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ChessMaster
#1 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 8:49:46 PM
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Do desires make you happy or sad?
Uncertainty is certain.Let go
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mkeiyd
#2 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:05:17 PM
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ChessMaster wrote:
Do desires make you happy or sad?

Fulfilled desire gives pleasure hence joy. Desires are usually physical wants.
Happiness is much deeper than joy. Happiness comes from fulfilled soul/heart needs.
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tycho
#3 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:06:18 PM
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Sad and unhappy.
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ChessMaster
#4 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:14:16 PM
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@mkeiyd - To me desires are both physical,mental/emotional and spiritual.
@tycho - Explain,we might just have be thinking the same on this one.
Uncertainty is certain.Let go
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InnovateGuy
#5 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:27:24 PM
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What's desire? The inclination to want things.

If I use my definition, then, desires can make one or sad.

Fulfilled desires actuate happiness. Conversely, unfulfilled desires actuate sadness.

Sadness is the permutation for happiness.
Live Full Die Empty - Les Brown.
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ChessMaster
#6 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:32:10 PM
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InnovateGuy wrote:
What's desire? The inclination to want things.

If I use my definition, then, desires can make one or sad.

Fulfilled desires actuate happiness. Conversely, unfulfilled desires actuate sadness.

Sadness is the permutation for happiness.

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That's what I think about desires. If you get what you want you are happy,albeit short lived and your off chasing another desire.If you don't get what you want,you are sad.So how do you handle the tag of war caused by desires?
Uncertainty is certain.Let go
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tycho
#7 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:41:54 PM
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ChessMaster wrote:
InnovateGuy wrote:
What's desire? The inclination to want things.

If I use my definition, then, desires can make one or sad.

Fulfilled desires actuate happiness. Conversely, unfulfilled desires actuate sadness.

Sadness is the permutation for happiness.

Applause Applause Applause

That's what I think about desires. If you get what you want you are happy,albeit short lived and your off chasing another desire.If you don't get what you want,you are sad.So how do you handle the tag of war caused by desires?


Desire, comes because something is being needed by the self.

But the Self can only lack because it is not as it should be. For the self has everything.

So desire is like exile or captivity. Yes even the slave has moments of laughter, but is pleasure, happiness?

Yet desire is painful. Even the desire for wisdom is painful.
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deadpoet
#8 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:47:19 PM
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1st Noble Truth of the Buddha: All life is suffering
2nd Noble Truth of the Buddha: All suffering is caused by desire
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tycho
#9 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:51:41 PM
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deadpoet wrote:
1st Noble Truth of the Buddha: All life is suffering
2nd Noble Truth of the Buddha: All suffering is caused by desire


Some live in Nirvana. Perfect bliss sans desire.
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ChessMaster
#10 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2013 9:54:46 PM
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tycho wrote:
deadpoet wrote:
1st Noble Truth of the Buddha: All life is suffering
2nd Noble Truth of the Buddha: All suffering is caused by desire


Some live in Nirvana. Perfect bliss sans desire.


Ah,the Buddha.The prince who sought to be free from desire. Do you think he enjoyed life?
Uncertainty is certain.Let go
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