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MokshaIs
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uprooting the insatiable root of desire...
#12296185 - 03/29/10 11:09 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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any advice on such an endeavor?
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p4kSouL
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Re: uprooting the insatiable root of desire... [Re: MokshaIs]
#12296275 - 03/29/10 11:21 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Is there something "wrong" with desire?
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circastes
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Re: uprooting the insatiable root of desire... [Re: p4kSouL]
#12296912 - 03/30/10 01:52 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Time is all you got.
Go for long hikes alone, stare at the roof with music on, isolate yourself until you no longer have the burning flame of desire. Keep resisting your desires. It goes away as a kind of self-classical-conditioning.
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Re: uprooting the insatiable root of desire... [Re: MokshaIs]
#12297306 - 03/30/10 04:52 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Find out whose desire isit? It will be found to be the mind's desire, and you are not the mind If you see the desire is not truly yours, then how long can you chase it?
When you know your Self, your mind can still chase it, but then its a play Not a heavy burdensome desire thats consumed your consciousness & robbed you of your peace Then its just surface movements, wave play You're forever rooted as the ocean
Know your Self that is not attached to anything, including attachment to removing desire See you are Moksha itself
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Re: uprooting the insatiable root of desire... [Re: p4kSouL]
#12297509 - 03/30/10 06:32 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
p4kSouL said: Is there something "wrong" with desire?
-------------------- no
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Re: uprooting the insatiable root of desire... [Re: GrimaceTheFrog]
#12298238 - 03/30/10 10:37 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
GrimaceTheFrog said:
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p4kSouL said: Is there something "wrong" with desire?
Start by availing yourself of the desire not to desire.
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MokshaIs
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Re: uprooting the insatiable root of desire... [Re: MhmOyster]
#12299756 - 03/30/10 02:24 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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 groovy. thanks.
there is nothing wrong with anything. but in all these manners of being, what is of the sweetest taste to the soul?
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Re: uprooting the insatiable root of desire... [Re: MokshaIs]
#12299976 - 03/30/10 03:00 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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MokshaIs said:
 groovy. thanks.
there is nothing wrong with anything. but in all these manners of being, what is of the sweetest taste to the soul?
Peace?
I think the Buddha said something that can roughly be paraphrased as "do not desire to give up more than you are able" - it implies as long as you perform to your abilities, that is enough. Pushing past that can end negatively.
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Re: uprooting the insatiable root of desire... [Re: MhmOyster]
#12300040 - 03/30/10 03:12 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well I think you should still have 'desires' but you should purify them so they don't control you, you control them. Then they become 'intensions'. And they're satisfied at your whim, not the other way around, so that if you desire a girl and she is otherwise involved, you can simply brush off the desire. It's about control and ultimately godhood.
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