Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 145

What Is the “Taste of Dust” in the Work?

We feel the taste of dust every time we are in the left line, which is opposite the right line. For example, we get up in the morning and immediately feel that we want money. But we need to get up and study, and we sense this as a taste of dust. It might be that this same desire for money expresses itself in wanting to run and earn a lot of money to attain luxuries and pleasures, and instead, we need to sit and study.

The meaning of “taste of dust” is that we do not see or feel any possibility of enjoying through the desire we had yesterday or through the desire that occasionally awakens in us. We do not feel that opposite this desire there is something illuminating, tempting us, that could delight us.

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