Updated on Monday, August 17
QUESTION: I have an intense attraction towards certain possessions in my life and I feel as though these tendencies to cling to materialistic objects are harmful and detrimental to my growth and maturity as a human being. What can I do to transcend these egotistic energies and experience a state of peaceful no-desire? What do you personally do when emotionally crippled due to tendencies and desires outside rational inquiry?
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ReplyDeletemaybe you're asking the wrong question and need to change your perspective on life. maybe life isn't about what you have, but who you have.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you could benefit form reading some buddhist philosophy
ReplyDeleteQuoting badly but in some philosophy there are lines like:
DeleteLife is suffering
The cause of suffering is desire
To end suffering one must end desire
To end desire one must follow the eightfold path.
Take the thesaurus out of your ass for starters.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure a state of no desire is called death. You just need to desire things that are actually important to you.
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