Why there is desire and how it can be satisfied?
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A wise question, ... indeed!
Usually people ask the second part only,
Rarely some-one a bit intelligent asks the basic question.
And there are experts, spiritual teachers who could help you discover many colors of the rainbow desire is.
And there are learned philosophers, thinkers and management gurus who are eager to point out how desire is the movement of life, how ambition transforms you into a superman.
Achieve, Have Ambition, Aim at a highest goal, Believe in the impossible!
But you asked : “how it can be satisfied?”
There are compulsions, needs, necessities, and desires.
Compulsions are the natural inevitable needs, if not fulfilled threaten the very survival.
The air, water, food and physical security. Good health, sleep, hunger, thirst, exercise, work, ...
Needs are secondary requirements that enhance the quality of living. Like a house, a livelihood, family and society, ...
Necessities are the amenities that help maintaining a level of living.
The last in this sequence is ‘desire’.
‘’Desire’ is something born of imagination.
It could be satisfied or may not, depends.
And even if satisfied may or may not make us happy. Even the result may be quite disturbing.
very different from the expectations, even shocking.
The most mysterious / cryptic part of the desire is : it is elusive, if not illusory.
The desire seems to have essence but has only form without substance.
And there are countless desires that arise, appear moment to moment in varied hues and colors.
And the ridiculous fact is that most of the desires are contradictory.
I love that girl.
At the moment I am gripped by desire.
I think I really love that girl.
But the fact is, I love my pleasure.
That girl is secondary.
There are chances I would meet yet another more charming, more lovely girl.
And I would begin thinking of her.
A girl, a boy are but living beings.
But there are innumerable things which I want to own and discard in a fraction of a second.
And though desires satisfied bring a certain relief from the tension caused by my imagination of getting pleasure from that object, this rarely brings a change in my attitude or maturity of mind. I remain as much a fool as I was before the desire was satisfied.
But sometimes a desire fulfilled or unfulfilled may draw my attention to the very anomalous nature of desire itself.
Then I can realize for sure that all desires are alike.
And no desire needs to be fulfilled for no desire could make me more perfect than I am already. And no desire can lessen my perfection.
And if this is realized, you at once see why there is desire.
Desire is but a movement of thought, physically within the brain, and mentally in consciousness. In brain; - in the thought-form, which could be detected by some sophisticated instrument. In mind; - You are either allured / distracted by the suggestion given to you by this thought. This thought may induce a pleasing / unpleasing feeling in your mind. A ‘Like’ / ‘dislike’.
This mental fact when seen, loses its grip over you. And desire holds no more control over you.
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A wise question, ... indeed!
Usually people ask the second part only,
Rarely some-one a bit intelligent asks the basic question.
And there are experts, spiritual teachers who could help you discover many colors of the rainbow desire is.
And there are learned philosophers, thinkers and management gurus who are eager to point out how desire is the movement of life, how ambition transforms you into a superman.
Achieve, Have Ambition, Aim at a highest goal, Believe in the impossible!
But you asked : “how it can be satisfied?”
There are compulsions, needs, necessities, and desires.
Compulsions are the natural inevitable needs, if not fulfilled threaten the very survival.
The air, water, food and physical security. Good health, sleep, hunger, thirst, exercise, work, ...
Needs are secondary requirements that enhance the quality of living. Like a house, a livelihood, family and society, ...
Necessities are the amenities that help maintaining a level of living.
The last in this sequence is ‘desire’.
‘’Desire’ is something born of imagination.
It could be satisfied or may not, depends.
And even if satisfied may or may not make us happy. Even the result may be quite disturbing.
very different from the expectations, even shocking.
The most mysterious / cryptic part of the desire is : it is elusive, if not illusory.
The desire seems to have essence but has only form without substance.
And there are countless desires that arise, appear moment to moment in varied hues and colors.
And the ridiculous fact is that most of the desires are contradictory.
I love that girl.
At the moment I am gripped by desire.
I think I really love that girl.
But the fact is, I love my pleasure.
That girl is secondary.
There are chances I would meet yet another more charming, more lovely girl.
And I would begin thinking of her.
A girl, a boy are but living beings.
But there are innumerable things which I want to own and discard in a fraction of a second.
And though desires satisfied bring a certain relief from the tension caused by my imagination of getting pleasure from that object, this rarely brings a change in my attitude or maturity of mind. I remain as much a fool as I was before the desire was satisfied.
But sometimes a desire fulfilled or unfulfilled may draw my attention to the very anomalous nature of desire itself.
Then I can realize for sure that all desires are alike.
And no desire needs to be fulfilled for no desire could make me more perfect than I am already. And no desire can lessen my perfection.
And if this is realized, you at once see why there is desire.
Desire is but a movement of thought, physically within the brain, and mentally in consciousness. In brain; - in the thought-form, which could be detected by some sophisticated instrument. In mind; - You are either allured / distracted by the suggestion given to you by this thought. This thought may induce a pleasing / unpleasing feeling in your mind. A ‘Like’ / ‘dislike’.
This mental fact when seen, loses its grip over you. And desire holds no more control over you.
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