Buddhism: The Paradox of Desires | The Truth of Desires in Buddha's Teaching
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The Paradox of Desires in Buddhism: Unveiling the Truth
There’s a passage in the Canon where a young monk is being asked by a king why he ordained. After all, the young monk came from a wealthy family, his health was good, his relatives were all alive. Why would he ordain? The monk replied that one of the reasons was that he saw all the world as a slave to craving, and he wanted to get out of that slavery.
He gave an example to the king. “Suppose someone were to come and say, ‘There’s a kingdom to the east with lots of wealth, lots of people, but a very weak army. Your army is strong enough to beat their army and seize that kingdom.’ Would you take it?” And here the king is eighty years old, and yet he says, “Yes.”
Suppose another person would come from the south, the same message. Another person from the west, another from the north. Another person from across the ocean, saying there was a kingdom across the ocean that you could conquer. Lots of wealth, lots of people, would you go for it?” The king says, “Yes.” The young monk says, “That’s what I mean when I say the world is a slave to craving.
Chapter 1. The Desire to Be Free from Desire.
Chapter 2. Three Qualities: Right Mindfulness - Alertness - Right Effort
Chapter 3. Craving & Desire on the Path
Chapter 4. "I want to be awakened.”
Chapter 5. The Truth of Desires.
Conlusions
Notice that those truths are truths about cause and effect, what’s possible and what’s not possible: truths about things that are very close to your mind, truths about suffering, what the cause is, and what’s the desire behind this suffering. The Buddha lists the possible desires. What are the desires that get you out? There are lists of skillful desires as well: the desire to get rid of unskillful qualities that are there, and not to let them arise if they’re not there; the desire to give rise to skillful qualities, and then once they’re there, the desire to maintain them. These are truths about desire and the effects of desires.
That’s something we can observe. Sometimes our perceptions about the world outside are hard to judge as to whether they’re really accurate or not, and how much reliable information we have. But we can know our desires. We can get a sense of which ones are skillful and which ones are not. When you find yourself adopting a perception or an idea of reality that’s based on an unskillful desire, that’s enough reason to say No to it. Even though it insists that it’s true, you have to be able to say No to it because it’s serving the purposes of something unskillful inside. Whereas the perceptions that serve the purpose of what is skillful inside: You can accept those as provisional truths for the time being. As you get to know your desires better, you can begin to ferret out the desires that seem to be skillful but ultimately are not.
This is the process we all have to go through as we practice. We can’t be impatient and say, “I want nothing but true desires and true perceptions right from the beginning.” We’re feeling our way. But we’re feeling our way not blindly and not in total darkness. The more light we can shine into the issue of what in the mind is skillful and what’s not, the more we’ll be able to choose our perceptions of reality and deal not only with issues in the mind but also issues outside in a way that’s more and more trustworthy. We’re moving toward something that’s ultimately trustworthy. On the path, we’re not quite there yet, but we’re moving in the right direction.
So an important aspect of the practice is to get to know your desires. Put yourself in a position where you can judge them. Wisely. Fairly. But firmly. And that’ll straighten out a lot of other issues in the mind right there.
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The paradox of having a craving to learn more and to gain wisdom but feeling confused since that craving is also a desire.
Our hearts are restless until it rest unto thee my Lord and my God! St Augustine Bishop of Hippo 350 AD
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Brilliantly captured my man ❤ Such clear insight develops with a lot of right understanding, effort and patience...may you keep marching on towards Buddhahood
It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing thing's but in seeing through thing's. What you resist persist but if you see thing's for what they really are the false delusions. They will fall away.
Thank you for your insightful comment, Kelly Kizer! You've beautifully captured a core tenet of Buddhist philosophy: the importance of seeing things as they truly are, beyond our perceptions and illusions. This clear vision is indeed the path to wisdom. By understanding the nature of desire and seeing through the delusions that bind us, we can let go and find true freedom. Keep exploring these profound ideas; your reflections are a valuable part of our community’s journey.
Beautiful explanation of one of the fundamental ideas in Buddhism. Thank you.
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Thanks for your comment which led me think deep.
This is how I understand, one of the truths Buddha understood " every action has a consequence. ( Karma Niyama). Five percept come under this truth. You will have to bear the consequence of your actions. ( good and bad both).
Very interesting.
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Superb explanations. 🧡🙏🙏🙏🧡
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The unskillfulness to differentiate between desire and decision has led to the confusion. Desire is feeling based on ignorance of reality, decision is awareness based on mindfulness of reality.
I'm born in to a Buddhist family in Sri Lanka. I started practicing Buddha Dahamma at my 29th year. Now I'm 70 years old.
I have gone through most of your videos.
You have developed a excellent way of explaining the Buddha Dahamma.
Now, I wish to know, about the way you managed to get this. Is it the knowledge you got from reading Buddhist books or did you got first hand knowledge by doing meditation and gaining intuitive wisdom?.
Honestly best channel to interpret the Buddhist philosophy in my opinion. Many people take it too far and practice like a delusional person 😆
calling it a desire i believe is an error . it is not a desire to get rid of desire , it is realising cravings and desires leads to attachment and hence you want to avoid desire.
According to St Paul we our being and humanity is like a fragile earthen vessel weak fragile and vulnerable but we have the faculties of our and the Holy Spirit which can dwell in us who can strengthen and protect guide our life our sojourn on earth, constantly inspire and give us Hope. The Holy Spirit is the third person in the Trinity. One God in three different persons in our Catholic Christian faith and beliefs . It is the Love that emanates between the God the Father and God the Son our Lord Jesus Christ k! Its always an everyday challenge and difficult to direct all the desires and passions of our hearts the faculties of our mind. Towards God and to be with Him in the afterlife. Vain is our Faith if there’s no resurrection of the dead! St Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles, Gentiles means unbelievers k!
The five precepts aren’t my thing. I agree with the rest. It says you craving to follow the five precepts that’s a good thing. Says who? Buddha says it’s a good thing for himself he suggests you to give it try. What if I tried I don’t particularly agree. My awareness clashes with the Buddhist awareness. What’s good for you might not be good for me.
This is where I differ from many other Buddhists. I think they just end up blindly following Buddhism as a religion. Oh everything said by the Buddha can’t be bad it must be all truth. Not really, I agree with the truth of impermanent I also understand the logic of using desire to end desire, that’s philosophy..
But the rest like rebirth you must not kill not eat meat not this not that, that’s religion and brainwashing. There isn’t rules in philosophy but there are in religion.
If you want to know if you follow Buddhism as a religion or a philosophy, you simply ask yourself are there rules you just follow against your own will.
Also the rules are not clear, don’t speak rude language.. define rude? What appears rude to you might not be to me. Just this rule itself creates division among humans.
There are so many streams of Buddhism they aren’t all saying the same shit. There is division in Buddhism but one of the five precepts says don’t say anything causing division. lol
try to figure that out. Contradictory shit .. 😂
Nah, I take what works for me, you can have the rest. And that’s my truth. Hope you find yours too
As per my understanding Five precepts can be explained as every action has its consequences . good and bad both. That's one of the truths Lord Buddha understood and explained.five perceps go much more beyond than the surface .
@@lovehealsall8051 how? That’s a very surface reply. It doesn’t sit right with me with any personal worship or call anyone superior like God or Lord, someone suffered in his life he got anything but he didn’t understand why he wasn’t happy, so he sat under the tree for days, he finally realised the universe had always been and would always be impermanent, any fixation on anything in this world will cause suffering. Dude became a philosopher. People find him wise and come ask questions. Then some took his to ideas to the extreme turning it into brainwashing religion. There shouldn’t be rules in life, any fixation on things lead to suffering, those rules are against Buddha’s teaching.
I take Buddhism as a philosophy I don’t take it as a religion. You may google the difference of the two .. I also read stoicism too finding it quite wise and helpful in life.
Oh please don’t start your rebirth shit, like the catholic starts their heaven & Hell. I will discover after death myself after I die. Thanks.
Anyone following anything as a religion is a delusional person in my opinion. But you do you. Just don’t try to convince others to be as delusional as you.
Our hearts are restless until it rest unto thee my Lord and my God! St Augustine Bishop of Hippo 350 AD