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Do We Suffer Through Our Desires?
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Will the suffering stop when the need for desire stops?
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Well, the Buddhists certainly think so, but is this necessarily something to be strived for?
Desire is an essential part of life. We desire oxygen, we desire food, shelter, companionship and sex, but we also desire riches and/or goods and/or knowledge and/or the cancellation of Westlife's record contract. Some of those things are good desires, others less so, but we certainly cannot be alive in any meaningful way without desire.
Desire is an essential part of life. We desire oxygen, we desire food, shelter, companionship and sex, but we also desire riches and/or goods and/or knowledge and/or the cancellation of Westlife's record contract. Some of those things are good desires, others less so, but we certainly cannot be alive in any meaningful way without desire.
That�s a bit philosophical for a Monday morning, but a need is a true deficiency, lack or shortage of something essential in our lives. A desire, on the other hand, is not necessarily something that is essential, but something which is enjoyable. Some things cross boundaries and are needed, desired and wanted, such as the expulsion of Mariah Carey from planet Earth.
But other than audibly � which is easily cured, I don�t suffer for it.
But other than audibly � which is easily cured, I don�t suffer for it.
just a thought...
when you stop desiring something ( the best for your children, to be a non smoker, peace in the world, to learn a new skill, the will to to read a new book, the will to master a new piece of technology, the 'oomph' to set a new world record, etc)...doesnt that make you any more than an animal, surviving on instincts alone?
If we stopped desiring then we would be little more than the animals of the field.
Ancient Buddhist religious cr@p, like all other religious cr@p.
life is sh!t. and hard (red in tooth and claw),
better get used to it. No amount of religious claptrap is goin to change it................
when you stop desiring something ( the best for your children, to be a non smoker, peace in the world, to learn a new skill, the will to to read a new book, the will to master a new piece of technology, the 'oomph' to set a new world record, etc)...doesnt that make you any more than an animal, surviving on instincts alone?
If we stopped desiring then we would be little more than the animals of the field.
Ancient Buddhist religious cr@p, like all other religious cr@p.
life is sh!t. and hard (red in tooth and claw),
better get used to it. No amount of religious claptrap is goin to change it................
..... on the other hand, Laurens Van Der Post describes the difference between us and the bushmen of the Kalahari, as the difference between "having" and " being".
Read in its context, it makes sense, and the old bushmen, (the San), if there are any left, could teach us a thing or two about desires.
Read in its context, it makes sense, and the old bushmen, (the San), if there are any left, could teach us a thing or two about desires.
Don't know about e books, but the link describes VDP's two main books about the Kalahari people, the San. Really interesting.
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/LvdP/works. html#LWK
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/LvdP/works. html#LWK
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