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Re: poem for me [Re: Veritas]
    #5683511 - 05/28/06 02:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Veritas said:
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It is true that your suffering will dissolve if stopping on "the zero" produces no negative effects.




What I am saying is that suffering is not the direct result of desire.  Another step must occur before the cyclic dance begins: formation of a belief that you must fulfill your desire.  This is what produces negative effects, not the desire itself. 

When our living is unconscious, this in-between step may pass unnoticed, but even a small sharpening of awareness can create a "pause" between

I WANT THAT and

I MUST HAVE IT OR I WILL SUFFER.  :heart:




Desire is all we are.  We go through cyclic existence until we no longer desire anything outside of self. 

You cannot have a body before you desire to have a body.  You cannot suffer before there is the desire to suffer.  You cannot have the belief that suffering comes from unfulfilled desires until you desire to have the belief that suffering comes from unfulfilled desires.  You cannot desire until you have the desire to desire. 

We are volition.

I AM THAT WANT.


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I have considered such matters.

SIKE


Edited by Smoker For Peace (05/28/06 02:32 PM)


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