> > > >Juan Carlos: > > Darn that Siddhartha! He's been leading us astray all this time. > > Dan: > Oh no I certainly didn't mean to imply that! I'm pretty sure Siddhartha > discovered for himself that living a life void of desire was not the middle > way. It was in fact extreme. > > Rather, what I was getting at is that there are positive desires and > negative desires. I think the Buddha might agree: it's not a feeling of > satisfaction, it's the positive or negative consequences that arise from > desire that provide a demarcation point. >
What is a flower that turns its face toward the sun but an expression of desire? How can that desire lead to suffering? Obviously it must be a misinterpretation of the teaching to say ALL desire is at the root of all suffering. Karmic repercussions have to be considered. I wonder what the teaching would have been coming from a slumdog turned millionaire rather than a pampered and protected prince suddenly thrust into hard cold reality: 1. Suffering eventually leads to the satisfaction of desire. 2. Worldly pleasure is found when clinging to suffering ceases. 3. When worldly pleasure comes, all delusion ceases and a liberated state of enlightenment ensues 4. Finding this place is natural if one just follows the path that life lays out, and you end up on a televised gameshow. -- ------------ Doing Good IS Being ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
