I might add one thing to what you said. Stop attaching, clinging, holding on to desires and suffering ceases. To stop desires is to be dead. I desire to type this note, brush my teeth, desire is part of life …..well…then you’re right I guess. Stop desire then you’re dead then no more suffering. LOL. Anyway…
As per the human condition, expectations are nothing more than premeditated resentments. But to expect nothing, to desire nothing means to feel nothing. I wish that equated to peace and contentment; it results however in emotional callousness. And then life still tries to bend us with the wind, and we crack and bleed rather than bend with the wind.
I would agree with this. If you look at s lot of people who are suicidal there is the common theme of some kind if desire – love, money, family, to be wanted, friends, career…whatever. Desire of things people don’t have or can’t get makes people feel like their life has less purpose or meaning, makes them feel it’s not worth living.
You are right. I see it was my fault i didn’t write the whole thing. Actually some changes happened in me and there this realization came. But yeah it’s not complete. I would like to write the whole thing but i don’t have the energy, especially because English in not my first language.
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I might add one thing to what you said. Stop attaching, clinging, holding on to desires and suffering ceases. To stop desires is to be dead. I desire to type this note, brush my teeth, desire is part of life …..well…then you’re right I guess. Stop desire then you’re dead then no more suffering. LOL. Anyway…
Oops I didn’t see you beat me to it. Yeah what he said ^
Very true. But I have to add: Stop desiring and you’ll stop living. As Blanche said in Streetcar, “The opposite of death is desire.”
So stop desiring and your pain will end, but so will your zest for life. Lovely how this no-win situation is set up for us all :/
not necessarily…
As per the human condition, expectations are nothing more than premeditated resentments. But to expect nothing, to desire nothing means to feel nothing. I wish that equated to peace and contentment; it results however in emotional callousness. And then life still tries to bend us with the wind, and we crack and bleed rather than bend with the wind.
To me it’s all futile.
I would agree with this. If you look at s lot of people who are suicidal there is the common theme of some kind if desire – love, money, family, to be wanted, friends, career…whatever. Desire of things people don’t have or can’t get makes people feel like their life has less purpose or meaning, makes them feel it’s not worth living.
At least, that’s how I observe it.
You are right. I see it was my fault i didn’t write the whole thing. Actually some changes happened in me and there this realization came. But yeah it’s not complete. I would like to write the whole thing but i don’t have the energy, especially because English in not my first language.