Hello Eric,
You’re so fortunate to be at this site, I hope you just keep rereading it over and over again. I’m so grateful to Lal for these writings, it has pulled me out of desirous delusion state (manifesting, non-self, non-existence, etc.) where everything else has buried me deeper in the muck (aka, full of desires) which is at the heart of the problem here in this world.
Listed below are a few major points that have really helped me on the Path and with the process of calming the mind (niramisa sukha).
• when one doesn’t get what one wants, one gets depressed and/or more delusional and has a heated (tapa) mind state.
• anything one desires with tanha (attachment, repeatedly thinking about “it”) is a mind made pleasure and will have a bad outcome (kāma assāda)
• truly seeing that struggling to get things in this world that is setup for failure, will have bad outcomes. The key here is THIS WORLD IS SETUP FOR OUR FAILURE.
• getting anicca, dukkha and anatta to the point that it is so dangerous to be angry and desirous because it is hurting oneself and/or others
• comprehend and eliminate the 10 micca ditthi by seeing where in life they’re occurring and by doing the opposite good and meritorious work.
Much metta, Eric!