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The Intricacies of Desire, a thread.
Unexamined desires run rampant throughout the life of the average person.
With these desires comes pain.
With these desires comes pain.
Desire, fundamentally, is a response to a feeling of incompleteness.
A human being wants something that will fill the holes he feels within himself.
When desires are fulfilled, they result in happiness.
When unfulfilled, sadness.
Both keep one hooked in an endless cycle of craving.
When unfulfilled, sadness.
Both keep one hooked in an endless cycle of craving.
What is one to do?
There is nothing to be done.
There is nothing to be done.
The very question of how to free oneself from desire stems from the desire not to desire.
There is no “doing” that will lead one to freedom from desire.
Rather, one must proceed by way of understanding.
Rather, one must proceed by way of understanding.
When desire is sufficiently understood, it ceases to cause problems.
At the center of all desires is the very one that is never examined: the desire to become happy.
When one searches for happiness, he remains tied to misery.
The two are inseparable.
The two are inseparable.
Recognizing the futility of happiness, the wise man drops the search.
In dropping the search, life loses the power to make him miserable.
In dropping the search, life loses the power to make him miserable.
To examine the desire for happiness is to cut through all mimetic and impure desires in one fell swoop.
Will you still want things afterwards?
Perhaps, perhaps not. But it is wanting in a different way.
Perhaps, perhaps not. But it is wanting in a different way.
Purity is found in the absence of ulterior motives.
When one has been cleansed of ulterior motives, only the pure desires will remain.
Pure desires do not throw man off balance, because they do not stem from a feeling of incompleteness.
Pure desires often arise as the things one does without rationalization.
The things one was born to do are the things one cannot help but do, rather than the things one convinces oneself to do.
Desire is not evil, only misunderstood.
To examine desire is to free oneself from it.
