remembering what was always yours Constructing a new and better personality Adding new rules to govern your desires Replacing your old self with a spiritual self
Which of these is named as a sign that integration is already happening?

Spontaneous body wisdom, like a hand going to the heart Needing to practise the techniques more often Complete certainty about every future desire Never again feeling any conditioned want at all
How many signs of integration does the chapter say you need to notice to know change is occurring?

Even one or two All of them together None, since integration cannot be noticed At least four
What does the personalised integration map ask you to do with practices that haven't resonated?

Treat them as evidence of a personal shortcoming to overcome Replace them with more demanding versions of the same practices Release them without judgment; they may not be your curriculum Keep practising them patiently until they finally start to work
A reader notices old patterns of shame returning after months of progress. How does the chapter frame this?

As evidence that nothing has really changed at all, in everyday, casual use As a sign to start the book again from the beginning As proof that the practices in the book have failed As the spiral of growth, where each return deepens integration
What identity shift does the chapter describe?

From someone who desires to someone free of all desire From a student of the book to a teacher of others, in simplified terms From working on desire to living in conversation with it From private practice to public demonstration of it
How does the chapter use the image of learning a language?

You must master all the grammar rules before you begin speaking Only native speakers can ever become truly fluent in it Once you are fluent, there is nothing more left to learn You move from translating to conversing, and still keep discovering
Which is one of the three questions in the weekly reflection?

What did other people think of my choices over this week? What desire feels most alive right now, and what might it carry? How many of the book's practices did I complete this week? Which of my desires did I successfully eliminate this week, at least on a first pass?