The Buddha Said: All Things Are Rooted in Desire
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All Things Are Rooted in Desire - That’s What The Buddha Said.
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All things are rooted in desire. That’s what the Buddha said. Sometimes Buddhism is characterized as not appreciating how important desire is. But this statement shows that the Buddha realized that this is what we are: We come from desire, we’re born because of desire and craving. He says that without the craving, a being wouldn’t be able to make it from one life to the next. The being itself is defined by its desires, by its attachments. In other words, we define ourselves by what we want.
What this means, of course, is that we’re also defined by our frustrations. All too often our wants get frustrated. Either we don’t get what we want; or when we get it, we find that it’s something different from what we thought it was; or it seems to be what we thought was, but it doesn’t last. All of which is frustrating. So the Buddha said that the only way out is to go beyond desire.
But desire’s not something you can simply drop. You have to learn how to refine it, take it apart.
The first step is realizing that desires are not just one thing. There are lots of desires for lots of different things. You hear people talking about desire as a single cosmic force. You hear them telling you that what you really want in life is wholeness or completeness or to be fully in the present moment, or whatever. Those are actually many things that you might want. They’re not the one thing that every desire is aiming at. You have an itch and you . You have a hunger, and you try to assuage it.
#enlightenment #desire #buddhism
All things are rooted in desire. That’s what the Buddha said. Sometimes Buddhism is characterized as not appreciating how important desire is. But this statement shows that the Buddha realized that this is what we are: We come from desire, we’re born because of desire and craving. He says that without the craving, a being wouldn’t be able to make it from one life to the next. The being itself is defined by its desires, by its attachments. In other words, we define ourselves by what we want.
What this means, of course, is that we’re also defined by our frustrations. All too often our wants get frustrated. Either we don’t get what we want; or when we get it, we find that it’s something different from what we thought it was; or it seems to be what we thought was, but it doesn’t last. All of which is frustrating. So the Buddha said that the only way out is to go beyond desire.
But desire’s not something you can simply drop. You have to learn how to refine it, take it apart.
The first step is realizing that desires are not just one thing. There are lots of desires for lots of different things. You hear people talking about desire as a single cosmic force. You hear them telling you that what you really want in life is wholeness or completeness or to be fully in the present moment, or whatever. Those are actually many things that you might want. They’re not the one thing that every desire is aiming at. You have an itch and you . You have a hunger, and you try to assuage it.
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