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Desires – the source of our misery?

by Fortune February 22, 2020, 8:41 pm 73 Views 11 Votes 3 Comments

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Our desires, according to Buddhist philosophy, are the source of our misery and suffering. However, from an early age, we are shaped to become the holders of desires and to fulfill them; we were taught to seek external endorsements – items, diplomas, certain numbers in a bank account and on scales screen, social follower platforms.

Things and numbers should give us status in society, and that is security, inner peace, a sense of happiness, and joy. But very quickly, we realize that fulfilling one desire, we are facing a sense of abyss and emptiness that requires us to create new ones as soon as possible.

We are equally afraid of the abyss and emptiness when we are separating with someone – we immediately fall into a new relationship, frightened of any glimpse of the abyss of loneliness where the great answers of being are hidden.

Even after seeing ourselves and others from the side and realizing how compulsively we are driven by desires, we decide that there is probably no other way unless we quit and go to meditate in India or live in a forest hut and grow our own food.

We were taught that without the desire to achieve something, the hard and exhausting work, the dramatic sacrifice, and climbing over the heads, nothing could be achieved.

What if it’s not true? Perhaps it is possible to achieve what seems meaningful to us without the daily crazy running but with the help of a silent mind?

© Fortune, 2020

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  1. RasmaSandra says:
    February 23, 2020 at 2:47 am

    My one and only desire presently is to reach a point where I can totally rely on my writing to make a living. That is what I really want and then I can dance through the rest of my life.

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  2. Florel Caparas says:
    February 23, 2020 at 12:20 am

    Most of our desires. are all worldly desires. Fame money, prosperity.

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  3. Carol DM says:
    February 22, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    Sometimes our desires are not exactly what we need.

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