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Is desire always bad?
Topic Started: Jan 5 2016, 10:29 PM (143 Views)
Cory
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I understand the problems with desire, but wouldn't a being with no desire do absolutely nothing?
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crow
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A being without desire lives.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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Cory
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How are you defining desire? Isn't hunger a desire to eat? Wouldn't you starve? How would we want to accomplish anything without desire?
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xor
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Desire is ultimately just a word and a fairly broad one at that. If a dying man desires water for example, it isn't so much out of 'desire' itself, but some deeper physical impulse or necessity.
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crow
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Desire is want, need, urge, compulsion. Going after what one does not yet have. Above and beyond what is necessary and/or reasonable.

Hunger is recognition of the necessity of putting fuel in the tank. Ignore it and you'll be walking home.
On the other hand, ignoring it for long enough, will see you flying home, instead.
Desire accomplishes nothing, and expends energy to no effect.
To get something done, you simply do it. To build a shed, build it. To circumnavigate the Earth, start walking.

Good question. It's a subtle thing. Worthy of consideration. We like desire because we like desire.
But everything is better, more fulfilling, more satisfying, without it.
It makes no sense. But it's true.

"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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Can anything useful been done with desire- can it be channelled into a productive activity, like a prize fighter abstaining from sex before a match?

How do you deal with desire?
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crow
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How do I deal with desire?
I don't. I don't have any to deal with.
Sounds strange, if you don't know of such a thing, but simple if you do.
It just goes away when you absorb the fact that it is superfluous, and often counterproductive.

Then again, I have enough of anything I might desire if I didn't.
But to get to that point, desire had to go, first.
Then, whatever you have is enough, and whatever you may not have, finds its way to you before you start desiring it.

It's probably easier to look at it as balance, calm, harmony with the way things work.
Any creature crosses paths with what it needs.
Only humans have trouble with this.


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